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(05/30/18 6:20am)
As of Week Nine my senior spring, it has finally hit me that I will soon be leaving this place for good. Some things that I already miss include: the plentiful piles of DBA I use to supply, guilt-free, my daily caffeine fix; my student discount; New Hampshire’s lack of local taxes. Some things that I will definitely not miss include: the KAF line (actually, any line on this campus); a nagging sense that I should be finding a passion that sustains me in the way everyone else on this campus seems to be sustained.
(05/29/18 6:05am)
Activism can seem like a dichotomy, with little leeway between social justice warrior and champion of the status quo. But limiting people to these two categories obscures the effectiveness of a quieter form of activism that occurs within, not against, the status quo.
(03/29/18 6:00am)
Dartmouth is more difficult than it used to be, and it isn’t because of the professors or the changing student body. Rather, changes to Dartmouth’s Advanced Placement course acceptance policy that were implemented for the Class of 2018 began to truly manifest themselves last year, as the Class of 2017 graduated and the Class of 2018 stepped into their positions for extracurricular and academic activities.
(08/14/17 4:10am)
This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue.
(08/18/16 10:00pm)
This past weekend, after an officer shot and killed a 23-year-old black man in Milwaukee on Saturday, unrest enveloped the city. This shooting comes as one of a wave of high profile police shootings this summer. As of mid-August, police have shot and killed close to 600 people, according to The Washington Post.
(07/21/16 10:00pm)
Many people see the Olympics as a chance to boost the host country’s economy and display its soft power through its venues and tourism. When hosted in a rising country, such as Brazil or, in the last decade, China and Russia, the Olympics raise the host country’s international status and improve its economy. However, it also has huge inherent risks that can result in loss of reputation and the displacement and loss of lives. The International Olympic Committee can combat this issue by keeping it in one country — Greece, the birthplace of the Games.
(05/11/16 9:30pm)
As students, we must use social media sites such as Facebook with some distance and skepticism, recognizing the power they have over us. Almost all college students use Facebook; since its rise in the mid-2000s, it has become linked with social status, news and even activism. This holds especially true with the relatively new release of the trending articles sidebar — now, when news breaks, for many of us it breaks on Facebook first.
(04/13/16 9:30pm)
Purdue University recently announced a new program, “Back A Boiler,” that will give rising juniors and seniors an alternative way to pay back debt. The program’s website notes that this alternative is potentially less expensive than more traditional loans for students who need additional funding to pay for their education. This option is based on an income-share agreement, also known as an ISA, and gives students an award of $5,000 or more to complete their degree. Students will then repay the debt at a fixed rate in the years immediately after graduation. The repayment rate will be calculated based on a student’s anticipated salary and will continue for a fixed amount of years, up to nine. Worth mentioning here is that the interest rate is zero percent, and that students will not have to pay once the payment term is up. The ISA program will take effect at Purdue starting next month. Although time will tell whether this program is effective or not, ISA has the potential to be beneficial to both the school and the students. It is an option that Dartmouth should consider adopting in the future.
(11/11/15 1:46am)
Yale University has been in the news a lot lately. When I typed “Yale” into Google, the first four auto-fill results were “letter protest,” “Halloween,” “Halloween email” and “safe space.” All four make reference to the recent controversy at Yale over an email sent by Silliman College associate master Erika Christakis to Silliman residents. Her message commented on a campus-wide email from Yale’s intercultural affairs committee that urged students to be culturally sensitive with their Halloween costumes.
(10/26/15 11:58pm)
Facebook, in partnership with five other companies, has recently been sponsoring free and low-cost internet service to people in areas around the world without it, particularly regions of India. The project hopes to expand internet access in these under-served communities by bringing together people who “believe in the power of a connected world.”
(10/12/15 10:52pm)
In the 2016 presidential election, attacks on candidates are becoming increasingly vitriolic. Case in point — the incessant attention devoted to the release of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s past emails. Clinton’s use of a personal email account while she was Secretary of State was acknowledged last March, and seven months later, it is still a recurring story used to undermine her campaign.
