Author: [no author name found] Last Tuesday, the Republican Party disingenuously claimed a national "mandate" after picking up two Senate seats and five House seats in an election in which only 39 percent of eligible voters in the United States voted. What Republican spinmeisters fail to mention is ...
Author: Christian Holt The great thing about an opinion column is you get to voice your own views. The great thing about having a humor column is that people generally don't take your opinions seriously. The following views are those of a satirist, not a Democrat or Republican. With that in mind, I ...
Author: [no author name found] Last Tuesday's election was a terrible illustration of the politics of complacency, and the beginning of the end of politics as we know it. Without the will power to oppose a popular president-select, the Democratic Party had no particularly relevant issues and was slaughtered. ...
Author: [no author name found] Does Middlebury really want to assess the value of its students to the College community by group and grade point average? The difference between the 3.05 average for athletes and the 3.29 for Middlebury students as a whole (1999) is, after all, only between fine gradations ...
Author: [no author name found] As drivers make their way north across the Massachusetts border towards Middlebury by way of I-91, a sign sits cheerfully by the highway. "Welcome to Vermont," it reads. But the area can also be defined by another geographical likeness, one that is not marked by any signs. ...
Author: [no author name found] EditorialLiving Up to Apathetic ExpectationsLast week's mid-term elections marked a historical shift in the balance of power on Capitol Hill, one that many suggest will allow the Bush administration significant leeway in nominating Supreme Court judges, paring down the ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed Two weeks ago, I wrote a commentary in "Middle Ground" predicting a Democratic victory in the Senate. On Election Day, I sat in a crowded TV lounge, watching CNN report close victories for Republican candidates in New Hampshire, Missouri, Georgia and Minnesota. By midnight, it appeared ...
Author: [no author name found] Today the United States remains the world's lone military superpower. Along with that, a great deal of the world recognizes the United States for attempting to take the moral high ground: this position would easily be undermined by frequent uses of military might. Although ...
Author: [no author name found] Like most Middlebury students, I too was disappointed by the destruction of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) closet, but I disagree with some of the reaction pieces that have appeared in The Middlebury Campus. Last week, Chris Atwood '03 wrote in [Student Sparks ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed President George W. Bush likes to see things in black and white, as "good" or "evil" and as "moral" or "immoral." In so doing, he has been criticized by detractors as being overly simplistic, politically naïve or even obtuse. Yet, Bush had stood his ground, in his defense of his ...
Author: [no author name found] When a plane carrying Paul Wellstone crashed over Minnesota two weeks ago, America lost a courageous statesmen and a determined advocate. But for the Northeast, which is home to the highest concentration of nuclear power plants in the country, the loss carries special ...
Author: [no author name found] Beyond ComplianceIt takes little more than a sprained ankle and a pair of crutches to know the difficulty of navigating this campus. Doors are heavy, stairs are many and the hills, when icy, are dangerous to even those without physical disabilities. Some of these elements ...
Author: [no author name found] In his editorial ("Reflections from Med School on the Value of a Liberal Arts Education," The Middlebury Campus, Oct. 30, 2002), Danny Choi '01 noted that "at the risk of opening healing wounds" he wanted to address the dining issue I first brought up two months ago. Choi ...
Author: [no author name found] In the wake of the destruction of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance closet, I have been encouraged by the vocal response and criticism of certain members of the faculty, the Student Government Association and the College administration. Their refusal to label the vandalism ...
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 ...