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(01/23/08 3:32pm)
After the College's announcement last week that the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience has reached over $1 billion in gifts, this week's unveiling of a new financial aid policy has put the possibility of the Dartmouth experience within reach of millions of America's poorest students.
(01/18/08 9:44am)
The return of two sanctioned fraternities and the subsequent marginalization of one of the most centrally located sororities on campus has unsurprisingly renewed the fervor of the ever-present and usually tedious dialogue about gender relations at Dartmouth.
(01/11/08 3:11pm)
The uncertainty and unpredictability of the impending presidential election made this year's New Hampshire primary more important than usual. For the vast majority of Dartmouth students, casting our first primary ballot made our trips to the polls even more significant and memorable.
(11/30/07 6:36am)
Dean Crady, Fall term is ending and you are about to assume one of the most unique and challenging positions in academia. In our last editorial of the year, we thought it important to discuss what will help you succeed at this job. Dartmouth is a living, breathing set of paradoxes: It oscillates between a liberal arts college and world-class university, between a rural haven for academics and a cosmopolitan cultural center, between embracing tradition and embracing progressivism. As the new dean of the College, you will have a short window of time -- a honeymoon period -- to set the tone for your tenure here. If you succeed, you can positively impact Dartmouth where previous administrative leaders have faltered.
(11/16/07 6:58am)
The recent publicity surrounding Hanover High School students' attempt to cheat on a final exam has generated a great deal of sympathy from the press. Some argue that the level of punishment is excessive; others explain away the students' behavior by citing societal pressures to perform academically. But whatever external pressures these students may have faced, and whatever the outcomes of the trials, cheating is widespread in high schools across the nation, and widespread cheating prevents schools from serving their purpose.
(11/09/07 7:49am)
From her legislative perch two hours away in Merrimack, N.H., Rep. Maureen Mooney has proposed a bill that would effectively revoke state legislation passed in 2003 that gave Dartmouth the ability to amend its charter without the approval of the state. Mooney's proposal is not only bad for Dartmouth but also irresponsible for a New Hampshire politician.
(11/02/07 7:00am)
Since last Sunday, heads have been turned by posters signed by "Daughters of Dartmouth," which highlight sexist acts committed by male-dominated groups on campus. In contrast to previous efforts at addressing gender issues, such as the "Bitches in the Basement" forum, this group has anonymously -- and blatantly -- attacked those groups it feels are responsible.
(10/19/07 5:24am)
This past week of rush served as an annual reminder of the remarkable inequalities between men and women at Dartmouth. The drawn-out, far less personal experience for women is a direct result of women's reliance on fraternities' social spaces. Because females interested in Greek life have dramatically fewer chances to experience sororities firsthand pre-rush, they are forced to make much less informed judgments about their prospective houses, and vice versa.
(10/12/07 4:05am)
Over a month ago on this page, The Dartmouth Editorial Board wrote that alumni should only govern this College if they choose the best people for the job, and that, recently, they have failed ("An Old Tradition Fails," Sept. 7). The Association of Alumni's most recent hijinx - counterfeiting the Association of Alumni's e-mail address on a letter sent to students - only provides further evidence that the alumni are not the body able to pick the best leaders for the College.
(10/12/07 4:04am)
In his speech to the faculty on Monday, College President James Wright identified three goals for the College to pursue in the future: moving toward need-blind admissions for international students; providing one leave term where there are no earning expectations for students; and providing that, for financial aid students studying abroad, the incremental expenses will be covered by scholarship rather than by loan. He also touched on a fourth goal, one that has been especially important to students, faculty and even trustees: alleviating existing enrollment pressures in the economics and government departments. All of these goals are worthy of pursuit, and their success relies on adequate funding.
