As an economics major, I think I have the concept of monetary incentives down pretty well. So why am I even still here writing this column? Why am I asking my parents to pay tuition when I am most likely going to come out of college making about $30,000 as a congressional staffer? It really doesn’t ...
In honor of Earth week, The Campus Sustainability Coordinators and The Sunday Night Group are bringing different student organizations together to put on a festive event with the goal of raising awareness of environmental issues and promoting a healthier planet. Our planet is currently struggling with ...
The U.S. should reduce or hold steady weapons sales to Middle Eastern allies. The New York Times reports that the U.S. is instead selling allies more advanced weaponry, like F-16s and Predator drones, and in the future, possibly even F-35s, “considered to be the jewel of America’s future arsenal ...
I write in to examine the integrity of last week’s article, titled, “Encouraging the Uncomfortable.” The inaccurate premises call in to question the conclusions. While I too would find censorship cause for alarm, the talk to which author Rachel Frank referred was not predicated on censorship, ...
Each year around this time, the Campus turns its focus to the upcoming Student Government Association presidential election. Unlike last year, there will be competition for the position and a field of strong, well-rounded candidates has emerged. Each one has come to the Campus office to present their ...
Often I find myself debating against people who argue that it is impossible to know the best way to live a life, or the best moral code, or the best way to understand the universe. More often than not, I find that Middlebury students especially hold subjectivism as their method of approaching these ...
This week, the lauded scholar Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. of Harvard gave a lecture entitled “An Address from the Humanities to Science” at the inaugural Eve Adler Memorial Lecture in celebration of the endowment of the Classics Department. Prior to the event, a number of students and some faculty ...
The Sacramento Bee reports that the State of California is the world’s eighth largest economy, valued at about $2 trillion (USD); it is tied with Italy and the Russian Federation. Agriculture in California accounts for around $21.4 billion in revenue, which leads all other states (Iowa is second with ...
Last week’s center spread of this newspaper focused on problematic spaces on campus. In this week’s editorial, we would like to add one more to the list. With all of the discussion on social life, one crucial part that has been largely missing from the discussion is hard to miss and sits near the ...
Admitted students are visiting campus this week during Preview Days to explore all that Middlebury College has to offer; some of these students will be traveling from around the world to see our school. Concurrently, the Davis United World College (UWC) Scholars Program is celebrating its fifteenth ...
After an American-led coalition of world powers and Iran announced the outline of a nuclear accord last week, it is difficult to be optimistic about its chances to survive the U.S. Congress. While Pope Francis praised the agreement at his Easter Mass, he does not command the influence of Israeli Prime ...
The first half of the Theatre Department’s The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls this past weekend was a welcome treat – a delightfully original weave of fairytale whimsy and post-Soviet Russian grit. Katie Weatherseed’s portrayal of Annie, the show’s naive and relatable Russian-American study-abroad ...
From our vantage point in rural Vermont, the border may seem so far away as to be irrelevant, but in fact, our everyday actions and inactions, consciousness and lack of consciousness, impact the immigration system and the people who live within its grasp. For this reason, MAlt El Paso, working together ...
Like many Catholics, I spent last Sunday nodding off in Mass or trying to get the toddler in the pew in front of me to laugh. Like still more Catholics, I promptly forgot the sermon and jostled with my fellow parishioners to exit the Church when the one hour time limit was reached. I went to Church ...
Governor Jerry Brown of California issued the first major water restrictions in the state last week. It has been a long time coming. For a few years now, California has been feeling the effects of its drought. I, like many other Middkids, come from the Golden State and have been trying to cut my shower ...
Circa-2002 environmentalism begged for more bikers, lower thermostats and less polystyrene. The jets of today’s movement make a braver thunder: they hinge on justice. A decade ago, your shopping-mall forays, half-hour showers and globe-trotting airfare was under scrutiny, but now are your ears, which ...
Middlebury is hard. I have found attending this college to be challenging and exciting, and my experience here has shown me that learning for the sake of itself may be the most rewarding of adventures. This adventure can be characterized as leisure: we are lucky to have this opportunity to study, to ...
I myself lost my father to suicide when I was 22 years old, as a senior in college, and I know how terribly painful this can be. I knew something was wrong in the days before his death, but I didn’t have the tools or understanding to make sense of what I was experiencing. Afterward, I felt not only ...
When the Middlebury community learned of the death of one of our own – Nathan Alexander ’17 – we were shocked and saddened. We at the Campus deeply felt this loss and decided that at this time no other subject was as important to the community as the death of one of our students. We cannot hope ...
If you are a Freshman or Sophomore, you likely attended a mandatory “Active Threat” seminar put on by the school administration during J-Term. Those of you fortunate enough to have missed it the first time were offered a second opportunity a few weeks ago. The presentation included a video produced ...