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(04/30/09 4:47am)
The New Yorker recently ran an expos on the illicit use of "neuroenhancement" drugs, both on and off college campuses. According to the article, the most frequent collegiate users of Adderall are undergraduates at highly competitive schools in the Northeast, and users are likely to be in a fraternity or sorority. Ring any bells? That's Dartmouth in a nutshell. If The New Yorker is right, then Dartmouth could well be the Adderall capital of the world. Unfortunately, the issue still remains very much an underground one on campus. There is apparently a huge disconnect between the reality of student use and the level of awareness among administrators and Health Services. Because of this disparity, it's difficult for students to find information about how to make smart decisions with respect to study drugs. Health Services, undergraduate advisors and Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors should educate students about study drugs, with information on the different types, dosages, methods of consumption and side effects.
(04/15/09 4:34am)
According to a recent article in The New York Times, three states (Indiana, Utah and Minnesota) are starting a pilot program known as the Lumina project to make sure that degrees offered by certain universities and colleges in the state "reflect a consensus about what specific knowledge and skills should be taught" ("Colleges in 3 States to Set Basics for Degrees," April 8). The basic idea is to ensure that earning a particular degree will entail acquiring certain skills, such that degrees would be awarded based on comparable standards around the world. Among the degrees being targeted are education, history, chemistry, physics and graphic design.
(03/31/09 3:03am)
On a recent trip to Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not seek to deflect the blame that America deserves for the Mexican drug problem: "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade." This drug trade has been costly for Mexico and other Latin American countries. According to The New York Times, there have been over 7,200 deaths due to drug-related violence in Mexico alone since last year. In addition, the U.S. spends around $40 billion each year to combat the spread of drugs. As much as we'd like to pretend otherwise, much of the blame for these problems lies squarely with us.
(03/04/09 8:42am)
Chris Talamo argues in his recent column ("Attitudes on a Curve," Feb. 25) that students should only receive 'A's for doing well, not for trying hard. He states: "We sometimes lose sight of a quintessential fact while pursuing our dreams in this academic wonderland: the only thing anyone else sees of our work is the finished product." Unfortunately, this isn't entirely true. There are many ways in which students can ensure that more than just the finished product is seen. One conspicuous way is through abuse of office hours.
(02/17/09 7:19am)
When I first read that the Courtyard Cafe at the Hopkins Center would not be open this summer, I wondered how I could ever go through my entire DBA during a term when Food Court and Collis, both with limited hours, were my only dining options. I love the occasional chicken parm or breakfast sandwich, but they just aren't enough to sustain me for an entire summer. Variety is, after all, the spice of life. Dartmouth Dining Services' food is already repetitive enough, and it seems criminal to force us to consume so much of the same food every day.
(02/03/09 5:27am)
How far should the College go to encourage us to make the most of our time here and have the best Dartmouth experience? This is the question that went through my mind when I read the recent article about the Mean Green program ("'Mean Green' program gives fans incentives for attendance," Jan. 29). In an effort to boost attendance at sporting events, the Mean Green program offers students school apparel for attending six events, and, last fall, offered PE credit to students who attended at least eight games. While this last institute may seem extravagant, the message is clear: the athletic department, with the support of the College, goes to great lengths to encourage students to attend athletic events and cheer on their peers. This makes perfect sense, because sports attendance builds a sense of community that improves the quality of life for everyone.
(01/22/09 8:41am)
In her recent column, "Distributive Justice" (Jan. 15), Tina Praprotnik says, "[T]he main goal of distributive requirements should be to produce well-rounded graduates and to encourage students to explore subjects outside of their chosen field of study." She goes on to point out the flaws in the distributive requirement system, and how that system prevents students from making the most of their undergraduate experience by forcing them to take obscure courses simply to fulfill requirements. In addition to distributive requirements, there is another aspect of our undergraduate education that, while created with the best intentions, has evolved so that it now keeps us from getting the best education possible. That aspect is the Non-Recording Option.
