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(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."
(04/02/04 10:00am)
The College received good news when Vermont governor and former presidential contender Howard Dean agreed to come to Dartmouth as a visiting fellow of the Rockefeller Center. Dean played an important role in this year's Democratic Primary. Despite his disastrous speech following the Iowa caucuses, and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's subsequent surge, strong disdain for President Bush as an individual and for the Bush administration as a whole that Dean tapped among the party faithful have had an important impact on the course of the presidential campaign thus far.
(03/05/04 11:00am)
As Winter term comes to a temperate close, we at The Dartmouth look back on a term that was, in many ways, light on news around campus. Aside from the whirlwind New Hampshire Democratic primary, the winter doldrums seemed to have quelled campus activity. We look forward to a busier spring -- and the return of our cold-fleeing classmates.
(02/27/04 11:00am)
In a promising step away from the slippery slope of government-funded religious education, a decisive seven Supreme Court justices have voted to allow states to withhold scholarship money from students enrolled in religious training. An all-too rare act of Constitutional clarity had Chief Justice William Rehnquist authoring a majority opinion that honors the state of Washington's firm provisions against funding religious instruction.
(02/20/04 11:00am)
In a week of unprecedented movement toward the legal recognition of same-sex unions, it was encouraging to see that, like San Francisco and Massachusetts, New Hampshire is beginning a long-overdue conversation on the controversial subject of gay marriage. Unfortunately, rather than seeking a way to honor and respect people's commitment to one another regardless of sexual orientation, the state legislature is instead considering a bill that would amend state law to define marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." It would also take the added step of explicitly denying legal recognition to same-sex couples married in states where such unions could soon be legal.
(02/06/04 11:00am)
A presidential debate at Dartmouth just days before last week's Democratic primary would have been icing on the cake. It's a shame that the College was unable to put together anything more spectacular than a Lifetime Television forum on women's issues with Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman and Howard Dean, while the University of New Hampshire and St. Anselm's College both secured big-time televised debates. But to place blame solely on the Rockefeller Center and then accuse the College of sabotaging a student-organized debate -- as Kabir Sehgal '05 and his Buzzflood cohorts did (The Dartmouth, Feb. 5) -- is reckless, irresponsible and wrong.
(01/26/04 11:00am)
In a state where talk is curt and blunt, John Edwards' southern drawl takes on an almost foreign tone. He is an outsider in so many senses -- a one-term senator from a Republican state, the son of a mill worker-turned-self-made millionaire and a relentlessly optimistic candidate in a fearsomely negative campaign. But if he seems out of place in the Upper Valley, the same cannot be said of Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas and yes, Florida, where a weak showing in November will almost certainly hand the election to President Bush and result in another four years of miserable failure.
(01/23/04 11:00am)
If you happened to have strolled through the Hop yesterday, you may have run into Sen. John Edwards heading down the stairs after his town hall forum. Or perhaps you were walking along Main Street and you ran into Gov. Howard Dean and Rob Reiner heading into Lou's to tape Letterman's Top 10. Maybe you'll see Ambassador Carol Moseley-Braun today in Rocky or Sen. John Kerry tomorrow in Cook. Or perhaps you managed to snag one of those rare tickets to the debate in Moore on Sunday.
(01/16/04 11:00am)
For nearly 40 years, some of Dartmouth's most prized works of art have been covered by wooden boards and left to gradually deteriorate. In 1964, as the College was evolving from its Protestant roots into a more secular institution, stained glass windows created by Louis Tiffany and several other well-renowned artisans were thought to be too religious for the newly non-denominational Rollins Chapel. The College decided to cover the glass when it renovated the Chapel that year, and no one has seen the windows since.
(01/09/04 11:00am)
In 18 days, the people of New Hampshire will once again determine the Democratic presidential nominee for the rest of the nation. In over 80 years of hosting the first-in-the-nation primary, only two candidates have lost in the Granite State and gone on to win the presidency. Though the Republican nomination is virtually uncontested, the race to challenge President Bush is a heated one, and the Democrat who wins here Jan. 27 will likely face Bush in November.
(11/21/03 11:00am)
The Student Assembly's primary purpose is to rally the student body behind a cause. They demonstrated this power in working to preserve the College's swim team over interim last December. A disappointing lack of this type of focused campaign has plagued the Assembly's agenda this term, resulting in few substantial accomplishments to the benefit of Dartmouth's students.