Author: Jonathan White In Defense of DiversityThe College's defense of race as a factor in admissions, witnessed in the brief it filed over the current Supreme Court debate over admissions at the University of Michigan, reaffirms Middlebury's commitment to maintaining and encouraging diversity. Ethnic ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge During the Cold War, due to the lingering threat of a possible nuclear attack, a generation of Americans were told that if they were to "duck and cover" they would be safe from a nuclear explosion. Looking back on history, the "duck and cover" mode of protecting oneself was clearly ...
Author: Nathalie Wolfram I question the logic of Amber Hillman's "call for patriotism" ("Hillman Calls for Patriotism," The Middlebury Campus, Feb. 19, 2003) and ask that she weigh more carefully some of the disturbingly assumptions she makes in her argument that "the only way" to ensure safety for ...
Author: Laura Erickson-Schroth and Jena Siegel Is feminism dead? Certainly it has come a long way in the past few decades. However, one issue that is being heavily disputed in Washington these days -- and threatens to undo 30 years of progress -- is the right of a woman to maintain control over her ...
Author: Robert Schine In its article "Graded Abroad," on the front page of the Jan. 29 issue, The Middlebury Campus reports, in error, that the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) decided "hours before the vote" to endorse the amendment by which all grades earned abroad will be calculated in a student's ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Anyone who read the Jan. 29 edition of The Middlebury Campus may have noticed a trend. Of the articles in the issue, three of them dealt with peace rallies which were attended by Middlebury students, and two opinion pieces criticized a war on Iraq. However, there were ...
Author: Ronald Liebowitz In his memorandum in Nov. 2002, President McCardell reported on the financial challenges facing the College as a result of the current national economic downturn and the related decrease in the value of our endowment. He also outlined the general approach that the College administration ...
Author: Yvonne Chen For almost 25 years affirmative action has seen a long assault on its legitimacy and methods, particularly as it relates to higher education. Since the 1978 Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke decision, which set a standard for race-based admissions, America has been ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg Fahim Ahmed's Middle Ground column is usually one of the many highpoints of The Middlebury Campus. Typically, Ahmed's analysis is dead-on, and his ability to explain contemporary issues is a definite strong suit. That said his most recent installment suffered a few inaccuracies, ...
Author: Jonathan White Renewing a Delicate, But Necessary ConversationNews of sexual assault on campus demands a revival of last year's discussion concerning sexual assault policy. Are victims finding the appropriate support mechanisms and is there an infrastructure in place in which they are comfortable ...
Author: Ginny Hunt The foundation of our community stands equally on respect, trust and communication. At the December faculty meeting, the faculty Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) and the faculty body as a whole abandoned each of these principles during the discussion of study abroad grades. Prior ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech last week to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) may have succeeded in convincing some domestic critics of the Bush administration's war against Iraq, but proved unsuccessful in winning over key allies across the globe. Powell's case ...
Author: Jonathan White The Case For a Review of Abroad Grades and AdvisingIn its Dec. 9 meeting, the College faculty voted to include grades from overseas institutions and programs in students' cumulative GPA.The Student Government Association (SGA) has voiced concern that students were not present ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg Much of this last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus read like a pat-on-the-back for a couple dozen students protesting the war in Iraq. In the very same issue, the spokesman for this effort, Wellington Lyons '04, submitted a piece which outlined his dissent ("War Objector ...
Author: Alice Munson Last Saturday as I was leaving the Redemption Center one of your fine young students tapped on my window and said I had a flat tire. I got out and these two great guys said they would change it for me. Remember now it was very cold! After they easily changed it (or they made it ...
Author: Namik Kirlik Many things changed for international students after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in terms of our status and the process of obtaining valid documents to study in the United States. First, the U.S. Patriot Act, which was implemented as a response to the terrorist attacks in 2001, ...
Author: Michael Stahler On Wednesday night, I had a nightmare involving Hepburn Hall, in which I'm a Residential Advisor (RA). It began with a voicemail from my commons residential advisor saying, "they have closed our lounges." It also included the sight of one of my residents trying to get into the ...
Author: Wellington Lyons So we're going to war again.Whether you're on the right, left or center of the political spectrum, there are a number of reasons to be upset with our leaders for what they have gotten us into.Let's start at the beginning. Why are we preparing to invade Iraq? The story goes that ...
Author: Jonathan White A Worried State of the UnionIn Tuesday evening's State of the Union address, President Bush solidified the compassionate conservatism that he touted during his run for election in 2000. He proposed using the federal budget to fund the development of hydrogen automobiles, while ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed As President Bush prepares his State of the Union address to outline the policies for the second half of his tenure, he must confront a solemn but distinct possibility: that he is indeed beatable in the 2004 presidential election. Despite the fact that no single Democrat has yet ...