A Moderate Mandate
(04/17/98 9:00am)
The discouragingly low voter turnout in this year's Student Assembly elections reveals the degree to which the Assembly has failed in its purpose of representing Dartmouth students.
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The discouragingly low voter turnout in this year's Student Assembly elections reveals the degree to which the Assembly has failed in its purpose of representing Dartmouth students.
Although Student Assembly elections begin today, students' apparent ignorance of and apathy toward the election process demonstrate the hazards of an inadequate campaign period.
With the departure of Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco today, Dartmouth students are losing one of their most fervent advocates in the administration.
By scheduling student elections for next Wednesday, the Election Advisory Committee has made a judgment error which will have negative consequences.
Dean of the College Lee Pelton's new alcohol policies are both a demonstration of Pelton's willingness to compromise and a commendable vote of confidence in the Dartmouth student body.
The appointment of James Wright to succeed President James Freedman as the sixteenth president of Dartmouth College is both a sensible decision and a resounding endorsement of the College's current path.
Kiewit's decision to collate documents from the public printers only on the half-hour is both unreasonable and unnecessary.
The announcement of this year's Commencement speaker, Doris Kearns Goodwin, has left manyDartmouthstudents surprised at both the speaker's identity and at the early date of the decision.
The impending departure of two more vital administrators enlarges the leadership vacuum currently plaguing the College.
Several recent acts of disrespect, trespassing and vandalism on campus have brought the often-ignored issue of College safety to the forefront of discussion.
Student Assembly Vice President Nahoko Kawakyu's resignation last night has brought the Assembly into the campus spotlight for the first time this year. Unfortunately, this sudden visibility is for all the wrong reasons.
The College's history of quality teaching has always distinguished it from larger universities which focus on research rather than on undergraduate eductions.
The College's Committee on Cable Television has announced the possibility of providing cable service to dorm rooms by next fall.
Dean of the College Lee Pelton's decision to leave Dartmouth has implications for the College which extend well beyond a simple changing of the guard.
Welcome to another year of The Dartmouth.
In a report released yesterday, the College Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs recommended that Dean of the College Lee Pelton ban kegs during the summer, reduce the number of kegs during the rest of the year and allow Safety and Security officers to patrol the basements of Greek houses during parties. If these recommendations are implemented, it will radically alter, and perhaps worsen, the campus social scene.
Expansion has been the persistent theme of Dartmouth's history. Ever since the College's first major building project -- the construction of Dartmouth Hall in 1791 -- buildings have been added almost every decade. The school that used to hold classes in Eleazar Wheelock's log cabin now sprawls over hundreds of acres.
When College President James O. Freedman took over Dartmouth's helm in 1987, the school's reputation was suffering, and the College's faculty, students and alumni were all at war with the administration. Ten years later, Freedman leaves a Dartmouth redefined.
David Rosenwaks '99 will appear in Lebanon District Court today to face a bizarre and puzzling charge. Rosenwaks and about 50 other male students were gathered in the Old Dartmouth Cemetery on Aug. 6, when three Hanover Police officers charged in and tried to arrest them. Many, maybe all, of the men were members of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and some of them were drinking wine.
DDS has made a step in the right direction by incorporating student opinion in its newly announced changes.