I Feel Like... 2007-11-20
(11/20/07 6:32am)
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Last weekend, my father visited me on one of his meandering journeys up to Dartmouth. These became an instant tradition a few years ago, when he realized that he could use the somewhat legitimate-sounding excuse of "visiting his son at college" to take a few days off, drink some wine and enjoy some good, old-fashioned quiet. In his day, noises were neither so loud nor so obnoxious as they are today. Indeed, loud noises tend to startle him unpleasantly, and I truly believe that he takes every honking car in Boston as a personal affront. But he enjoys the trips, as far as I can tell, not only for the superb lack of honking, but also because they give him the opportunity to hear the rantings and ravings of arrogant youth (the best and only kind) from a slightly bemused perspective, before genially dismissing them as ranting and raving, and relishing the following day's quiet all the more for the experience.
Since my first-year seminar during my freshman fall, I have often been shocked by the speech and oratory skills of Dartmouth students as a whole. From sufferers of "like" syndrome to arrogant abusers of overly complex vocabulary and syntax, too many of us fail to express ourselves concisely or precisely through speech.
The Dartmouth Ethics Society won the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl at Villanova University last week. The competition included situational case studies that teams analyzed and applied to real-life scenarios. Teams were judged on the speed of their responses and on whether they could generate consensus on the topic. The Dartmouth team, as well as other top performers in the region, will travel to San Antonio, Texas in February for the national championships. Aine Donovan, executive director of the College's Ethics Institute, coaches the team.
Baker-Berry Library may be at capacity in as few as two to three years. Library administrators are currently discussing solutions to the problem.
Of the 2.6 million volumes owned by Dartmouth's nine libraries, approximately half a million reside in the off-campus storage library. The off-campus storage facility, which contains three levels of stacks, was built in 1982 and subsequently expanded in 1992.
The outgoing directorate of The Dartmouth, seen here at Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society, announced the new directorate Saturday night. The new directorate will assume control of the paper Winter term.
O'Donnell and Silberberg inherit the daily, independent publication which boasts a staff of over 200 members.
Adam Levine '08 was named a Rhodes Scholar this weekend. At Oxford, he hopes to continue work on his thesis on the image of Jesus.
The Rhodes Scholarship is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards given to American college students. Awarded to 32 men and women, the scholarship was established in 1902 by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes. The scholarships cover all expenses for two to three years of study at Oxford.
The Dartmouth Association of Alumni made the latest filing in its ongoing lawsuit against the College in Grafton County Superior Court on Friday. The filing, a response to the College's Oct. 26 request that the court dismiss the suit, highlights the tradition of all alumni who are elected to the board as nominees actually being appointed, among other factors, as evidence of the board's alleged contractual obligation to have a consistent structure of alumni representation. "Reviewing our lawyers' response to the College's motion to dismiss confirms my confidence in the strength of our case," Frank Gado '58, a member of the Association executive committee who voted in favor the suit, said in an e-mail. "The Executive Committee, with only three of its eleven members voting in opposition, initiated this lawsuit with grave regret after every effort at another solution was rejected by the Board."
At a Town Hall-style rally, McCain addressed an audience at Alumni Hall on issues including immigration, Iraq and government spending.
"Campaigning is great fun and a great experience," McCain said in an interview with The Dartmouth and other Upper Valley journalists as he traveled to the second of two Town Hall-style campaign rallies he held in New Hampshire on Saturday.
I have recently noticed that Gap has advertisements for Product (RED) in their windows for the second time this year. Don't all of the movie stars look sexy in their nice red T-shirts? Product (RED) is a collection of corporations with popular brands -- Gap, Motorola, Converse, Emporio Armani, etc. -- that have agreed to give half of the profits they receive from selling the (RED) merchandise to the Global Fund. This money is then used to buy antiretroviral drugs for women and children with HIV/AIDS in Africa. The ad campaign for Product (RED), which was founded by Bono and friends, claims that by buying the products associated with the campaign, you will be a "good-looking Samaritan." What a deal, not only sexy, but altruistic also!
Dartmouth's football season ran a bit longer than expected Saturday as a late comeback pushed the game into overtime. However, the Big Green (3-7, 3-4 Ivy) faltered and fell to Princeton 17-14 in the extra frame.
Last Saturday, Spain's King Juan Carlos made headlines at the Ibero-American summit for asking Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, "Why don't you shut up?" The heated and slightly comical exchange occurred after Chavez called former Spanish Prime Minister Azner a "fascist," an especially sensitive accusation considering that Juan Carlos's immediate predecessor was the fascist dictator Francisco Franco. The irony of the situation is that, by insulting Chavez, the Spanish monarch exercised his right to free speech, a right that he does not fully extend to his own citizens.
Last Thursday, Barry Bonds was indicted by the federal government on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Baseball's new home run king could face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty on all counts. Bonds's legal woes got Hodes and I thinking about another athlete whose career has been lessened by "tragedy" -- Ken Griffey, Jr. Hodes gladly acquiesced to argue that Griffey has had the more "tragic" career, a fact I will now refute.
A few weeks ago, Schmidley and I debated sports's greatest heroes. Just this past week, perhaps the greatest anti-hero of all-time was indicted for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury during the BALCO investigation four years ago. Without a doubt, Barry Bonds will never be remembered as simply one of the greatest players to ever play -- he'll always have a shroud of uncertainty surrounding his much-heralded career. That's unfortunate, but a tragedy?