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(04/14/10 2:00am)
Congratulations from abroad, Dartmouth. I've been watching you from afar during my two consecutive off-terms, and I'm relieved to see another Board of Trustees election has passed, and that power will change hands peacefully. It is the mark of a healthy and stable nation that a rancorous and vitriolic election occurs without the College being overrun by an angry mob (save for Collis after 12s). This election was significant because I believe the gentle optimism of its winners belies an uncertain future for the College. For our beloved Dartmouth nation, though, this vote for harmony may be a stepping-stone to stagnancy.
(01/04/10 4:00am)
On the first floors of residence halls across campus, you can see the names of past intramural champions displayed from days when residence halls fielded teams who casually excelled at everything from water polo to basketball. After living in East Wheelock, I can say that its basketball dynasty died before I arrived on campus in the fall of 2007. No dorm that I'm aware of fields an IM team, and those boards are insignificant to current students. Their irrelevance is a symptom of a very relevant problem at Dartmouth. For many students, residential community and programming is dead. Reviving it must be a priority for the Office of Residential Life.
(11/17/09 4:00am)
In a recent interview with The Dartmouth about faculty reaction to the College's impending budget cuts ("College leaders to face profs' budget concerns" Nov. 6), mathematics professor Dan Rockmore, chair of the Committee on Priorities, said that economically vulnerable employees of the College should not be disproportionately affected. Speaking following College President Jim Yong Kim's October address to the faculty, English professor Donald Pease went so far as to argue that the definition of a liberal arts education is to deliver services to people in need in the midst of social change. Pease, therefore, said that the College should take the lead in bringing people back to work, despite the example of our peer institutions. Does this square with your definition of a liberal arts education?
(11/02/09 4:00am)
If you still haven't gotten a chance, you should read the first of Matt Ritger's series of Greek-life columns published in The Mirror ("The Gospel According to Matthew," Oct. 9). His two thesis statements conveyed his hope that someone will either pledge a fraternity and die in the process, bringing the godforsaken Greek system down with it, or at the very least that everyone should consider the unaffiliated life. For now, at least, the decision to pledge or not is irrelevant as hundreds of students have just committed to Greek life. The pertinent question for Dartmouth is where the Greeks will go from here, within the College and beyond it.
(09/29/09 2:00am)
Singularity. It is a word that can refer to everything from objects that stand alone to those crazy spots in the outer reaches of the universe where the rules of space and time no longer seem to apply. It is a quality of high regard, of difference and of distinction. Look at the College's homepage apparently we have "forged a singular identity" here in the mountains of New Hampshire. What does that mean, anyway?
(08/14/09 2:00am)
I thought the Summer term was going too fast. It's easy to get caught up in the weather, the social life and everything that Dartmouth has to offer. Now that the end draws near, I'm slightly panicked and counting my hours of sleep on one finger. Reality hits you quickly. I realized though, while reading my daily dose of The New York Times and The Dartmouth, that things had moved pretty fast both inside and outside of the Dartbubble. These are two worlds, strikingly similar. It seems we've all had our love affair and waning excitement with 09X.
(07/28/09 2:00am)
On July 11, more than 4,000 people participated in the 28th Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Challenge Walk ("Prouty ride, walk raises $2 million," July 14). I was one of them, and it was an experience to say the least. But throughout the past two weeks, as I reflected on my participation in the Prouty, I found myself considering my motivations and those of my peers.
(07/10/09 2:00am)
While completing my geography major, I have spent a great deal of time studying the effect of discourse. To put it simply, discourse is the way one frames an issue. For example, a "natural disaster" in Malibu, California would qualify for federal disaster funds, while a "fire exacerbated by wealthy estate owners who refuse effective fire management policies" might not merit the same sympathy. Politicians have known this for centuries, with huge consequences for our understanding of major issues. What is often ignored, however, is that both sides of any debate engage in the same divisive and hateful polemic that dominates modern political culture.
(06/26/09 2:00am)
Dear Dartmouth,
(05/22/09 6:07am)
Justice David Souter has come home to New Hampshire. With the recent announcement of Souter's retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, the political machines of the Democrats and Republicans have been set into motion for another nomination battle. With all of the clamor about the process, and the prophesied apocalypse from every special interest group with ideological leanings, it's easy to lose sight of the real message of Souter's legacy.
(05/05/09 4:53am)
On 12:51 p.m. on Friday, January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address, which included the famous line, "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
(04/09/09 4:46am)
If you haven't noticed already, Dartmouth, like many colleges, is a giant social experiment with exams and occasional free food. Particularly at the institutional level, the College often provides an array of incentives to support that experiment. However, while these incentives may seem beneficial at first, I think they can often cripple the student dedication that our College is built on.
(03/30/09 5:53am)
Don't you miss the days when you were able to curl up with a good book on a consistent basis? Many students do. Once Dartmouth's academic and extracurricular engine gets going, a lot of simple pleasures like reading get tossed to the side. I'm no English major, but I sense that both students and faculty alike feel rather under-read, especially in academic disciplines outside their comfort zones. It might be the manifestation of some romantic literary gene in my body, but I do think that knowledge is a virtue.
(02/27/09 9:46am)
Self-promotion is a necessary skill in today's world. To get anywhere, whether at Dartmouth, in graduate school or in a leadership position in business, you need to be able to sell yourself and your strengths. Yet many interviewers and applications ask the question, "What are your greatest weaknesses?"
(01/27/09 9:55am)
Did you know that if you Google search the term "student-athlete" on The Dartmouth's web site archives, you get over 110 article hits? A similar search for "student-musician" returns only one result. It isn't hard to see that college athletics and academics have been uncomfortable bedfellows for a long time. We don't refer to our theater department as being filled with "student-actors" or our orchestras as filled with "student-musicians."
(01/16/09 9:21am)
Americans can't really decide who or what is to blame for the current mess we're in, much less how to get out of it. Are we plunging into a dark age of socialism and regulation, or righting the wrongs of capitalist greed? What you hear depends on whether you're tuned into O'Reilly or Olbermann. But punditry is beside the point; the real question is whether or not the sacrifices we must make will help our country.
(12/01/08 8:36am)
Sometimes, poverty is kind of a romantic opportunity. Once you get over the taste of rice and beans, ramen and repression, you realize that losing wealth forces you to disregard some of the distractions of opulence and cling not to guns or religion (Hi Barack!), but instead to your core values and priorities.
(11/12/08 8:59am)
The Dow has been plunging faster than a GPA during pledge term. The situation in Afghanistan is messier than a breakfast bomb and probably tougher to swallow. Corporate America is shedding jobs like ... alright, enough of the obnoxious Dartmouth analogies. What I want to say is that I'm nervous about the future. I am definitely the first person to ever worry about the future, so therefore I feel it is my obligation to sort out what parts of the Dartmouth education will successfully move us from here to there.
(10/30/08 4:08am)
I consider myself a fairly reasonable person. I love women and hate sexism. Blitz me. However, I have to admit that I roll my eyes when Dartmouth Dining Services renames "Gingerbread Man" cookies "Gingerbread People." I also think that campus dialogue on gender equality shouldn't be mired in pointless debates over whether some '12 is a "freshman" or a "first-year."
(10/21/08 5:57am)
Earlier this week, I had the distinct pleasure of having dinner with General John Abizaid and a few other students. Abizaid is a retired Army general and former commander of CENTCOM, where he oversaw U.S. military operations in a 27-country region stretching from the Horn of Africa to the Middle East to Southeast Asia.