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First, let me apologize to all faithful WOE readers for my column's absence in last Wednesday's issue of The D. If you're still bitter, I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I almost got fired.
To the Editor:
Like most of you, the idea of the Dartmoose terrifies me. I was never much of a Keggy fan, but at least multiple words were not combined into one. It reeks of the rampant recycling of ideas that appears to happen every so often. We get far enough away from the initial result that we forget how unpopular an idea is.
What exactly is the Big Green? For some current Dartmouth athletes who carry the name with them wherever they play, the college's nickname is wrapped up in mystery.
With the current onslaught of websites like MySpace, Facebook, and Bored at Baker, Dartmouth students such as Kolleen Burbank '09 are losing confidence in the Internet's ability to stimulate intellectual discussion.
Dartmoose toys line shelves at the Dartmouth Co-op. Student Assembly is attempting to institute the Dartmoose as the College's official mascot.
"The moose is very outdoorsy, like Dartmouth," Thomas Santamaria '10 said. "I think it relates to our school very well."
Nothing explodes the opinion pages of The Dartmouth like issues of race, whether it is affirmative action, Native American mascots, or illegal immigration. Nothing gets Dartmouth students as passionate as these debates that span the political and social realms of equality, freedom, discrimination and tolerance. Why issues of race are so salient, especially at an ostensibly color-blind institution such as Dartmouth, is difficult to address with more than speculation, but is interesting to look at nonetheless.
An open meeting about the College's position on athletic competition against schools that use Native American symbols drew students, faculty, administrators and alumni into a heated debate about potential new policies on Thursday.
The University of Illinois announced that it would stop using its Native American mascot, Chief Illiniwek, at its Urbana-Champaign campus after the last men's home basketball game on Feb. 21. Chief Illiniwek has been the university's mascot for the past 80 years.
Dartmouth students finally have something better than two-cup, solitaire and masturbation to curb the vicious boredom of winter in Hanover. The popular website BoredatBaker.com, has arrived as an oily fountain of campus dialogue-cum-college mischief where nobody is safe. The site defines itself as a place where students "say anything without having to conform to social norms or societal expectations," by posting anonymous statements. Then it is left to the Dartmouth public to view and judge the site's content as "thumbs up," "thumbs down" or "newsworthy." Bored at Baker has become a place where we can embarrass our friends, denounce our foes, plead for sex and be offensively provocative. But on a campus divided about the merits and limitations of free speech, Bored at Baker has the potential to be a genuine outlet for us to share honest thoughts amongst ourselves if it is not ruined by insensitivity and cowardice first.
After weeks of debate and controversy, student government reform legislation finally passed without opposition during Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting. The newly created Student Government Task Force will not attempt to impeach student body President Tim Andreadis '07, as other failed reform efforts have proposed to do earlier this term.
When I was little, "Alice in Wonderland" was a little too scary for me. Not scary in the traditional, monster-under-the-bed sort of way, but rather in a way that most people would describe as "psychedelic." Even a six year-old can pick up on the fact that Disney's customarily watered-down version of a classic tale is not just a funny dream that Alice has. For this year's Winter Carnival, the theme of "Dartmouth Down the Rabbit Hole" invited students to plunge into a wonderland of fun winter traditions. However, this invitation has other connotations, best expressed by Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat to Alice: "You're mad ... you must be, or you wouldn't have come here." Is Winter Carnival Dartmouth's annual descent into madness?
Since the first Winter Carnival sculpture was constructed in 1925, the tradition of carving grandiose and intricate snow statues has captivated Dartmouth for decades. A huge figure on the center of the Green greets returning alumni each Carnival weekend, while students look forward to expressing the chosen theme each year with snow and ice.
Congratulations and welcome. You've managed to flip The D over and find one of the best sports columns in New England, printed and tailored especially for the Dartmouth community at large.
As students give blood to the Red Cross at the top of the Hopkins Center Wednesday, they will be greeted by a six-foot drop of blood mascot waddling around. But they won't see people on the receiving end of Dartmouth's once-a-term blood drive, recipients like Lou Longo and Jennifer Kochman. Longo has used donations for almost a year to survive chemotherapy and Kochman requires monthly transfusions to manage her chronic blood disease.
Whether they realize it or not, all Dartmouth students have great interest vested in College policy -- $190,000 worth of interest. Why then, are so many students so antagonistic toward the Dartmouth administration? Improving communication between students and the administration would go a long way toward ending the adversarial and unproductive attitude that often exists between the two groups.
College President James Wright has appointed a task force to consider policy changes for scheduling colleges and universities with Native American mascots. The move was in response to a proposal outlined by Athletic Director Josie Harper in her published apology for inviting the University of North Dakota, which uses the Fighting Sioux as its logo, to play in a hockey tournament at Dartmouth.
The amendment stated that under Andreadis, Student Assembly has accomplished "almost nothing substantive" and pointed to a lack of progress on combatting sexual assault as well as other grievances with Andreadis' leadership.
Most students couldn't care less about Student Assembly. Even as a former member who maintains contacts in the Assembly, I rarely feel personally represented in the organization, and only occasionally have more than tepid feelings of approval for Assembly actions. I do appreciate Assembly sponsorship of rallies and I have picked most of my classes using the course guide, but other than the hand-sanitizer stations near BlitzMail terminals that have come and gone, I can't name an Assembly action that has impacted me in the last year in more than a symbolic way.