Author: Kevin King ’02 President John McCardell's recent unilateral decision to require that students' homes be locked in the future strikes me as a very, very poor decision for a number of reasons. Most of all, I see his choice to settle the matter of whether dorms will in fact be locked or not before ...
Author: Becky Ruby ’01.5 I had originally written this Campus op-ed piece with the naive assumption that student input would be vital in the upcoming months as the College community discussed the state of safety on campus. However, after President McCardell's Jan. 14 letter to members of the Community ...
Author: Brian K. Ashley Dear Readers,For better or worse I have decided that this will be the last installment of my column. I fear that continuing to stand upon my proverbial soapbox would only perpetuate a repetition of ideas. However, before I go, I would like to take this opportunity to impart ...
Author: Jon White ’03 Later this month or early next month, the fate of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The opening of the Refuge for drilling is among the provisions of the Bush administration's energy bill, already endorsed by the House of Representatives ...
Author: President John McCardell, Jr. I have just returned from the annual convention of the NCAA, where I have begun a term as vice chair of the Division III President's Council. While there, I attended a session at which James Shulman, co-author of "The Game of Life," fielded questions from presidents ...
Author: & Nothing Wrong With a Little Holiday CheerDrew Pugsley '04I would like to preface this article by saying that Estye chose this week's topic. So if you have not done so, I would suggest that you read Estye's column first. In light of the holiday season and the events of Sept. 11 there ...
Author: Namik Kirlic '05 Our first year, all students here at Middlebury College must take their first-year seminar class. My class is Human Rights in Post-Colonial Societies, where we read and learned a lot about human rights, always had very powerful discussions, and touched upon difficult topics, ...
Author: Kevin King '02 A little over two months ago the Student Government Association (SGA) completed highly successful and contested fall elections, and held its first meeting of the year. I write today to reflect on what the SGA has already accomplished this fall term, the progress of my initiatives ...
Author: Drew Bennet '02 Congratulations America, you finally found a new enemy! Now it's time for another one of those wars that's not really declared, but lots of people are gonna die, and there's a red scare — I mean there's terrorists, there's a good and an evil-doer, and we must win, although ...
Author: [no author name found] BOOYAH!Midd-kid Katie Samson '02 to make us proud carrying the Olympic Torch.BOOHOO!Where's the snow? Our Reef Sandals are getting stuck in the mud.BOOYAH!Old Storrs Ave. duplex relocated to make room for new library. Confused residents wake up with a new backyard.BOOYAH!Weekend's ...
Author: Rachel Cotton '03 We're the people who ticketed everyone's Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) last year. We also fixed up a bunch of bikes, hoping that they would be taken for rides, loved and left in appropriate locations after use. With the introduction of "the yellow fleet," our plan was to memorialize ...
Author: Wasim Rahman '02 In the Nov. 14 Middlebury Campus, two students, Amichai Kilchevski and David Schwartz, deliberately misrepresented and sensationalized efforts by their fellow Middlebury students to increase campus awareness of the Arab-Israeli conflict. As a leader in Palestine-awareness activism, ...
Author: Kevin King Life at Middlebury may as well be built around the idea that the more work students are assigned, the less time they will have to realize the sheer lunacy of the way the campus around them is run. I, for one, refuse to let pending term papers and extraordinarily sub-par grades blind ...
Author: Brian Ashley I would like to take this week's column to address two very separate issues. One concerns the responses to my last column and the other concerns the United States lead war against the Taliban and terrorism. As for the responses to my column, I would like to first say that they were ...
Author: Ben LaBolt Liberal columnists have discussed the negative repercussions American intervention has had on the world, how its imperialist policies have incited our current state of affairs and how further military intervention can only bring more despair. This is the first school of liberal thought ...
Author: Hazim Bitar To The Editor:For David Schwartz and Amichai Kilchevsky to describe the murder of my grandfather and my uncle in 1948 and the killing of 23-year-old Osama Jaddah back in Sept. 29, 2000 by Israelis as propaganda ("One Side of Debate Hides Two Sides of Middle East Truth," The Middlebury ...
Author: Lauren Joseph All college students have, at one time or another, studied the Holocaust. The disturbing facts and appalling pictures of emaciated victims have been ingrained in our heads. For just 60 years ago, these atrocious acts ravaged a continent and brutally seized the lives of millions. ...
Author: [no author name found] As the second annual review of social and academic interest houses gets underway, with the Community Council Subcommittee on Social and Academic Interest Houses evaluating the mission statements of all houses and making sure that they are complying with College guidelines, ...
Author: Hosam Mekdad In a desperate attempt to defend Israeli occupation, David Schwartz and Amichai Kilchevsky threw around random and baseless accusations, only to support them with even worse analogies that were hurtful, inappropriate and totally out of place. And while claiming to speak for Middlebury's ...
Author: David Schwartz and Amichai Kilchevsky For a year and a half, we have watched as Middlebury students have presented blatantly one-sided arguments about why Israel is oppressive, how the Palestinians are being slaughtered for no reason, and how American foreign policy continues to perpetrate these ...