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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Opinion


The Setonian

Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:As a Middlebury parent, a working journalist, and a one-time editor of The Cornell Daily Sun, I was dismayed by Andrea Gissing's resignation as Editor-in-Chief of The Middlebury Campus. In my view, the debate over Rudolph Giuliani represents Ms. Gissing's ...


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NOTES

Author: Polly Johnson Remember the good old days in Starr Library when the deafening sound of unzipping your jacket caused death stares from the intensely studious people sitting all around you? Well, you can't even hear that zipper over to the chatty cell phone conversation heard from across the stacks ...


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Sam Says The filibuster's last stand?

Author: Sam Wilson Conservatives do not seem too fond of the judiciary of late.Take Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. After Terri Schiavo died, DeLay said of the judges who refused to reinsert her feeding tube: "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." ...


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Clarification...

Author: Ben Gore '05 I would like clarify a few things about my submission in the last issue of The Middlebury Campus:[1] Neither the title nor the photo of Hitler were my idea. Even the snarky Wall Street Journal blog, OpinionJournal.com, noted: "Accompanying the article is a thumbnail photo of Hitler, ...


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Free speech has its limits in academia

Author: Bryan Goldberg ’05 Thus far this year, America has witnessed two massively controversial incidences in which academic leaders uttered shocking and controversial remarks. The first scandal concerns Harvard University president Larry Summers - unarguably one of the world's greatest economic ...


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Debunking Giuliani's bad rap

Author: Andrew Carnabuci '06 I am greatly alarmed by the general mood of seething indignation around campus regarding the announcement that Rudy Giuliani will be coming to speak for graduation, as demonstrated by an article in last week's campus and talk of an "alternate" graduation speaker, and would ...


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Letters to the Editor

Author: Andrea Gissing To the Editor:This letter is in regards to President Leibowitz's all-campus e-mail "To the Campus Community" which was a short e-mail heavily criticizing The Middlebury Campus' use of a doctored photograph in which Rudolph Giuliani is made to resemble Adolf Hitler.I am writing ...


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What's behind the heroic facade?

Author: Gracielia Moreno As a Middlebury parent and a long-time resident of New York City, I was distressed by the lead story in the March 10 issue of The Middlebury Campus - first by the news that Rudolph Giuliani was chosen to speak at Middlebury's commencement ceremony this May, then by The Campus's ...


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Sam Says Please, why Terri Schiavo?

Author: Sam Wilson The Terri Schiavo case is a sad one. Sad for everyone involved. Her husband, her family and she in particular all deserve sympathy and compassion. I cannot, and do not want to imagine what such a situation must be like to live through.Though, there is something that interests me about ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: Ben Salkowe I was both surprised and disappointed by President Ronald D. Liebowitz's decision last Friday to send an e-mail to the College community chastising The Middlebury Campus' editorial board. His action sacrificed an educational dialogue between student press and Old Chapel for an attack, ...


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Editorial

Author: Andrea Gissing Dear members of the Middlebury College community and readers of The Middlebury Campus:I would like to apologize to the entire community for the decision I made that resulted in the publication of the Hitler-like photo illustration of Rudolph Giuliani accompanying an opinions submission ...


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Sam Says Bush dogma needs a reality check

Author: Sam Wilson One of the things that really bugs me about the Bush Administration is how often its rhetoric has nothing to do with reality.We heard about Iraqi ties to al- Qaeda, and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, both of which ended up being bogus. Then we heard about a Social Security crisis ...


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Notes from the Desk

Author: Sonja Pedersen Green Don't get me wrong; there are a lot of Febs that I love dearly. However, I think one of the things Middlebury College seriously overlooked when designing the Feb program is their placement in upperclassmen housing. Febs are first-year students, and as first-years, especially ...


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Letters to the Editor

Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:This letter is in response to last week's article, "Midd-kids, you have it sooo good." We all have the right to lobby for those issues we find important - global, national, local or personal. Furthermore, we should be grateful, not critical of those individuals ...


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Giuliani is a punk, un-invite him

Author: Ben Gore '05 I am continually amazed at what jerks the people who run this school are. If it's not bad enough that they're working to destroy the campus community with an ineffective lockdown and the universally disliked commons system, now they continue their habit of inviting strikingly inappropriate ...


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Editorial

Author: [no author name found] Fearsome fee...It is a grim reality that the influence of inflation can be seen almost everywhere, and in no place is it more apparent than the cost of one year at Middlebury College. This year's already incredible $40,400 comprehensive fee will increase to $42,120 for ...


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Roosevelt Institute needs you now

Author: Scott Greene '08.5 Our campus has numerous clubs and organizations for its students. They pertain to certain activities and draw students together, and all provide an outlet for students to expand on their non-scholastic interests. As a Feb, I have noticed this mobilization during my first month ...


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NOTES FROM THE DESK

Author: ELSPETH PIERSON I was reminded on Friday evening over a delicious meal at Dolci just how easy it is to forget about all the amazing student-run activities available to us at the College.A few friends of mine had braved the Dolci ticket line Thursday night in McCullough and succeeded in securing ...


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Midd-kids, you have it sooo good

Author: Bryan Goldberg '05 I am writing this opinion piece from Israel, where I have recently completed a two-week tour of the country as part of a semester off campus. During this time I have had the chance to talk with countless locals, including a dozen members of the Israeli Defense Forces. It is ...




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