Times They Are a Changin'
The men and women who are going to take Dartmouth into the next decade are very different from you and me (and not, as F. Scott Fitzgerald might have said, because they have more money).
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The men and women who are going to take Dartmouth into the next decade are very different from you and me (and not, as F. Scott Fitzgerald might have said, because they have more money).
Now that we've reached the fifth week of the term and midterms are upon us in full force, the time is fast approaching for us to once again choose classes for next term. For many of us, this once-a-term ritual seems to have long since lost whatever fun it once brought us.
As a fellow lazy person, I must say that I found Sam Bonderoff's column, "Surviving the Phys Ed Requirement," [Jan. 9] nothing short of inspiring. After reading it I realized that it was incumbent upon me, as one of The Dartmouth's most respected editorialists, to use my esteemed position in the community to effect some long-needed social change and promote greater awareness of the lazy cause. But first, of course, I took a nap.
John Strayer's column last week about the Kiewit repair shop's "Premium Service" ("Premium Service Conflicts With Principles of The College," Nov. 1, 1995), by which, for a higher fee, students can have their computers repaired faster than those with just "normal service") touched upon an issue which I've often thought about here at Dartmouth: The equality of students from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
My name is Brian, and I'm a Republican." While it may seem a bit odd for someone to make an Alcoholics Anonymous-style confession like this, especially now that the Republican party seems as strong as ever, that is exactly how I have begun to feel lately.
Report: new beds needed" read the front-page headline in The Dartmouth this Monday (Sept. 25, 1995), drawing our attention to a hot news flash: After a thorough investigation by some of Hanover's leading housing experts, the Office of Residential Life had come to the conclusion that hey, there might be a housing shortage here! (Good thing this was detected early).
Lately, a lot of conversations, community meetings and even newspaper editorials on this campus have centered on the recent report of the Committee on the First-Year Experience. And rightly so, for the proposals and suggestions in it could very well have a major impact on life at Dartmouth.
The Committee on Instruction's new course-drop proposal is a step in the right direction towards greater academic freedom for Dartmouth students.
Earlier this week, Chris Kelly ("Dartmouth's 'Pulp' Obsession," Jan. 16) treated readers of The Dartmouth's editorial page to a lengthy commentary on the campus' response to the hit film "Pulp Fiction," which I and several friends found condescending and offensive to certain people on this campus.
Recently, The New York Times reported that two separate studies had shown that, on average, men whose wives stayed home and didn't work received more pay raises and substantially higher salaries than men whose wives did work.
Each year, as Fall advances in Hanover, things start to change. The air gets a little colder, the days get shorter, the wind picks up a bit, and the leaves start to change color and fall off the trees.
There are certain things students on a college campus need for their daily lives, like food, shelter, electricity, heating and-- at least at Dartmouth --e-mail. For convenience, Dartmouth, like many other colleges, provides many of these to its students, and in fact it does a decent job with most of them.
Over the past few decades, average grades at many colleges and universities have been steadily creeping up, causing alarm among educators who feel that students today are not learning the value of hard work. By reducing the number of bad grades given out, they say, colleges are eliminating what used to be an incentive to work hard -- fear.
While running for president, Bill Clinton was able to win the support of gay-rights activists by pledging to remove the military's long-standing ban on homosexuals. With this and other pro-reform promises, he was swept into office by a plurality of voters who thought things needed to be done differently.