Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:An article about the calendar change to begin in spring semester 2009 appeared in last week's The Middlebury Campus. I write to provide some background about the strategic planning process that recommended the change, and about subsequent steps to implement ...
Author: [no author name found] For students trickling in from urban and suburban corners of the world alike, the town of Middlebury is a wonderful - and too often ignored - resource and retreat during our time at the College. And for the many faculty and staff who work on campus, the town is often at ...
Author: Douglas Sisson Middlebury College is headed in an unfortunate direction. President Liebowitz has shifted Middlebury's priorities in the form of a unique administrative diet still in the process of being entirely digested. This shift in our College's administrative food pyramid has included the ...
Author: Alex Garlick Have you heard the news? Al Gore won the Nobel Prize. Al Gore, who couldn't even win the general election when he got the most votes, somehow won the most prestigious award in the world for peace. First, he turns a PowerPoint presentation into an Academy Award-winning film, then ...
Author: Daniel Roberts In addition to the heightened consumption of alcohol, there are other elements that make the daily schedule of an average college student radically different from that of anyone not in college. It's undeniable - we don't live like normal people.Now, perhaps some of you go to class ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed I've been at Middlebury for over three years now. In that time, I have met students who have planned fundraisers, mentored local children, volunteered their time to put out a newspaper, organized marches to raise awareness of climate change and persuaded this College to commit to ...
Author: Tracy Himmel-Isham and Jon Isham In a recent article in The Campus, ("Council Weighs Relationship Ban"), Faculty Council member Amy Morsman reports, "Faculty Council has been crafting a policy which would prohibit professors from having amorous relationships with students."We say 'Bravo!' to ...
Author: Amanda Brickell The recent controversy surrounding the "Never Forget" posters requires that we reexamine the value of the freedom of speech on a college campus. In the United States, free speech is the rule rather than the exception. It is beneficial to allow a public exchange of ideas, even ...
Author: Douglas Sisson A lack of transparency is evident between Middlebury's administration and the community at large. Without open, honest and direct dialogue between students and its administration, the College community has no choice but to rely on campus rumors and gossip to find closure for pressing ...
Author: Dean Atyia I came to the Northeast to see what the rest of the country is like, and I embrace this nook of changing leaves and snowy fields for both its merits and its faults. Where I come from, we don't have open discussion of racial inequalities. We avoid the D-word characterized by socialist ...
Author: [no author name found] Winter Carnival tradition wounded by calendar revisionsIn a rare outburst of excitement at the weekly Community Council meeting on Monday, student representatives to the Council balked at plans to discard an all-school holiday on the Friday prior to the College's Winter ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Last Friday night I was at the Grille, about to enjoy the Chicken Club that somehow, when I have been drinking, tastes like food cooked by Emeril himself. I have no doubt that you all know exactly what I mean about the bliss of Grille food at 1 am on a weekend.Anyway, a girl I ...
Author: Anthony Adragna If I could count the number of reasons students give for remaining apathetic towards social life, I'd be counting for days. The biggest complaint at Midd is that there is never enough to do or that the activities that are available stink. But the vast majority of students do ...
Author: James O'Brien The biggest mystery in my life as a Middlebury College student is The Administration. I have absolutely no clue what an "administration" really is. When I close my eyes, I imagine a bunch of business people in powdered wigs. They are sitting at a long, wooden table, yelling at ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:An article on Middlebury's current overenrollment in the Sept. 26 edition of The Campus contained some important factual errors or misimpressions that deserve correction. One of the most important, that all incoming first-years receiving financial assistance ...
Author: Kelly Janis Shameless party animal that I am, I spent a raucous Saturday night covering a last-minute shift at Public Safety's recently-launched Residential Life Helpline.The lightly-publicized service directs minor complaints formerly fielded by Public Safety to a student operator, who then ...
Author: Chris Anderson Over the summer, I worked at the College. Two of my friends drove here and visited me, and were parked in the visitor's lot at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. They registered their car (and themselves) at Public Safety, and wanted to verify that they'd parked in the right space."You ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Apparently this past week was Yom Kippur, the most significant Jewish holiday of the year. This had completely slipped my mind until I was walking out of the dining hall and Josh Wessler (you may know him as the Reel Critic) saw me munching a bagel and said, "You're not fasting?" ...