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 ...
Author: Editorial Board Save our Social LivesYou hear a lot about drinking at Middlebury College. In fact, amid all the talk about getting wasted, hammered and trashed you may not have notice that Middlebury students are now drinking on campus far more often than they have in the recent past. No, they ...
Author: Charlie Chapin '04 As a recent graduate and lifelong Californian, I strongly urge the faculty to reconsider their votes against the acquisition of Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS). Acquiring MIIS represents a significant step in building opportunities for educations and careers ...
Author: DAVID RICHINS, MBA Student Monterey, CA As a Monterey Institute MBA student, I am not claiming to know what is best in regards to potential mergers or acquisitions. However, I would like to express my opinion on one aspect of the matter.There are potential intrinsic benefits for such a merger ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN I have come to view the commons system as Middlebury's own Vietnam War. Such an analogy is drawn in order to more aptly assess incomprehensible administrative decisions, and is in no way intended to diminish the gallant efforts of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fought for ...
Author: ROSS LIEB-LAPIN ’07, MEG YOUNG ’07 We would simply like to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the Middlebury Community for the unsurpassable enthusiasm and support with which you received the American Cancer Society's second annual Relay for Life at Middlebury College. Last Friday, ...
Author: Sam Wilson Well, this is the last Sam Says. I know I had a fun time writing this column and I hope you had a nice time either reading it or skipping over it to find articles with more flavor.As a closing I am going to leave you with a few predictions about the national political landscape for ...
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, ...