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The Setonian

Mad About Midd Christmas credit for custodians

Author: Dave Barker There are many jobs at Middlebury that I would love to land. Titles like "Snow Bowl Manager" and "Chocolate Fountain Engineer" come to mind. Heck, I would double major in Chinese and Biochemistry for the chance to take the zamboni for a spin at halftime. You would have a tougher ...


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Dear President Liebowitz

Author: ALEX DEMAS '06 Over the past year and a half at Middlebury I have seen a dramatic change in the social life here on campus. My freshman year I went to one off-campus party while social house parties were the prevailing social scene. The current trend on campus, however, is that on-campus parties ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: Ben Salkowe "They should really spruce this place up," a friend recently noted when I showed them our Campus office. "You work in here?" another had asked earlier. And then there is the general look of disappointment when our first-year writers visit and are asked to sit on the stained dorm ...


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The results are in SGA Survey in Context

Author: ELI BERMAN '07.5 & FRANCIE KAMMERAAD '08.5 Earlier this month, the SGA and Student Educational Affairs Committee (SEAC) administered a 15-question survey to the student body to ascertain students' perceptions of grading trends and policies at Middlebury. There was no lack of interest: over ...


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Recruitment discrimination weakens military

Author: GEOFFREY B. SHIELDS A year ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided that the federal government could not penalize colleges and graduate schools for insisting that all on-campus recruiters, including the military, not discriminate based on sexual orientation. On ...


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Mad About Midd Etiquette for dummies

Author: Dave Barker On Thanksgiving, I gave thanks to Career Services. No, the folks at Adirondack House didn't hand me a free "Community Chest" card with the promise: "Get out of Parents basement for life." Instead, they brought etiquette consultant Jodi Smith to campus a couple weeks ago. What I learned ...


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Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Since freshman year, one of my favorite weekly activities has been reading the Public Safety Log in The Campus. This short summary of petty crime illustrates that Midd-kids are creative, even in the thick of drunken debauchery - vandalized ceilings in public ...


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A department merger without sense

Author: MATTHEW HALE '93 Although the merger of the English and American Literature majors was recently changed to include one required course in nineteenth-century American Literature and one required American Literature elective, this last-minute adjustment does not substantively alter the fact that ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: KATIE FLAGG '08 I have to admit that, when it came time to choose a college, Middlebury was impressive. I found myself fond of the picturesque campus. I was won over by the facilities, by the professors in tweedy jackets and by students in performance fleece. I decided that I simply had no ...


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Letter to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Personally, I don't know what the hoopla about the Brainerd Commons screening of "Jaws" in the Natatorium is all about. In the last two issues of The Campus, opinion pieces were published condemning the event as frivolous and wasteful. Unlike the authors ...


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Pool party flips but does not flop

Author: ERIN DOHERTY '05.5 I would first like to congratulate Brainerd Commons for hosting the very successful "Jaws" screening in the Natatorium. The overall praise from the many students that attended the event far outweighs the criticism from those who simply read about the event in The Campus.I ...


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Editorial Walker ruling deserves closer look

Author: [no author name found] The press release and all-campus e-mail sent out by Middlebury College and President Ronald D. Liebowitz last Thursday offered a skewed view of the final ruling on the O'Neil Walker case by only referring to the decision in relation to the Judicial Appeals Board (JAB) ...


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Pardon me is the government above the law

Author: ALEX GARLICK '08.5 The indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is exposing a flaw in the structure of our government that has been exploited by both Democratic and Republican administrations: the pardon. Scooter Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, is charged with leaking the ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: Tom McCann '06 For as long as I can remember, the sports section has looked the same. Each week, every team has been equally represented with a full-length article about the games they played, sure to be read by most of the players, some of the players' parents and a scattering of sports-enthusiasts ...


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Two Too Hot for Middlebury During Winter

In response to fossil fuel pollution, rising oil prices and complaints about building temperatures, we, a subset of the Sunday Night Group, have formed The 2 Degree Campaign as a student/staff-run effort to raise awareness on heating issues in the dorms and to lower the overall temperature of campus ...


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Madd About Midd Warming up to the issues

Author: Dave Barker When I first heard about the Sunday Night Group, which was formed last January to take action on global warming, I pictured a rather smelly group of students who fresh from rock climbing or hookah smoking, needed an extra hour to wail about the Bush Administration and Kyoto. I thought ...


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Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I was dismayed to come across the review [Mae-Shi concert flops and flails, Nov. 3, 2005] of the Mae-Shi concert in Coltrane Lounge. I found the criticisms to be narrow-minded and unhelpful.It has been my pleasure to attend many diverse cultural events on ...


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Editorials

Author: [no author name found] Harassment incidents beg correlative response The Islamic Society's claim that it is the target of harassment on campus must be addressed in a matter that is proportional to the events that spurred the accusations. The deletion of the Society's Web site at the request ...




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