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 ...
Author: Taylor Long and Steve Miller [no story text found]
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. ...
Author: Taylor Long and Steve Miller [no story text found]