Opinion
'Lockdown' Protesting the Protest
By Middlebury Campus | January 29, 2002Author: Margaret Aleks '03 In many ways, I'm being a hypocrite by writing this. But I'm proceeding to do so anyway. While coming back from Bicentennial Hall to my dorm this afternoon, I walked past numerous signs protesting the College's current 'lockdown' policy. I don't know how many; I have better ...
Potential Schedule Change Would Hurt, Not Help Athletes
By Middlebury Campus | January 29, 2002Author: Nina Cotton '04 After reading President John McCardell's proposition for starting the school day later and having sports teams' practices in the mornings before class, I considered what an average fall day would be like for me, a member of the varsity field hockey team. This is what it would ...
Mutual Disrespect Hinders SGA, Administion Progress
By Middlebury Campus | January 29, 2002Author: Chesley Thurber ’04 President John McCardell ended his opinion in last week's issue of this paper with the sentence, "And let it begin now." He was referring to discussion he wanted to promote over his proposed policy of shifting classes later into the day and holding athletic practices in ...
CAMPUS STAFF EDITORIAL
By Middlebury Campus | January 29, 2002Author: [no author name found] Prolonging the LockdownA compromise has been reached between Middlebury College administrators and representatives of the student body in the debate over the decision to lock all residence halls at night. Following the Student Government Association's (SGA) student referendum, ...
QUICK TAKES
January 29, 2002Author: [no author name found] BOOYAH!Cook Commons reenacts traditional high school dances with prom party over weekend. Nostalgic Campus editors re-lived the experience by staying home.BOOHOO!Continuing its gradual increase of the Comprehensive Fee, next year the College will raise tuition from $35,000 ...
Editorial Perfecting the 'Lockdown' Policy
By Middlebury Campus | January 15, 2002Author: [no author name found] Perfecting the 'Lockdown' PolicyA month after the Department of Public Safety responded to an armed burglary on campus by locking the doors of the College's residence halls, the implementation of this response has remained erratic as entrances are locked at varying times ...
Students Locked Out by College's P.R. Priorities
By Middlebury Campus | January 15, 2002Author: 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 ...
Discussion is Key to Campus Safety
By Middlebury Campus | January 15, 2002Author: 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 ...
The Embattled Bipartisan Bipartisan Bids Adieu with Farewell Statement on Timeless Controversies
By Middlebury Campus | January 15, 2002Author: 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 ...
Oil Drilling in Alaskan Refuge Fails to Deter Energy Crisis
By Middlebury Campus | January 15, 2002Author: 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 ...
Should the School Day Begin Later? Delayed Starts, Morning Athletic Practices Under Consideration
By Middlebury Campus | January 15, 2002Author: 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 ...
Duking it Out Santas In Proctor Commercialism Overload or Pretty Decorations?
By Middlebury Campus | December 4, 2001Author: & 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 ...
Elderly Deserve Equal Human Rights Too
By Middlebury Campus | December 4, 2001Author: 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, ...
Students Get Milealage Out of SGA
By Middlebury Campus | December 4, 2001Author: 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 ...
Bin Laden Has Gotten Eveything on His Wish List This Year
By Middlebury Campus | December 4, 2001Author: 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 ...
QUICK TAKES
December 4, 2001Author: [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 ...
"Yellow Fleet" Saves Cash and Gas
By Middlebury Campus | December 4, 2001Author: 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 ...
Open Dialogue And Open Mind About Israel And Palestine A Must
By Middlebury Campus | December 4, 2001Author: 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, ...
Banner Year for Mindless Commons Spending
By Middlebury Campus | November 27, 2001Author: 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 ...