Author: Katherine N. Doorley Diversity in the dictionary: "the condition or quality of being diverse, different, or varied; difference, unlikeness." Despite what one might hear, there is diversity at Midd. We are a student body that is different and varied. We come from all 50 states and all over the ...
Author: Dave Barker My 2.8-ounce Samsung sch-a630 cell phone came in a non-descript box last week. Not since the movie Cast Away has FedEx had such an important package to deliver. Now that friends and family are at the touch of the "send button," every available free moment begs a phone call. But, ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I could not agree more with Phil Aroneanu's article [We cannot forget the destruction, Sept. 29, 2005] that voicing opposition to a government you feel is acting wrongly is an act of patriotism. However, I think we all ought to be more careful with the current ...
Author: Tory Watts Thank God for Saturday night, or I would easily be able to cite last Saturday, due to my horrific laundry experience, as one of the worst days I've ever spent at Middlebury. Never again will I participate in the debilitated, corrupt, inadequate system of clothes-washing at this college. ...
Author: [no author name found] Importance of rising grades inflatedInflated grade point averages at Middlebury College warrant investigation, but they should not be a cause for alarm.It must be noted that grades are not the only numbers going up at Middlebury - so are the standardized test scores and ...
Author: PHIL ARONEANU ’06.5 On Saturday, Sept. 24, 16 Middlebury students traveled to Washington D.C. to take part in an anti-war rally and march. The event, sponsored by the A.N.S.W.E.R. and United for Peace and Justice coalitions, attracted over 200,000 people from around the country, making it ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I was disappointed to read that Vermont Transit no longer stops in Middlebury [Cancelled bus line leaves students stranded, Sept. 22, 2005]. For one of the two years that I worked at the Egbert Starr Library I lived in Burlington and commuted by Vermont Transit ...
Author: [no author name found] A Statement with a MissionSince Middlebury College's Mission Statement was last revised five years ago, the administration has changed hands and College facilities have expanded worldwide. Now is indeed an appropriate time to take another look at the College's written ...
Author: Alex Garlick 08.5' The images are timeless: houses and communities destroyed by an act of God. A woman chest deep in water, her throat parched because she has no water to drink. A farmer watching his entire harvest, which he labored on for months wash out to sea like a child's sand castle on ...
Author: DAVE BARKER If you're expecting an analysis of the Middle East or another criticism of FEMA in the paragraphs to follow, find a newsstand. My expertise on world affairs, like the grass in between Atwater Halls A and B, is in short supply. This column aims to be more about Old Chapel than the ...
Author: Dina Magaril Red and white lights were blinking behind us on the deserted road. Our car pulled over to the side and we sat waiting for a full five minutes before we saw a man holding a flashlight approach us. Let me say here that I have never faced a cop or a police officer before. Luckily we ...
Author: David Murphy Hagland Last week, as I joined my peers in the semiannual rush to the College bookstore, I was unusually flabbergasted at what I saw. For three courses I was being asked to purchase 35 books - at a total cost just shy of $600. Were it not for the dubious reprieve offered by my thesis, ...
Author: Abby Willman 08.5 For $5,940 you can purchase 18,000 "Support Our Troops Car Ribbon Magnets" at www.flagsoncars.com. This vendor is charging you $0.33 per magnet and tells you that the magnets retail for $5 each. If you follow their price guideline you would be making $4.67 from the sale of ...
Author: MIKE IVES 06.5' Please allow me a brief, but far from immaterial, history lesson: In 1883, workers at the Vermont Copper Mining Company in Rutland took up arms demanding payment of wages owed them by their employer. In response, then-governor Barstow called on the local regiment of the Vermont ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I second Jake Kuipers' opinion printed in last week's paper [Notes from the Desk, Sept. 15, 2005].It is absurd that students living outside the New England area are provided with absolutely no support from Middlebury at the beginning and end of each semester. ...
Author: [no author name found] A joint challenge issued to students, administrationOn a sunny afternoon during finals week last May, Middlebury College students crowded into McCullough Social Space to hear College President Ronald D. Liebowitz address the mounting unrest on campus in response to the ...
Author: ANDREW CARNABUCI ’06 John Roberts is the best thing that has happened to the left in the past five years. The nomination of Judge Roberts as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court amounts to a four-month-early Christmas present from President Bush to liberal America.This seems largely at ...
Author: [no author name found] The cumulative reaction of the Middlebury College community to a natural disaster more than 1,500 miles away has proven extraordinary. As national criticism centers on government response to Hurricane Katrina, the willingness of Middlebury students, faculty, staff and ...
Author: Alan Gill To the Editor:I'm writing from Canada to express my outrage at the case of O'Neil Walker that occurred last spring during Middlebury's final period.After reading about his plight in The Village Voice, I decided to write a letter to you expressing my outrage at the ignorance at the ...
Author: Jake A. Kuipers The red and blue shag carpet in the hallways, the gray burlap curtains, the faint smell of vomit and marijuana - this was not the most glorious room on campus, but it was my first-year dorm room, my first experience living at Middlebury College. Yet, what disappointed me my ...