Author: Erika Mercer It's like passing by a closed bedroom door, overhearing a conversation from within the room. You don't know who the people talking are, and you know you shouldn't be listening in, but the phrases you gather are too intense and intriguing to turn your ear away. The conversation is ...
Author: [no author name found] The destruction of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) closet last month prompted responses from the president, the provost and dean of faculty, and the Faculty Council and Staff Council. I have now heard of backlash responses from members of the faculty, the staff ...
Author: Kate Prouty When reviewing a modern dance piece, you're not supposed to award all of your praise to the dancers (I don't know who said this. It's just one of those insupportable rules). After all, it's the choreographer who decides what his dancers do. He is the puppet master, the mind and organization, ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed The greatest virtue of democracy is the principle of freedom and liberty that it staunchly defends. And that freedom traverses from chanting slogans against the World Bank in Washington, D.C., to demonstrating against oil drilling in Alaska, to protesting Ari Fleischer at Middlebury ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Protests Arise Over NYU Guard's SuspensionResidents of Alumni Hall, a New York University (NYU) residence hall, are protesting the university's decision to suspend the security officer on duty the night before a student was found dead in his dorm room last week.The university ...
Author: [no author name found] A Worthy Cause, Poorly ExecutedOn Thursday, Middlebury College will open its doors to the American Cancer Society for that organization's "National Smoke-Out Day." The event, which is aimed to help cigarette smokers quit smoking, is the latest in a campaign to change the ...
Author: [no author name found] Several years ago, I had the chance to chat with a former captain of an American nuclear submarine. An avowed believer in nuclear power, old clichés like "too cheap to meter" and "the peaceful atom" resonated strongly with him. After a long career in the nuclear Navy, ...
Author: Bob Wainwright I was sitting down, obeying my thirst with a nice refreshing Sprite yesterday, when I began to wonder if advertisements actually hold power over consumers. The only example I could think of was when I drank a gallon of Gatorade and then ran 10 miles in order to see if my sweat ...
Author: [no author name found] Helping the Homeless and Hungryby Andrea GissingOver fall break, five members of Middlebury's Volunteer Service Organization (VSO) attended the 15th Annual Conference of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness held this year at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
Author: Alan Topalian Legend has it that a young and undistinguished Julius Caesar, passing a statue of Alexander the Great, stopped, knelt before the likeness, and began to weep, ashamed at his accomplishments because, at the same age, Alexander had already conquered the known world. I know the feeling ...
Author: [no author name found] I've never been bothered by smoking at Middlebury College, and I've been here since 1999. My friends haven't had any problems with it either. But some students on campus are currently passing around a petition that will become a bill for the Student Government Association ...
Author: Abbie Beane "College is a non-stop whirlwind of excitement and IM, punctuated by hook-ups, drunken hook-ups and failed attempts at hooking-up. There are plenty of aspects of college other than sex and alcohol, but those are the two that result in the most noise.""You will study. You will forget ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg The Middlebury women's hockey team will be looking to use what has made them successful in the past: its superior speed, crisp passing and an ability to be offensively creative. Although the team lost seven strong players to graduation, including four-time All-American and defensive ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton It is 1 p.m., and senior Katie Samson has a class in a half an hour. She hasn't eaten any lunch, and she knows that she won't be able to make it through the afternoon without sustenance. She takes a minute to consider how she can grab some food and still make it to class on time.She ...
Author: Pavel Gavrilov The Middlebury College men's rugby club entered this weekend's playoff matches as the number one seed with a record of 8-0, holding the title of defending Northeast Territorial champions. Put together, that meant everyone else was gunning for them.Saturday dawned with a clear ...
Author: Liz Lathey Green Mountain Coffee recently signed a 10-year agreement to sell its Fair Trade coffee under the label of Newman's Own Organic Fair Trade Certified coffees.The harvest of Fair Trade coffee is based on a partnership between North American coffee consumers and coffee producers in Asia, ...
Author: Kathleen Fleury On Nov. 5, Middlebury voters narrowly rejected a $5.99 million bond to build a new municipal building in town as well as a new municipal police headquarters. The bond proposal was rejected by a slim margin of 109 votes, 1,443 to 1,334.The proposed buildings, which have been in ...
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: [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: 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 ...