(10/05/07 3:46am)
If a Dartmouth student were intoxicated at an unsafe level in October 2004, his or her friends may likely have been reluctant to call for medical assistance. The Good Samaritan policy at the time failed to guarantee impunity from alcohol policy violations to those who called for help or those who required help. But by summer 2005, the administration ended the limit on the number of Good Samaritan calls for any given student, and added education and counseling as alternatives to disciplinary action. As the Annual Report to the Community of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Disciplinary System demonstrated, these policy reforms have led to tangible positive results. The upward trend in Good Samaritan calls demonstrates the importance and impact of the administration taking a realistic approach to alcohol policy at Dartmouth. Whereas the previous policy primarily expressed the administrations fears of encouraging alcohol use among students, the revised policy acknowledges what should be the primary goal of the policy: to give medical help to those who need it. We commend the administration on its commitment to this policy change, a decision that was clearly informed by the realities of student life. The fact that the Good Samaritan policy is currently in touch with the actualities of the frat basement underscores the importance of the administration continuing to keep tabs on the policys use. Keeping Dartmouth students -- especially freshmen -- informed about the details of Good Samaritan policy must be an ongoing goal moving forward.
(09/28/07 6:05am)
For the last few years, Dartmouth's public relations office has acted as one might expect a company under attack to act: super-positive. Faced with an attempt at a hostile takeover of the Board, Dartmouth rolled out Ask Dartmouth, its public relations vehicle masked as a question-and-answer section. Ask Dartmouth typifies the approach that has been taken throughout the controversy over the Board: We welcome your questions, but our answers will be scripted, stilted and always positive. For example, Ask Dartmouth discusses how the 1999 Student Life Initiative was a tool aimed to strengthen the Greek system. It wasn't.
(09/07/07 4:01pm)
Dartmouth's trial in organizational democracy is no longer in its best interest. But let us be clear, and don't let anyone fool you; the College's current structure of governance isn't really a democracy. Democracy is government by the governed. In the case of Dartmouth, the students and faculty are the governed, but the alumni are not. The so-called government for those constituencies is the Board of Trustees and, no matter how the Board is composed, the governance of Dartmouth relies on the construction of a Board that acts in the best interest of the College's students and teachers. So, when the Board convenes Friday, it should attempt to construct a Board with that goal " and only that goal " in mind.
(05/25/07 5:32am)
Recently, the Dartmouth community has spent so much time thinking about our own campus that many of us have lost sight of the real reason we are here. Judging from alumni elections and public analyses of Jim Wright's tenure as College president, it would appear that his job boils down to the management, to Greek life, to the Committee on Standards and to athletics. Those endeavors are not the crux of the job of the leader of one of the world's foremost academic institutions. President Wright's initiative to encourage young veterans to attend college, as reported recently in the New York Times, is the fulfillment of an Ivy League president's job: that of a visionary leader dedicated to taking on national and international issues through his institutional leadership.
(05/18/07 5:16am)
We are disheartened by the election of Stephen Smith '88. Not only was he tapped to run by current petition trustees, but he also refused to disclose the sources of his funding and mailing lists during his campaign. Through his partisan origins and opaque campaign, Smith has undermined the democratic merits of the electoral process and perpetuated the notion that faceless kingmakers puppeteered his campaign all along.
(05/11/07 4:22am)
In order to achieve any campus-wide goals, Student Body President-elect Travis Green must first fix the fatally flawed infrastructure of Student Assembly, which will require that he cede his power over the formation of the Assembly's Executive Committee.
(05/04/07 6:18am)
Jaromy Siporen will be best able to steward Student Assembly in the direction of change. After the Editorial Board privately met with each candidate, it became clear that the ideas in Siporen's platform are the most feasible; his dissatisfaction with Student Assembly's current structure is the most cogent; his understanding of Student Assembly is the most thorough; and his leadership style is the most conducive for successful implementation of his platform.
(04/27/07 7:31am)
The discussion sponsored by the Sexual Assault Awareness Program and the Afro-American Society on Wednesday night provided a forum for constructive and introspective dialogue about the presence and effects of racism and sexism in rap lyrics.Participants bypassed the Don Imus controversy to critically evaluate the underlying issues and their potential solutions. The consensus reached at the end of the discussion demonstrates that even students with disparate views were able to find common ground on a contentious issue.
(04/20/07 5:07pm)
There is no easy answer to the question, What could have prevented the Virginia Tech massacre? Perhaps nothing could have been done. However, gun violence occurs every day across America and the ready availability of guns exacerbates the problem.
(04/13/07 9:00am)
The Dartmouth Editorial Board unanimously endorses watching television on televisions. Unfortunately, the College's Computing Services department doesn't seem to agree.