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(07/31/03 9:00am)
This summer the pages of The Dartmouth have crackled with calls for the College to bolster its "Brand." Dartmouth's image -- so the thinking goes -- does not have enough pizzazz, so everyone should work to inflate its prestige, and in no time it will be zeppelin-sized. Campus activists have even formed a new student group, playfully titled "The BlabberForce," that will try to do this.
(07/31/03 9:00am)
It seems like the obvious way to go at Dartmouth. When asked to think about what a typical Dartmouth student does after graduation, the image that my mind instantly conjures up is that of a young corporate recruit rapidly making his or her way towards Wall Street. And the evidence is definitely there. Come fall, corporate recruiting season will start and we'll all be witnesses to the neatly suited individuals trying their luck at the recruiting game. Even though this process is a visible and accepted part of Dartmouth, I can't help but notice the prevalence of the sentiments that going through corporate recruiting is equivalent to "selling your soul," to wasting your talents, to becoming mindless corporate slaves. And I, for one, have never really understood this mindset.
(07/31/03 9:00am)
In an effort to recruit more participants and spark interest in student affairs, Student Assembly treated its current members and potential converts to 250 flavors of ice cream, along with an introduction to the countless opportunities and projects available to take on this summer, at an informal meeting Tuesday night at the nearby Whistlestop ice cream parlor in Wilder, Vt.
(07/31/03 9:00am)
The T-shirts and posters boldly proclaim the drinking habits of the average Dartmouth students -- but they may do nothing to reduce alcohol abuse at the College. In fact, they may even be worsening the problem, according to a study released last week by the Harvard School of Public Health.
(07/31/03 9:00am)
As the federal government struggles to cut costs in a slumping economy, it may prove unable to step in and alleviate internal problems with organization and accounting that have put the national service program AmeriCorps -- as well as its 22,000 volunteer positions -- in jeopardy.
(07/31/03 9:00am)
Twenty-five years ago this July marked the release of the movie that made Dartmouth College famous. After a quarter-century, the Animal is back.
(07/31/03 9:00am)
Continuing its action against illegal file-sharers, the Recording Industry Association of America filed at least 871 subpoenas in Washington, D.C.'s U.S. District Court this month, according to various news outlets nationwide.
(07/29/03 9:00am)
Saturday night was ripe with a host of entertainment options for sophomore summer parents' weekend. Between student performing groups and professional performing groups, there was plenty to choose from.
(07/29/03 9:00am)
It was his toughest win yet. But when Lance Armstrong rode down the Champs-Elysees in the yellow jersey for a record-tying fifth consecutive time on Sunday he permanently secured his position among the great cyclists in Tour de France history.
(07/29/03 9:00am)
I usually reserve furious tirades for insidious Republicans, but the fact that the Green Party is still whimpering makes my blood curl. A week or two ago, Ralph Nader began entertaining the notion of another presidential run on the deflating logic that the Democrats aren't gonna win anyway, so why not screw them over a little extra? He can no longer make the argument that the views of extreme left America aren't represented.
(07/29/03 9:00am)
Talk is cheap. No matter how you slice it, you can talk about a problem all you want; it's not going to fix anything. But talking and, in this case, blabbering has led to action. You might know that a few articles on Dartmouth Branding have appeared in The Dartmouth during the past few weeks--but all that talk hasn't gone for naught. What some call "cheap talk" has alchemized into golden action. There is a movement happening at Dartmouth bubbling beneath the green summer grass. The movement is the Blabberforce.
(07/29/03 9:00am)
For Dartmouth Outing Club members who yearn to follow in the well-trekked footsteps of College legends John Ledyard and the goofy Dr. Wolfgang Schlitz, but who seek less accessible and costlier adventures beyond the boundaries of the United States, the newly instated Schlitz Adventure Fund may be the answer.
(07/29/03 9:00am)
This year's sophomore family weekend narrowly escaped being titled "High Five."
(07/29/03 9:00am)
July, apparently, epitomizes the dog days of summer less for some members of the public sphere than for others.
(07/29/03 9:00am)
Despite cutting and then temporarily reinstating Dartmouth's chapter of Amnesty International at the beginning of Summer term, College and Tucker Foundation officials failed to provide any explanation for the elimination and subsequent reestablishment of the group, whose future remains uncertain.
(07/25/03 9:00am)
Sometimes for the oldest traditions to be kept, new ones must be made. And sometimes those changes are far from what one may expect.
(07/25/03 9:00am)
In only 10 short days, the NFL will be back in action when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the New York Jets in the first preseason game. It has been six long months since Tampa Bay won the Super Bowl and a lot has changed for every team. Here's a quick preview of the training camp and picks for the upcoming season.
(07/25/03 9:00am)
In hopes of sparking dialogue about sexual violence, the Student Assembly pledged $1,000 of its discretionary budget last week to provide the entire Class of 2005 with T-shirts urging that sexual activity be consensual.
(07/25/03 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the first in an occasional series chronicling the lives of young Dartmouth alumni as they make it on their own.
(07/25/03 9:00am)
Jumping up 10 notches in one year, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was rated 30th by U.S. News and World Report in its annual list of American hospitals that specialize in cancer treatment.