Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Having two daughters who entered Midd as Febs, I am most sorry to hear thi s ("AdministrationCutting Back on Feb Admissions," Sept. 14, 2006. Febs seem to have a special pride, and their numbers, well over 100, give merit to the program yet do not lead them ...
Author: May Boeve It's lawn sign season again. Anyone of us who drove to campus last week probably noticed any number of them adorning the lawns of our college community. Tarrant, Bernie, Welch and Rainville are among the names you might have seen. But heck, it's a midterm election. Nobody really pays ...
Author: Christine Neeb As another semester at Middlebury begins, students often find themselves looking for worthwhile volunteer opportunities. WomenSafe works toward the elimination of physical, sexual and emotional violence against women and their children through direct service, education and social ...
Author: Jake A. Kuipers So I have this friend - let's call him Trevor - who graduated from high school in spring 2002. After two short months he began his college career on the east coast. Four years later he graduated from college, got a job in Boston, and has moved there recently. He now works ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The Middlebury Campus has a right to know only what the office of the Vermont District Attorney can lawfully issue about the pending investigation. Frankly, The Campus cannot be trusted even with accurate information. Please note that a rape charge - violent ...
Author: Daniel Roberts So did you watch the men's final Sunday night? You know, Roddick vs. Federer? You have no idea what I am talking about? No surprise there. Apparently even the U.S. Open, the biggest event in Tennis, is unable to draw as many viewers as any World Series game or Superbowl. It is ...
Author: [no author name found] President Ronald D. Liebowitz cleared his schedule on Tuesday for a series of seven open lunch meetings with students in the coming weeks. The President's invitation came only hours after Student Government Association (SGA) President Alex Stanton announced the creation ...
Author: [no author name found] This is a special edition featuring Middlebury Campus coverage of the Delta House investigations and suspension decision. The following editorial is a reprint from May 4.In light of charges pressed upon members of the Duke University lacrosse team, which have resulted ...
Author: AUSTEN LEVIHN-COON '07 I was disappointed to hear the condemnation of the abstention votes in last week's Campus [Applause for Transparency 5/4/06]. While the necessity for abstentions is disappointing, these votes are not counterproductive. There is much that can be learned from the large ...
Author: TREVOR SHOLLY '05 '06 A wise friend once told me that leaving college in four years was like leaving the party at 10 - it's just getting started. I spent this past year testing his hypothesis as a 5-year senior here at Middlebury College. I am what the Administration labels a "special student" ...
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 ...