Author: James O'Brien Middlebury needs to pass a law about the stupid flyers that students put up in the hallways. Hellooo. I need to walk there. I don't want the advertisement for some kid's coffee house performance distracting me from my brilliant Miltonian musings as I trudge up the stairs to English ...
Author: [no author name found] Students gathered Tuesday in Ross Dining Hall to make their voices heard as the U.S. Marine Corps recruited on campus. Outraged at the College's decision to allow an organization that discriminates against homosexuals to come to Middlebury, protestors focused their efforts ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Every Thursday when The Middlebury Campus newspaper comes out, a truly woeful process of misery unfolds.Basically, every kid that walks into a dining hall grabs a paper from the rack, regardless of whether or not they plan to read it.Each person brings the paper to the table and ...
Author: Douglas Sisson Eager to deal with problems with a quick fix, Western society turns to prescription medications. Adderall, prescription amphetamine salts, is used by numerous students and adults to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). For others, the medication serves as prescription speed ...
Author: Dean Atyia Since the 2006 incident in which UCLA police tasered a student in the computer lab for lack of identification and uproarious behavior, more and more students have felt unwarranted electricity shocking their bodies or the sharp pain of pepper spray invading their pores. It's one thing ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Ten years ago, the commons system in its current incarnation was shoved down the student body's throat against its strong opposition. Argument for the current system included the need for a better support structure for students and the idea that Middlebury, ...
Author: Daniel Streitfeld Reading the letters page in the Campus last week, I was slightly bemused to see two consecutive letters by unfamiliar men named Brian Flaherty and Kevin Keane. If you're desperately trying to remember if those are the two stoners from your French Lit class, I assure you they ...
Author: Ward Wolff On a late October afternoon, Becky Dayton, owner of the Vermont Book Shop on Main St., received a phone call regarding mints on display near the register. The enormously popular mints, a product of the ever-clever Unemployed Philosopher's Guild, come in a small tin box of many varieties ...
Author: [no author name found] 'Study drug' use on campus requires closer lookAn unscientific Campus poll this week indicated that 22 percent of students have used Ritalin, Adderall or other study drugs without a prescription. With concerns about the ethics of such drug use cropping up in columns by ...
Author: Dan Streitfeld Alex Garlick, Campus columnist, has, in a rather hastily written piece, spilled some ill-advised ink regarding Al Gore's recent receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. The raison d'Ítre of the column is that Gore does not deserve the award because his actions cannot truly be seen as ...
Author: Daniel Roberts As I write this, the Boston Red Sox have just finished off a World Series that, in truth, was a four-game joke. Sorry, Colorado fans, but even when it was close, it felt like watching a major league baseball team play a bunch of eighth grade Pony Leaguers.Ironically enough, I ...
Author: [no author name found] Police presence on campus demands student responsibilityRapidly garnering a reputation as one of the most raucous parties of the semester, the VACA Halloween bash on Friday resulted, for the second year in a row, in a flurry of uniformed activity on campus. This year, ...
Author: James O'Brien Consistently terrible television advertisements haunted my Sunday sports viewing this week. This worried me because, as you may well know, television advertisement excellence is the indicator that most accurately reflects the state of our nation. We may be at code red status. During ...
Author: Max Nardini The administration recently announced that, effective spring semester 2009, Winter Carnival will be shortened to a two-day event. Then, later in the spring, there will be no classes on the day of the Student Research Symposium. This change was made without substantial input from ...
Author: Robert McKay This week, the Senate votes on the bill that will determine the course of U.S. agriculture for the next five years. The House has already passed its version of the new farm bill, and it has introduced some promising changes. But these only mitigate the House's overall failure to ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:In response to Alex Garlick's piece criticizing Al Gore's award for the Nobel Peace Prize, I am curious as to why he chose not to criticize the 2004 award to Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan woman who won the award primarily for her environmental activism in Africa, ...
Author: Alex Garlick Every year in May at commencement, graduates' heads fill with enthusiasm, excitement, fear and a vicious hangover as they prepare to enter "the real world." Invariably, a speaker delivers a message to the graduates regarding the possible impact of this generation, and how it can ...
Author: Melissa Marshall As I participated in the debauchery of the annual VACA Halloween party - which ended in an arrest rather than at 11 p.m. last year (you decide your preference) - the immortal words of Tina Fey rang in my ears along with the infectious techno-pop. "Halloween is the one night ...