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