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 ...
Author: Daniel Roberts I don't like Don Imus very much. I see his appeal for some people (like my Dad) but I wouldn't say I'm a fan. And no, I'm not just saying that to avoid being crucified by Imus haters here on campus, though I am sure that will happen anyway.Anyway, regardless of my personal opinion ...
Author: David Murphy Haglund I am absolutely sick of hearing College officials justify exorbitant tuition hikes with the argument that "[tuition] covers just 63 percent of the actual cost of an education at Middlebury." I find the figure hard to believe prima facie, but since I don't have access to ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I was a little confused by the administration's response to the recent homophobic incidents on campus, and whether the response was directed at the hate crime itself, the opinion of the perpetrator or both. I wholeheartedly agree with the school's policy ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes It was Sunday evening, and I was trudging across slush-covered sidewalks from Allen to the CFA to listen to a reading of 10-minute plays that a friend of mine was participating in. I was complaining bitterly to myself with every cold, wet step that drenched my feet in icy water. ...
Author: Matty Van Meter In the hateful graffiti that has appeared in our hallways and the heated response to it, there is revealed a deep and unfortunate tendency for pigeonholing on the part of all involved. To those targeted by the graffiti and to those who were not targeted but still felt worried ...
Author: Peter Mueller The human being gets a tough rap. Turn on the news and you'll see all the bad things that humans do. Humans lie, steal, cheat and hurt each other. It seems that the human is always on trial. Most recently, the human being has come under scrutiny for changing the environment. However, ...
Author: Emily Nelson As the Co-President of Ally Group and the daughter of lesbian parents, I am deeply disturbed by the way in which many Middlebury students twist the concept of free speech. Don't get me wrong, I am a firm believer in free speech, but the latest trend around here seems to be writing ...
Author: Alaina Robertson The administration and the student body need to critically think about the new rise in the comprehensive fee. "It still only covers 68 percent of the real cost"Öso what! Why does the administration need another $1.5 million a year? Do we really need bigger and better shows? ...
Author: Viraj Assar I write this week out of confusion and frustration, having woken up on Monday to early reports of serial violence on the campus of Virginia Tech in my hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia. In the same week as the eighth anniversary of the Columbine massacre, and after reports of bomb ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I came to this campus, as many of you did, to immerse and engage myself in an intellectual community which is not only diverse and stimulating, but subtle, self-aware and conscientious. In the classroom, and indeed in most situations, I have not been disappointed. When it comes ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: This past September a first-year in Atwater Commons was forced to move from his hall after repeatedly being called "fag," instead of his first name, by his hall-mates. Despite his move, he is periodically harassed because of his orientation by these same ...
Author: Editorial Board The shooting rampage that occurred Monday at Virginia Polytechnic Institute shocked and horrified the nation. As college students, the images of our peers being terrorized, on a sprawling campus not so unlike our own, was both painful to witness and impossible to comprehend. ...
Author: Neil Waters It seemed like a no-brainer. Several students in one of my classes included the same erroneous information in final examination essays. Google whisked me immediately to Wikipedia, where I found the source of the erroneous information in under a minute. To prevent recurrences of the ...
Author: Brian Fung The inauguration of Bill McKibben's Step It Up environmental campaign will be marked this week by over 1,000 demonstrations across the country. Step It Up's primary goal - to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent nationwide by 2050 - has even received the support of U.S. Senators ...
Author: Dave Wrangham Recent incidents of derogatory vandalism have created quite a stir on our campus, and well they should. The statements that were written, of which I've heard a few versions, seem to center around an individual being forcibly told to consume female homosexual buttocks. I don't know ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I'm writing this on a train from Nezhin, Ukraine to Kyiv. Perhaps there is no better way to understand the contemporary culture and everyday life of the former Soviet Union than to sit in a clanking suburban train for three hours, packed in with babushki and crumpled men in ...