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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author: Lucas Kavner Recently obtained copy of the Actual "Strategic Plan" for Middlebury College.Written By: RobotsAim Number One: Build more buildings. Disregard the fact that many of the facilities, such as Proctor and WRMC's (which were recently technologically updated and painted by the students ...
Author: [no author name found] The release last week of the College's Annual Security Report, which showed the number of serious campus crimes in 2005 to have been fairly low, serves as a reminder of the hard work done by Public Safety. At the same time, however, the report reminds us of several important ...
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Author: Daniel Roberts I was excitedly hustling into Proctor (Chicken Cacciatore baby!) with a buddy of mine when a cute girl called out at us, "Do you guys need absentee ballots?" Huh? Absentee ballot? "Right, yeah... I do need one of those," I sheepishly lied. Then, ever omniscient, she said, "Do ...
Author: Joe Bergan Last year there was only one thing that was certain. Every Thursday night I would accompany my friends of legal drinking age at nine or ten o'clock to the Grille. I arrived at the Juice Bar in a fury of excitement. I was in! The warm music of the "chill" band surrounded me, for ...
Author: Andrew Chae Last week national news broke that the social networking start-up Facebook.com was on the verge of a near billion-dollar sale. The official reports from the news wires published that Yahoo, out of a bidding group that also included the likes of Microsoft and Viacom, was close to ...
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Author: Daniel Roberts You know what activity at the beginning of each semester I really like? Going to get books. The walls containing giant, heavy anthologies that you have to buy, even though you know the teacher will only assign a few chapters from them. The long lines snaking out into the hallway, ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:September 14th's Middlebury Campus lead article ("Administration cutting back on Feb admissions") may have generated some unnecessary concerns and I write to add perspective.Adjustments to the Feb program will continue to be made very gradually, and the results ...
Author: [no author name found] Our Student Government Association (SGA) is in trouble. With only one competitive race in the upcoming senate elections, the campus-wide indifference towards this institution seems to have reached a new high. While we give the SGA leaders credit for the energy and enthusiasm ...
Author: Polly Johnson It was a beautiful Monday morning in September. Being an enthusiastic MiddKid, I decided to wake up at 6 a.m., fix myself a steaming mug of hot chocolate, and sit out on the porch of the beautiful house I am fortunate enough to live in as the result of my seniority and take in ...
Author: Emily Kilborn The recent hysteria over West Nile Virus (WNV) in the American media has been largely unfounded, and last week's sensationalist Middlebury Campus article ["Blood-thirsty bugs out of control"] was no exception.In truth, only 119 Americans died of WNV last year, out of a national ...
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Author: [no author name found] Meet Joe Midd. Or wait, maybe you already have. Joe is a sophomore international studies major with an economics minor. He hails from Pasadena, Calif., his mailbox number is 6739, and he currently lives in Brooker 403. This semester he is only taking three classes - West ...