Author: Matty Van Meter Middlebury's entire community deserves a round of applause for the steep rise in applications for the coming year. This level of interest is a broad statement of support for the college at a time when we are rising to new heights, and is a combination of work by students, faculty, ...
Author: Justin Boren Since 1993 the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) has pursued a strategy of "Prevention Through Deterrence." The basic strategy is two-fold: building physical barriers and increasing surveillance using advanced technology along the border and increasing surveillance along major arteries ...
Author: The Campus Editorial Board A campaign for the college 'kid'This newspaper is written, reported, edited and published by a body of writers and editors who, for the most part, are under the age of 21. In addition to publishing a newspaper, underage people can serve in the military, adopt children, ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:In Mr. James B. Cowperthwait's recent letter to The Campus concerning the selection of President Bill Clinton as the 2007 Commencement Speaker, he states that Mr. Clinton was impeached "for lying to a grand jury." In fact, there were two articles of impeachment, ...
Author: Chandler Koglmeier While I strongly agree that Wikipedia has not been accepted by the academic community due to its free and open nature and any student who pays attention should know this, I take issue with the resolution to ban it as a source. What are your professors scared of? Please tell ...
Author: Daniel Roberts When I was offered a column with the school paper, my heart leapt. It was the chance I had waited for. I now had a legitimate forum to do what I love. Thirteen articles later, a delicately worded e-mail gently informed me that my column would not be continued into spring. As Joe ...
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 ...