Author: Douglas Sisson "Would you like to have a cup of coffee with me sometime?" A simple question with various interpretations and unfortunately as close as it gets to a formal date here at Middlebury College. Even then, how many of you can claim to have actually gotten this far? Exactly. As full-time ...
Author: Jordan Nassar Fashion can wait this week, there are more important things to be discussed - and at the top of that list is the College's support of the segregation of this campus.Allow me to start from the beginning.Tuesday night, Jan. 8, 2008, at the Inter-House Council (IHC) meeting, The Mill ...
Author: Students of HARC 0228 The exhibition "Resonance from the Past: African Art from the New Orleans Museum of Art" at the Middlebury Museum of Art set the framework for a course this semester that included students from diverse academic backgrounds ranging from art history to physics. Since the ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I have been aware of the lack of socioeconomic diversity since the day that I arrived on the pristine green $50,000 a year campus. I support diversity on campus, but with all of this attention given to socioeconomic diversity within the ethnic and racial ...
Author: Joseph Bergan The following is a list of all the things that have vanished from my life as a Middlebury student, calendar years 2004-2007:The "New Faces" bookThe "New Faces" book died three years ago. The now-defunct publication is predeceased by Facebook.com, which is in living color, has tagging ...
Author: Alex Garlick No matter how loud the debate becomes regarding Matthew Biette's threat to cancel midnight breakfast, it seems to fall on deaf ears. The Campus' editorial board can chip in its two cents and the SGA can organize a lunch with Biette, but the student body is taking the apathetic route ...
Author: Douglas Sisson "Let's just stop by. At least be seenÖ" Sound familiar? If it doesn't, then you don't eavesdrop. I have heard the "at least be seen" reasoning a few too many times to ignore. What does it mean to be seen at a certain place or with certain people? This is a question often taken ...
Author: [no author name found] Bringing workload to the tableChances are, if you are a student on campus at this time of year, you are reading this editorial somewhere between your morning lecture courses, your afternoon sports or a capella practices and that meeting with the student organization of ...
Author: Daniel Roberts In my history discussion yesterday, amidst a riveting talk about the influence of Jesuit missionaries in Japan in the 1500s (like I said, riveting), a tinny, obnoxious electronica beat suddenly pierced the room. It was some girl's cell phone, and it sounded like a Mozart concerto ...
Author: Max Nardini Military recruiting at Middlebury always stirs up a buzz. This is understandable, as the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy conflicts with the College's antidiscrimination statement, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of, among other things, sexual orientation. Some ...
Author: James Kerrigan Just before closing time at Proctor on a September evening, I sat down with men's soccer goalie Brian Bush '09 for a quick dinner before returning to the newspaper office. We did our best to get through the leftover food as we exchanged high school soccer glory stories. I thought ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:In response to the MOQA protest of the United States Marine Core information table, the behavior demonstrated by the protesters was disrespectful and a good example of the behavior of Middlebury's activist communities as of late. While the armed forces are ...
Author: Kay Tenney I believe Middlebury College needs to dramatically expand the organic/sustainable food choices in the dining programs and to offer one, two and three meal-a-day plans, and thus, change the obligatory ruling to eat at the dining facilities. My daughter, a member of the Class of 2008, ...
Author: Kevin Redmon Your front page coverage of Middlebury's participation in Power Shift 2007 was encouraging to see ("Students aid D.C. green looby," Nov. 8). Despite being one of the smaller colleges represented, Middlebury sent nearly 80 students (in a bio-diesel bus, no less) to the conference ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Here's a first - I want to take this week's column to respond to another column. If it helps, look along online as you read me this week. The column is Jordan Nassar's "The Devil Wears Patagonia" (Nov. 15). I had not read this column until a friend of mine brought it to me and ...
Author: Alexandra Garcia Gender violence should be on the hot list this week. There are those posters with Middlebury quotes, the posters with sexual violence statistics and a few Feminists all up in arms over the "insensitive" op-ed response to the posters. But what's the big deal? Hasn't anybody noticed ...
Author: Feminist Action at Middlebury, Men Against Violence and Women of Color We would like to thank James O'Brien for raising some important concerns in his recent op-ed article "Sex and Shaq don't mix - but we talk about it anyway" (Nov 15). The level of apathy on this campus needs to be addressed ...
Author: [no author name found] With exams fast approaching, settle in with your books, hunker down with your notes - and get ready to kiss that beloved midnight breakfast tradition goodbye. Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette sent out an ominous e-mail two weeks ago threatening Middlebury students ...