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Saturday, Apr 27, 2024

Sara Hodgkins


The Setonian
Opinion

Why Do You Hate Us?

Millennials. Everyone hates us. Our propensity for arrogance and merciless decimation knows no bounds. Industries, products and practices we’ve “killed” — according to the internet — include: beer, Buffalo Wild Wings, Applebee’s, golf, cars, home ownership, Harley Davidson, the 9 to 5 workweek, ...

The Setonian
Opinion

We Need Healing Not Discipline

This week our editorial focuses on reforming the judicial process at Middlebury, particularly in relation to sanctions the College is giving to Charles Murray protesters — all protestors who were in the room, turned their backs and chanted. We write this as an appeal to the administrators on behalf ...

The Setonian
Opinion

Letter to the Board of Trustees

Two weeks ago, the Campus published an editorial titled “Disrupt the Finance Pipeline.” We have received a great deal of support from members of Middlebury community with whom the editorial resonated. The piece discussed the tendency of driven students to gravitate blindly toward the financial sector, ...

The Setonian
Opinion

Summer: There's No Right Answer

During the first few weeks of the fall 2015 semester at Middlebury College, I can guarantee that one question will be repeated over and over again: “What were you up to this summer?” The College itself is asking this question. The Center for Careers and Internships’ webpage bears the purposeful ...

The Setonian
Opinion

On Achievement

If you visit the “About” page on Middlebury’s website, you will find that “[Middlebury graduates] should be independent thinkers, committed to service, with the courage to follow their convictions and to accept responsibility for their actions.” Tangentially, (or conversely?), if you visit ...

The Setonian
Opinion

Busyness: The Eighth Deadly Sin

“Hey, how are you?”         “Fine, but I have so much work to do.” How many times have you heard this exchange? Presumably, too many to count. We at Middlebury are perpetually busy, treading water in a proverbially stormy (and decidedly cliché) sea of academic and extracurricular pressure. ...

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