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(04/18/97 9:00am)
The forum held by Dartmouth Dining Services last Wednesday night on the future of the meal plan epitomizes the dysfunctional nature of the current meal system. Students were frustrated about lack of choice, and DDS management was stymied by lack of constructive student opinions as well as an inability to gauge students' desires accurately. These problems result from DDS's unique position, separated from a market that would reveal consumer preferences and which would ensure a more responsive dining service.
(01/03/96 11:00am)
Alongwith resolutions, champagne and college bowl games, awards presentations are a New Year's fixture. The Man of the Year, the Kennedy Center Honors, and on and on. Unfortunately, Dartmouth launches the year without any tribute to the great events of the past 12 months. Until now. With the help of a number of corporate and government sponsors, I present the 1995 Daily D Awards, recognizing the year's highlights and lowlights at Dartmouth and across the nation. The envelope please ...
(11/17/95 11:00am)
When SAT scores were sent home last week, one student in Laguna Hills, California had reason to be happy -- he got a 1,600. A student in Midwood, New York also got a 1,600 on the test, as did 73 other students across the country, triple last year's figure. The reason? The Educational Testing Service, which administers the test, "recentered" scores in order to boost the mean on each section to 500.
(11/09/95 11:00am)
Ruling in a seemingly trivial landlord-tenant dispute last week, New York judge John DiNoto acceded to America's slide toward disorder. The decision, which allowed a landlord to evict an abortion clinic from his building because of violent protests by pro-life groups, demonstrates the extent to which such groups have undermined the rule of law. By giving in to these domestic terrorists, the judge accepts the helplessness of law-abiding businessmen and emboldens those who reject majority rule.
(11/02/95 11:00am)
Last week The Dartmouth editorialized that Kappa Chi Kappa's decision to revert to its historical name of Kappa Kappa Kappa damages the Dartmouth community because of the name's initials ("Change to Tri-Kap is Insensitive," Oct. 25). Doubtless some people will take offense at the name; that cannot be helped. However, by promoting the irrational judgments of a few, the newspaper does more harm.
(10/19/95 10:00am)
A large group of black men made the news on Monday. Remarkably, they were not a gang, a music group or a football team. The Million Man March was the first time in recent memory that the media, the government and the country paid attention to African-Americans for doing something positive. That, not Louis Farrakhan's revelations on numerology or biblical interpretation, was what made the day important. Critics who elevate Farrakhan further by making him the focus of the march miss the point.
(10/12/95 10:00am)
Not since the debate over gays in the military has America infused an issue with such profound and divisive meaning as it has with the O.J. Simpson trial. The racial divisions it engenders exacerbate legitimate tensions over serious issues like welfare reform. Some blacks hailed the verdict as a blow for social justice. However, the tokenism of the verdict and of black America's response bespeaks only political impotence, a condition that compels blacks to find more forthright tactics and implicates a white-run political system that denies blacks a more effective voice.
(10/05/95 10:00am)
Wentworth is the name of a hall, Dresden is somewhere in Germany, and, for better or worse, America has but one Connecticut, a couple states down the river.
(09/28/95 10:00am)
AbiolaLapite's column "Good Education" (Sept. 25, 1995) presents a faulty view of educational goals. He rejects "practicality" because it sacrifices personal fulfillment to the whims of society or, worse yet, to dreaded market forces. However, he also argues that colleges should never hope to produce well-rounded students, but should permit each to study the area of his choice to the exclusion of all other academic fields. He is wrong on both points.
(04/14/95 9:00am)
Pascalwrote, "Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny."