Author: Daniel Roberts I have been back on campus for two days, and already everyone is completely high. It's not from what you would think (though I definitely smelled some strong 'plants' in Gifford last night). The high is a mellow feeling that spreads over the campus like a blanket, intensifying ...
Author: [no author name found] College mourns losses, looks to new facesThe Mead Chapel bells rang in a new academic year Sunday as Middlebury welcomed 580 first-year faces. Convocation also marked the end of a long summer. The deaths of Nicholas Garza '11, Pavlo Levkiv '11, and Professor David Macey ...
Author: Stefan Claypool Why are liberals, previously riding high on Hopenchange, suddenly quivering in fear? Because Sarah Palin is coming to Washington, and Washington is not ready. And if John McCain was rendered incapable of performing his duties, this young "rough n tumble" reformer is ready to ...
Author: Leslie Lim A couple of weeks ago, I found myself at Philadelphia International Airport, wandering through its long halls and perusing its shops, attempting to kill time during a five hour layover between my flight from Vermont to Barcelona. Starting from one of the domestic terminals, I leisurely ...
Author: Tess Russell Here at Middlebury, there is a discrepancy between the treatment of underage alcohol violations and marijuana use by students of all ages that I find to be somewhat out of touch. My intention here is not to advocate drug legalization, so I'm not going to expound on the reasons why ...
Author: James O'Brien In deciding who to vote for in the upcoming election, I try to pay very little attention to what candidates actually say-mainly because it is never even vaguely related to what they do once they get elected. At the same time, I can fill you in on what I have managed to gather from ...
Author: Dean Atyia The Amethyst Initiative's website looks like it should be the back cover advertisement of a pop news magazine. It colorfully displays rotating images of diverse groups of young people toasting glasses of wine or champagne flutes. These people look like they are having the time of ...
Author: Daniel Streitfeld In the interest of truth and accuracy, in the space provided to me here I would like to address a number of startling fallacies found in Mr. Alex Garlick's latest opinion piece ("An Offsetting Notion," May 1).The esteemed Mr. Garlick derides the validity of the now-popular ...
Author: Felipe PrunedaSenties I would like to use this space to respond to a piece published in these same pages a week ago, which argued that feminists on campus have of late resorted to offensive tactics, like distributing fliers that indiscriminately point fingers at heterosexual men and catalogue ...
Author: Kate Lupo Students are thrilled that the campus is on the cusp of becoming completely wireless. What a relief that we can bring our laptops wherever we want and still be able to type up school work and, of course, occasionally check our Facebook, e-mail and most recently, the addictive Web site ...
Author: Task Force on the Status of Women Readers of The Campus' article on the report of the Task Force on the Status of Women may have drawn inaccurate conclusions about the issues it addresses from the polemical nature of the article. The title, "Task Force finds sexist social scene on campus," projects ...
Author: [no author name found] The offices of the editorial board of The Middlebury Campus are located in the basement of Hepburn Hall. These are shabby rooms, prone to leaks in wet weather. The pipes rattle and clatter in the winter. After a night spent putting together the newspaper, the office is ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:In 1968 several friends and I were taking a very taxing yet worthwhile English literature course and it came time to take a pre-A. (I have no idea whether there still are pre-As at Middlebury. They were "previously announced examinations" - scheduled tests.) ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg and Zamir Ahmed When we started this job in September, we set out with one goal in mind - don't get fired. Needless to say, after 25 issues and eight months at the helm of the white whale we call The Campus, we can say "Mission Accomplished." Consider this our letters of resignation.If ...
Author: Tristan Axelrod I don't really mind being called a f---a--, or told that I suck b----. For s---- and giggles, I'd like to posit that I'm not, and I don't. In fact, I'll own up to the fact that I'm responsible for those comments, because I voted for myself as the best musician at Middlebury. ...
Author: Alex Garlick 1. Dan Streitfeld - Thanks for your third anti-Garlick op-ed, it's great for my overflowing vainglory.2. The Bunker - There once was a dream of a weekly Sketch-Cullough dance party with cheap beer, Red Bull and long lines to make it feel exclusive. Now, the dream comes true every ...
Author: James O'Brien Thank God the school year is over! And what a year it's been … etc. … Now I can enjoy myself for a couple months before hitting the proverbial wall at the beginning of August when I start to fantasize about Middlebury. Then I'll get to Middlebury and start to fantasize about ...
Author: Nate Ackerly So I went into the RAJ today to meet with my advisor and taped right out front of its door is a sign saying "should drunk drivers be punished?," essentially detailing a scenario in which a guy sleeps with a black-out girl, gets charged with rape and is forced to leave campus. Long ...