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(01/25/12 4:00am)
We attend a strange school where a systemic culture of abuse exists under a college president who has the power and experience to change what can only be described as a public health crisis of the utmost importance: the endemic culture of physical and psychological abuse that occupies the heart of Dartmouth's Greek community. President Jim Yong Kim's sterling credentials in public health are fundamentally at odds with the pervasive hazing, substance abuse and sexual assault culture that dominates campus social life.
(01/09/12 4:00am)
Richard Nixon only got it half right when he wrote during the Reagan years: "At present we occupy a treacherous no man's land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them."
(11/29/11 4:00am)
As Dartmouth's annual term of fraternity hazing finally culminates in hell nights this week, less secret violence is attracting news in the country at large. Not enough people are watching.
(11/14/11 4:00am)
The Joe Paterno scandal at Pennsylvania State University wherein the beloved football coach with the most wins in NCAA history did far less than enough to address child rape committed by his defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky represents much of what is wrong with the state of college athletics and offers an opportunity to reflect on a system that has distorted our values.
(10/31/11 3:00am)
I really wish that Herman Cain would spend more time in New Hampshire.
(10/17/11 2:00am)
Last week an editor at The Daily Caller, a Dartmouth '91, reached out to current students as a part of his advance research on protest or flash mob action taking place on campus to coincide with the Republican debate. I had to laugh mirthlessly. I wrote him back to say that the real story was either the student body's apathy, or the unfocused goofiness and lack of the real biting coherence of their occasional protests of the issues that our country and generation demand. If efficacy in change is our aim, we ought to find new ways to accomplish progressive goals. The old tactics are almost useless.
(10/06/11 2:00am)
As my professors, classmates, friends and the anonymously-libelous internet commenters who troll my articles know, I'm sometimes a contrarian just for the sake of contrarianism. So, for full disclosure: This is not a contrarian column. It's just another piece extolling rush, one of a million this month. And despite the rhetoric I've deployed in previous columns, this time around I am not railing against the concept of negative normativity as seen in rushing a fraternity or sorority, or arguing that it's just another example of forced conformity as epitomized by the ubiquitous horde delving into finance next year. To the '14s, I have no stake in persuasion this time. I just hope that you support each other if you choose to pledge don't forget who you are and don't be consumed by who you think you are becoming. Trust me, the two will never be as distinct as you are led to believe.
(08/19/11 2:00am)
Having been away from Dartmouth and in the "real world" for the past year, I've had to make the awkward transition back into this skewed landscape of wasted privilege, lockstep anti-intellectualism and rapacious yearning to at any cost to ourselves and each other become or remain upper class. I was at once intrigued and excited to learn that President Kim was continuing his "Leading Voices" presidential lecture series. In recent years, Dartmouth has heard from some of society's great thinkers, including Judith Butler, Homi Bhaba and Galway Kinnell, thinkers whose voices speak directly to the best within us as human beings. Thinkers who have the courage to question convention and create art and arguments expressing truths about nature. Thinkers whose lectures, depressingly, were sparsely attended by the undergraduate population.
(08/02/11 2:00am)
At a party last week, a friend told me that Bridgewater Associates paid her $100 to explain why she didn't participate in sophomore Summer corporate recruiting. The sheer arrogance and senselessness of this anecdote made me sick to my stomach, partly because, as planned, the exercise made her second guess her choice. But I had to admit there was a certain conceited logic to it if this company can pay her $100 just to explain why she did not want to work for them, it's easy to imagine how much cash she could rake in if she decided to pursue the job.