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Saturday, Dec 6, 2025

Opinion


The Setonian

Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] Chief Justice Roberts' SpeechTo the Editor:Congratulations to the Middlebury College students who conducted the peaceful and creative demonstration prior to Chief Justice John Roberts' speech. Middlebury's student body surely includes many future leaders of all aspects ...


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Editorial What we take for granted

Author: [no author name found] There are many things to be said and much advice to be given about how Middlebury as an institution can improve. But as one member of the greater Middlebury community pointed out last week, couldn't one nice thing be said about the College every five or six weeks of the ...


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Op-Ed Vote for working together

Author: Julia Alvarez On Nov. 6 and 7, Dedé Mirabal and Minou Tavarez Mirabal will be visiting our campus, sponsored by WAGS and several other departments and organizations.For those who might not know, Dedé Mirabal is the sole survivor of a family of four sisters, who started the underground movement ...


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Op-Ed Where should all the women go on Nov. 7?

Author: Jessica Singleton As a self-proclaimed "old-fashioned" woman, Kansas State Senator Kay O'Connor argued that if men would just take care of women today, we women wouldn't have to vote. If Mrs. O'Connor really believes her farcical surrender of the nineteenth amendment, she better start registering ...


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Op-Ed The five-letter word, faith, has a lot to do with it

Author: Margaret McFadden There is no doubt about it, Middlebury College cultivates a culture of community concern. Some students volunteer with AIDS education programs in Africa, "give up" Feb break to build houses with Habitat or put off a pressing assignment to spend time with a Community Friend. ...


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Party Policies

Saturday night's Halloween party in the Freeman International Center demonstrated the potential for a vibrant and controllable on-campus social scene, one that we as students have lacked for some time. However, it also showed that whether administrators, public safety officers and students like it or ...


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Op-Ed Midd student life headed for hell

Author: Maddie Terry Here on Middlebury's campus, the chemistry students in my class felt compelled to remain in our recent midterm examination until 2 and 3 a.m., their heads lowered over worked and re-worked calculations since a 7:30 p.m. start time. In this same environment, students opt to skip ...


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Notes from the Desk

Author: James Kerrigan Sports culture was a defining school quality as I considered which colleges would be good fits. Athletic prowess and fan dedication helped a school climb my own power rankings of desirable places to spend my next four years. I fantasized about camping out in Krzyzewskiville for ...


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Editorial About our evening with the Chief Justice

Author: [no author name found] If Tuesday's lecture by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., was truly a model for the proposed monthly convocation series, it is difficult to imagine what we would now reflect on for the next three weeks of community discussion. Roberts was eloquent, humorous and more than ...


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In My Humble Opinion Trick or get wasted

Author: Daniel Roberts One of my favorite activities off-campus is to strike up conversations with people from town. One recent exchange began at CVS when my friend and I noticed an older woman at the counter, purchasing numerous bags of candy."Getting ready for trick-or-treaters?" I asked. She gave ...


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It is time for a path to Cornwall

Author: Allan C. Cremer As someone who has lived on Route 30 for the past ten years, I have become increasingly aware of the number of individuals and groups traveling on the road by bicycle and the likelihood of significant growth in bicycle use as the costs and environmental drawbacks of commuting ...


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Judging Chief Justice Roberts' record

Author: Jennifer Leigh Williams Roberts is a judge for the twenty-first century. As Chief Justice, he writes engagingly; it is common for him to pepper his opinions with sports imagery and witty humor. For example, he describes his position as that of an umpire, or one whose job is to uphold the rules, ...


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Notes from the Desk

Author: Kathryn Flagg We've got a bad case of the "touchy-feelies" here at Middlebury College. Don't quite understand what I mean? Listen in on any Friday morning discussion section or impassioned debate over lunch at Proctor: the "I feel" has replaced the "I think" in our collective College jargon.It's ...


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Editorial All-student e-mail for all?

Author: [no author name found] Maybe we should blame the Admissions Office for continually admitting smarter and more ambitious students into our community. Or maybe we should blame the hacker-internet culture for warping the minds of innocent Middlebury youth. Whatever the reason, it was this time ...


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Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] Carbon Neutrality InitiativeTo the Editor:I was pleased to hear of support by the Board Of Trustees and President Liebowitz for a low-emissions power plant and reducing the college's impact on climate change. Below is my letter to President Liebowitz, in support of the ...


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In My Humble Opinion Passion of the celebrity

Author: Daniel Roberts Do you remember this past summer when Mel Gibson was arrested for drunk driving? According to the arrest report, he told the officer, "I'm not going to get in your car. I own Malibu." In addition, after seeing that Deputy James Mee looked Jewish, he told him, "F*****g Jews. The ...


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Notes from the Desk

Author: Jay Dolan Last Spring a laptop computer was stolen from a Middlebury student by a Two Brothers Tavern (TBT) delivery guy. This year, multiple people have told me about encounters with some feisty employees when they called before the 10 p.m. delivery time. I love TBT and I was the first to defend ...