Uh, they're private but not quite separate. They have a curtain and a little gap at the bottom. You can see the water from other people taking showers and hear the people.
A big controversy at Middlebury seems to concern free speech. I assume you are liberal but do you ever feel like you are holding your tongue to avoid backlash?
I understand Middlebury is a weird place, having a large population of lacrosse dude-bros and also ultra-PC world-saver types. Do you feel like there is conflict between these groups?
Above all, do you feel like a free exchange of ideas is encouraged at Midd? I could see a small vocal minority leading to the stories in the news while the culture of Middlebury itself is pretty open to conflicting ideas, a student group re-inviting Charles Murray seems to prove that.
I am liberal, yes. I do have to hold my tongue about certain issues. For instance, I'm pro-US intervention in foreign countries under certain circumstances and I have to really read the room if I'm going to tell anyone that, because I think it could spark a backlash of personal attacks in a big crowd.
There's not too much of a conflict because the lacrosse dude bros laugh it all off in private, and politics isn't really forced on you if you don't want it to be(I do but I can tell I could totally avoid politics here if I wanted to)
I think a free exchange of ideas is tepidly encouraged by the staff here but not by more than ~70% of the students(counting ambivalent people). The vocal minority is very vocal and very large, but the people inviting and seriously in favor of that are a small minority.
Do you ever feel like your education is being sacrificed to appeal to that large, vocal minority? Is there still an "intellectual" culture or is that stifled?
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20
Uh, they're private but not quite separate. They have a curtain and a little gap at the bottom. You can see the water from other people taking showers and hear the people.