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Mistaken Aims
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Mistaken Aims
In his final Convocation speech, former College President James Wright remarked, "In this era, although we surely need expertise and specialization, no one who aspires to leadership can afford to focus too narrowly, at the expense of attaining a broad perspective."
I consider myself a pretty eco-friendly person who loves to preach about conservation, sustainability and all that good stuff. So when I stumbled back to my room a couple nights ago to find it deserted and lit up like the Fourth of July, I was ready to give my roommate a long tirade about how he was destroying our precious planet. But then it dawned on me that I had been the last one to leave the room. Oops.
I've been wondering something lately. Why the hell is there no channel up-down button on the cable boxes from the computer store? This just doesn't make any sense. For starters, the remotes they give you suck. They are really small and easy to lose, and half the time when you push the volume up button, it changes the channel instead. But more importantly, if you ever can't find the remote, you better be happy with whatever channel your TV is stuck on, because there's no way to change it. If it's a channel like ESPN, it's not a huge deal, but sometimes you get screwed and get stuck watching Lifetime movies for a few days.
Facing difficult conditions, runners from the Dartmouth men's cross country team raced to disappointing results at the 20th Annual Mayor's Cup at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass., over the weekend, finishing eighth out of 11 teams.
The American Association of University Professors introduceda new draft policy on the treatment of adjunct faculty members early this week, citing a lack of "conversions" of adjunct professors to tenure-track positions, Inside Higher Ed reported on Wednesday. The AAUP argues that colleges and universities often offer adjunct faculty members "limited conceptions of academic citizenship and service, few protections for academic freedom, little opportunity for professional growth and no professional peer scrutiny in hiring, evaluation and promotion," according to the draft. The draft reflects the AAUP's desire to improve the status of adjunct professors, according to Inside Higher Ed. Critics argue that research universities must promote scholars with published research to tenure-track positions, rather than adjunct professors who spend most of their time teaching, Inside Higher Ed reported.
Today's business leaders must increasingly focus on their company's environmental impact and corporate responsibility, Anne Mulcahy, the former Xerox chief executive officer and current chairman of the Xerox Corporation, said in a lecture in the Rockefeller Center on Wednesday.
The Dartmouth Association of Alumni executive committee voted to shorten the campaigning period for Board of Trustees and Association elections on Wednesday, moving forward with the recommendations of an Association committee tasked with exploring election reform. Although the committee was originally formed to pursue campaign finance reform, it found that such reform is politically untenable at this time.
College President Jim Yong Kim's fundraising experience will be put to test in the coming months in light of the College's 23-percent endowment loss and the expected announcement of a second round of budget cuts in less than a year. Kim is tasked with bringing in contributions, largely from alumni, in the wake of what some have called the worst economic recession since the 1930s.
Almost five months after the release of a student report arguing that the College's Accessibility Services Office fails to provide students with disabilities the accommodations they need, several students with physical disabilities, in interviews with The Dartmouth, said the College has made progress addressing their difficulties, while students with learning disabilities were critical of the quality of services they receive.
Danielpour, in an interview with The Dartmouth, said that one of his long-standing desires has been to compose a work that calls to mind family members saying goodbye to one another in various ways, including through death.
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The premiere web site for legal streaming video of television programming is undoubtedly Hulu.com, which, after only two and a half years online only one of those years as a public venture has already become a household name.
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Three thousand colleges and universities received letters from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan this week encouraging them to prepare for the proposed federal Direct Loan Program for the 2010-2011 school year, The New York Times reported on Monday. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act last month, which extends the government's direct lending and discontinues the present program that includes government subsidies and loan guarantees for private lenders, The Times reported. If the bill passes in the Senate, colleges will be required to switch to the federal Direct Loan Program by July 1, 2010 a move most institutions are not prepared for, according to The Times.
Using the prevalence of perforated appendixes as an indicator of health care disparities, two Dartmouth researchers have found that patients in rural areas tend to have diminished access to health care compared to patients living in cities and suburbs.
While the United States can safely move to reduce the size of its nuclear arsenal a possibility currently being explored by the Obama administration it must retain its smallest, most accurate warheads, according to an Oct. 22 paper in Foreign Affairs by Dartmouth government professor Daryl Press. These weapons will act as a credible deterrent against nuclear escalation during a conventional war with a nuclear-armed adversary, Press argues in the paper.
Arguing that the United States' university-based teacher programs need "revolutionary change," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan criticized the programs for failing to prepare students to teach and for having too few resources in an address at Columbia University last week. Dartmouth education professors, however, said that Duncan's criticisms largely do not apply to the College's Teacher Education Program because of its small size, its grounding in the liberal arts and the opportunities the program provides for hands on experience.