Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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" ...
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, ...