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(01/28/05 11:00am)
Even with 27 new professors hired this academic year, many Dartmouth students find it hard to fully partake in the "small school" academic experience for which the College is renowned. Students who need to take classes to fulfill their major requirements linger on lengthy waitlists for courses offered by small and large departments alike. Some have even resorted to buying spots from other students.
(01/21/05 11:00am)
At this week's community forum on the College's Social Event Management Procedure, suggestions varied, but all agreed that some change in the party registration protocol is necessary. Some called for more flexible "same night" party registration, others for a streamlining of the SEMP code to make it easier to understand. Many returned to the issue of limits and restrictions on kegs. But all agreed that the copious amounts of red tape surrounding the College's social event registration process must be eliminated.
(01/14/05 11:00am)
With the recent departure of Scholarship Adviser Marilyn Grundy and the hiring of Kristin O'Rourke to replace her, the College has an opportunity to take a long-overdue look at how effectively the scholarship advising office works. In the last three years, just one Dartmouth student has won an American Rhodes Scholarship, while 14 students from Harvard and six more from Duke were given the award. Over that same span, just two Dartmouth undergraduates were awarded Marshall Scholarships -- nowhere close to Stanford's mark of ten Marshall Scholars.
(01/07/05 11:00am)
With many alumni calling for Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg's head after the unearthing of a letter he wrote to Swarthmore President Albert Bloom in 2000, controversy has erupted over the appropriateness of Furstenberg's comments and the impact his expressed views have had on Dartmouth athletics. In the letter, Furstenberg praises Bloom for his decision to cut Swarthmore's football program, writing, "football programs represent a sacrifice to the academic quality and diversity of entering first-year classes," and "sadly, football, and the culture that surrounds it, is antithetical to the academic mission of colleges such as ours."
(11/19/04 11:00am)
Recent allegations of hazing and sexual harassment involving Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority have resurfaced tensions familiar to anyone acquainted with Dartmouth's Greek system. Though the details of this particular incident remain obscured by an ongoing Hanover Police investigation and contradictory accounts given by those on opposite sides of the dispute, several points are abundantly clear.
(11/05/04 11:00am)
In Tuesday's aftermath, many students on Dartmouth's predominantly liberal campus have expressed anger and disappointment at the defeat of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and the re-election of President Bush. This paper endorsed the senator for his superior qualifications and platform, yet now that the polls have closed, it is time to take a long, thoughtful look at the next four years.
(11/03/04 11:00am)
Today, with any luck, the presidential election will be decided. To those who voted Tuesday -- wherever they voted and whomever they chose -- we offer our sincerest thanks. In an era in which many young people display only apathy about the future of the country, it is heartening to know that so many capable and talented Dartmouth students joined the throngs of American voters who cast their ballots.
(11/02/04 11:00am)
It's Nov. 2 -- Get Up and Vote
(10/22/04 9:00am)
When Sen. John Kerry visited Dartmouth's Hinman Forum in January 2003 -- just a month after announcing his intention to run for president -- the country he hoped to lead was an entirely different place than the one we live in today. Twenty-two months ago, we were a nation at peace, a nation with allies and a nation prepared to defend ourselves against terror, at home and abroad. Kerry argued then to a standing room-only crowd that before launching into a preemptive war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, it was incumbent upon the president to work with the world community and to ensure that every peaceable solution had been exhausted. "I think I bring a capacity to stand up to the president," he argued. "And I'm not going to allow the president to bamboozle people on that issue." Twenty-two months, $150 billion and 1,103 American lives later, President Bush continues to bamboozle the people, but in 11 days we have the opportunity to set America back on course and elect Kerry president of the United States.
(10/15/04 9:00am)
Lines stretching across the lobby of Thayer Dining Hall during Tuesday night's voter registration drive in Tindle Lounge indicate that Dartmouth students plan to vote in droves come Nov. 2. With polls showing a near deadlock in this year's heated presidential contest, the student vote could prove to be a deciding factor -- particularly in crucial swing states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. The Granite State's 30,000 college students far outnumber the 7,000-vote margin of victory with which George W. Bush edged out Al Gore in the 2000 election. If Dartmouth students register and vote en masse, they could very well influence the future of this country.
(10/08/04 9:00am)
The formation of a Social Event Management Procedure Review Committee this week presents the College with an opportunity to reevaluate its disingenuous alcohol policies and actually take student input -- and perhaps reality -- into account. After all, administrators could continue along their current course of action and pay lip-service to the student body while formulating actual policy behind closed doors in Parkhurst Hall.
(10/01/04 9:00am)
A recently released three-year crime report compiled by the College's Department of Safety and Security details a dramatic increase in burglaries that occurred in College residence halls last year. The alarming rise in theft came as news to most students, however -- a result of minimal communication between Safety and Security and the student body. The College is required by federal law to release such a report every October, but it ought to go further and make weekly reports available to the Dartmouth community so that students might be aware of growing problems that could affect their personal well-being. Safety and Security needs to be held publicly accountable for whatever disciplinary actions officers take against students, and all this information should be available to those who seek it. In past years, Safety and Security has posted regular BlitzMail bulletins that served just this purpose, but for some reason these bulletins are no longer to be found. We believe that Safety and Security must take a more proactive role in communicating possible threats -- as well its own actions -- to students directly. A yearly report -- the bare minimum -- is not enough.
(09/24/04 9:00am)
President Wright delivered his annual Convocation speech on Tuesday. He used this opportunity to berate a political and media culture that seems to focus on trivial subjects at the cost of intelligent discussion of substantive issues. Wright made two important points on this subject, and both add value to the current national political contest and the continuing development of the College.
(05/28/04 9:00am)
Compromise, an element often lacking in decisions made in all walks of life, has today created grins of satisfaction both in Parkhurst Hall and along Webster Avenue.
(05/21/04 9:00am)
Gambling on college campuses is hardly a new phenomenon, and putting money on card games is probably its most common variant. The Hanover Police has recently expressed an unwelcome interest in pursuing legal action against individuals found to have participated in online poker games. Two issues are at work in this situation, and both merit comment.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
And so end the weeks of feverish campaigning, the hours of impassioned speeches and the closest Student Assembly election in recent memory.
(05/03/04 9:00am)
DAVIES FOR PRESIDENT
(04/23/04 9:00am)
Sexual Assault Awareness week ended six days ago, and it is important to make sure that campus awareness can be directed to positive ends. The Dartmouth applauds those individuals who worked to spread messages of healing and prevention throughout the community, and now it wishes to encourage a continuation of the dialogue. On the Dartmouth campus, sexual assault rates high on the dual scales of severity and prevalence, relative to other crimes.
(04/16/04 9:00am)
The recently-announced Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning looks to be a misuse of the College's treasury. Only last year, the student body was told that the College has entered a period of budgetary tightening. Since then, the administration has eliminated funding for a sports team -- recall that the only reason we still have a Dartmouth swim team is because of a massive alumni subsidization program -- and announced deep cutbacks in our library system.
(04/09/04 9:00am)
At first glance, Dean of the College James Larimore's recent decision to consider allowing the movement of fraternity, sorority and coed rush to sophomore fall seemed a welcome and overdue departure from the policies the administration has pursued since the 1999 announcement of the Student Life Initiative. While the SLI patronizingly concluded that "houses should be given the opportunity to remain," the report represented the blueprint of the administration's plan to dismantle the Greek system. Even the writers of the SLI report, however, were forced to admit that after receiving student input, "the majority of the proposals advocated continuing Fall term rush."