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Friday, Oct 2, 2026

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The Setonian

Editorial New Health Center/Howard Dean

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 ...


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'The Customer is Always Right'

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 ...


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Liberal Voice WTO

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 ...


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Finding 'Real Meaning' in "Tender is the Night"

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). ...


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With a New Location, a New Face for Public Safety?

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 ...


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Conservative Voice WTO

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 ...


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'Bowling for Columbine' Moore Presents Truth or Not?

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 ...


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Send Vermont Yankee to Peddle Its Energy Elsewhere

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 ...


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Editorial Saving AP Credit and Charging to the Chip

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 ...


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MiddCard's Future Raises Concerns About Executive Council

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 ...


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Middle Ground

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, ...


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Democracy Threatened by Deregulation

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 ...


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Riddim Represents Culture and Diversity

Author: Lanford Beard Slanted, inaccurate and misrepresentative: these words came to mind while reading last week's article on Riddim's Spring show ("Riddim Rolls Out the Red Carpet," The Middlebury Campus, April 23, 2003). The Campus wrote, "The production truly reflected the Club's multi-cultural ...


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Editorial Shunning Santorum, Commemorating Civil Unions

Author: Campus Editor in Chief The anniversary of Vermont's landmark civil unions bill passed almost unnoticed last week. The debate that three years ago polarized the electorate has since faded into the mainstream, with even the most vocal opponents accepting its place in Vermont's law books. Vermont ...


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Reconstructing Iraq Conservative Voice

Author: Tabby Connor The potential solutions to the future of Iraq are as varied as were opinions about the war itself - but all seem to point towards one primary goal: putting the power back in the hands of the Iraqi people as soon as possible. People who were opposed to the war in the first place, ...


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Nuclear Power Plant Boom Results in Sacrificed Communities

Author: Edith Honan Something is rotten in Washington. Reading White House press releases about the Energy Bill of 2003, it almost seems as if war in the Persian Gulf has inspired a transformation of sorts in the American President. His rhetoric is one of fighting global warming and of a radical overhaul ...


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Riddim Represents Talent and Diversity

Author: Crystal Belle With such a headline as "Riddim Rolls Out The Red Carpet" (The Middlebury Campus, April 23, 2003) one would imagine that the article which ensued would contain cultural, factual, unbiased information. Yet once again that failed to be the case, as a prominent dance group like Riddim ...


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Reconstructing Iraq Liberal Voice

Author: Daryn Cambridge Even though Saddam Hussein may be considered an "evil" dictator, that does not mean that, by waging war against his regime and working to dispose him of power, it makes George W. Bush a "good" leader, a liberator, or, in any way, justified in his actions. As much as Bush would ...