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(10/31/08 7:18am)
Earlier this week, Quinnipiac University garnered national attention once again for yet another attack on student journalism on its campus. Last year, the university prohibited the student newspaper, The Quinnipiac Chronicle, from posting news on its web site before its print edition was published and reviewed by administrators looking to censor content that casts the university in a negative light. In response, the paper's editorial staff had no choice but to leave in protest. Those staff members subsequently established Quad News, an independent online newspaper. The university has tried to crush this new publication with even greater vigor, and has placed a gag order on administrators, coaches and even student athletes, prohibiting them from speaking to Quad News.
(10/24/08 6:04am)
On Tuesday, the College unveiled a draft of its new Alcohol Management Program, intended to replace the current out-of-touch and convoluted Social Event Management policy. With the AMP, the College has undoubtedly taken some steps in the right direction, but it has also made some blunders and left many questions unanswered.
(10/17/08 7:33am)
The inadequacy of the current sorority rush process once again became evident at the end of this term's rush cycle, to the discontent of both current members and rushees. National sororities and organizations like the Panhellenic Council imposed their recruitment systems on Dartmouth, disregarding the fact that the contrived and convoluted process is an exceedingly poor fit for Dartmouth's small, tight-knit and self-contained social scene.
(10/10/08 6:48am)
Dartmouth has a rich history as a leader of information technology innovation within the world of higher education. The BASIC programming language, the precursor to modern e-mail, and even the notion of artificial intelligence were all conceived here. In 2002, Wired magazine named Dartmouth "Unplugged U."
(10/03/08 6:53am)
The Presidential Search Leadership Statement, as released by the College on Wednesday, establishes valuable criteria by which to select the College's next leader. The document addresses key concerns Dartmouth as a whole is facing at the close of President Wright's tenure -- most notably the state of its academics and its graduate programs -- as it loosely outlines the next president's agenda.
(05/23/08 9:23am)
Last Friday's release of the Committee on Standards Review Committee recommendations to Dean of the College Tom Crady presented the opportunity to air misgivings about the troublesome flaws with our COS processes. But the report contains very few recommendations for substantive changes to the COS process, opting instead for small, housekeeping changes that will have little or no effect on adjudication itself.
(05/16/08 7:43am)
This summer, Sexual Abuse Awareness Program interim coordinator Rebel Roberts will be replaced by Michelle de Sousa ("DeSousa named new coordinator of SAAP," May 15). The new hire provides a convenient time to reassess SAAP's tone in order to ensure it is effectively supporting the Dartmouth community.
(05/09/08 9:19am)
Given the volume of dialogue that has raged in the pages of this and other publications for months over the Board of Trustees' expansion plan, it is increasingly hard to believe that any lack of communication precipitated the current state of affairs. Central to the debate is the assertion by members of the petition slate in the Association of Alumni executive committee election that the lawsuit against the College was filed as a last resort after all other lines of communication between the two parties had failed -- a dubious claim even in the particularly nebulous back-and-forth about who contacted whom and when.
(05/02/08 7:30am)
Priya Venkatesan '90's recent threat to sue the College, Dartmouth Medical School and the students in her Writing 5 class is, simply put, outrageous. Venkatesan claims the suit is a response to "harassment and discrimination" ("Prof threatens lawsuit against her students," April 28). The trials she purports to have endured, however, range from the ridiculous to the absurd (her paranoia about conspiratorial codes being expressed through spelling in an offhanded comment -- 'Gattaca' -- comes to mind). The growing Venkatesan soap opera represents a pathetic mix of seemingly poor teaching, repression of academic freedom, unprincipled opportunism and self-victimization, all of which have no place at our College.
(04/25/08 9:55am)
If it hasn't become painfully clear already, the upcoming Association of Alumni executive committee election has devolved into a bitter us-versus-them strife between the petitioners and the administration-backed slate over who actually loves Dartmouth.
(04/18/08 7:37am)
With the Association of Alumni elections close on the horizon, thousands of alumni are now gearing up to cast the votes that will determine the composition of the next AoA executive committee. A contingent of the current executive committee's recent, more contentious actions -- most notably a costly mass mailing pushing the lawsuit in the name of the Association -- have raised the question of whether the committee has truly represented popular alumni interests.The committee's decision to file a lawsuit over the Board of Trustees' announced plan to add charter seats to the Board has ratcheted up the already noisy alumni governance debate to a fever pitch, pushing the College's troubles into the spotlight yet again. While the merits of the claims that precipitated the lawsuit are certainly open for debate, the decision to file the suit is of more dubious distinction.
(04/11/08 7:13am)
With Student Assembly elections settled, it is time for the organization's newly elected president and vice president to focus and organize their agenda for the coming year. President-elect Molly Bode '09 will have to show that she can produce solutions, not just entertaining campaign videos, to successfully address student concerns such as social space.
(04/04/08 7:59am)
With Student Assembly elections days away, it is important for both the candidates and student body alike to recognize the relative capacity in which the Assembly can effectively operate and the extent to which it can exact change.
(03/28/08 7:31am)
A committee within the Vermont State Senate recently submitted for passage legislation that would create a task force to consider lowering the state's legal drinking age to 18 ("Vermont to reconsider drinking age," Mar. 25).
(03/07/08 9:46am)
After its quarterly meeting last weekend, The Dartmouth Board of Trustees announced that trustee Al Mulley '70 will lead the search committee for Dartmouth's 17th president.
(02/29/08 8:41am)
Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman's announcement this week that room draw will be closed to seniors after 400 of them have received housing requires examination on two dimensions -- the sensibility of the policy and the efficacy of its implementation.
(02/22/08 9:44am)
After the close of course election today at 4 p.m., Dartmouth undergraduates will begin to wait to see which of our courses we actually get into. Who will fall victim to the so-called enrollment crunch this time? The crunch, the subject of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine's most recent cover story, which dubs it a "pressing issue...without a simple solution" ("The Numbers Game," Mar/Apr), has become a talking point for recent trustee candidates and student leaders alike. But the scramble for classes and oversubscription in popular courses is a frustation -- not a crucial problem.
(02/15/08 9:34am)
Since the early 1960s when Dartmouth created the first foreign-study opportunities for undergraduates, spending a term abroad has become a part of nearly every D-Plan - roughly 60 percent of Dartmouth students will spend at least one term abroad before they graduate. At nearly all of America's top colleges and universities, spending a term in Europe or even Asia is highly encouraged, and it certainly does not raise eyebrows the way it might have in our parents' generation.
(02/08/08 3:23pm)
College President James Wright's announcement earlier this week of his plans to step down in June 2009 has aroused discussion of his legacy -- a legacy that began at his inauguration in the fall of 1998. After reminding the crowd of his background as a historian, Wright took a moment to examine two different sources of tension at Dartmouth: tension between continuity and change in Dartmouth's history and future, and tension between the individual and the community on our campus. "This implicit tension between self and community is inherent within the academy," he said. "It is a tension that results in tremendous fragility, on the one hand, and tremendous strength, on the other."
(02/01/08 8:24am)
Each year, getting into a college like Dartmouth becomes harder. Alumni who graduated decades ago laugh at the likelihood that they could be accepted to today's Dartmouth, just as current undergraduates repress memories of the efforts and energies they expended to get in two or three years ago.