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Saturday, Dec 6, 2025

Opinion


The Setonian

Notes from the desk

Author: JAKE A. KUIPERS - OPINIONS EDITOR Faculty undermine the honor codeWe were made to sign it before we even arrived. Once here, we participated in discussions about it. We have scrawled it at the bottom of our essays and tests repeatedly each semester, and we have taken great pains to make sure ...


The Setonian

Editorial A call for public dialogue

Author: [no author name found] The e-mail circulated by President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz this past Thursday in response to The Middlebury Campus' coverage of an altercation in which a white student directed racial epithets at a black student shows that an uncensored student press is necessary ...


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Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Around March 6, Middlebury first-year and senior students will be invited to participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The NSSE is a questionnaire that is being given to students at hundreds of colleges and universities. Collective ...


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Think about it, global warming does not exist

Author: Michael Jou '06 Environmental scientists are off their rockers. In the novel, State of Fear, author Michael Crichton leads the reader through a fictional story involving environmental terrorists who threaten to take over the world. However, unlike his other best-selling novels such as Jurassic ...


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Midd students' new best friend

Author: Scott Kleiman '06 Among the reasons I came to Middlebury was its location in a small, but vibrant, community. As a senior, I've spent nearly four years munching on late-night pizza from Neil & Otto's, buying Reefs and Carhartts from Forth N' Goal, and getting lots of random necessities from ...


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Mad About Midd Hooray for the SGA

Author: Dave Barker I caught up with SGA President Eli Berman '07.5 the other day. With over a semester in the books and a new one ahead, I thought it time to find out what students can look forward to from their representatives in the remaining three months. Judging from completed legislation, students ...


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Mad About Midd Strategic Plan not Feb friendly

Author: Dave Barker I don't blame you if you missed the release of "Knowledge without Boundaries: The College's Strategic Plan." Reading macrotheory by flashlight would be more thrilling. A revised draft of the Plan, which sets out a roadmap for the future of the College, was presented to the Board ...


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Editorial Racism issues remain unresolved

Author: [no author name found] Racism issues remain unresolvedRacial issues have continually made headlines in The Middlebury Campus in the past several years. Three years ago Campus opinions pages were filled with debates over affirmative action. A "Cowboys and Indians" themed party in the fall of ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: Katherine Doorley Last night I spoke to a friend of mine and he mentioned that his school has a "President for a day" program, where one student is able to be just that. This got me thinking about what I would do if I had that power. Now of course you're probably thinking that I'd reform the ...


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EMT eyewitness sings different tune

Author: Russ Johanson '06 I could feel my blood pressure slowly rising as I read the latest report of Elizabeth DiCioccio's '06 accident in The Middlebury Campus ["Police complete investigation," Feb. 16].First, "injuries to the torso" does not do justice to the life-threatening injuries inflicted upon ...


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Editorial Swimmers / Divers appropriately punished

Author: [no author name found] If social houses are required by College policy to make pledge a sober process, it follows that athletic teams should be held to the same, if not even stricter, standards for their recruits. Coach Peter Solomon's desire to respond quickly and severely when he became aware ...


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A war zone within our borders

Author: Dan Berkman 06.5 When I was in New Orleans with my J-Term class last month, there were many shops on Bourbon Street selling T-shirts back-lashing the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. The slogans' ranged from "FEMA: the new four-letter 'F' word" to "I looted this shirt during Hurricane ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: THOMAS C. DRESCHER It's unsettling to think that the publication of this, our first issue of the spring 2006 semester, signifies the beginning of the end for my four-year career as an undergrad pseudo-journalist. What's truly terrifying, though, is the thought that in approximately 13 weeks ...


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A friendly call for institutional responsibility

Author: Mike Ives '06.5 A week before Feb break, I attended a lecture at the Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury on "off the grid" energy systems given by Paul Kenyon, a mechanical engineer and freethinker from nearby Bridport. One of his big messages: it's possible to live in our modern world without ...


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Public Safety, or glorified meter maids?

Author: DEB TENNEN '06 I have a great amount of respect for the role that Public Safety plays on our campus. But at Middlebury, I believe that they act more like meter maids than cops. In my experience, I have found that a student who parks his car in front of McCullough for 10 minutes at 8 a.m. on ...


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Mad About Midd The Big Easy ain't easy

Author: Dave Barker Curiosity drove me to New Orleans last week. My aunt didn't end up in a FEMA trailer. My roof didn't land in another zip code. I knew as much about the Big Easy as I did about the Big Dig, which is to say, very little, coming from the Pacific Northwest. I joined four friends with ...


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Mad About Midd Skillz to pay the billz

Author: Dave Barker A recent Associated Press headline grabbed my attention at Atwater Dining Hall the other day, "College students lacking skills." I thought I would finally be reading an in-depth analysis of the lame, 2 a.m. pick-up line heard at McCullough on Saturday nights, "Shoot, I forgot my ...


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Fight global warming and save broomball

Author: Jamie Henn '07 The history of broomball is not written in books, but on the icy court in front of McCullough each winter. In an age when professional sports are dominated by corruption, steroids and traitors (curse you, Johnny Damon), broomball is a noble reminder of what sports should be all ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: Andrea M. LaRocca If you want to change Middlebury, now is the time. For the first time in over a decade, every aspect of Middlebury and its future is being rethought and revamped - and we can all have a say in it. The Planning Steering Committee released its report in the beginning of January, ...


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Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The Middlebury Campus' recent color spread highlighting the Middlebury men's hockey team brought to light a disturbing trend that I've noticed over the course of the past two years: the exploits of the men's team are well documented, and the two-time defending ...