Author: Christian Holt Two weekends ago, I went shopping. This only occurs twice a year. Every time I'm either conned into doing it by an attractive friend of the opposite sex, or have run out of deodorant. Lucky for her, it was only the former. So my friends Kate and Maggie went with me to the mall. ...
Author: [no author name found] The common perception of vandalism is that people don't think before they smash a pumpkin, destroy a card-swipe machine, or deface the Ross Commons Dining Hall. Yeah, sweet observation Gil. You're such a genius. But I believe people do think before they act ; they realize ...
Author: [no author name found] A Troublesome VandalismThe destruction of the symbolic closet built by members and friends of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) proved that prejudice, however latent, is still a blight on this campus. Some argue that the closet, destroyed in darkness two weekends ...
Author: Christian Holt Halloween: the only other time of the year I can dress up in a cape and hood other than casual Fridays. Personally, I've always wondered where we got such a screwy holiday. So I did something new: I researched. Halloween is taken from "All Hallows Eve," which is a holiday to commemorate ...
Author: [no author name found] I do not believe that freedom of speech is an absolute, but is guaranteed to the extent that it does not transgress on the rights of others. As an example, no one is permitted by law to willfully or maliciously slander the moral character of another person. I have been ...
Author: [no author name found] At the risk of opening healing wounds, I write the following article, for there is a bigger issue at hand: What is the value of a liberal arts education?The first week of med school was over. I walked down to the crowded TV lounge in my dorm and awaited the season opener ...
Author: [no author name found] As a Christian and a member of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa), I find myself troubled by certain stereotypes embedded in our culture here at Middlebury, as well as the way in which we express our feelings to each other. I was out on McCullough lawn to help decorate ...
Author: [no author name found] I spent a relaxing fall break camping, swimming in waterfalls and demonstrating against President Bush's proposed war against Iraq. The 10-hour car ride to the heart of our heart-breakingly unrealized democracy was tedious, but the matter was pressing, to say the least.When ...
Author: [no author name found] I was troubled to learn recently that the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) closet, placed outside McCullough last week, was vandalized. Though the perpetrators, however numerous, may eventually be identified, such acts reflect poorly on our entire community. A college ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed As the nation enters election week, political analysts remain sharply divided over the future of control of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. With Democrats holding onto its razor-thin majority in the Senate, and Republicans maintaining their slim control ...
Author: Christian Holt Finally, it's the time of the year when the leaves are turning. The landscape is a cornucopia of bright yellows, reds and oranges. It's magnificent, and something rather new to me. Like I've said before, I'm from New Jersey. We have fall for about two weeks. We cram in Thanksgiving ...
Author: [no author name found] I have never been a very politically-oriented person, and so I was unsure of how I felt about the protest that took place during the Ari Fleischer lecture on Oct. 13. While I agree that pre-emptive attacks should be avoided, I did not feel that this protest was called ...
Author: [no author name found] I was eating breakfast this morning in the gleaming new Ross Dining Hall when I overheard a conversation between two young women that I hear far too often at this school. It went something like this:"What did you think of that protest last night?""Well, I sort of agreed ...
Author: [no author name found] Protesters from Middlebury College, the town community and from across the state of Vermont, came together at Mead Chapel on the evening of Oct. 13 to demonstrate against Ari Fleischer, Class of 1982 and press secretary to President George W. Bush. In so doing, they exercised ...
Author: [no author name found] Driving back from dinner Sunday night, I had to go through the town of Middlebury around 6 p.m. Something was different on this Sunday, however, and it was then I rolled down my window and turned off the music so I could hear the shouts of protests against Ari Fleischer's ...
Author: [no author name found] Another "Right to Listen"Last Sunday's protests may have overshadowed another important event — the building and raising of a symbolic closet by members of Middlebury's Open and Queer Alliance, or moqa. The closet, a colorful and poignant amalgam of slogans and plyboard, ...
Author: [no author name found] Sunday Sept. 292:30 a.m: The new Ross Dining Hall gets trashed. 6 a.m: The Ross dining crew arrives at work to find frozen yogurt and sticky soda dripping down the machines and all over the floor, cereal littering the floors, a smashed card swiper and broken cabinet ...
Author: [no author name found] A Respectful ProtestAri Fleischer's visit to campus this Sunday will be met with anticipated protest and criticism of the administration that the Middlebury alumnus represents in his daily work as press secretary for the Bush White House. This criticism and the demonstrations ...
Author: [no author name found] The Robert Frost School of English does not exist, and it is not part of Middlebury College. Students cannot receive a degree from the Robert Frost School of English, nor do any of our professors teach there. But all of that could change. Middlebury College could be the ...
Author: [no author name found] The warmongers have already won half the war by successfully eliminating the real debate on Iraq. Through systematic manufacturing of consent the debate is narrowed to the point that all roads lead to the desired conclusion anyway: war. The debate was wiped off the TV ...