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Four weeks ago I criticized President Kim for pursuing policies that I considered "counterproductive." It's only fair to now elaborate on what I meant by providing a list of simple policies I think might help to transform his presidency policies that should be relatively uncontroversial, pose few logistical problems, and, if implemented properly, provide the greatest good at the lowest cost.
"Fire and brimstone," "real collapse" and "biblical concern" are the kinds of phrases many of us have come to associate with global warming. Economist Eban Goodstein did not disappoint in his lecture at Dartmouth this April, using these terms and many others as he called on his audience to save the planet by redesigning "every city on Earth" and becoming superheroes like characters from "The Lord of the Rings." Before trying to build a new world order, however, it's worth taking all the hysteria about climate change with a grain of salt.
Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco's third album "Lasers" is a difficult album to review. While it fails to reach the lyrical or production levels of his previous album the critically and popularly acclaimed "The Cool" "Lasers" is an innovative and unique album in its own right, representing some of the best and worst aspects of hip-hop today.
Upon entering the room, I encountered Ian Macomber '13 casually typing on his silver, 13-inch Macbook Pro. Like the flower Edelweiss, Ian grew up on the side of a mountain. That is to say, he came out of the womb with a goggle tan and began skiing at three months. Ski equipment lies strewn across the room as if he had just taken a bad fall. He modestly admits that a one-of-a-kind poster on the wall entitled "Carnival!" depicts him skiing in full gladiatorial armor.
This past Monday, a friend of mine asked if I would like to accompany her to a "comedy" show in Collis Common Ground. Always down to be entertained, I readily agreed to come. Another male friend of mine joined us, but as we were sitting down I noticed something strange. I turned to my friend and somewhat anxiously remarked, "Dude, look around, there are only like 15 guys in here." Indeed, it was at this point that the succubus who tricked us guys into attending handed me a piece of paper indicating that this event was part of the infamous V-Week. I consider myself sympathetic to issues of women's rights, but at that moment I had no desire to bear witness to some sort of female empowerment rally. A chill ran down my spine as I began to contemplate the baptism-by-feminist that was certain to ensue.
The effectiveness of President Barack Obama's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, intended to increase employment throughout the nation, varied greatly between different types of spending, according to a recent study conducted by Dartmouth economics professors James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote. The study "Did the Stimulus Stimulate? Real Time Estimates of the Effects of the American Readjustment and Recovery Act," published by the National Bureau of Economic Research this month found that support for low-income households and spending on infrastructure were more instrumental in stimulating the economy than educational grants to specific states.
Although William Kamkwamba '14 has had many experiences that his fellow class members will not share including growing up in an African village without electricity and coauthoring a bestselling book Kamkwambe spent his first term at the College engaging in activities common to any Dartmouth student, including studying at Novack late into the night, walking into a fraternity basement for the first time and getting hit by a snowball during Saturday's snowball fight.
In high school, one of the most difficult lessons I had to learn as an opinion columnist was to anticipate the intensity of readers' reactions. After each of my articles was published online, I incessantly clicked on my browser's refresh button throughout the day, scanning the bottom of the page for additional comments that may have appeared since my last visit. This tick of mine did not diminish after my transition into The Dartmouth's opinion page, which generates much, if not most, of the reader response found on The D's website. Despite the wide variety of impassioned commentary located beneath the articles, The D's online comment system faces limitations that render in-depth discussions difficult to carry out.
United States Department of Education officials did not participate in illegal lobbying when they urged higher education leaders to openly endorse legislation to revamp student loan programs in 2009, according to a report filed by the department's inspector general, Inside Higher Ed reported. The investigation was conducted in response to accusations made by Republicans in Congress that department leaders violated federal law during their interactions with college officials regarding the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. This act, which passed in March 2010, expanded the criteria for the lender-based guaranteed student loan program and increased financing for the federal Pell Grant Program, Inside Higher Ed reported. Republican leaders attempting to block the act's passage said that it represented a government takeover of the student loan program, according to the article.
