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(05/01/14 9:55pm)
Ever since The Mirror added its “Through The Looking Glass” feature during my sophomore year, I’ve given a lot of thought to what I’d say if given the opportunity to write one of these pieces myself. I’ve written thousands of words in this newspaper, first as a columnist and then as an editor of the opinion section. I’ve also watched three graduating classes depart Dartmouth and fill these pages with prescient commentary, seemingly so much wiser than me and so profoundly different from when they first arrived in Hanover. Now that I’m about to walk in their shoes, I thought I might have collected some wisdom of my own to impart. I should theoretically be able to prove that I’ve learned something in my time here. Otherwise, what was the point of the last four years?
(04/02/14 10:32pm)
With an ongoing occupation of Parkhurst Hall, it is perhaps tempting to give the student-authored “Freedom Budget” a second consideration — they showed up with sleeping bags and pizza, and it appears that these students are not disappearing anytime soon. If anything, however, these actions should further delegitimize the movement as wrongheaded and politically inept.
(03/07/14 1:44am)
Another term, another campus crisis — the last four quarters at Dartmouth, dating back to last spring, have been plagued by events that most of us agree do not befit this community. We’ve limped from Dimensions to the “Bloods and Crips” party to the Bored at Baker incident. Each term has followed the general pattern of initial calm, eruption of outrage, return to ambivalence and finally resignation to frustration. The same issues rear their ugly heads. The same arguments are recycled. The same sides are taken.
(02/21/14 12:59am)
Dartmouth has been called a lot of negative things in the last year — racist, classist and sexist, to name a few. These obviously aren’t labels that I want to see attached to the name of my soon-to-be alma mater. But since so much of this term’s campus dialogue has focused on precisely the issues I have listed, I want to draw attention to a different criticism — the alleged deficiency in our community’s academic vitality — and argue that the binary between intellectual and social life is both false and unhelpful. For once, let’s talk about something Dartmouth actually does well, which is to encourage balance between academic and social pursuits.
(01/27/14 12:37am)
It’s week four — do you know what your New Year’s resolution is?
(01/09/14 1:39am)
This winter break, I spent two and a half weeks in India as part of the Rockefeller Center’s inaugural global policy practicum. After studying India in Hanover for the term, my class embarked on a whirlwind tour to meet with policymakers, business leaders and entrepreneurs to collect recommendations for our white paper on Indian economic reform. As we touched down in Mumbai, I was fully expecting to be overwhelmed — India is indeed a collage of sights and smells that I’m not sure I’ll ever encounter again. But what I didn’t anticipate was how daunting our project was and how intellectually challenged I would be. Nor did I guess that I would learn so much simply by doing.
(10/29/12 3:00am)
While last Monday's final presidential debate covered an impressive breadth of topics related to American foreign policy, the discussion of drone warfare was conspicuous only by its virtual absence. It is unfortunate and worrisome that the current centerpiece of American counterterrorism policy received so little attention from the candidates and moderator. Regardless of who is elected on Nov. 6, the United States' next president must establish stricter and clearer guidelines on the use of drones in combat.
(09/14/12 2:00am)
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly denounced President Barack Obama for failing to draw clear "red lines" around Iran's nuclear program and rebuked the United States' "moral right" to hold Israel back from independent military action. This statement blatantly ignores the strategic implications of creating such thresholds and appears timed to back the president into a foreign policy corner leading up to Election Day. Netanyahu's searing criticism of Obama is unreasonable at best and shameless politicking at worst.
(08/10/12 2:00am)
While perusing the The New York Times homepage yesterday, I was struck by a terrible irony. While the featured story described American efforts to construct a missile shield around Iran, an editorial from Nick Kristof highlighted President Barack Obama's failure to act in Syria. This juxtaposition provides a sad commentary on American foreign policy in the Middle East.
