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 ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I'm living in Milliken next year. The first time I found out I was living in a single in "Milli," the summer before my first year, I was thrilled. The second time, I was still pretty psyched, because at least I had gotten a single when I returned from my ...
Author: Kim Walker As a senior who is getting nostalgic about leaving this wonderful institution, I feel compelled to note a few changes that I believe have negatively impacted Middlebury. I have spent four unbelievable years here, but in the process, I've seen a transformation of the social atmosphere ...
Author: Matty Van Meter At the risk of seeming overcritical, I would like to remind a certain campus group of the final letter of its acronym: "A," as in alliance.MOQA, the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance, has been unusually visible in the past weeks, and with good reason. An active response to events ...
Author: David Infante Two weeks ago, coming off the thrill of Rites of Spring, I couldn't help but get excited when I heard about another off-campus party. For the first time in a while, the social scene here at Middlebury had picked up. Instead of the morbid curiosity with which I approach most weekends ...
Author: Dave Lee For the last two weeks, the issue of homophobia and hate speech on the Middlebury campus seems to have taken center stage. After recent graffiti in Ross, Starr and other college spaces, I truly commend the administration and student body for their immediate reaction to the onset of ...
Author: Editorial Board Nardini for SGA PresidentEither the job of Student Government Association (SGA) President is terribly undesirable, or lone candidate Max Nardini '08 just breathes fear into the eyes of any prospective competitors. We cannot explain the lack of interest in this year's SGA Presidential ...
Two weekends ago I made a last minute decision to attend Xanadu, the new on-campus night club. Having heard about its successful opening the previous Friday, I thought that it would most likely be packed full of students looking to have a great time. When I arrived unfashionably early, I was met with ...
Author: Mary Lane I am a Virginian first and an American second - anyone with even a cursory knowledge of who I am knows that this is true. I have a Virginia flag in my room and Virginia bumper stickers on my binder and coffee mug. My family has been involved with Virginia Tech for decades. We are intense ...