Author: [no author name found] College-Police relations: a two-way streetThe relationship between College students and the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) seems to have gone drastically downhill this year. The College-MPD relationship is an important one, and all efforts should be made to maintain ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer and Thomas C. Drescher As our final production cycle draws to a close in the glorious fluorescent dungeon that is Hepburn Basement, we realize wistfully that it will soon be time to pack up the PCs, stash the red pens and strip the walls and bulletin boards of an amusing ...
Author: ROBERT LEVINE '08 Over the last few weeks, the issue of climate change has been attracting lots of attention on campus. Andrew Revkin, a reporter for The New York Times who spoke this past Thursday, was just the most recent of the many authors and experts who have come to Middlebury to discuss ...
Author: CHRIS LIZOTTE '07 At Middlebury, where concern for sensitivity and diversity is paramount, I am shocked by the persistent tolerance for a certain set of myths about a certain type of difference. Let me elaborate: perhaps prompted by an increase in dialogue about mental health brought to Middlebury ...
Author: JASON MCDONALD '06 Honorable Trustees, President Liebowitz, and Middlebury College:As energy prices soar, tuition costs rise, and the climate crisis looms, we students are determined to realize a monumental and unprecedented goal: a carbon neutral Middlebury College. This means that the College ...
Author: [no author name found] We are dismayed to find out that Assistant Professor of Sociology Marc Garcelon was refused tenure. Max Weber said that a good teacher encourages the student to "give himself an account of the meaning of his own conduct." In the end, he fulfills "the duty of bringing ...
Author: Dave Barker To the Class of 2006:Assuming no one drowned in Cook Common's foam last Saturday night, you will all be graduating in a little over two weeks. I am sorry I couldn't be there to deliver this speech in person, but Williams called offering more money. Don't take the wisdom here too ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Last week Assistant Professor of Sociology Marc Garcelon was denied tenure by Middlebury College. We are his senior colleagues in the Sociology/Anthropology Department. We would like the Middlebury community to know that, in our unanimous judgment, Marc ...
Author: HALLIE FOX and ROB KING There is a history of disparity between the number and treatment of male and female professors. Unfortunately this trend persists to the current day. And whether or not you want to believe it, sexism exists at Middlebury. Although the student population is evenly split, ...
Author: [no author name found] The Student Government Association (SGA) should be commended for insisting on transparency in the counting of electoral votes. The published final vote count, though released more than a week after the election, lends an enhanced degree of legitimacy to the positions of ...
Author: MICHAEL R. GLIDDEN For almost 20 years, our household electric bill arrived addressed to "The Poor Farm," Middlebury, Vt., even though our family was not impoverished. Both my parents worked diligently to provide a home with food on the table. Yet in the 1970s during the OPEC oil embargo, my ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:With the average price of a gallon of gas in the United States at $2.91, the fourth highest ever, and growing public unrest regarding the rising gas prices and the war in Iraq, there has never been a better time to refocus America's energy strategy on alternative ...
Author: COLE DOVEY '06 There must be a more serious consideration of the illegal insert into The Middlebury Campus (4/20/06) that defended junior Alex Stanton's campaign platform and criticized first-year Alina Levina's while personally attacking opinions author Viraj Assar '07. Modifying The Campus ...
Author: DANIEL HUTNER '06 The atrocities of the Darfur region in the Sudan are indeed troubling, and only compounded by the frustration of inaction. The international community's hesitation has led advocacy groups to look to alternative methods to produce change, promoting the divestment, or selling, ...
Author: Dave Barker I sent my acceptance card to Middlebury over four years ago with the foolish notion that I would be attending an outdoors resort. After the rigor of getting into a select liberal arts school, I figured that it would be all play and no work for four years in pastoral Vermont. The ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips Does it not seem decidedly contradictory for the College to expect the Class of 2006 to donate to the same alma mater that left such a bitter taste in its mouth after fining seniors $500 for not leaving campus quickly enough on the same day of their milestone commencement ...
Author: CAITLIN CONNOLLY '06 By the time seniors graduate, 40 percent have visited the counseling center. While not all suffer from mental illness, many do. Mental illness touches everyone. It affects one of four people, and one of seven have a severe mental illness. It does not discriminate on the ...
Author: Dave Barker He has been president for almost two years, but do you really know the guy who occupies an office the size of a few Painter singles? Armed with a tape recorder, I entered the unknown confines of Old Chapel, hoping to get some answers. Considering that a Facebook Group called "John ...
Author: STEPHANIE PRITCHARD '06 When I came to Middlebury as a first-year almost four years ago, we didn't have access cards. Residence Halls were only locked between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. and you used your room key to get into the building. We didn't have blue lights or emergency button call boxes and ...
Author: Philip Aroneanu 06.5 President Liebowitz, Students, Staff and Faculty Members of the Sunday Night Group Socially Responsible Investment Campaign applaud the recent statement on divestment from companies financially supporting the Sudanese government. The people of the Darfur region of ...