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(07/27/10 2:00am)
Anyone familiar with the spy movie genre knows that the intelligence world is one wrought with big secrets, giant egos and even larger inefficiencies. Corrupt directors conspire to oust innocent, patriotic agents, but the agents always manage to escape against all odds due to a complete lack of coordination between the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.
(07/02/10 2:00am)
As the first images of the now-infamous BP Gulf Coast oil spill disaster seeped into the general public consciousness, I felt indignant and outraged, but realized I was largely unaffected. That was, at least, until I discovered www.ifitwasmyhome.com, a website that uses Google Maps to project the size of the oil spill over any corner of the globe. As I dragged the massive black monstrosity around the world over the Middle East, Africa and my hometown along Lake Erie it dawned on me how this catastrophe could have had the potential to affect us all.
(06/01/10 2:00am)
In a recent interview with The Dartmouth opinion staff, College President Jim Yong Kim brought up the notion of a creating a Masters program in creative writing a two-year Dartmouth writers' workshop that I believe will draw the attention and support of the students, professors and alumni of Dartmouth, for good reason.
(05/31/10 2:00am)
Amidst the typical campus controversy, personal hardships and academic stresses, I have always been able to find solace in Dartmouth not as an institution, but as a physical place. It's beautiful here if you've spent any amount of time strolling through the old graveyard, up to the Robert Frost statue or down to the river, you know that. It's the kind of beauty that inspired Thoreau, Emerson, Frost and hopefully every student or visitor that has stepped foot here, and it's the kind of beauty that makes Dartmouth ideally suited for continuing to be a muse for the writers of the future.
(05/04/10 2:00am)
There are pleasant anecdotal encounters with Tea Partiers, such as in the recent column by Jasper Hicks '12 ("My Tea Party," April 2010), that contrast with the general craziness shown in the media. But now that this political group has been around for awhile, it is time to look past media depictions or personal encounters and decide what the Tea Party is about and whether or not we, as a generation of voters, should keep paying attention.
(04/15/10 2:00am)
Learning doesn't always come easy. Although there are people who simply love to learn intrinsically, some students if not most need a more extrinsic motivation to show up every day and succeed in school. While such external motivation usually includes stickers in grade school, rewards from parents or praise from teachers, one man Harvard economist Ronald Fryer decided to up the ante in a recent study. He and his team of researchers recently chose to take the reward system one step further designing an ambitious experiment to offer cash to students in low socio-economic districts to discover if a monetary reward could lead to higher achievement test scores. While I believe the idea of money as an incentive to learn is somewhat objectionable, I applaud Fryer for taking steps to find a way to bridge the abhorrent income--based learning gap in this country.
(04/01/10 2:00am)
Our generation suffers a disconcerting and existential lack of a tangible common cause. Gone are our parent's days of Vietnam and civil rights, and gone are the days of our grandparents fighting Nazism in the Second World War. What remains is a feeling I imagine many of you have felt while perusing any mainstream or internet news outlet a vague and spectral sensation that somewhere, in some way, something is going horribly wrong.
(11/12/09 4:00am)
At some point in the process of getting to know a new friend here at Dartmouth, I always end up having an awkward conversation explaining to him or her why I have a two-by-two-inch metal box in my chest. "It's like a pacemaker," I say. "Except it only monitors the heart, and if anything bad happens it'll shock me with 700V of electricity." If this fails to make sense, I try to make the connection between my device and automated external defibrillators. AEDs are clever devices designed for any Good Samaritan to use as a first response to sudden cardiac arrest, or heart failure. They are designed so simply that a child could use them; the machine prompts you to affix two pads to someone's chest, takes over and decides if there is a problem, and then administers a shock to correct one if there is. So my box is like one of those boxes; I just carry it around with me all the time.
(10/13/09 2:00am)
Sitting amidst a sea of eager members of the Class of 2013, listening to College President Jim Yong Kim's speech, I thought back to my own convocation and utilized my newfound ability to reminisce on freshman year. I remember hearing Tommy Clark of Grassroots Soccer speak on many of the same issues finding your passion, changing the world and taking responsibility for the flaws of mankind. And I remember feeling what I imagine many of the '13s felt anxious as hell. Although the call to action and aspiration to greatness are necessities for all young people, Dartmouth students need to be reminded that, while we are a canvas of potential, we need to enjoy a lot of aimless doodling first.