(09/28/15 10:50pm)
I am currently searching for a winter term internship — if you have any ideas, shoot them my way! — and I am terrified. As a sophomore just a few months removed from freshman year, I still do not feel old or wise enough to know enough of what I am doing to get a legitimate internship. As the time crunch really sets in, I have spent the last week researching start-up after start-up — my browser has no fewer than 15 tabs open at any given time, and my search history is full of phrases like “winter internship NYC.”
(09/15/15 10:03pm)
I recently got a first-hand look at how a lack of determination can hurt a child, and the effects can only get worse as his or her world gets wider, harsher and more competitive. One of my family friends has a preteen son whom I visit regularly. They are a family of first-generation immigrants, and the parents know little English. They try incredibly hard to give their son everything they can, but between the sheer length of time they must spend working just to get by and their limited English, they cannot help him with his education as much as may be ideal. Currently, his reading and writing skills are vastly behind those of his classmates, and worse, he has no sense of determination — of gritting his teeth to solve a problem. When he gets stuck on a word he does not know or a passage he does not understand, he grows frustrated and gives up without even trying.
(06/01/15 10:35pm)
Many students, here and elsewhere, participate in “voluntourism” trips during their college careers, which combine volunteer work and tourism to bring students from the United States to generally less developed countries such as Peru or Thailand. Overseas volunteering programs are quite popular — even a school as small as this one has multiple programs that send students to other countries, such as Medlife, the Dandelion Project, GlobeMed and many Tucker Foundation programs. The question remains, however, as to how much good students realistically contribute through these programs. It is important be sure volunteer work is truly benefits the community, or at the very least causes no harm.
(05/18/15 10:35pm)
In the May 19 story “Several classes to have exams over Green Key,” professors discussed their decisions regarding whether or not to consider Green Key in their curricula. Because the registrar’s website does not list Green Key as an official holiday, many professors said that they did not take the weekend into account when scheduling exams and assignments. I believe that professors should, on the contrary, take steps to ensure that all students can relax over Green Key weekend.
(05/05/15 10:52pm)
With May 5 — or “Cinco de Mayo” — occurring this week, discussions of political correctness abound as many question whether celebrations of the holiday are politically correct.
(04/20/15 10:03pm)
Most people like to display their happiness and hide their sorrow. We often try to display a pristine exterior, one that looks effortlessly put-together and always cheerful. We are, however, human. No one is a one-dimensional individual in a permanently happy state. If we all know we’re not perfect, then why do consistently feel the need to pretend as if we are?
(04/06/15 10:42pm)
In many ways, standardized testing has begun to dominate the American educational system. In an April 2014 column in the Hechinger Report, for example, teachers at a public New York City secondary school reported that the number of standardized tests they administer more than doubled over the last year and that students would spend 18 days taking these tests over the next six weeks. In a report published by the American Federation of Teachers, students in grades six through 11 in one school district spent over 100 hours preparing for exams annually — approximately one month of the school year — and spent more than 55 hours taking the exams. Each state requires standardized testing, and schools dedicate a large portion of class time and curricula to prepare students to take the exams. This emphasis, however, seems to do more harm than good — and, crucially, does not prepare students for skills they will need in the workforce.
(03/10/15 12:00am)
Yik Yak, an app that allows you to send anonymous messages to a public feed, has grown increasingly popular at the College and other colleges across the country. It is anonymous by design — the only personal information required by the app is the user’s geolocation. With its promise of anonymity, it may at first seem like an attractive forum for cyberbullies — the people who attack others and write vitriolic comments on social media when they think nobody can identify them. A quick scroll through the comments of any Beyoncé music video on YouTube reveals hundreds of these rude remarks. Even columns on The Dartmouth’s website can garner comments that attack the author.
(02/23/15 11:03pm)
On any given day, the campus Listserv will include several emails advertising free food at various events. There are dinner discussions about international business with food from Thai Orchid and meetings about Senior Fellowships with Lou’s pies. Many of the clubs on campus offer free food to entice students to attend their events. Not only is spending money on food just to give it away to students both wasteful and expensive, but it rarely creates meaningful long-term interest in the club.