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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...