Author: [no author name found] I was only half-watching the Superbowl the other day because I'm only a half-hearted football fan. Something caught my attention pretty solidly at one point, though, and it wasn't Britney Spears. It was an ad with kids talking about kidnapping tourists and murdering judges. ...
Author: Wasim Rahman '02 By now, most of us know what is happening with American Muslims and Arabs. As a Muslim, I've found that most members of our community were very worried about my safety and understood my anxiety before I flew home this December. They were sympathetic to my worries about profiling ...
Author: [no author name found] Making it MeaningfulWith the ascension of the Class of 2005.5 and the graduation of the Class of 2001.5, the Feb program at Middlebury College is as prominent as it has ever been, attracting more students each year who specifically apply to enter in February. Yet despite ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: [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, ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: [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 ...
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 ...