Opinion
notes from the desk Counter-productive Gaypril event baffles
By Middlebury Campus | April 9, 2008Author: Andrew Throdahl What could be duller than sexuality? Sure, it comes with its complications, like relationships, harassment and discrimination, but for most of the normal, well-educated students of Middlebury College, sex is tedious and predictable, nothing more than a lust that is occasionally ...
op-ed What we learn when they mess up
By Middlebury Campus | April 9, 2008Author: Rodrigo Seira This past month was not an easy one for politicians. On March 10, The New York Times broke the story that linked New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to a prostitution ring, forcing him to resign only a few days later. On March 24, there came a second sex scandal as Detroit Mayor Kwame ...
Editorial Hazing decision represents necessary caution
By Middlebury Campus | April 9, 2008Author: [no author name found] Students are doubtlessly grumbling (to say the least) about the College's decision to temporarily disband a cappella group Stuck in the Middle (SIM) for hazing violations. However, the decision - though disappointing for members of the group - ultimately signals the understandable ...
A preface to lunch Bible-beating Conservatives
By Middlebury Campus | April 9, 2008Author: James O'Brien I was listening to WRMC 91.1 - my favorite on-campus radio station - when one show ended and on came a show called Neo-Con Air. I didn't actually listen to the show, but it did jog my memory about the fun Neo-Con posters that I used to walk by on the way to Ross Dining Hall. I ...
op-ed The dream reborn building a green economy for all
By Middlebury Campus | April 9, 2008Author: Corinne Almquist and David Dolginow "We are the dream generation, we are the dream reborn." This chant started as a whisper, stirring more than a thousand people to unite in song and hope. We rose in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a just and equal society, and in a promise ...
Letters to the editor
April 9, 2008Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I found out this week that I have been reappointed to the Middlebury faculty. We won! Don't you just love it when the good guys win? It makes you feel like we really can change our lives and the lives of those around us and make this community and, yes, the ...
op-ed WRMC setting the record straight
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: Paxson Woebler I like Third Eye Blind. I like Cake. I've never been in or been involved with WRMC. And while I don't have a stake in this argument one way or the other, the clumsy vitriol coursing through James O'Brien's piece "A Preface to Lunch: Elitist Tastes not my Jam" (The Campus, March ...
op-ed An update on the Proctor Terrace
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: Susan Personette I would like to try to clarify some of the issues around the temporary closing of Proctor Hall's Woodstove Lounge. But first, I'd like to apologize for the glitch in communications about this closure that caught some members of our community by surprise. Simply stated, several ...
notes from the desk The myth of a post-racial generation
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: Theodore May There is a new and disturbing trend in U.S. race relations - the media has declared, and college students have embraced, that we belong to the "post-racial generation." Though the term goes back a ways, it gained momentum in the media when the country's youth began to show its commitment ...
editorial
March 19, 2008Author: [no author name found] Middlebury commemorates five years of war in IraqYesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq - an event that ultimately dwarfs the politics of on-campus student organizations. Since the invasion, just shy of 4,000 American soldiers have ...
op-ed The queens are coming! Don't squash them.
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: Lucas Yoquinto Quite a few people around here talk about "the Middlebury Bubble." This figurative barrier supposedly separates the student body from the rest of the world, keeping out current events and keeping in some of the most devastating diseases ever to make you think twice before opening ...
Shenanigans Stuff Midd students like
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: Alex Garlick In the spirit of the brilliant "Stuff White People Like" blog, I'd like to provide a guide for any outsiders that encounter Middlebury people.1. John McCardell - McCardell is not just liked - he is loved, nearly four years since his assumption of "Emeritus." In terms of notable ...
A Preface to Lunch Everything I learned in kindergarten was a lie
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: James O'Brien In 1986, Robert Fulgham published a famous essay entitled "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." I'm considering writing a sort of companion piece to this essay called "Everything I Learned in Kindergarten was a Lie."In kindergarten we were taught to play fair, ...
op-ed Revisiting legitimate journalism on campus and in The Campus
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: Maddie Terry This week I write to support and applaud the so-called illegitimate Middlebury Campus, as well as its' Features editors, in light of a March 13 letter to the editor. I trust that, given what I have always understood to be committed adherence of The Campus staff to those "journalistic ...
Letters to the editor
March 19, 2008Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Title of an article two weeks ago - "Williams would get an Eph on its report card." Title of an article last week - "Manhattanville ville come to town, Saturday at 4:00."? Really?Sincerely,David Foote '10To the Editor:The quality of your sports articles are ...
op-ed In defense of WRMC 91.1 FM
By Middlebury Campus | March 19, 2008Author: Robert Mohr I think we need to look at the contents of the e-mail that has seemingly caused so much controversy ("Cake - choice of many or few," March 6). While some of the language employed in the e-mail may be considered slightly pretentious and/or arrogant, the message being conveyed was ...
op-ed A call for Africana Studies
By Middlebury Campus | March 12, 2008Author: Abigail Opoku-Agyemang My name is Abigail Opoku-Agyemang. I am a first-year student at Middlebury. I was born in Ghana and my family moved here when I was younger. When I was applying to colleges, Middlebury stood out to me as a school that was not only excellent but also diverse. Middlebury ...
op-ed Clinton's failing candidacy threatens to bring Obama's down with it
By Middlebury Campus | March 12, 2008Author: Rodrigo Seira There has been much talk about Tuesday's Democratic primaries. In a must-win situation, with Obama seemingly ready to deliver a knockout punch, Hillary Clinton was able to score an impressive win in Ohio and capture the popular vote in Texas. The second of Hillary's death-defying ...