(07/24/12 2:00am)
The weekend before last, I made the brilliant decision to jump into the Connecticut River with my iPhone in my pocket. My phone was out of commission for two whole days, and I was limited to communicating via smoke signals and carrier pigeons. Surprisingly, from this apparent catastrophe stemmed the most revealing and relaxing 48 hours in recent memory.
(06/26/12 2:00am)
As I groggily emerged from my post-meetings slumber last Thursday, I hit the snooze button on my alarm and scanned through my blitzes. At the top of my inbox was a message from Career Services with the subject line "INTERNSHIPS," which encouraged me to set up my DartBoard account. Over the next two days, I received three more blitzes informing me about forthcoming resume and cover letter workshops as well as recruiting information sessions and interviews. Starting 12X off right, I suppose. Oh, Dartmouth, you are so laughably predictable.
(05/18/12 2:00am)
Green Key 2012 it's finally here! Freshmen, this is the weekend without rules that upperclassmen have bragged about. And everyone else, well, you should know the drill by now: pre-gaming breakfast followed by day-raging at Block Party and then Keystone for dinner, right? Because if there's one Dartmouth event that embodies the harsh criticisms recently leveled at the College's drinking culture by a certain magazine that shall not be named, Green Key must top the list.
(05/04/12 2:00am)
President Barack Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday was a well orchestrated and ostensibly nonpartisan move in advance of what is sure to be a bitter general election fight against presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Obama's decision to cement a 10-year security arrangement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in such grand fashion was not only shrewdly timed and executed, but also a smart geopolitical move in the face of rising tension with China.
(04/12/12 2:00am)
Jonathan Pedde's assertion that "simple policy rules" would be more effective than discretionary powers ("The Discretionary Illusion," April 10), specifically with respect to the government's macroeconomic stance, is a dubious claim that has little basis in fact. While the current system is admittedly far from perfect, a rules-based framework is not the answer for our present economic dysfunction.
(03/26/12 2:00am)
When President Kim was named to lead Dartmouth back in 2009, I was surprised but enthused to hear that someone so notable and intelligent would be at the helm of an institution that I was considering. His credentials made the College's decision seem shrewd and enlightened, if unorthodox, while his commitment to training "an army of leaders to engage with the problems of the world" seemed admirable and unshakable.
(02/29/12 4:00am)
Tenuous and dramatic as ever, the relationship between the United States and Russia has gone hot once again in the last few weeks. Underlying the controversy over Syria and Russia's related anti-American vitriol is the congressional debate over the Jackson-Vanick amendment, a legislative artifact of the Cold War that restricts U.S. trade with Russia. Congress would do well to repeal Jackson-Vanick both in order to gain compliance with World Trade Organization requirements and as a prudent gesture of goodwill.
(02/15/12 4:00am)
Following Apple's announcement on Monday that it has begun an independent audit of working conditions at plants in China where the iPhone and iPad are built, the recent outcry over the business practices of the company with the largest market in the world is coming to a head. While critics malign its lack of corporate social responsibility, Apple's actions must be understood as an American policy failure and the latest iteration of the global capitalist framework.
(02/10/12 4:00am)
Unlike the majority of students here, I would actually consider the Winter to be my favorite Dartmouth term.
(02/07/12 4:00am)
With the primary season heating up and a general election looming, America stands at something of a foreign policy crossroads, having just limped out of Iraq but with boots still on the ground in an increasingly hopeless war in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, one foreign policy issue that is unlikely to be raised by any candidate or party is U.S. support for Israel. Given the strategic and political implications of any issue related to the Middle East, it is vital for Americans to be able to speak freely and seriously about the influence of Israel over our foreign policy decisions.
(01/19/12 4:00am)
Over break, I spent a lot of time D-Planning filling out Excel spreadsheets with every conceivable course of study available to me over the next two and a half years at Dartmouth. To see this roadmap laid out on paper made me feel accomplished, at least until I arrived back on campus earlier this month. So far, Winter term has me questioning myself and wondering whether I'm getting the most out of my Dartmouth experience.