Author: [no author name found] Sam Rodriguez's presidential campaign last spring energized the historically stale politics of the Student Government Association (SGA) at Middlebury College. His fresh ideas and palpable enthusiasm merited a ringing endorsement from this editorial board. But the first ...
Author: Hilary Eisen There is a Community Investment (CI) initiative on campus working to persuade Middlebury College to invest some of its endowment in our local community. As students, are very fortunate to attend Middlebury and reap its benefits. One of the great things about Middlebury is its location ...
Author: [no author name found] Wary of Orientation ReformFirst-year orientation evokes memories of hiking, volunteer work and forming friendships that endure far beyond that first week. In fact, many students remain close to a core group of friends they met during their orientation throughout their ...
Author: May Boeve The Israeli Cabinet's intention to remove Yasser Arafat, announced last Tuesday, is a marked departure from the sort of news we are used to from the Middle Eastern desk. After seemingly endless blurbs about cease-fires and suicide bombings, this new decision begs the question of timing. ...
Author: Amichai Kilchevski When the Jewish people were seeking to gain legitimacy for their idea of a state in their ancestral homeland in the Middle East, they began not by attacking their neighbors but by doing the very opposite. The leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine decided that if their ...
Author: Daniel Hughes Upon returning to Middlebury this fall, I had the unfortunate opportunity to witness a number of inexplicable inconveniences placed on students and a complete lack of sympathy from the administration of the school.Certainly, many of these occurrences are simply minor inconveniences ...
Author: [no author name found] Shifting Outward: New Health Center Location The Parton Health Center recently vacated its longtime home in Carr Hall to occupy a newly renovated space in Centeno House on Route 30. The Department of Public Safety will soon follow suit, abandoning its location at the heart ...
Author: Lucas Kavner Yes, it's true. School has begun. Hopefully, you've already strapped on your knapsacks, pumped up your bikes, attached your Nalgene (Nalgene is a registered trademark of Nalgene, Inc.) and buckled down your...self. However, even though school has indeed begun, that does not mean ...
Author: Ben Gore If you came up with a list of the 10 worst countries in which to have a World Trade Organization negotiation over agriculture, Mexico would have to be at the top. Mexico is a wonderful snapshot of what "agricultural liberalization" has usually meant. In 1992, in preparation for their ...
Author: Michael O'Brien Two of my most beloved English teachers consider "Tender is the Night" to be the greatest American novel ever written, so I was shocked to find Edward Pickering's dismissal of the book as one in which it is "hard to finding any real meaning" ("Literary Picks", Sept. 11, 2003). ...
Author: Ted Lester Middlebury College excels in so many areas of student life. However, there is one department at Middlebury that is not up to the par of student expectations. At most schools students have a positive attitude towards their security department, but at Middlebury almost every student ...
Author: Michael Crowly The events at last week's World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Canc˙n, Mexico, highlight important issues with respect to the survival of the WTO and the pace of trade liberalization. The WTO provides a concrete framework in which countries can negotiate wide ranging trade ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge and Peter Simon YESOn April 28-30, Middlebury College Activities Board, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Political Science and the Program in Film and Media Culture screened Michael Moore's documentary, "Bowling for Columbine." It was one of the most widely attended ...
Author: Edith Honan It is high time that Middlebury College join Vermonters in saying no to Vermont Yankee (VY). Currently, Entergy Nuclear is requesting that VY's original licensing agreement of 40 years, which is set to expire in 2012, be extended for 20 or 30 years. Furthermore, Entergy is seeking ...
Author: May Boeve What exactly is an "environmental policy"? If one were to base her definition on the current U.S. presidential administration, it would be "How Best to Increase Profits of U.S.-owned Multinational Corporations." The president succeeds with this as his objective, as his administration ...
Author: Drew Pugsley I am going to begin this article by pleading some ignorance on this particular topic. However, in the United States, and here in Vermont in particular, the environment is an important issue. I will not deny that the current administration's record on the environment is somewhat ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Saving AP CreditA vote at next Monday's faculty meeting will determine the fate of Advanced Placement (AP) credit at Middlebury College. There's a contingent of the faculty that advocates severing the policy that awards college credit for performance on AP exams taken ...
Author: Christoher Howard I have just learned that the Executive Council plans on overhaul the MiddCard system, eliminating the chip and streamlining all transactions to the magnetic strip. This is said to bring Middlebury College into the 21st century, cut costs and keep Middlebury on par with other ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed Middle Ground began publication last fall with the objective of providing a moderate and centrist commentary on U.S. domestic politics, economic policies and international affairs. During the course of the past year, however, we have observed the middle ground in politics shift, ...
Author: Zach Manganello The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be voting on the issue of further deregulation of the mass media on June 2. Most Americans don't know about this because, for obvious conflict-of-interest reasons, the mass media aren't reporting on it.The big media corporations ...