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(09/25/02 9:00am)
Welcome back. It is always a treat to be able to write a column in the first issue of the term before there is a precedent to follow. The temptation to react to someone else's ideas does not get in the way like it usually does. I have done a lot of thinking about what I might be writing during the upcoming year, my final one at Dartmouth College. I hope you all will be able to relate to, if not enjoy, what I have to say. If not I guess I will end up as a lone voice crying out in the wilderness, which itself seems to have a comfortably familiar ring to it.
(09/25/02 9:00am)
Cuts in the College budget have forced planners to revise Dartmouth's construction plans and delay several buildings, although construction already begun will be completed on schedule.
(09/25/02 9:00am)
Is it gauche to describe oneself as a nihilist? Does circumlocution brand one as jejune, or is it a tautology that stems from hubris?
(09/25/02 9:00am)
A reassessment of College alcohol policy, the introduction of dorm locks, budget cuts and Dartmouth Dining Service's attempt to satisfy students' late night hunger pains marked the summer term.
(09/25/02 9:00am)
For the third-straight year, Dartmouth earned ninth place in U.S. News and World Report's annual college rankings, an often criticized but heavily utilized tool for prospective applicants.
(09/25/02 9:00am)
When MacArthur Foundation announced its 2002 fellowships late yesterday, among the winners of the so-called "genius grants" was Dartmouth's own Daniela Rus, a professor of computer science.
(09/25/02 9:00am)
Using the high-profile convocation ceremony to set his administration's tone for the upcoming year, College President James Wright greeted the Class of 2006 with an exhortation to challenge the stereotypes and assumptions of racism and white privilege.
(09/25/02 9:00am)
A former Tucker Foundation administrative assistant is under criminal investigation for allegedly embezzling thousands of dollars from the service organization, sources close to the query told The Dartmouth.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
Dartmouth teams brought home Ivy League championships in women's soccer, women's hockey and men's cross country and an ECAC field hockey championship to highlight an eventful year in sports at Dartmouth. The 2001-02 academic year saw 13 Dartmouth teams nationally ranked, 34 Dartmouth athletes named to All-Ivy First Teams, and nine athletes earn First Team All-America status while representing the Big Green.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
The Ivy League hasn't been known for its athletic prowess in years. The once mighty league doesn't get mentioned by Chris Berman during the NFL Draft marathon, Charles Barkley doesn't make strange jokes about it for the NBA Draft and the Florida Marlins aren't selling off anyone who went to school in the league. Yet Dartmouth has its share of marquee names in professional sports.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
Athletics have been a way of life at Dartmouth College for years. In the days prior to the founding of the Ivy League, Dartmouth made frequent trips to college athletics' biggest forums, including trips to the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four in 1942 and 1944.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
This is a piece specifically for the members of the Class of 2006 who made the humble decision to attend Dartmouth College by the May 1 Regular Decision deadline. Of course, the Early Decision kids are welcome to read on, as well, but you might not really "get" everything, just like we didn't "get" your privilege to slack off all of Senior Year once your thick envelope arrived in December. And yes, you did miss out on a great time at Dimensions weekend, but I think some of my fellow Regular Decision applicants would have made the sacrifice in exchange for a few less months of agonizing anxiety. But I digress. I maintain no bitterness toward the college application process, I promise.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
Perched 40 feet in the air, my hands frozen and my arms burning, I repeatedly swung the serrated point of my ice tool at the face of the cliff. Shards of ice glanced off my helmet and my calves shook. My mind focused as intently as my protesting body would permit, and I aimed my ax at a glistening crevice.The pick made a noise something like a pebble bouncing off the hood of a car, and the ax fell limp at my side. I shouted "Take!" to my partner and I flopped off the ice wall, shivering and exhausted. As I dangled from the rope and looked down at the fearsome ice tools in my mitted hands I thought, "What am I doing here?"
(09/16/02 9:00am)
I'm walking home with Gillian and Margie, my roommates. We've just eaten a yummy dinner at one of the fine Dartmouth Dining Services establishments (Food Court, I think), and we're headed back to East Wheelock in the gathering dusk. It's freshman year, near the end of spring, and it's been one hell of a week. No, scratch that, one hell of a term. I've had a bad breakup with a guy who I thought loved me, but turned out to be an abuser of both women and alcohol. I've been thrown from a horse, dislocating my shoulder and keeping me in Dick's House for a few days. I've tried to banish the worsening nightmares, but the only solution seems to be insomnia and a locked door. Lately, I've been struggling to just keep my life together. I'm depressed almost to the point of incoherence, and I seriously need to go home.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
So it's the third week of freshman fall and all the kids on your floor are once again going to frat row, and you're tagging along because you like to get your dance on or you want to roll with the nightlife or maybe you just really like warm cheap beer with a mysterious bouquet of bodily fluids, and you're trying to forget about the paper that's due next week and the fact that you're paying over $10 per waking hour to be at this college. You get to the dance floor, but it's crammed with arrhythmic intoxicated government majors, so you go to the pong table, but seeing the ball roll into a puddle of beer and dog hair and Lord knows what else sets off some alarm bells from Bio 101, so you finally decide to leave and maybe try the next house down and as you pass some random guy on the sidewalk he suddenly pukes all over your shirt and then staggers back and laughs and you're standing there thinking, Um, ew.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
To the Dartmouth Class of 2006: you will soon understand what makes this place so special. Sometime between now and Thanksgiving break you will likely discover the Dartmouth spirit. If history is any indication, you may also find that same Dartmouth spirit under attack by persons attempting to change the essence of our College, to make us more similar to our competitor schools. Someone will need to stand up to these paternalistic influences, to preserve the uniqueness of Dartmouth. As the most energetic class on campus, this burden will likely fall to you.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
As I'm sure many of you will discover in the months ahead, Dartmouth can be a busy place. With the multitude of academic, extracurricular, social, and other avenues for chasing your dreams, sharing your talents, and expressing your identities, time often rushes by faster than an Olympic sprinter, leaving you to scramble to fit everything in, and still turn in that 10-page paper on schedule. While I'm no stranger to this abundance of opportunities, one of the most important and enriching components of my Dartmouth experience continues to be the wisdom and knowledge I've gained from my six years as a long-distance runner: slowing down, pacing myself, and considering the meaning of the countless steps that have brought me to the present moment.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
Karl Marx once wrote, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is the change it." While the social revolution of the 1960s is gone from most college campuses today, the amount of activism that still takes place is staggering, even overwhelming. There are over 200 organizations at Dartmouth, and as incoming students, you will undoubtedly sign up for at least a dozen that you will never participate in. Dartmouth College is filled with remarkable students, dead set on changing the world, and doing it before they graduate. What then, is the role of an undergraduate student government? It is likely that most of you are from high schools with token student councils that had little or no influence on the issues that really mattered to you, and come to Dartmouth with either great expectations or forgone disillusionment regarding student government. I will try to explain to you in my remaining 700 words, what the Dartmouth Student Assembly can mean to you.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This guide to terminology at Dartmouth is written for humorous purposes and is meant to be taken tongue-in-cheek. While some of these terms may actually be used, this is not meant to be taken as a comprehensive guide.
(09/16/02 9:00am)
While Dartmouth is a small school, it has a generous range of arts facilities. The campus boasts countless organizations dedicated to the arts -- too many to cover here. This article and the College's orientation activities can give you a brief overview of arts on campus, but the best strategy is to dive in and pursue your passion. You'll be surprised at the depth of the offerings -- and if you're exploring uncharted waters, it's easy to create your own opportunities.