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 ...
Author: JOYCE MAN There are traditionally two faces of the United Nations: gut-wrenching failure that exposes mankind's inability to collaborate, and lofty goals of unified action. To the first we attach the Rwandan genocide, the Oil-For-Food scandal and Darfur refugee camps. To the latter, we attribute ...
Author: [no author name found] This past Thursday, students flipped through their weekly editions of The Campus to find a single-sheet, illegally-inserted letter that displayed a shocking, though probably not uncommon, ignorance of society's most famous bastion of free speech: the newspaper.The unauthorized ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:This Saturday, April 29, is the Neighbor to Neighbor Nationwide Democratic Organizing Canvass. The Middlebury College Democrats will be working with the Addison County Democrats on a Literature Drop around campus and in the Town of Middlebury. We would like ...
Author: Dave Barker If you like comedy, I hope you made it to the SGA candidate debate on Sunday. I wish someone had sent a tape to the Daily Show so Jon Stuart could feast on the many comical moments. The SGA has tackled important issues this year like transportation and textbooks with success, however, ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel Finally, the long-awaited Human Relation Committee (HRC) Report has arrived. The report includes a fair number of surprises. Here's a peek at what's inside:The Good: Middlebury is only 1.2 percent more domestic Caucasian than the national average.It suggests that there be a protocol ...
Author: ELI BERMAN '07.5 While searching in vain for a vacant practice room the other night, it finally clicked. Overwhelmed by the sounds of Bach preludes, Mendelssohn trios, Beethoven and Brahms, I truly understood, perhaps for the first time, the true power of each individual student and of the Middlebury ...
Author: VIRAJ ASSAR '07 Last Sunday, I tuned in to the WRMC broadcast of the SGA / SCCOCC debate. What I heard made me absolutely livid: a poor excuse for public debate, crippled by dismissiveness and facilitated by an ineffectual, informal format.Following up last week's Campus op-ed piece, agitator ...
Author: [no author name found] What Alina Levina '09 lacks in experience she makes up for by her determined commitment to becoming the next Student Government Association (SGA) president. This past Sunday, Levina won over a room full of skeptics - The Campus Editorial Board - with her passion, professionalism ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Alina Levina for SGA President!Alina Levina has worked diligently as Co-Director of the SGA Diversity Committee. At first, I was hesitant to let an underclassman take on such a demanding position, but was certain that among my committee members, she was the ...
Author: ALEX BENEPE '09 One morning I awoke to my roommate frantically searching the room for his boots. Looking around the room, I realized mine were missing too. And they weren't in the hallway where we had left them. "Eh, maybe the custodians took them," I said groggily, not realizing that that would ...