(09/22/09 2:00am)
In the latest issue of Dartmouth Life, College President Jim Yong Kim spoke with Student Body President Frances Vernon '10 about the nature of student protest on Dartmouth's campus. Midway through the interview, Kim threw a curveball to Vernon, remarking, "So student organizations in the past, in the '60s and '70s, used to take over Parkhurst. Do you have any plans to take over this building?"
(05/27/09 2:00am)
In the 1902 room last Tuesday, I was checking out one of my favorite web site aggregators when I stumbled upon what I thought was an amusing Onion article. The headline read: "Georgia Threatens to Secede, Again." After clicking on the link, however, I was sent to a political blog of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where I was informed by a rather incredulous Jay Bookman that the Georgia state Senate by a margin of 43-1 had voted in support of a resolution threatening not only to ignore federal laws the senators deemed overbearing, but also to disband the entire United States government.
(04/29/09 3:52am)
Although classroom discussion has been one of the most interesting and rewarding experiences I've had since coming to Dartmouth, as of this term my favorite class only has one student to debate -- myself. SOCY 80, "Happiness," is an independent study I am taking this term. Although the class has at times been been frustrating and difficult, I have found it to be all the more worthwhile -- and one of the best academic experiences I have had.
(04/10/09 6:58am)
As each term draws to a close, many Dartmouth students experience the sickening realization that they have yet again fallen victim to the Wheelock Books buyback scam. Perhaps scam is the wrong word -- we do willingly, albeit grudgingly, return our ridiculously expensive books for the slimmest fraction of the original price allowed by human dignity. If Wheelock takes the books back at all (anyone looking for a copy of "New England Thicket and Forest"?), it is sometimes for a tenth of the original price -- something many of us just cannot afford.
(03/30/09 5:56am)
Last week, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed two pieces of legislation that, if made into law, will put New Hampshire at the forefront of the progressive movement ("N.H. House approves gay marriage, votes to repeal death penalty," March 26).
(03/03/09 10:26am)
Chris Talamo recently made the compelling point that we, as college students, have "an absurd sense of entitlement" when it comes to our grades ("Attitudes on a Curve," Feb. 25). He's right in a way -- it does appear that we have carried our obsession with getting 'A's from high school on into college, expecting and demanding that we achieve that all-validating mark. But what interests me is not whether we are a lazy, expectant, success-driven generation -- because we are. What interests me is who is to blame.
(02/20/09 9:59am)
Indulge me in a hypothetical situation you might find familiar: It's 3 a.m., and you are walking through a parking lot behind Fraternity Row. You've been enjoying the final moments of a night well-spent forgetting reality in our consequence-free little world. But something interrupts your stagger-stepped revelry: you come across two of your friends, one lying in the fetal position on the ground, half-conscious, puking all over herself, and the other drunkenly trying to do something about it. What do you do?
(02/16/09 9:04am)
Having just experienced my first illustrious Winter Carnival, I might be expected to conclude the weekend singing the praises of the Big Green, winter fun and the traditions I'll remember for a lifetime. Yet sitting here on this February day, I have mainly one feeling: disappointment.
(02/02/09 9:53am)
As I stood amidst a crowd numbering in the millions, I felt the collective joy and hope of a nation participating in the greatest democracy of our world. I let my tears stream unabashedly and held hands with strangers, finally allowing myself to believe in something bigger, truer and more powerful than any individual or group could ever be. We were one, not an aggregation, but a unified whole, capable of surmounting any odds and accomplishing any goals. For the first time, we all felt that our participation made a difference -- once again it was the people, not just a select few, that held ownership over our grand nation.
(01/05/09 9:09am)
Two a.m. a few nights ago found me watching "Planet Earth" and trying to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. As I paged through Idealist.org's 1,909 internship listings -- deciding if I wanted to dedicate my life to human rights, the environment or education -- I just about flipped out. I'm 19, directionless and in no way qualified to be making these decisions alone.
(11/12/08 9:00am)
In Jordan Osserman '11's pre-election piece "An Indecent Proposal" (Nov. 3), he argues that in all the fervor for Obama's campaign, another "equally historic battle" was being forgotten. Now, a week after arguably the most progressive election cycle in our nation's history, we are forgetting about the battle we lost.