Author: James O'Brien Throughout the storied history of my unfortunate column in The Middlebury Campus, I have struggled with how to write an opinion column without having any opinions. As a result, I usually ended up pursuing some sort of polemical rant in order to produce an aggravated op-ed from ...
Author: Alex Garlick The Democratic Primary has had all the characteristics of a heavyweight title bout this year. There have been lots of verbal punches thrown, some low blows and a lot of blowhards beside the ring. I can even picture Howard Dean as the referee (he's got the scream for it). Barack ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner A woman stopped me in the dining hall and said, "I don't think you're going to eat all those sandwiches here." I said, "You're right. I'm taking these to my friends who don't have time to go to the dining hall right now. They're all students too. Does it matter whether we eat ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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, ...
Author: 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 ...