Author: Christian Holt The great thing about an opinion column is you get to voice your own views. The great thing about having a humor column is that people generally don't take your opinions seriously. The following views are those of a satirist, not a Democrat or Republican. With that in mind, I ...
Author: [no author name found] Last Tuesday, the Republican Party disingenuously claimed a national "mandate" after picking up two Senate seats and five House seats in an election in which only 39 percent of eligible voters in the United States voted. What Republican spinmeisters fail to mention is ...
Author: Nicholas Emery The Dana Foundation recently announced this year's recipients of the Charles A. Dana Scholarships in the Class of 2005. The recipients this year are: Kathryn Boateng, Ignas Brazauskas, Oana Dan, Dixie Dillon, Diana Johnson, Alexis Kearney, Tae Kim, Edward Lester, Felix Muchomba, ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart As class after class enters and eventually leaves Middlebury College, hundreds of prospective students, new Middlebury parents, as well as veteran moms, dads and relatives attending graduation flood the town each year. Local hotel managers and hosts of bed and breakfasts break ...
Author: Jonathan White Judging from the media, one might argue that America is headed toward a revitalized protest movement. Sit-ins have occurred on college campuses like the University of California at Berkeley to protest a potential war with Iraq, while Washington, D.C. and San Francisco have witnessed ...
Author: Abbie Beane Though he may not be Wes Craven, independent Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven still has a daunting audacity for approaching haunting issues. And why should you care? Because his most recent work, "The Year That Trembled" will be screened at Dana Auditorium on Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Based ...
Author: Revathi Avasarala In last Friday's Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, the topics of discussion were Finance Committee guidelines and further developments concerning the shuttle service. The SGA Student Senate plans to revamp the guidelines for the SGA Finance Committee in hopes to ...
Author: Edward Pickering Malicious postings made by anonymous third-party users on the online forums of Middkid.com and The Daily Jolt Web site have prompted administrators of both Web sites to change their forum policies. Ted Adler '99.5, founder and president of CollegeXTRA, the company that runs ...
Author: [no author name found] I am deeply concerned about America's "war on terrorism," especially in light of the recent elections and the passionate arguments put forth by many in favor of the war. It seems that we are making decisions as to how to deal with terrorism not based on logic, but intense ...
Author: Dan Polifka In last Tuesday's national elections, which marked a historic return to Republican leadership on Capitol Hill, under 28 percent of Middlebury students exercised their constitutional right to vote, according to a Middlebury Campus poll. This figure is lower than the national average ...
Author: Deborah Jones Middlebury College has never been considered a hotbed of political activity. Its own students regularly describe the atmosphere as "sleepy," "detached," and "bubbled-in." Those who dare to shatter the quiet are a minority that is sometimes scorned for disrupting this remote paradise. ...
Author: Bob Wainwright This morning at breakfast my good friend explained to me that the future of old people will be a much quieter one. "Scientists are now making tremendous advances in the realm of health care," he explained. "And with regards to weather, meterologists will soon have technology that ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Adnan Duracak, 20, fled Bosnia in 1990 with his parents and older brother as violence and war escalated in the region.Employed by Middlebury Dining Services in the kitchen at Freeman International Center, Duracak is a part of what Matthew Biette, associate director of Dining Services, ...
Author: Mike Kirkland The men's and women's cross -country teams traveled to Williams last weekend to compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship meet. Both teams ran in remarkable fashion in the unseasonal warmth in Massachusetts. As the New England Regional Championship ...
Author: Andrea La Rocca "What is your favorite word in the English language?" The question, posed to a group of Middlebury students, causes a moment of contemplation, possibly of confusion, and then ..."SEX!"Surprise, surprise — or not. Would you really expect anything less from Middlebury students? ...
Author: Mike Mazzotta The Middlebury cross country team traveled to Grafton, Mass., last weekend to compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships. It was cold, winds were gusting and the course was hilly, but the Panthers were not to be deterred. Both the women ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Woodrow Wilson once said, "If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation; if 15 minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now." I came across this quotation the other day, and found myself immediately intrigued. I wondered if this meant ...
Author: Julie Shumway In the wake of increasing concern over the state's drug problems, Vermont opened its first heroin treatment clinic on Oct. 28. The Chittenden Center – An Addictions Treatment Program, is directed by Dr. Warren Bickel of the University of Vermont (UVM) Psychiatry Department. It ...
Author: Andrea Gissing U. Pittsburgh Receives Embryonic Stem CellsUniversity of Pittsburgh researchers recently received human embryonic stem cell lines, one of the few universities to do so after President Bush said in August 2001 that only 78 already existing embryonic stem cell lines would be approved ...
Author: Alan Topalian I started my habit in February 2001. The Super Bowl had been played about two weeks earlier, and without football to watch on Sunday, I really didn't know what to do with myself all afternoon. Studying didn't feel like an option that day, so I was sitting in my room playing Madden ...