Author: Rebecca Jones '08 Larry Kramer's lecture made me angry, which is both good and bad. It's good because I think his goal was to make me angry, so he succeeded. It's bad, however, because I don't think he meant for me to be mad at him. Kramer meant to make me angry at the right wing cabal that ...
Author: RYAN GAMBLE '06 At Middlebury, we students have the opportunity to not only gain an understanding of the current state of the world, but also to practice the valuable critical thinking skills that will allow us to succeed in diverse occupations and to live purposeful lives. How we discuss important ...
Author: Dave Barker Middlebury voters overwhelmingly supported the Cross Street Bridge location last week at the annual town meeting. I hope the $75,000 appropriated for the preliminary planning and engineering of the span that will cut across Otter Creek next to Mr. Up's leads to the construction of ...
Author: [no author name found] The Campus certainly does not endorse cigarettes, but the issue that emerges from the recent debates following Community Council's proposal to ban smoking at the entryways to campus buildings is not a matter of health, but one of championing personal accountability over ...
Author: Geoffrey B. Shields, President of Vermont Law School Today the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Rumsfeld v. Fair, upholding the right of the U.S. government to cut off funds from educational institutions that require all those who recruit on their campuses to assure equal treatment ...
Author: Peter Viola '06 As renowned television broadcaster and defender of democratic values Bill Moyers has noted, one significant trait of the current political culture is that "the delusional is no longer marginal." Rabid ideology, feeding upon so-called "truthiness" and distortion of the facts, ...
Author: Dave Barker I have one question after last week's symposium on Tibet. Could the sixth floor of John McCardell Bicentennial Hall be transformed into a Tibetan monastery? High above the daily scurrying of students with white coat ambitions, the floor would offer a good base for a few monks who ...
Author: Lynne Zummo '06 Two years ago, I cursed my wet jeans. The rolled up cuffs were soaked, dripping with water, cutting into my calves and filling me with a hate for life so strong that focusing on physics Professor Rich Wolfson's mad chalkboard scribblings was hardly an option. It was December ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner '08.5 What does it take to learn a lesson in life? When you were in high school, and you got caught drinking by your parents, it took a long grounding to realize it is a real pain to get caught - better be stealthier next time. But what if the cops nabbed you instead? A lesson ...
Author: [no author name found] The behavior of Middlebury students at Mr. Ups this past Wednesday night reflects poorly on the entire student body. Underage students who were at the bar illegally deserve to be reprimanded by local authorities. The arrival of Vermont State Liquor Investigator Michael ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Recently, Middlebury first-year and senior students received e-mail invitations 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. Results ...
Author: Bille McKibben Many thanks to The Middlebury Campus for publishing Michael Jou's essay last week "Think about it, global warming does not exist, March, 3" asserting that the theory of global warming is a hoax; it's extremely important to air these kind of views because they are fairly widespread ...
Author: Daniel Roberts '09 I remember back when I was a junior in high school, and I was deciding which schools to visit. I would bust out my good old reliable Princeton Review Guide, and read up on the relentless detritus contained on each school's page. There were overall ratings for a school's academics ...
Author: Maia Hollinger One of my favorite methods of procrastination in the new library entails envisioning its creator, the genius who confused the word "library" with the word "party." Now, I love a good party just as much as the next person and I have embraced the social scene that is the library, ...
Author: Daniel Roberts '09 Have you ever clicked that "Pulse" thing on Facebook.com? It presents all the trends at a given college. For example, the most listed television shows. No, I have never clicked it either, but "this guy I know" did today, and noticed that Lost is the third most watched show ...
Author: Charles B Tomm '06 I try not to make a habit of publicly commenting on articles I read in the newspaper, but I am afraid I must take issue with this month's edition of Cosmo, in which the editorial staff laid out their picks for spring colors.I want to make it clear that Middlebury College has ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...