Author: Zamir Ahmed The Finance Committee cut the funding for most of the student organizations on campus this fall in order to fund them all through the Student Activities Fee (SAF). Funding was not cut, however, to one major program that drains money from the fund and is underused by the student body.I'm ...
Author: Daniel Roberts So election day has come and gone. Debate over "the issues" has subsided. But reflecting on today's political scene, there is no single campaign issue more befuddling to me than the matter of same sex marriage.I realize that at a liberal-minded Northeastern institution, where ...
Author: [no author name found] President Liebowitz's big newsNews that President Ronald D. Liebowitz is considering launching one of the largest capital campaigns on record for a liberal arts college has us pretty excited. The optimism and sense of possibility projected by such an ambitious goal not ...
Author: Ryan Tauriainen There has been a lot of talk of protests and outrage over the new William H. Rehnquist professorship. I think many opinions are being thrown out there on uneducated foundations. I am against many of Rehnquist's opinions, mostly because I am gay and a democrat. However, I do ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green For the second time in my Middlebury career, I am enrolled in an 8 a.m. class. Having taken a class at a similarly unreasonable hour abroad, where instead of walking for 20 minutes, I rode a bus for an hour to get to class, I assumed 8 a.m. really wouldn't be that early. ...
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Author: [no author name found] Editor's Note:Many of our readers spent the past week scratching their heads, trying to find a symbolic meaning in our Nov. 2 publication of a big white box where the staff editorial should have been.Due to a miscommunication with our printer, last week's Campus entered ...
Author: Louis Lobel Are we the first generation not to believe in the power of people?Or are we just more willing to assume someone else will take care of it? I mean, as a Midd student, who has the time, right? Everybody has something they believe in, something they will take a stand for or fight against. ...
Author: [no author name found] Protests at Roberts' LectureTo the Editor:"Roberts Holds Court at Mead" (October 26) failed to provide adequate background information regarding the peaceful demonstration that occurred outside Mead Chapel prior to the Roberts lecture. While the article did make passing ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Last week in my TV & American Culture class, Professor Jason Mittell showed a brief clip from Chappelle's Show about the fictional "Niggar Family." In the skit, humor comes from constant use of the N-word in ways that evoke racism, yet are deemed appropriate in the context ...
Author: [no author name found] College administrators have known from the very beginning that the greatest source of student discontent with the Commons system is the housing inequities that the system creates. Rising seniors in Ross and Atwater are virtually guaranteed penthouse suites in their modern, ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Two weeks ago, a close friend of mine told me she was heading over to the local Humane Society to adopt a rabbit. I joked, "Wow! Don't worry, I won't tell anyone your secret." My assumption that she was violating school rules was quieted when she answered, "Oh, no, it's allowed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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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