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(03/04/15 12:23am)
For the majority of American college students, the soaring price of a degree requires sinking into debt. To increase transparency, all colleges should be required to release detailed and publicly accessible data about student debt.
(02/17/15 12:21am)
Regardless of whether you think the entirety of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan is a treasure chest or a dung heap — and campus opinion has swung in both directions — there is at least one crown jewel in College President Phil Hanlon’s slew of proposals to improve student life. It’s what the presidential steering committee calls Dartmouth Thrive, a holistic program intended to promote student development and wellness. The committee’s vision for the program is lofty, targeting every dimension of students’ lives — mind, body and spirit — to create a more engaged and reflective student body. Like many of the other proposals in the committee’s report, however, the details have yet to be hashed out.
(02/01/15 11:45pm)
College President Phil Hanlon’s decision to eliminate hard alcohol on campus has dominated the conversation surrounding Thursday’s speech. Some observers have rallied around what they consider a bold way of curbing underage drinking. Many students have instead rallied around their Captain Morgan handles, laughing off the ban as a quaint throwback to the Prohibition era.
(01/19/15 11:10pm)
Dartmouth has been infatuated with its social life lately, and it is not difficult to discern why. Volleys of bad press and a whole lot of noise from student activists have jolted administrators into action. While many students have been understandably peeved about the College’s reputation being dragged through the mud, events in the last few years have brought the darker aspects of our old traditions into sharp relief and ushered in welcome change.
(01/06/15 2:28am)
At any moment — perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next month — the Board of Trustees will decide whether or not to give the nod of approval to President Hanlon’s leadership team. If the Board endorses them, the steering committee’s proposals — whatever they might be — will sweep campus in hopes of defeating the three-headed beast of binge drinking, exclusivity and sexual assault.
(11/17/14 10:57pm)
Last fall, Jim Gates, an eminent string theorist and a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, gave a talk at Dartmouth and said something that rattled me. This country does not need more people like me, he declared. He was speaking as a theoretical scientist and tenured professor to a room full of undergraduate and graduate science students who dreamed of one day having a career like his. Needless to say, his words were not especially comforting.
(11/05/14 11:39pm)
Dartmouth is an intellectual paradise. It is difficult to get through a day here without rubbing elbows with a leading scholar. We are surrounded by the best labs, the brightest minds and the most cutting-edge work.
(10/20/14 9:22pm)
On Friday, campus woke up to big, bold font plastered across the front page of this publication calling for the end of Dartmouth Greek life. Judging by the subsequent flurry of outraged comments and Facebook posts, a vocal fraction of the Dartmouth community did not take kindly to the suggestion.
(10/06/14 10:07pm)
Armed with little more than video cameras and an Internet connection, a handful of innovators are tearing down the cloistered gates that have long enclosed elite higher education. Their strategy is simple: unite the pedagogy of a talented teacher with the ubiquity of a wireless signal.
(09/22/14 10:48pm)
College President Phil Hanlon is finally taking up arms against a sea of ugly press. Since the publication of the now infamous 2012 Rolling Stone exposé, Dartmouth has been rocked by unflattering media attention, including a 2013 New York Times article on Dartmouth’s handling of a “string of embarrassing episodes,” a slew of negative articles in the Huffington Post and a highly circulated media campaign by women’s rights group UltraViolet announcing that “Dartmouth has a rape problem.” The presidential steering committee, created nearly five months ago, has fielded ideas from students, faculty and alumni on the most effective ways to combat Dartmouth’s social maladies. This lengthy brainstorm is coming to a close; this past week, Hanlon met with Greek leaders. At the meeting, the group floated some solutions, which include a blanket ban on hard alcohol and the recent elimination of pledge term.
(08/07/14 11:22pm)
Affirmative action is one of the Supreme Court’s latest targets. In a decision issued in late April, the Court upheld Michigan’s constitutional amendment barring affirmative action at public universities. While the decision officially pertains only to the state of Michigan, the conservative justices of the Supreme Court have effectively given a nod of approval to other states considering similar measures. As skepticism over the legitimacy of affirmative action intensifies, universities will find themselves searching for alternative methods of ensuring diverse student bodies.
(07/22/14 12:25am)
As a physics researcher and aspiring scientist, I carry a latent belief that, when put under the microscope, proves to be more an article of faith than a well-reasoned principle. I am referring to my inclination to view science as an infallible source of progress. When compared to the rhetorical fog that passes for analytical rigor in some humanities departments, and especially when stacked against the anti-intellectual excesses of Darwin-denying religious fundamentalism, science can appear to be the sole human activity that even attempts to cast away our biases. In this glorified construal, science allows us to understand the world as it truly is rather than as we would like it to be, granting us access to realms of knowledge our ancestors never could have dreamed of, from quarks to galaxy clusters and everywhere in between. Yet this vision fails to acknowledge the fundamental fact that scientific and technological progress, though powerful, is amoral. Science grants us a sharpened understanding of the world, but the fruits of that understanding, like the apple plucked from Eden, are not guaranteed to be sweet.
(07/11/14 12:44am)
The sticker price of a college degree in America has never been higher, and tuition won’t be getting cheaper any time soon. These costs have been ballooning upward for decades, well above the rate of inflation. Many high school graduates face a decision — accumulating thousands of dollars of debt alongside their college degree or braving a brutal job market without one. The latter, however, isn’t an easy option. Of adults aged 25-32 with only high school diplomas, over one in five live below the poverty line, according to a February Pew poll. For those who choose to pursue a college degree, some find that taking out loans is still not enough. Miriam Weeks, a Duke University rising sophomore, discusses her turn to pornography to pay for her college tuition in a recent Time article: “Faced with either a degree from a less prestigious school or decades of crushing debt, a few hours of work on a porn set revealed itself to be the best way to avoid getting screwed.”