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(02/25/09 9:05am)
Recent columns by Jacob Batchelor '12 ("Bad Sam," Feb. 20) and The Dartmouth Editorial Board ("A Worthy Cause," Feb. 6) have pointed to the need to reexamine the resources and policies of both the College and the Town of Hanover regarding alcohol and substance use.
(01/28/09 9:35am)
As I watched Obama's inauguration last Thursday, I felt hopeful and moved (which I expected), but also a little concerned (which I did not expect).
(01/15/09 9:01am)
In a recent survey conducted by the Student Assembly, a majority of students indicated that maintaining academic quality should be a main priority for the College. However, Dartmouth should go beyond mere maintenance of quality, and should constantly strive to provide the best undergraduate academic experience.
(03/04/08 8:03am)
In a nation already obsessed with convenience, Dartmouth is ahead of the curve. Amid all the complaining, many of us forget just how absurdly convenient our lives here are. Our negligence in dealing with minor issues contrasts with the typically dynamic, energetic and athletic Dartmouth student.
(02/20/08 7:49am)
Remember trying to choose that perfect, cleverly representative AIM screen name in middle school? As the first generation to have grown up with easily accessible network technologies, we have been faced with the challenging task of managing our online identity from an early age. In a contribution to The New York Times, Alice Mathias '07 claims that our "generation has long been bizarrely comfortable with being looked at...we are reckless with our personal information."
(08/10/07 8:09am)
Fifty years ago, the civil rights movement greatly increased the equality of opportunity in education. A worrisome recent trend, however, threatens to undo some of these achievements in higher education. According to a recent New York Times article, an increasing number of universities are charging additional fees for study in fields like engineering, science, journalism and business. In some cases, these fees amount to more than 10 percent of that term's tuition. At Dartmouth, this would mean an additional $1,100 per term.
(07/27/07 8:05am)
Just as the first televised debate, the famed 1960 match between Kennedy and Nixon, revolutionized the campaign process by putting candidates on display in millions of American homes, YouTube is once again redefining the role of democracy. The video-sharing website receives in excess of 100 million hits per day, most of which are probably spent watching movie trailers, skateboarding dogs and overweight guys rocking out to Numa Numa. Over the past few weeks, however, the site has transformed into a public policy forum for thousands of viewers' questions, some of which were posed to Democratic presidential candidates in last Monday's debate. A CNN panel, which included David Bohrman, the network's senior vice president and Washington Bureau chief, and Anderson Cooper, the event's moderator, selected 39 out of approximately 3000 potential videos for the debate.
(06/29/07 7:19pm)
Dartmouth does not usually attract a student body that is especially artsy. Located far from major galleries and museums, our College certainly does not claim to be an oasis of visual art. Some students, faculty and administrators, however, do work hard to elevate the role of art at Dartmouth, connecting the College to contemporary art currents and thereby saving Hanover from becoming an artistic wasteland.
(06/29/07 7:20am)
Dartmouth does not usually attract a student body that is especially artsy. Located far from major galleries and museums, our College certainly does not claim to be an oasis of visual art. Some students, faculty and administrators, however, do work hard to elevate the role of art at Dartmouth, connecting the College to contemporary art currents and thereby saving Hanover from becoming an artistic wasteland.
(03/07/07 11:00am)
In contrast to the Middlebury College history department's ban on Wikipedia, other institutions of higher learning have responded to the public knowledge movement more commendably. As open source information is rapidly and rightfully gaining prominence, top universities around the globe -- including MIT, the University of Tokyo, and the world's oldest engineering school, the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees -- are making their course materials freely accessible on the Internet.
(02/20/07 11:00am)
Last month, the history department at Middlebury College banned students from citing Wikipedia in essays and exams ("Daily Debriefing," Feb. 16). Although the department did acknowledge that Wikipedia "may lead one to a citable source," the renunciation of the online encyclopedia is nonetheless a step backward from recent technological advancements in the proliferation of information.
