Author: ANDREW CARNABUCI ’06 "Thus we will be incomprehensible," wrote Jacques Derrida, on the current direction of language in academia. Sadly enough, I believe that Middlebury College will soon prove Derrida's words prophetic. In our dogmatic kow-towing to idol of political correctness, we are also ...
Author: Sam Wilson "Nuclear option" sounds too scary and exciting to mean changing the procedural rules in the Senate, but it means just that. Senate Majority Leader Frist is considering pushing the nuclear button to take away the possibility to filibuster judicial nominations.Some quick background ...
Author: Andrew Howard '06 As the weather finally gets warmer, roads and trails around campus come alive with runners and cyclists. Exercising on the beautiful back roads of Vermont is yet another aspect of what makes the Middlebury experience so unique. However, biking and running excursions can often ...
Author: Caroline Vial After selecting "February" earlier this semester in response to an e-mail from the administration that asked students in the '05.5 class whether they were planning on marching in graduation this spring or next February, I was left in wonder: May graduation is right around the corner, ...
On Sunday, April 16 the Student Government Association (SGA) passed a bill expressing concern about the possible acquisition of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). The 12-3-1 vote in favor of the bill, which recommended to President Ronald D. Liebowitz and the Board of Trustees that ...
Author: LAURA BARRETT ’06 I have paid my dues to the housing deities.I lived in a Battell double my freshman year. On top of that, I asked to be placed in sub-free housing, and I ended up on a half sub-free hall. A half sub-free hall, I can say from experience, does not work. I ended up with vomit ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I found the choice of slogan used to advertise Wednesday's Feminists for Life of America lecture "Reclaiming Feminism" - sponsored by "Middlebury Students for Life" - very interesting. Intentionally or not, the slogan "Refuse to choose" underscores how important ...
Author: David Schoenholtz When I got back to my room after Hillel's Purim party at Pearsons Hall, I saw it. My laminated nametag had been torn off my door, which had been defaced. On the door - not the white board - a message was written in dry-erase marker in pretty big letters: "You Fag." I wasn't ...
Author: James Higgins To the Editor:I don't remember the hero Rudy Giuliani, but I do remember the man who allowed his police force to abuse African-Americans and to promote racial profiling. Of special note was his police force's killing of an African immigrant. I was really pleased to see that David ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed As a first-year student I thought that most of my tough decision-making days about college were over after I picked a school at which to matriculate. I was sure that there would never again be a choice filled with as much anxiety as that decision last April. One year later, I can ...
Author: Angelica Maria Towne '08 On April 1, over 80 Middlebury students filed onto two buses to spend the weekend at a resort for something called a POSSE Plus Retreat. For those who didn't know what a retreat entailed or even what POSSE Plus meant, the two-hour ride to Lake Morey was spent clarifying ...
Author: Ward J. Oliver '77 As a resident of New York City for the past 18 years and a former Middlebury College student, I was disappointed to learn that Middlebury will be awarding Rudolph Giuliani an honorary degree.Giuliani, however honorably he conducted himself on 9/11, governed a polarized NYC. ...
Author: Editorial Board Saper for SGA PresidentWe have heard a lot of tired ideas about how to liven-up the College's on-campus social life. But Dan Saper has a new plan, and we think this one is actually good. Co-hosted social house parties - Saper mentioned Tavern and ADP as a possible pair - might ...
Author: Stephanie Morales '05 This past weekend I attended the Idea of Jerusalem Symposium held at Middlebury College from April 15-17. I have to embarrassingly admit that I have never participated in an academic conference of this caliber so I might be coming from a completely inexperienced vantage ...
Author: Dan Morosani '05 I would like to point out what I see as a problem with our College. At guest lectures, faculty members habitually monopolize the period of time allotted for asking questions, even as students sit and wait, their hands raised, hoping to get called on. One might think that such ...
Author: David Temple '06 Dear President Liebowitz, I was shocked and disappointed by what I feel has been a lack of support from the college community for Chuck and Justin Harrington and everyone else affected by [Proctor Dining Hall Supervisor] Cheryl Harrington's death last week. Middlebury College ...
Author: Tom McCann Middlebury College has a few policies that baffle me, such as the one that admits students in February, undeniably halfway through the year, then prohibits them from putting the '.5' on anything official. However, the policy that really gets me is one that was brought to my attention ...
Author: [no author name found] In the DarkAs a part of its annual review process, Community Council spent its last two sessions discussing the future of Middlebury College's social houses and academic interest houses for the upcoming academic year. Meanwhile, the broader college community learned little ...
Author: Sam Wilson There is something kind of screwy going on in the national political scene right now. The GOP just a few months ago kept the White House and increased its majority in both houses of Congress, but an Associated Press poll last week found the president's approval rating stood at just ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I find it ironic that in Bryan Goldberg's opinions piece in the March 31 issue of The Middlebury Campus, praising Larry Summers for his scientific pursuit of the truth, Goldberg appears to lack a firm grasp of an important scientific distinction - the difference ...