Middlebury College has always been at the forefront of liberal arts academia, continually raising the bar of excellence for similar institutions to follow. To keep this beautiful place at a superior level, administrators need to change it to meet the demands of prospective students. In the four years ...
Author: Pat Zomer "At Middlebury College, we challenge students to participate fully in a vibrant and diverse academic community" according to the Mision Statement of Middlebury.I am sure you recognize the phrase above from Middlebury College's Mission Statement. The Mission Statement forms the foundation ...
Author: Jim Cowperthwait To the Middlebury College Board of Trustees,As a proud parent ('94 and '97), former head of the Parent's Fund and an active Middlebury supporter, I am at a loss to understand the selection of former President Clinton to be the 2007 Commencement Speaker and, even worse, to receive ...
Author: Daniel Roberts An awkward location indeed.At room draw last April, I chose a nice, fat single in Hepburn. The room was within a block (two singles and a double) that included a bathroom. Super. I made sure my friend got the other single, and that was that. The double was still open, but we just ...
Author: [no author name found] Where does all the money go?Last semester, the Student Government Association Finance Committee faced a daunting challenge. Late budget requests by student organizations and shortsighted funding decisions by last year's Finance Committee had created a major budget crisis. ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:As somebody who lives on the border of San Francisco's Castro District, I have had the good fortune to get to know many great Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gender, Queer people (GLBTQ). In addition to being good friends, they have also augmented my confidence ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I walked into my dorm one Saturday morning and found a series of progressively filthier messes in the lounge, hall and bathroom which I will refrain from describing; suffice it to say that few bodily fluids were unrepresented. The mess stayed, of course, until early Monday morning, ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed I really enjoyed my parents' questions to me over Winter Break. What do you eat for lunch? Burgers and fries at Proctor on Friday. How often do you go to the gym? Not often enough. What were your grades for the fall semester? [Long pause] Good?After enduring long hours of studying, ...
Author: Matty Van Meter To some it would be a truism to say that action (and activism) is small and day-to-day. It seems to me that the truth of the truism is too often overlooked. Activism has become synonymous with banner waving, slogan chanting and signature collecting. I do not wish to seem a ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Over the break, I hopped a Greyhound (metal, not fur) and made my way to New York City for a weekend. I got into town around 10 pm, and took a cab to my buddy's apartment on 79th and Lex. I was wearing my beloved, ratty Midd sweatshirt, and I ducked out from the cab to hear, "Hey, ...
Author: The Campus Editorial Board Three years ago this week, the 2004 staff of The Middlebury Campus launched a new look to the newspaper. Today we do it again. But this time we've gone one step farther.In response to budget pressures and printer difficulties, today The Middlebury Campus officially ...
Author: Ronald D. Liebowitz The recent "sense of the faculty" resolution, offered in protest over the College's decision to accept an anonymous gift to endow a professorship in honor of William Rehnquist, diminishes, quite ironically, the very thing it seeks - the institution's commitment to "diversity." ...
Author: Jessica Cox It would be impossible to miss the many Teach For America posters around campus, or the chalkings, the info tables and the Campus advertisements. Sure you've seen them and you've seen the statistics:Nearly 1,000 low-income students started school without teachers in Phoenix this ...
Author: Kevin Moss, Professor of Russian I find it profoundly ironic that those of us who object to the Rehnquist chair are painted as intolerant of diversity. One alum wrote and suggested that while he might disapprove, he would not protest should I name a chair to honor an equivalent liberal (he suggested ...
Author: [no author name found] It is time to shut down Proctor Dining Hall for renovations. We do not mean small changes around the edges, and we do not mean just for a weekend or two - the improvements need to be swift and far-reaching to ensure that the facility can survive well into Middlebury's ...
Author: [no author name found] Respectable cheeringTo the Editor:I would like to pick up the theme of the letter by Tim Hollander '65 that was printed in last week's Campus regarding the idiotic chant at hockey games, especially directed at the opposing goalies, of "You suck!" As a fan of both men's ...
Author: Daniel Roberts I have two magazine subscriptions at school, and when I see that folded tube in my mailbox, boy do I get excited. It means yet another chance to put off my schoolwork.The magazines I get are GQ (yeah, I know) and Entertainment Weekly (for the movie reviews). Both publications ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge '03, Regional Field Coordinator, Democracy Matters Institute The election is over and the American people have spoken, resulting in one of the biggest shifts in political power in recent history. Voters went to the polls motivated by many issues, the biggest of which was not ...
Author: Stefan Claypool, Natalie Komrovsky, Heather Pangle, Lauren Vollmer In the discussions surrounding the William H. Rehnquist Professorship of American History, we believe that the conservative perspective has been underrepresented. Some student organizations have distorted the Rehnquist record ...