(02/08/07 11:00am)
Although "work hard, play hard" is very much a cliche, it is a cliche that rings true at the College and is a source of pride to many Dartmouth students. It is especially often associated with Greek organizations. Yet, the recent publication of grade point average rankings of Greek houses ("Despite objections, Greek GPAs released," Feb. 2) has drawn criticisms from both the organizations' members and from campus administrators. They have raised concerns that the rankings may infringe upon the students' privacy and perpetuate typecasting.
(01/25/07 11:00am)
Inside and outside of Student Assembly, students have long been clamoring for reform. Changes addressing the organization's lacking validity and significance are indeed necessary, but the Assembly must be unified before they are attempted. By no means should reform efforts devolve into personal wrangling.
(01/09/07 11:00am)
With only nine days left to make final winter course selections, students are still trying to learn more about courses they might like to take. Course information databases are the most convenient way to become informed. Sadly, due to the insufficiency of the Student Assembly's guide and the College's online course assessment, many students will be unable to find enough information to choose wisely.
(11/03/06 11:00am)
Recently, Google acquired the beloved video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65 billion, making the $580 million that Rupert Murdoch shelled out last year for MySpace seem like a paltry sum. Facebook, which is still in the hands of its college-age founder, if sold may be an even larger transaction, with a rumored price tag of $2 billion. (Shame on Yahoo for only offering $900 million). Such hefty figures show that megacompanies have recognized the value of these new repositories of popular culture, and have seized upon the opportunity to incorporate them. While commercialization of pop culture is nothing new, the acquisitions of these websites represents a worrisome trend: the pop culture of the online generation may have become inextricably linked to, and even created by, the corporate world.
(10/05/06 9:00am)
We all know about the guy in German 1 who has taken six years of the language in high school, or the girl in Math 3 who has been taking college-level math courses since she was 12. The native speaker in Spanish 37, who breezes through "Memorias de una Vaca" while his less knowledgeable classmates are plodding through it with much difficulty, also comes to mind. People like this are examples of what is at Dartmouth a common yet unjustified practice: choosing to take courses that are far below their level of knowledge of or experience in the subject. This is unfair not only to the overqualified student's classmates, but also to the student himself.
(09/25/06 9:00am)
For the past few weeks, the ongoing vote on the proposed Alumni Constitution has been the focus of political debate on our campus. While the future of this document is certainly of key importance to the Dartmouth community, we must not allow it to divert our attention from another upcoming political event, one with much broader consequences: the midterm elections. This year's elections for seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives offer an opportunity for our desensitized nation to wake up and become aware of all the negative changes it has suffered over the past six years of Republican administration, and diverge from the calamitous path down which it is rolling.
(05/23/06 9:00am)
As a recent immigrant, I was looking forward to the May 1 campus protest for "A Day Without Immigrants," which promised to highlight the inequities suffered by immigrants and the faults of the U.S. immigration policy. However, I was disappointed to see the focus of the rally narrowed down to a push for rights for illegal immigrants, thereby ignoring deficiencies in rights for legal immigrants.
(04/10/06 9:00am)
This past Saturday, Dartmouth hosted its first annual Model United Nations conference for high schools. The existence of the conference itself raised the key question of the United Nations' current relevance in the real world.
(03/29/06 10:00am)
As most of us enjoyed a carefree spring break, the nightly news was not comforting. Recent stories reported on severe financial troubles for America's largest automaker, General Motors, and for our largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, Lucent Technologies. Bloodshed marked last week's third anniversary of the Iraq War. Events like these raise questions about America's strength. However, while the problems they represent are serious and must be addressed appropriately, they do little to seriously damage America's unquestionable dominance in the strategic and economic realms. This dominance has, over the past few years, evolved into a feeling of superiority. Although it is justified in some ways, we all too frequently take it to the next -- undeserved -- level, converting it into invincibility. Such an assumption is false and dangerous. Despite its hegemonic status, America is not invulnerable. This is reflected in present problems with two issue areas: non-state actors and the environment. Traditional dominance-building tools, such as amassing further military power or encouraging additional economic growth, are useless, for America can dominate neither area and must not even try to dominate the environment.