Author: Wellington Lyons The Pentagon recently denounced "Hussein's rule [as] the worst in world history." As reported by Reuters, Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke declared Monday that upon liberation, "the Iraqi people will be free of decades and decades and decades of torture and oppression the ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: Last week's edition of The Middlebury Campus published a photograph that we believe is in poor taste ("Springtime Smoke," The Campus, March 19, 2003, p. 4). This newspaper is meant to be a representation of our college community. Both the arrival of spring ...
Author: Kira Ventura This past September, Students for a Smoke-Free Middlebury (SFSFM), of which I am a member, proposed that all Middlebury residence halls be designated smoke-free. As The Middlebury Campus recently reported, President John McCardell just approved the Community Council's recommendation ...
Author: Jonathan White Maintaining Momentum on Social Life SurveyStudent response to the Student Government Association's social life survey has been lacking, disappointing all concerned about the social options available at Middlebury. Seven years have elapsed since a similar survey was completed. ...
Author: Sam Rodriguez I find it pretty amusing that I am writing an article for the "Conservative Voice" column, as it is typically the column of the Middlebury Republicans. I am a Democrat, and plan to remain one for life. That said, I am currently in full support of taking action against Saddam Hussein. ...
Author: Sara Yun As soon as the crisis in Iraq dies down, the American eye will inevitably refocus on the Korean peninsula. So before we are hit once again with abundant headlines dealing with North Korea's monster of a leader, Kim Jong Il, and the evil his communist dynasty is cooking up for the world, ...
Author: Sahan Mufti America is supposedly fighting this war to ensure human rights, global security and to increase the security of the average American. It claims it is opposed to flouting international law and disregarding U.N. resolutions. One is only to look at the state of present American foreign ...
Author: Stephen Clarke Having read many opinion pieces on affirmative action and studied the topic from a legal point of view, I believe that there are two key myths that must be dispelled before I can fairly discuss the case for affirmative action.Myth One: The debate over affirmative action is about ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge When the First World War broke out in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson initially proclaimed United States neutrality in reference to the European war. It would take the sinking of the Lusitania (1915) that killed over 1,000 people, and the sinking of five U.S. vessels (1917) by ...
Author: Alexandra Bottemanne and Melanie Mac We propose that Middlebury College support a day of awareness concerning the country's current situation and our relationship to this situation as world citizens. Let us be clear -- we are not asking for the College to take any stance, formal or informal, ...
Author: Jonathan White Editorial: Respect, Learning and Reflection in This 'Moment of Truth'President Bush announced Monday evening that diplomacy has ended in the effort to build international consensus for military action against Iraq. Short of the highly unlikely prospect of President Saddam Hussein ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed It is during times of grave crises that a nation's resolve towards defending the rights and liberties of its people is tested. It is also during these times that the strengths of institutions that define the society as one that is free and democratic are put into trial. During the ...
Author: Deborah Grant I am writing in response to Robert Keiner's letter ("Lawyer Addresses Gravity of False Accusations," The Middlebury Campus, March 12, 2003).Keiner asserts that the verdict of "not guilty" in State of Vermont v. Ogwuegbu is evidence that "[h]e was believed. She was not." Keiner ...
Author: Peter Nelson Aiming for Top Quality HealthcareMany of us are aware that there is a growing healthcare crisis in the United States. Insurance premiums are rising and more and more people find themselves without coverage. Even those that have coverage face increasing deductibles. These factors ...
Author: Edit Honan Since March 28, 1979, the day of the Three Mile Island (TMI) partial nuclear meltdown in Pennsylvania, no new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States. This speaks to an underlying fear that Americans share when it comes to nuclear power -- a fear that I encountered ...
Author: Brian Vito "Iraq has not taken the last chance offered to it by the council," said Ambassador of Cameroon Martin Belinga Eboutou. It's time the U.N. Security Council kept its word: give Iraq no more chances. After 12 years of inspections, although it has not been a continuous 12 years because ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge Many people admire President George W. Bush for going to the United Nations and seeking international support for a potential war against Iraq. At first, I also admired such an effort, until I realized he would have been in breach of the U.N. Charter had he proceeded to attack ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg With war all but certain, the greatest question facing both our nation and the world is the future and relevance of the United Nations. In terms of international opinion, the United Nations is still important, insofar as many people's views hinge upon Security Council authorization. ...
Author: Ryan Hisner Throughout all the debate about the war with Iraq, there is one simple, and to me pertinent, question that is never discussed. Why should the United States, the most flagrant violator of international law and the greatest source of terror in the world, have exclusive rights to weapons ...
Author: Jonathan White Galvanizing Middlebury College Awareness in the Critical Fight Against AIDSThe Middlebury Campus welcomes the initiative put forth by Elizabeth DiCioccio '06 and Jamie Hess '03 in establishing a Middlebury chapter of Students Against Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC). Bringing the fight ...