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 ...
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 ...