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(04/05/04 9:00am)
At the end of last term, the College announced a $22 million donation from an alumnus to establish a new institute for computational science. It is sadly ironic that at the same time, the school began to experience several weeks of network problems. Internet outages, BlitzMail crashes, power failures and GreenPrint problems abounded. It seemed every part of our network was starting to fall apart at once. As the administration was trumpeting Dartmouth's "legacy of leadership in computing," students were panicking as web resources became inaccessible and paper deadlines drew near. Indeed, some students probably felt themselves cut off from civilization when thefacebook.com became inaccessible.
(02/10/04 11:00am)
It's time to face reality. Consciously or subconsciously, many Dartmouth students suffer from a Harvard inferiority complex. The reason is simple: Many of us are here because we got rejected from there. The rejection is only made all the more bitter when you learn that a friend (who certainly is not smarter) got in for some inexplicable reason. Fortunately, most of us will get over our miserable luck at the Cambridge lottery and grow to love and treasure our place at Dartmouth.
(11/24/03 11:00am)
This College has a bad habit of overusing the word "community" to give people warm, fuzzy feelings of group solidarity. Student groups have community dinners. Dorms have community directors. Collis holds a weekly "Community Hour." The student handbook lays out a "Principle of Community" for the whole campus. The word "community" is like an overused teabag that has lost its flavor. We keep hanging the teabag out to dry so that others can use it for yet another soak at the next event.
(11/10/03 11:00am)
The church was located in the heart of San Francisco, but you will not find it in a guidebook. The architecture was lavish. Pink marble columns lined the dark nave while light shined through the stained glass windows. The altarpiece was a grand baroque statement. Classical music played in the background. Even on a weekday morning, nearly every pew was filled. There were no awe-struck tourists though. The stench of unwashed bodies hits your nose. A murmur of snores can be discerned. Soon you realize that homeless men and women were sleeping on the wooden pews under thick piles of grey blankets. The soup kitchen next door doesn't open until lunch. Until then, the Mozart morning call at St. Boniface Church is ignored.
(10/23/03 9:00am)
DDS excels at being predictable, like the predictable southern fried chicken on Mondays at Food Court, or the predictable deep-fried bits of seafood on Fridays. Homeplate dishes out roast turkey dinners on Sunday nights without fail. On top of all that, DDS can always be counted on losing money. In fact, the business prospects of DDS are so bright that the director of dining services has been quoted in this newspaper that they only aim to break even.
(10/10/03 9:00am)
Hanover, it is said, is a quintessential New England college town. You can even find Baker Tower on the corporate logo for the town of Hanover. Yet, is Hanover really a college town, or just a town which happens to have a college? Increasingly, it seems, Hanover looks less like a college town. Hanover certainly lacks the buzz found in bigger college towns like Berkeley or Cambridge. There are few cafs and other hangout spots. Street buskers are nowhere to be found. What is shocking is that even basic student needs are no longer being met.
(05/02/03 9:00am)
The word "Chinatown" conjures some very evocative images. Roast chickens and ducks hanging by their necks in eateries. Old Chinese women practicing taiji in the park. Exotic tropical fruits for sale at grocery stores. And most recently, people wearing face masks.
(04/24/03 9:00am)
Berry Library invites a narrow range of comments from students. Words like "functional" and "sanitized" tend to dominate. Berry Library's enormous size and complicated layout can be overwhelming even for an intelligent Dartmouth student. Garish sculptures represent a poor attempt at humanizing and beautifying a space that has the atmosphere of a hospital. However, like it or not, Berry is here to stay. Buildings tend to have a long shelf life. The architectural wonders of the Hop, the Choates and Bradley have long become part of the Hanover landscape. On the bright side though, with our new warehouse, it will be a long time before people can make snide comments that Dartmouth has a gym larger than its library.
(04/14/03 9:00am)
At the end of Winter term, the Student Assembly issued a call for "alternative media coverage" to be made available on campus. In one of those rare moments of quick administrative response, the Berry News Center soon dedicated one of its gigantic screens to showing the "International Channel" in lieu of Fox News in the morning. Since the International Channel has always been available on campus cable, the change was effected with a quick flick of the remote at little pain or cost.
(02/28/03 11:00am)
Dartmouth students generally have mixed views about Powerpoint. As an economics major, it is difficult to avoid it in class. Unusually for me, I had managed to avoid courses taught entirely with slides until this term. Having a taste of that, I now realize how indiscriminate use of Powerpoint can easily disrupt the learning process.
(02/14/03 11:00am)
Last term, The Dartmouth ran a series of articles tracing the history of dining services on campus. From the early eating clubs to the current DDS system today, the evolution of campus dining is very much a dynamic process responding to the specific needs of students and the administration. That evolution is not yet complete, however, and the current budget crisis could prove to be the opportunity to seek changes in the already dated DDS system.
(02/06/03 11:00am)
Winter Carnival, it seems, is on life support. The keg jump was canned some years ago because of insurance, or lack of it. Now, the Dartmouth Outing Club is having a go at the snow sculpture after the Winter Carnival Council gave up. How did one of Dartmouth's most celebrated weekends end up in this sorry state?
(01/29/03 11:00am)
By now, it would be safe to assume that only the computer geeks living in the basement of Sudikoff remain unaware of the necessity of budget cuts at Dartmouth. Having taken all of five classes in Economics, I feel myself absolutely qualified to contribute my ideas on how Parkhurst should approach this new diet of fiscal austerity. Any self respecting consultant would tell you that there are three ways to deal with gaping holes in the accounts: One is to cut costs, the second to raise revenue and the third to bury the shortfalls in special purpose entities.
(01/22/03 11:00am)
Sometime a week ago, every Dartmouth student received a blitz from the Student Assembly screaming "SUCCESS!" in its subject line. It took some careful reading before one realized the email was about the college's decision to reinstate the swimming and diving teams. A follow-up blitz containing the official press release announced the news with much greater clarity, albeit without the fanfare and self-congratulatory tone of the first one. Indeed, the whole swim team debacle is over. It would seem that the College can finally continue on its normal daily life without the annoyance of students blocking the steps of Parkhurst or having a march on the President's lawn, not least in this frigid weather.
(11/13/02 11:00am)
To the Editor:
(03/06/02 11:00am)
It's that time of year again. With one eye on looming term deadlines, we keep another on our DBA balances. Well, at least I do. I make sure I spend every last cent of the $775 paid to Dartmouth Dining Services and hopefully not a cent more. As an economics major, I find the current dining system deeply offensive to the economics principles I hold dear.
(02/25/02 11:00am)
To the Editor:
(02/20/02 11:00am)
In recent weeks, this paper and the campus have seen an exchange of opinion over the relevance and need for an Asian American Studies minor on campus. Well considered, if somewhat verbose, arguments have been made on both sides. Credit must go to all parties involved that discussion has remained within the boundaries of civility and reason and avoided the political rhetoric that often plagues issues involving diversity.
(01/25/02 11:00am)
Last week, the Student Assembly hosted a dinner where students could express their visions for the College. This is nothing unusual. Events like the student protests outside Parkhurst Hall last spring and last week's dinner only provide dramatic interludes in what is an ongoing process of rethinking and renewal on campus.
(01/10/02 11:00am)
For many sophomores, this is the term of reckoning. Within weeks, we will be expected to declare our majors and offer up a clear program of study to the powers that be. We will turn to the ORC, our academic bible, and attempt to devise a coherent D-plan consisting of quite possibly two majors, two FSPs, and a mixture of must-take classes like Ed 20 or English 24. In the course of the term, we will probably change our majors as often as we change our underwear.