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 ...
Author: [no author name found] Last July, Middlebury College was recognized by "The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students" as one of the 100 best campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students. With a rich history of breaking down barriers to open education for all people - think ...
Author: [no author name found] Last November, Student Government Association President Alex Stanton '07 oversaw passage of a recommendation to alleviate Commons tensions through the creation of an open senior room draw. This past week, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz accepted the student ...
Author: Jesse Sucher, Gospel Johnstone To the Editor: As most have now realized, a student-run nightclub/bar is now a reality. Over four hundred Middkids passed through Xanadu Friday night, although the long line dissuaded many more from entering. The WRMC party was the first attempt at ...
Author: David Infante I was accepted to Middlebury College a little over a year ago and I was thrilled. To be honest with you, I felt as though I was en route to flavor country, wherever that nebulous region of the nation may be. I mean, this place touts itself as ClubMidd, which at the time of my acceptance ...
Author: Tom Brant Do you ever get the feeling that time is moving really slowly? I do. All the time. That's why I figured that there was nothing out of the ordinary when I finished my midterm essay last Wednesday at 11:45 p.m., according to the clock on my library computer. I figured that I had been ...
Author: Matty Van Meter There has been quite enough wishful thinking from Old Chapel and from the various Commons offices about the "integral role" which the Commons are supposed to be playing in students' lives. It is pervasive. It is in e-mails, spoken about on tours, evoked defensively by Residential ...
Author: Editorial Board The jolt of energy the new Febs usually bring still has not pulled Middlebury out of a social life slump that seemed to begin early last year. To be sure, the twin evils of a snowy St. Patrick's day and midterm exams have added to this current sentiment. But it seems that more ...
Author: Ilhan Kim I lied. I never went to go visit my jailbird buddy John Chetuck over Christmas as I promised in my last Notes. But I've been doing other good things like cooking dinner for my friends, representing Brainerd Commons for the Iron Chef competition, running a grassroots campaign to bring ...
Author: Matty Van Meter As any person in an executive position knows, succeeding a popular and charismatic leader is no easy task. There is a natural inclination on the part of the people being managed to idolize the former administration, and to vilify the successor. I think President Ronald D. Liebowitz ...
Author: Ken Lazo The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) on campus recently began work on an initiative to provide free condom distribution in all dorms. As of now, free condoms are available at the Health Center and a few dorms. The new initiative would make condoms readily available in every bathroom ...