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Please let me move in with you. I'll push all my things into a corner. That'll be my little area. Please? I won't bother you. You don't even have to look at me. Just let me move in with you please." These are the immortal words of the Herlihy Kid that Adam Sandler played in a skit for Saturday Night Live. However, I think they are also applicable in a situation that is far more relevant to Dartmouth.
On Saturday night, some of my fraternity brothers and I went to the dance marathon for a couple of hours. The CFSC had decided the marathon would be a nice, easy (as well as highly visible) service event, and therefore it signed all the houses up. I worry that many of the people who went, though, missed the point of the event -- the dance marathon was supposed to bring Dartmouth students together with the staff, patients, and families from CHaD, not provide easy community service for Dartmouth students.
Not even a brilliant rsum, sparkling cover letter and flawless interview may be enough to land you the perfect job these days. If your medical records portray you as a health risk, potential employers might reject you despite your top credentials.
Ethics have been an integral part of medicine for almost as long as medicine itself has existed. Doctors face dilemmas every day, and their decisions can make the difference between life and death.
What would you do for $20,000?
By sometime this summer, scientists in government and privately funded laboratories working under the auspices of the international Human Genome Project (HGP) will have sequenced all 3 billion letters of the human genetic code and the 50,000 to 100,000 human genes (functional units) that these letters make up. Within a year, the entire sequence will be available to any researcher on the Web or on a DVD disk.
Inscribed on the portal over the Oracle at Delphi is the Socratic injunction, "nosce te ipsum"; know thyself. In the year 2002, biologists will have fulfilled one aspect of that injunction by completing the Human Genome Project. Now and for the first time, we have available the essential blueprint for humans in the form of a DNA sequence. In spite of the fact that there are very few biologists who really believe that Genes 'R Us, that sequence does contain the full complement of information required to construct a person and, as a consequence, it represents a rich resource for future biomedical research. While it will certainly take several decades to fully comprehend the meaning of those instructions, the human genome project has already produced some practical outcomes. We now have available many new genetic tests that detect the presence of malady producing forms of specific genes, such as cystic fibrosis. Additionally, the field of biotechnology has converted human DNA sequences into gold, by mass producing large amounts of rare and therefore valuable human proteins, such as human growth hormone, used for the treatment of hereditary dwarfism. What I want to focus on here is how the human genome project has enabled the development of gene therapy, and how the development of gene therapy raises several profound ethical concerns.
A pregnant woman walks in to her gynecologist's office for her periodic checkup. Her doctor performs a few tests, only to realize that the woman's child has an unfortunate future. He will be born with Hemophilia A -- a disease which prevents one's blood from clotting.
A strong majority "" 80 percent"" of female Dartmouth science alumnae currently work in or have most recently held jobs in science-related fields, according to findings recently released in a report by the Women in Science Project.
Instead of discussing resolutions at last night's weekly meeting, the Student Assembly invited two administrators to discuss the traditional role of students in College decision making.
While Dartmouth grappled with its own cheating questions Winter term, Columbia University was facing the fallout of a much larger, eight-month-long honor code scandal involving lies, expulsion and court intervention.
While organizations around campus get ready to host parties, concerts and other events for Green Key weekend, this year may bring about some notable changes from the weekends of the past.
Many students have expressed anger and outrage at a perceived recent increase in parking tickets on campus, but Parking Operations is not backing down, saying all the fines are legitimate -- and final.
Biomedical research has reached new peaks in the last couple of decades. Humans today have the ability to influence their reproductive process, to interfere with the genetic makeup of individuals and to breed genetically modified crops. And while biomedical technology is cruising along to unknown heights, it is simultaneously leaving behind a plethora of unresolved moral issues.
Lost on the Hutch in southern New York state, listening to Jean Pitney's orientalist classic "Mecca" and drinking cream soda, we continued our departure from the Windy Apple. Okay, so I'm a dork, I'd never been to New York City before, but I made up for it this past weekend, embarking on a debaucherous road trip with The Virtuoso himself.
Usually, we review websites that are good. However, this week we'll try our hands at relentless defamation and review a website that is quite the opposite of good. It's bad. It redefines bad, and the new definition of bad is "horrible." And by "horrible" we mean "really, really horrible." Which is not good.
It has become apparent to the baseball community that Major League Baseball needs to realign its divisions in order to produce more intradivision games and better September matchups among contenders, and to take advantage of natural regional rivalries.
Coming off a 30-14 overall record (7-5 Ivy), the Dartmouth softball team didn't want to see its efforts go for naught. After Harvard ended all hopes of an Ivy League championship coming to Hanover, there was a chance that just that would happen.
To the Editor: The recent announcement by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees regarding the Student Life Initiative came as a terrible anticlimax. It followed a process that led me to believe that Dartmouth would publicly embrace its evolution towards a community that will celebrate diversity, allocate student resources more equitably and enhance every student's social life.
A few years ago, the Earth was graced with the presence of a little TV show called Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST 3K). For those of you who are too cool for television, I'll provide some background. MST 3K is a show in which a human and his two robots crack jokes while watching painfully bad B-movies. This premise may sound a bit campy, but the show worked simply because the writers were comic geniuses, and each of their jokes was both intelligent and funny. This is a very important fact to keep in mind.
