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Saturday, Oct 3, 2026

Opinion


The Setonian

The Lost Editorial What we take for granted

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 ...


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Op-Ed Fight for your professorship

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. ...


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Letters to the Editor

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 ...


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In My Humble Opinion Being a prisoner of P.C.

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 ...


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Editorial Making the Commons Lovable

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, ...


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In My Humble Opinion A college animal farm

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 ...


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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 ...