Not too long ago an undergraduate advisor in Mid-Massachusetts hall, where I live, blitzed all residents to inform us that over the weekend, someone had entered the building and destroyed multiple windows, television screens and the vending machine glass. Since the perpetrator was unknown, the blitz said, all the student residents would be fined an equal share of the damages. Given that students are already paying an inflated price for housing at the College, fining innocent bystanders in cases like this one is simply unacceptable. Why should I pay for some drunken fool's rampage?
We have decided, here at The Manual, to discuss this week's theme of gender as it relates to the fashion community at Dartmouth and the larger fashion world. Gender is frequently seen as the fundamental inspiration for fashion lines. When considering design and construction, designers frequently fall back to the male-female gender binary creating tired, uninspired lines that don't push any boundaries or provoke any questions. For these reasons we have become highly intrigued with the concept of androgyny in fashion.
Americans woke up on Wednesday morning to the largest change in the House of Representatives since 1948, when Democrats gained 75 congressional seats. This time, however, it was the Republicans who were celebrating. All told, Republicans gained 60 seats in the House, six seats in the Senate and nine governorships.
Legendary American painter and sculptor Frank Stella explained his series of abstract paintings, "Irregular Polygons," emphasizing the flatness in his work and highlighting how the thick bands of color surrounding geometric shapes created illusions of dimensionality in a flat space, in a lecture on Thursday.
I believe that the adage "Don't judge a book by its cover" is not merely pretentious, but also just plain wrong. Book jackets, I would argue, are far from irrelevant. Books need covers. To state the obvious, covers are necessary to the structural integrity of the codex as a physical object (whoa there, and I just claimed to be repulsed by pretentiousness). But there's also something more there is an intrinsic emotional link between reader and book. It is the comfort that can be drawn from the concrete act of possessing a book, cover and all, which keeps people returning to libraries and bookstores in the age of modern technology. The Kindle, as one librarian explained to me vehemently this summer, is just not the same. "And," she raised her eyebrows and wagged her finger, "it never will be. Mark my words."
Contrary to recommendations from institutions urging women to undergo regular mammograms, screening mammography may increase survival rates by only negligible amounts, according to a recent study conducted by Norwegian researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Taking calcium supplements may lead to increased chances for heart attacks, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal by Dartmouth Medical School professor John Baron. The study which was completed in collaboration with several other researchers at the University of Auckland and the University of Aberdeen began in 2007 and analyzed data from several decades of studies on calcium supplement trials. Even though the findings of this study imply that calcium supplements may increase health risks, patients should not stop taking the supplements which are often used as treatment for osteoporosis without consulting their doctor first, Baron said in an article on CNN.com. "As calcium supplements are widely used these modest increases in risk of cardiovascular disease might translate into a large burden of disease in the population," the study said. "A reassessment of the role of calcium supplements in the management of osteoporosis is warranted."
Non-unionized employees who meet or exceed expectations at the College will receive a 1 percent increase to their base salaries for the 2011 fiscal year, Provost Carol Folt and Senior Vice President Steven Kadish announced in an e-mail to the Dartmouth community on Friday. The increase marks the end of a salary freeze that the College introduced for the 2010 fiscal year.
Dartmouth's total projected budget for the 2010 fiscal year shows a $5.6 million surplus despite original projections of a $2.5 million deficit, according to Senior Vice President Steven Kadish. While the College of Arts and Sciences is expected to break even, the sum of the professional schools' budgets will likely account for a "modest" surplus, he said.
This idea of closure in baseball is the basis of Ken Burns' documentary "The Tenth Inning," a continuation of his 1992 documentary project, "Baseball." From drug scandals to shattered records to broken curses, there is much to cover in a documentary about the history of baseball since the early 1990s so much so that the documentary has been split into a two-part series.
"I was thrilled to have been selected," Lewis said. "I haven't spoken to graduates in the United States. Dartmouth is an exceptional and leading institution and I feel quite privileged."