Letters to the Editor

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Carbon Neutrality Initiative

To the Editor:

I was pleased to hear of support by the Board Of Trustees and President Liebowitz for a low-emissions power plant and reducing the college's impact on climate change. Below is my letter to President Liebowitz, in support of the proposed Carbon Neutrality Initiative to make the college carbon-neutral by 2017.

Dear Ron, I'm proud of many things that Middlebury College does. And I'm most proud of the college's support for environmental improvement. I have been very encouraged by recent college decisions and your remarks on the Middlebury Green during the global warming walk over Labor Day weekend led by Bill McKibben. As an aside, my wife and I hosted many of the walkers - including several of the college's students - overnight at our place on the first night of the walk. I'm writing you now to express my support for the newly proposed Carbon Neutrality Initiative. While I recognize this will require a considerable investment of the college's resources, initiatives of this kind are essential if we are to avoid the drastic consequences of unabated global warming and climate change. Moreover, the Carbon Neutrality Initiative will continue the college's outstanding environmental leadership, and it will further distinguish the institution we all love as one that is fearless in pushing for programs that benefit its students and the larger community.

Sincerely,
Gregory Dennis '74
Middlebury, Vt.



New Pub Night

To the Editor:

In the Sept. 28th issue of The Middlebury Campus, the "Notes from the Desk" questions MCAB's decision to charge a small fee, rather than offer free beer, at Grille Pub Nights. I am a member of the MCAB executive board, but I'm also a student who enjoys Pub Night. Pub Night began last year as an experiment and became wildly popular among students above the legal drinking age. It's great that Pub Night was a success among older students, but MCAB's responsibility is to provide programming for the entire student body. Any event with free beer sounds like an event targeted at seniors and a few juniors, but Pub Night is about all classes socializing and enjoying free live music on a Thursday night. MCAB is operating on a limited budget and wants to be able to offer other great programs throughout the year, and any money that comes in will help make that possible. Besides, a dollar is a pretty good deal for an Otter Creek Copper Ale.

Sincerely,
David Schoenholtz '07
Bethesda, Md.