Author: DANIEL ROBERTS '09 I was walking into The Grille when I saw crowds pouring into McCullough Social Space. A whole entertainment-fest was being given for prospective students. Apparently, Monday was the first of two preview days, a chance for admitted students to come and decide if they want to ...
Author: [no author name found] The transitory state of social life at the College is a topic of frequent informal discussion among students, but it remains to be seen whether students are actually concerned enough to take action. That said, the first open meeting of the Student Life Task Force did produce ...
Author: JAMES ROGERS '04 First, we had one of the most sought-after public speakers alive, former mayor of the most populous city in the country and potential presidential candidate with definite cross-party appeal. Now we have an accomplished woman, former cabinet-level official and current director ...
Author: MAX NARDINI '08 The SGA Diversity Committee recently sponsored a forum on diversity which included placing large pieces of plywood covered in derogatory words outside the dining halls. As written on the plywood, these are "words we do not tolerate at Middlebury." This emphasis on words is ...
Author: AUSTEN LEVIHN-COON '07 In the College brochures and magazines that are distributed to parents, alumni and prospective students there are a myriad of photographs that picture "diverse" students next to white ones. On other pages there are pictures of students with baskets full of fresh vegetables ...
Author: MICHAEL JOU '06 Among all mental illnesses, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate.Middlebury College has a serious problem with eating disorders. The residential staff is quite aware of it. The custodial staff finds trashcans filled with puke. You possibly know someone who has an ...
Author: Dave Barker The spring semester has a way of flying by. During those balmy few days last week when the entire campus seemed to be seized by field day frenzy, I could have sworn it was mid-May instead of late March. Given the aroma of Weber grills, I had to double-check the calendar. I realized ...
Author: KEVIN MOSS COME OUT! If you don't come out you've absorbed the message of those who hate us and you're doing exactly what they want you to do. Stop helping the homophobes! There's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be in the closet at Middlebury in 2006. You are protected by College policy, ...
Author: Jack Lysohir Despite such exceptions as Mormonism and Xenia House, humans have depended on alcohol at social engagements for thousands of years. Take wedding celebrations; do matrimonial vows make them fun? I don't think so. Or, how about your parents dinner parties; do middle-aged suburbanites ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Those signs are offensive and should not be tolerated. It is my opinion that most students would prefer not to be lambasted by racial and sexual epithets three times a day as they walk into the dining hall. The message on the signs is correct. Those words ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Many Vermonters have heard of GMOs, or Genetically Modified Organisms, especially in light of the discussion about the Farmer Protection Act. Despite all of this publicity, many people still have questions about GMOs. What are GMOs? And why do the European ...
Author: Dave Barker Though I have already alerted the College administration and the Director of Dining Services, I felt it necessary to share with students an incident I observed on Tuesday morning while working my usual shift as a kitchen helper at Atwater Dining Hall. As I was making banana bread ...
Author: Mike Ives '06.5 I tell you, Ron, I'm a bit confused. When you announced that Ann Veneman would be our commencement speaker ["Veneman to Address Grads," March 16], you characterized her as someone capable of providing "an important and relevant message to students who would be leaving the relatively ...
Author: [no author name found] The Student Government Association (SGA)-sponsored shuttles to Boston and New York have been enormously successful, often selling out rides well in advance and helping to eliminate travel plan headaches for many students. The Campus does not believe that the weekly service ...
Author: ANDREW CARNABUCI '06 If there is but one primal, universal and absolute first principle of moral philosophy, it is that killing innocent people is wrong. Even if you do not accept this principle as a moral imperative, you must accept it as a matter of praxis, for the sake of living together ...
Author: JACK DONALDSON '06 I'm sorry. Whatever I did, I'm sorry - apologies all around. Tell me whom to write to, and I'll send them a letter on my best stationery stock.Were we that much worse than last year's class? Is the swim team hazing being pinned on all of us? Why have we been swindled out of ...
Author: [no author name found] Given the College's commitments to international studies and civic engagement, as well as its location in rural Vermont, the choice of Ann Veneman ["Veneman To Address Grads," March 16] as commencement speaker would seem an inspired one: she was raised on a "family farm ...
Author: Joyce Man If Eli Berman asks, "Why does smoking exist on campus at all?" why don't we ask, why does Eli Berman exist on the Student Government Association (SGA)? This is not to question Berman's authority, but rather, to remind ourselves of the SGA president's role in the first place. The leader ...
Author: JESSICA EARLY '09 At a rapidly increasing number of colleges across the country, students are organizing in a growing movement to question the practices behind the investment of their schools' multi-million-dollar endowments. Guided by social, ethical and environmental concerns, they see to ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:After reading last week's front page article on the debate over the College smoking ban, I found myself agreeing with Reference and Instruction Librarian Brenda Ellis' claim that she would be satisfied if the results of the dialogue did nothing more then ...