Lott: Greed Is Not the Enemy
By Roger Lott | January 3, 2012It has been nearly three months since Occupy Dartmouth set up camp in front of the Collis Center.
It has been nearly three months since Occupy Dartmouth set up camp in front of the Collis Center.
Sweaty students and middle-aged alumni flail their arms as they jump up and down on a slippery floor cluttered by empty cups and beer cans.
This August, Campus Pride awarded Dartmouth a Five-star rating on its LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index.
This Tuesday, I attended a panel discussion called "What I Wish I Knew As A Freshman Girl." The female upperclassmen speakers talked very frankly about their mistakes as freshmen and offered their warm support to the assembled first-year women.
Several community members have recently asked me if my columns for The Dartmouth are designed to be offensive.
"Fire and brimstone," "real collapse" and "biblical concern" are the kinds of phrases many of us have come to associate with global warming.
Thanks to Dartmouth's outstanding financial aid program, my family and I pay only a small fraction of the College's sticker price.
Having grown up in a college town that cast more votes for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader than for George Bush in the 2000 U.S.
All the recent alarm about the resignations of three minority faculty members (See: "A Troubling Trifecta," Feb.
A few hundred yards from where I'm writing this column, just across the river in Vermont, 16-year-olds are allowed to purchase and carry a loaded handgun without needing anyone's permission.