Opinion
notes from the desk Responsible regurgitation
By Middlebury Campus | October 3, 2007Author: 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 ...
Op-ed A college of success or excess?
By Middlebury Campus | October 3, 2007Author: 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 ...
in my humble opinion Losing my religion
By Middlebury Campus | October 3, 2007Author: 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?" ...
Skeptical Sisson Environmentalists? Capitalists.
By Middlebury Campus | October 3, 2007Author: Douglas Sisson Middlebury College is a unique, environmentally conscious campus. The recycling bins furnished in every student's room have never failed to make the quintessential college punch bowl. What's more, on Monday, the royal blue plastic mold goes back to its daytime job in the form ...
editorial
October 3, 2007Author: [no author name found] In an article published this Sunday in the New York Times Magazine, writer Andrew Delbanco asked, "What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" Not much, the author concluded. Competing for global prestige and "brand-name positioning," more universities ...
letter to the editor
October 3, 2007Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:On a campus where you must wait in line to use gym equipment in the afternoon and where the line at the Proctor salad bar stretches farther than the hot food line, the message and the implications of "Eluding the 'Freshman 15'" in last week's The Middlebury ...
in my humble opinion Parking Problems
By Middlebury Campus | September 25, 2007Author: Daniel Roberts Because I have seen my car towed a record four times in two years, costing me $90 each time, I feel I have a special bond with Public Safety. I have dialed ext. 5911 so frequently in my time here that I even have the number on speed dial.Somehow, no matter where I park, it turns ...
Skeptical Sisson Ditch "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
By Middlebury Campus | September 25, 2007Author: Douglas Sisson The Department of Defense (DOD) has returned to campus to defend the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. It was during my first year at the College that Middlebury's open invitation to the military was questioned under the Handbook policy regarding employer recruiting on ...
editorial "4/2" compromise no quick fix
By Middlebury Campus | September 25, 2007Author: [no author name found] Believe it or not, it would seem that the end of what one former editor of The Middlebury Campus dubbed "Middlebury's own Vietnam War" is in sight. After investing millions of dollars in infrastructure and personnel, College administrators have at long last listened to ...
Livin' the Dream Dolla dolla bills for the College, y'all
By Middlebury Campus | September 25, 2007Author: Dean Atiyia I walked into the dining hall this evening, picked up a plate, some silverware and a bunch of napkins (I eat like a savage), but when I went to set the contents on my tray, they fell to the floor in a flurry of broken glass and broken promises. Middlebury College rates among the ...
op-ed 'Never Forget' rhetoric breeds ignorance
By Middlebury Campus | September 25, 2007Author: Andrey Tolstoy It is an old rhetorical trick to turn a debate of principle into a debate of detail, and vice versa. If successful, it drags the unwitting opponent into a battle he did not intend to fight, and which he is unlikely to win. In its magnanimous commentary on the defacing of a College ...
letter to the editor
September 25, 2007Author: Heather Pangle To the Editor:On Sept. 10, the College Republicans put up posters around campus commemorating the tragedy of 9/11, the murder of Daniel Pearl, the attack on the USS Cole, the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the Iranian Hostage crisis and the hatred manifested ...
notes from the desk Saturday snakes
By Middlebury Campus | September 25, 2007Author: Aylie Baker "You wanna buy a snake?" ventured the shorter of the O'Brien brothers, emerging from behind a rack of fluorescent bathing suits and puce-colored dresses to poke his head into the tent. Too quickly, Dave looked up from the pile of '80s gym t-shirts he was pouring through and found ...
in my humble opinion Accident, up ahead
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: Daniel Roberts Earlier this summer, after picking up my Jeep from the repair shop - ironically - I was sitting at a red light and watched in amazement as a car accident happened right before my eyes. A woman on the other side of the street was attempting to take advantage of the "right on red" ...
notes from the desk Super student?
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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, ...
Shenanigans Scoring the primaries so far
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
editorial
September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...