With book, Freedman praises a liberal edu.
A "liberal" education, one that strives to improve the mind of the student through exposure to a range of traditional disciplines, is viewed by some as a relic of gentler, more contemplative times.
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A "liberal" education, one that strives to improve the mind of the student through exposure to a range of traditional disciplines, is viewed by some as a relic of gentler, more contemplative times.
If one were to ask the eager, shivering line of participants waiting to jump into Occom Pond during this year's Polar Bear Swim why they would even consider immersing themselves in the pond's frigid waters, chances are many would answer, "It's tradition."
Dartmouth students can frequently be seen biking around Hanover, but a few will widen their horizons this summer and pedal all the way to Vancouver as part of Bike and Build, a group that organizes cross-country biking trips to benefit Habitat for Humanity projects.
With books titled "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" and "Race, Crime and the Law" to his credit, it should come as no surprise that Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy's comments during a Community Dinner at the Roth Center yesterday centered around a controversial topic -- marital and sexual relations between people of different races.
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of five articles about Dartmouth and the environment.
Winter is the perfect time to daydream about less frigid climes -- a beach in the Caribbean, maybe, or the Brazilian jungle. How about Moscow or Iceland? Normally, these might not be the best places to warm up at, but thanks to the recent bitter cold weather, both have projected highs that top the measly 10 degrees expected today in Hanover.
The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. brings attention to the nation's turbulent history of segregation, but Dartmouth has its own past of racial injustice and discrimination to reflect on.
Staying in dormitories longer than they have to may not be high on most students' wish lists, but for those needing to remain at Dartmouth for work or academic reasons, interim housing in dorms provides a free bed.
Six days before the Student Life Initiative embroiled the campus in controversy, another debate was brewing.
A national organization of graduate students is hoping to get a bill passed early next year that would greatly reduce the taxability of graduate stipends, easing financial pressure on a group that often struggles to satisfy educational and living expenses with meager stipends.
It has been a long, hard life for Homer's "Iliad." Year after year, the book endures perusal by fingers sticky with dining-hall concoctions, spills of the late-night coffee that sustains its frantic readers and jolting cross-campus backpack odysseys. After term papers are finished, it lies buried under heaps of dorm-room refuse until returned to the library for the cycle to start afresh.
While ethnic organizations at many colleges and universities are often separate and function independently of one another, Dartmouth's Pan-Asian Council has adopted a model that brings together the College's diverse Asian populations.
It could be a postcard -- colorful leaves crunch under foot as green-and-white clad students congregate on the Green. The heat of the giant glowing bonfire warms them, while its light reflects on the centuries-old buildings. The freshman class has united for the sweep, while upperclassmen have gathered around to encourage their display of spirit. Alumni surround the students, watching and reliving their own bonfire memories. These people come from every imaginable background, but they all share one thing -- a love for Dartmouth.
Course loads, schedules, GPAs, internship opportunities -- there are few aspects of life at Dartmouth that aren't affected by academic departments. In hopes of improving the quality of students' experiences, two academic departments, English and biology, are considering changes to their majors and policies.
A recent spate of one-on-one hearings with Assistant Dean of the College Mary Liscinsky has resulted in social probation for Theta Delta Chi fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and the Panarchy undergraduate society.
Title IX's implications for single-sex public education are causing heated debate, as its restrictions on publicly funded single-sex schools and classrooms stand in the way of new education reform.
Anyone who has taken a literature course understands the total puzzlement of class book lists. Rows of titles represent definitive examples of "The Nineteenth Century English Novel" or "American Prose," but where these masterpieces come from and what makes them worth studying remains a mystery.
Dartmouth, with its serene location and Ivy League charm, doesn't exactly project a warlike image. But the College has a centuries-old relationship with the military that has at times sparked fierce debate.
Dartmouth students experiencing network difficulties over the past few weeks may themselves be causing the problem. According to Computing Services, laptop computers running Windows XP that are connected to the Internet through both the wireless and cable networks are crashing residence cluster connections when a "network bridging" feature is enabled.
It's almost second nature now.