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"We are seeing more and more of these self-financed candidates. It raises a number of troubling issues, because it increasingly shows that those with access to wealth have the greatest access to the political process."
TONY CORRADO (government), quoted Dec. 5 in a New York Times article headlined, "Rich Are Different; They Get Elected," following the election of Michael Bloomberg as mayor of New York.
"The fullest understanding of free expression is very, very important for the institution. Because someone was offended by a piece of language doesn't mean that language shouldn't be heard."
President BRO ADAMS in response to provocative statements chalked on sidewalks around campus last fall.
"We had no idea what we were getting into."
Lovejoy Award recipient TOM GISH, on his decision in 1957 to buy a small weekly newspaper in Kentucky, The Mountain Eagle.
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"He'll probably end up with the problem, because we didn't tell him to hit the magistrate."
Lovejoy Award recipient PAT GISH, responding to a question about her newspaper's legal defense after one of its reporters punched a county official at a meeting.
"Vice President Dick Cheney's personal network reaches wider and deeper than any vice president before him. Here you have a guy who has been 'rabbi' to people from Cabinet secretaries on down."
CAL MACKENZIE (government) quoted Dec. 1 in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Pittsburgh Post on the network that keeps Cheney in the loop even when he's sequestered.
"I think one of the major points we have to understand is we are dealing with a phenomenon that is much greater than bin Laden, and that one of our biggest challenges is to put in the structural approaches needed to combat the problem"
Ambassador ROBERT GELBARD'64, a former assistant secretary of state for counter-terrorism, discussing his Nov. 27 Goldfarb Lecture at Colby in the Waterville Morning Sentinel.
"Some of you may be saying 'What is a vernal pool and why should we care?' Well, a vernal pool is an ephemeral wetland. ... Vernal pools are considered endangered ecosystems largely because they're overlooked."
MARIA MENSCHING '02, to an audience of more than 70 community members in Skowhegan, presenting environmental research on Lake George and Oaks Pond in the final presentation by students in the "Problems in Environmental Science" seminar. |
"OK guys this is a HUGE deal. First I would like to establish the fact that I was born in a constant 85ish degree Puerto Rico and Maine weather just isn't the Caribbean. I'm not made for this weather and I really, really need my jacket. I lost it before vacation but exactly where. . . I DON'T KNOW. It's a black, gray fleece reversible, Eastern Mountain Sports Jacket. If you find it laying around anywhere, you would be saving my lil cold Puerto Rican [butt]. . . PLEASE HELP ME live through this winter. And if you return it there WILL be a reward. (Maybe a cookie or something; we'll negotiate something together.)"
XAVIER GARCIA '05 in a posting on a student's general notices e-mail list.
"When you retire, you have all the rights and privileges of a corpse, and that's really a good thing. That's the way it should be."
Miselis Professor of Chemistry BRAD MUNDY, who retires this summer, reflecting on the department in a post-Mundy environment.
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