Author: Joseph Bergan I guess this is what I wanted. This is what I get for traveling to Europe in the fall of 2003 while 600 other Middlebury College students in the class of 2007 started their Middlebury careers. This is why I worked all summer long in the Arabic language school gaining extra credits, ...
Author: Alex Garlick The cool crisp weather and changing of the leaves you're feeling this week mean one thing: Soon the airwaves will be filled with ads touting things too good to be true, lavish amounts of money will be spent and, on one cold winter morning, children will wake up early to checkÖ ...
Author: Editorial Board Shouting match on campus politics blurs the issuesNot two weeks into the new academic term, political "debate" on campus is manifesting itself in an all-too-common flurry of activity in the McCullough Student Center Mail Room. A poster displayed by the College Republicans on ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Sept. 11, 2001 was an incredibly tragic event for both the United States and the world. Three thousand innocent people died, something that can never be undone and which has caused incredible repercussions both for Americans and people all over the world. ...
Author: Campus Staff On a relatively quiet news day in July, we at The Middlebury Campus watched as a few students clamored on Facebook.com about a new logo that appeared on the College's Web site. Invitations to the group were sent out, electronically of course, and our news editors, scattered though ...
Author: Jay Dolan Spending a semester abroad is a popular part of the Middlebury experience. Many first-year and sophomore students have already decided which semester, as well as what part of the world, they'll be enjoying away from their monotonous college lives. In fact, a minority of students will ...
Author: Dean Atyia I sat down the other day at gate C something or the other in Los Angeles International Airport, mashed my earphones into their greasy cubbies and settled into the airport anonymity that we all know and love. As I debated whether or not to doze off, worried about the possibility of ...
Author: Alex Garlick The last couple of miles of the drive on Route 7 into Middlebury have never been more enjoyable for me than this year. The warm sun was shining on my face as the wind whistled through the open windows, bringing in the slightest stench of cow manure indicating Middlebury's proximity. ...
Author: Daniel Roberts So, did you have a "back to school" dream this week? Every year, just before I return to our good ol' institution of higher learning, I have my recurring nightmare. Okay, not exactly a nightmare - but it's definitely not one of those "fun with Jessica Alba" dreams. In mine, I ...
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Author: Nick DeSantis A few weeks ago, after the incidents of homophobic graffiti sprang up around the campus, I felt a tangible amount of positive energy stemming from the community's response to hate speech. However, I'm a little nervous about the devolvement of the discussion into value judgments ...
Author: Editorial Board To the Reader:"What in the world is happening to Middlebury?" wrote a parent responding to a recent Campus news article online. "Why would anyone reading this year's Campus publications want to send a son or daughter to Middlebury College today?"As the editors and writers who ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I would like to first of all acknowledge the factual error that so many were quick to rightly point out in last week's column: the homophobia display in the library was in fact erected by the Office of Institutional Diversity. The mistake came from a number of assumptions I made, ...
Author: Nikko Arger Last Friday at Dolci, one of my friends called me and asked me, as a gay man, what I thought of the display in the library concerning homophobia in athletics. Seeing that I live in BiHall, I was naturally confused by his question because it seemed so ridiculous to me - why are athletics ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:At the Ross meeting about homophobic graffiti one student suggested The Campus should have regular coverage of LGBT issues. Last week's issue had three pieces, but not of gay-positive coverage. Why is it so easy to be distracted by a silly argument about ...
Author: Ben Salkowe & Lisie Mehlman We're not sure how most newspaper staffs start a year, but ours began with a poorly researched, hastily executed name game. For ten painful minutes, the thirty of us sat listening to each other explain the "story" behind our names. There was, admittedly, a great ...
Author: Emily Adler Throughout my time at Middlebury, I have watched the administration, faculty and student body exercise and boast about their environmental ethic to a growing extent. Middlebury's "green" efforts seem to be highlighted in every magazine or Campus publication, mentioned on every tour ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green A lot has changed in my four years at Middlebury. In four years, I have had two presidents, two admissions directors, the death or suspension of two social houses and, perhaps more important to a college student, are the two disparate liquor inspectors, however, the changes ...
Author: Editorial Board Middlebury professes to be a work hard/play hard liberal arts college, but students today are working harder and playing less. Complaints about everything from room draw to social life have reached new extremes. Maybe these issues call for complex and long-term solutions, but ...