Author: Alyssa Jumars Many of you no doubt noticed the tables that were set up outside Proctor and Ross last week and heard the pleas of: "Would you like to sign an anti-war resolution?" Perhaps some of you are wondering what has come of the 900-odd signatures that were gathered in support of a Student ...
Author: Charlie Goulding This weekend marked the ninth annual African Symposium. Spanning three days from Thursday to Saturday, the symposium featured three lecturers, a dinner of African cuisine, a student-led panel discussion, a drumming and dance workshop and, finally, a concert. By all accounts ...
Author: Yvonne Chen After reading last week's column Conservative Voice, I was both upset and offended by Amber Hillman's comments on affirmative action ("Conservative Voice," The Middlebury Campus, Feb. 26. 2003). However, I commend her for bravery for expressing her view on a controversial, yet important ...
Author: Peter Yordan Middlebury ski bums got a rare chance to see brand new ski video material this weekend with the arrival on campus of the Trans- World Undeclared Film Tour. The sponsor-laden tour, in the midst of a 50-college national circuit, allowed students to catch a free showing of high end ...
Author: David Lindholm Maybe you've seen him: the Panthers have the puck deep in their defensive zone, and number 11 is flying around the opposite blue line, eagerly awaiting the puck. Often one of the defensemen will find him with that perfect tape-to-tape pass and he'll turn, one-on-one with the other ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein On Feb. 26, Gov. James Douglas '72 announced his opposition to legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. Douglas said, "I have tremendous empathy for those who suffer from chronic pain and who feel they would benefit from medical marijuana. But I think it would be awkward ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller On Monday, 1,004 theatre groups in 59 countries, including the Middlebury College Department of Theater, presented staged readings of the first anti-war play ever written: Aristophanes' "Lysistrata."The worldwide event was set in motion by Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower as ...
Author: Ian Fleishman The Senior Class Gift Committee is currently at work on this year's installment of a 20-year tradition of giving to Middlebury College. Each year the senior class selects a gift to be given to the College. The gift must be self-sustaining and is intended to help relieve budget ...
Author: Edward Pickering Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" strikes contemporary readers as a work of remarkable prescience. Published in 1955, the novel unfolds in French-occupied Vietnam during the French Indochina War of 1946-1954. The main characters are Fowler, a veteran British journalist, middle ...
Author: Khairani Barokka The average Middlebury College student has probably heard plenty about HIV/AIDS and knows it is a global pandemic. But how many people here can really explain what HIV/AIDS is and the different ways it's transmitted? How many know how the real extent of the AIDS problem - most ...
Author: Mallika Rao The Angels Award -- given annually to a sophomore woman of color who in her first year at Middlebury excelled socially and academically while exemplifying strong leadership qualities -- was awarded this year to Dena Simmons '05. The award is given in remembrance of the Class of 2003's ...
Author: Kiki Taylor Dear Editor:This article reflects an accurate version of the Black History Month events that took place here at Middlebury on both Feb. 15 and 23. Due to inappropriate usage of this article by The Middlebury Campus (which failed to seek the permission of the writer before taking ...
Author: David Freedman The Middlebury men's swimming and diving team earned a fourth place finish this past weekend at the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships. The Panthers, who only had 22 swimmers to bring to the meet out of the allotted 24, fought hard with a squad ...
Author: David Barker The plot of FX's new drama, "The Shield," might revolve around one cop's fight against drugs and crime in Los Angeles, but usually, the drug dealers aren't Middlebury students. During Winter Term, Zach Ambrose '03 almost was. Growing up in Helena, Montana, Courtney Hess '03 didn't ...
Author: Stephanie Morales Amber Hillman's piece on affirmative action (The Middlebury Campus, Feb. 26, 2003) epitomizes the ignorance and offensiveness that continues to plague this country on issues of race and diversity. Part of a Middlebury education involves dialogue, and providing a forum where ...
Author: Greg Duggan With the growing possibility of U.S. action in Iraq, debate over a possible war has been intensifying around the world. Last Wednesday, hundreds of high schools and colleges across the country staged a protest called "Books, Not Bombs" to express opposition to military action against ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin DigitalBridges2.0, a student-faculty organization, prepares Middlebury students for leadership with valuable real-world experience, one of the five peaks of excellence as laid out by President John McCardell in a 1994 speech.In January 2000, D.K. Smith Professor of Applied Economics ...
Author: Crystal Belle Since when did the definition of affirmative action become a policy that admits students of color by turning a blind eye on academic standing? According to Amber Hillman '05, I, along with every other student of color on campus, am not academically qualified to be here. Hillman ...
Author: David Lindholm At every one of her games this season, Toni Smith, a senior sociology major and forward on the women's basketball team at Manhattanville University, turned 90 degrees away from the American flag in protest during the singing of the National Anthem. The media picked up the story, ...
Author: Ryan Gamble Recent surpluses in the state's education fund have prompted attempts to reform Act 60, the bill that regulates the way Vermonters pay for public schools. On Feb. 26, the Vermont State Senate unanimously passed a reform bill that would return surplus money from previous years to ...