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 ...
Author: [no author name found] You might call us un-thankful, but...With the College's student population spread out across the country, and the world for that matter, it is high-time Middlebury seriously consider expanding the Thanksgiving recess to be a week-long break, as our peers at Amherst and ...
Author: [no author name found] Faculty against professorshipTo the Editor:We wish to reaffirm our commitment to diversity at Middlebury College. According to our mission statement, diversity includes "the integration of historically underrepresented groups into the campus community." Given the documented ...
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Author: Emily Thompson While sitting in my Aesthetics class the other day, I found myself staring at brightly colored ribbons. These were not awards won by past students for their academic achievements or even horseback riding. No, these exquisitely tied ribbons hung from the ponytails of fellow Middlebury ...
Author: Daniel Roberts There I was, chilling at our Cape Cod house over the break, reminiscing over previous school vacations. I remembered lying on the beach in St. Lucia in seventh grade. I recalled sitting on a Greyhound bus, heading up to Manhattan to visit a cute, spoiled New York princess I used ...
Author: Ken Van Hazinga To Governor Jim Douglas,With the resignation of Steve Kerr as Secretary of Agriculture, it is now up to you to appoint a new Secretary of Ag. Recently, this post, in recognition of its importance, has been raised from the level of Commissioner to Secretary, as a cabinet position. ...
Author: [no author name found] Political correctness is incorrectTo the Editor:I just wanted to congratulate Daniel Roberts on writing his column (In My Humble Opinion, Nov. 9, 2006) on political correctness because it was the first one in a long time that made me slam the breakfast table and pump ...
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