<p>This is so silly it is unbelievable. There are plenty of vegans and animal rights supporters at Middlebury. One article in the Midd magazine does not a college culture make.
If this keeps a few nutty people from applying to Midd, good for everyone else who is sensible. Really.</p>
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Just admit it. It’s because bambi has those loooonnng pretty eyelashes. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, Midd does have a longtime hunting guide as director of admissions. It also has student hunting expeditions, hunting rifles, shotguns, other weapons and “boxes and boxes of ammo” kept right on school grounds.</p>
<p>As I said, I wanted to raise awareness, so prospective students and parents can decide this hunting culture is for them.</p>
<p>@GMTplus Yes. But besides long lashes, Bambi also had a mother.</p>
<p>Great. You’ve provided the article and now Midd applicants can read and judge for themselves. </p>
<p>Will you be doing exposes on the personal hobbies of other admissions directors? </p>
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And the pepperoni on your pizza didn’t? </p>
<p>@Pizzagirl, </p>
<p>MIDDLEBURY HUNTING is beyond a personal hobby of one staffer. </p>
<p>Midd has a longtime hunting guide as Director of Admissions. It also has student hunting expeditions, hunting rifles, shotguns, other weapons and “boxes and boxes of ammo” kept right on school grounds.</p>
<p>This thread is going nowhere. I have to say, @Fiorucci76, your arguments make no sense. Hunting is perfectly legal, you are simply opposed to it. So in fact it is not “beyond a personal hobby of one staffer” except to you and people like you that are anti-hunting. If they had hired a skiing instructor from Colorado as admissions director it would be the same thing, except you wouldn’t care. But otherwise THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS for this thread.</p>
<p>In fact, your statement very early on
is both ludicrous and highly dangerous. Not only does it demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of rights, but it shows a dangerous leaning towards a form of censorship. As Voltaire may or may not have said “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This is the same thing, as long as it is legal. You don’t like hunting? Then lobby to get it outlawed. Run for office when you are able. But to even remotely suggest that supporting one point of view and carrying out that view when it is legal is violating the rights of those that have the opposite view and therefore choose to abstain from said activity is frightening, to say the least.</p>
<p>You also do not need to post links to the article multiple times.</p>
<p>Anyway, in summary the only real point here is that Middlebury (and no doubt many other schools) allows hunting and perhaps even has a “hunting culture”. You have duly informed readers here that this is the case, and if that bothers them they can avoid Middlebury, as you are clearly going to do. I don’t think there is anything else to say on the matter that hasn’t been said in the prior 66 posts.</p>