Author: Dave Barker I have no idea what "town-gown" relations mean. You see the hyphenated term thrown around in the Princeton Review college guide for prospective students looking for a school that has managed to be more than an island in the surrounding community. We are encouraged to read on Tuesdays ...
Author: SCOTT GREENE '08.5 "I believe diversity is an old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era."- Ron BurgundyCould Ron Burgundy have been a Feb? Most members of the Middlebury College community would completely reject such a proposition. Many would probably fall down laughing. After ...
Author: ANDREW CARNABUCI '06 I am writing to express a position that I believe has been tragically underrepresented in the recent public conversation about the social houses and the pledge process. I am not myself a member of a social house, but I still believe that I am echoing the opinions of the ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The bulk of coverage given to Alpha Delta Phi's violation in the Dec. 1 edition of The Middlebury Campus gave an accurate description of what happened. Nonetheless, classifying the event as a large party is incorrect. Fourteen cases of beer for a team with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author: [no author name found] Though Saturday evening's accident and its repercussions are still being processed, the incident should serve as a wake-up call to the College community - it is extremely fortunate that only minor injuries were sustained. Several points should be considered in relation ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author: [no author name found] This semester's social house pledge incident - an unregistered party hosted by Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) at which pledges were present that resulted in the house's probation until the end of January - is being portrayed as an isolated case in a generally smooth and successful ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...