Author: Dave Barker The shag carpet room in Starr Library is dying. Wrecking balls come in February to clear space for the new Donald Everett Axinn '51 Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Starr Library. So on Monday, with College Project Manager Tom McGinn as my guide, I made my way up to the ...
Author: KELSEY RINEHART '06 After seeing the front page picture of Midd-kids bobbing about on pool floaties in the Natatorium and watching "Jaws," and after reading the accompaning article [Commons assert campus presence, Nov. 3, 2005] I felt compelled to respond. Those interviewed in the article praised ...
Author: Polly Johnson As I continue on this journey known as junior year, I have opted to forego Grille-inspired social time in order to take advantage of the more intellectual pursuits our school has to offer. Most recently, I attended Jim Amoss' talk about the obstacles he, as Editor in Chief of the ...
Author: ROB KING ’09 When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, it left an indelible geographic and human impact. There is an ever-growing death count reaching into the thousands, a historically significant city destroyed and over 70,000 public school students displaced in New Orleans alone, and ...
Author: [no author name found] Safety should be main concern in alcohol advocacyFor better or for worse, alcohol has become inextricably linked with college social life, and the weekend scene at Middlebury is no exception. Because students will continue to drink regardless of policy, it is imperative ...
Author: Stephen Donadio The editorial in last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus in support of the termination of the American Literature Department and major seems to me remarkably uninformed. In offering its recommendation, much of the essay merely recycles uncritically the kinds of unsubstantiated ...
Author: Dave Barker I didn't attend Brainerd Commons' pool party screening of Jaws, but I trembled nonetheless at Dana Auditorium while enjoying Tim Burton's interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sure, Great Whites are scarier than grooving Oompa Loompas, but the real fright centered ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I was pretty bummed when I read your interview with the new liquor inspector. If I really wanted to know his job history I would have called and asked for a resume. I would liken those sort of questions to getting an interview with Bush and asking him ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER At the Saturday night Halloween party in Johnson, there was a large tangled mass of glow rings hanging from strings above the pit where costumed drunks danced to the beat of a costumed jam band. All night, partygoers on the mezzanine had been reaching out over the railing and ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca With the new yet bittersweet slogan of The Times-Picayune, "We publish come hell and high water," projected behind him, Editor-in-Chief Jim Amoss explained to a Middlebury audience last Thursday exactly how his newspaper survived the odds and the elements, publishing all the ...
Author: Joshua Carson Everyone has been in this situation. You are walking back from the mailroom, along College Street or up the hill from BiHall. Maybe it's during class or late at night so no one is around. And then, on the horizon, you see another student approaching. This starts the mental process: ...
Author: Polly Johnson Billy Collins, the U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, spoke to a Mead Chapel audience of students, visiting parents, faculty and staff last Friday, delivering an eloquent, thought-provoking, inspiring and often side-splittingly funny reading of his poems.Reginald L. Cook Professor ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh Pepin gym was filled to capacity with students, parents and teachers that were on hand Saturday night to see The Capitol Steps, the political comedy group lauded by the Washington Post Reader's Choice for best live theater in 2005. Known for their biting political satire, they ...
Author: Jack Lysohir The Roosevelt Institution's Middlebury Chapter hosted over 100 students and faculty for its kickoff event last Thursday evening. The event celebrated the official launch of Roosevelt's Middlebury Chapter, which was founded last spring. It was held in the Robert A. Jones '59 House ...
Author: Dave Barker Let's forget Fair Trade Coffee, food waste and Free Tibet. There's a new cause worthy of protest on every college campus. Ever since Congress enacted the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984, states have made it illegal for those under 21 to drink. Young adults can hold a bazooka ...
Author: MAIA HOLLINGER ’06.5 A friend recently confessed the effect of the girl he's been seeing, "she's like taking a fifth class." I had to laugh, but there's certainly some truth to it. You start with the course catalog. You peruse your options and chose a few classes you might be interested in ...
Author: JACK LYSOHIR I propose cable television for all students' rooms. Students would tune in to CNN to find a Supreme Court nominee who may well decide the fate of abortion. We would channel surf across party lines to watch Fox News cover the Iraq War as the American combat death toll perilously ...
Author: Teddy Flanagan ’04 As a liberal arts college, Middlebury's goal has always been to foster academic diversity and intellectual curiosity. The range of study at Middlebury is, has been and always should be, as diverse as the Vermont weather. Rigidity in any form doesn't fit with the spirit ...
Author: [no author name found] The Faculty Council should adopt the proposal offered by the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) for the establishment of an English and American Literature major. The current separation of the two departments is an academic anachronism. The College is the only institution ...
Author: Betsy Currier Beacom '82 National trends not cause for department dismissalI am afraid that Middlebury College is losing its way. It is certainly beginningto look like a place I don't recognize.I refer to the proposed dismantling of the American Literature curriculum andthe way in which this ...