(01/06/09 8:42am)
While I was on a Birthright trip to Israel this past December, a six-month ceasefire agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians ended, and violence ensued. Almost immediately, shells and rockets from Gaza started falling into the neighboring Israeli towns. Although nobody was killed, 60 rockets fired in one day is hardly a minor event. Incidentally, there were eight Israeli soldiers traveling with our group, which gave us a taste of what it would be like to be an Israeli citizen of our age.
(12/01/08 8:31am)
David Sedaris is the last person you'd want to sit next to on a plane, and he'd tell you so himself. In one of the funniest moments of his latest book, "When You Are Engulfed in Flames"(2008), the comic essayist struggles to enjoy flying in the "Business Elite" section of the plane, while sitting next to a man on his way to a funeral.
(11/19/08 10:03am)
Not surprisingly, the presidential election permeated every aspect of our lives in the weeks leading up to it. Students shirked their homework to phone-bank, canvass or just watch hilarious videos of Tina Fey dressed up as Sarah Palin. Alice Zhao '12's recent column ("Red States, Blue States," Nov. 14) certainly reflects the level of activity and involvement that we have in our political system. Anybody looking outside their window on campus right after the results were announced would attest to this: Hordes of Obama supporters screamed and ran over the sidewalks that they had chalked with political messages just hours earlier.
(11/19/08 10:02am)
Not surprisingly, the presidential election permeated every aspect of our lives in the weeks leading up to it. Students shirked their homework to phone-bank, canvass or just watch hilarious videos of Tina Fey dressed up as Sarah Palin. Alice Zhao '12's recent column ("Red States, Blue States," Nov. 14) certainly reflects the level of activity and involvement that we have in our political system. Anybody looking outside their window on campus right after the results were announced would attest to this: Hordes of Obama supporters screamed and ran over the sidewalks that they had chalked with political messages just hours earlier.
(11/06/08 8:48am)
A recent New York Times article, "Multitasking Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus," highlights this increasing trend of multitasking and adds some evidence from psychologists and neuroscientists to show that, after a certain point, multitasking hinders our efficiency. It is especially detrimental to our efficiency when we combine activities not meant to be combined. For example, according to the articleour reaction times are slower behind the wheelif we are texting than if we are "drunk or stoned."
(10/23/08 6:21am)
Lately, a slew of columns have questioned the decision to rush (Dmitriy Gutkovich '10's "The Unaffiliated Path," Sept. 30), the rush process ("Verbum Ultimum: She's Nice, But...," Oct. 17), and the alleged pledge process (Brian Solomon '11's "Hazed and Confused," Oct. 20). Given these arguments, it may be difficult to see why over 60 percent of us choose to join a Greek organization over the course of our career here.
(10/08/08 4:58am)
Looking forward to a pledge term with ample time spent in the basement and diminished time spent in the library, hordes of sophomore guys are making the guilty decision and taking "gut" classes this fall to keep their GPAs afloat.
(10/01/08 8:09am)
Volumes upon volumes of literary criticism and biographies have been written about Robert Frost over the years, but none has tackled his intellect. None, that is, until Brian Hall's novel, "Fall of Frost" (2008).
(09/29/08 12:48pm)
"Musclebound," a one-man multimedia play, will bring the audience in Collis Common Ground into the not-often-revealed and frightening world of male physical self-improvement. The show is co-sponsored by, among others, College Health Services, Eating Disorder Peer Advisors, Dartmouth Athletics, Chi Gamma Epsilon, Alpha Delta, Psi Upsilon and Chi Heorot. It centers around the lives of three men who all have different body image issues and who all hide their problems from the world around them. Written and performed by Michael Feldman and directed and edited by Adam M. Laupus, the 90-minute performance supplements the three main stories with real-life interviews with men on the subject of their body image as well as television clips from popular culture that shape our feelings about our bodies.
(09/25/08 4:13am)
Earlier this summer, I became curious about what kind of kids the incoming '12s would be. So I went to the best source of information for someone who wants to know what people are really like: Facebook. I'm not a Facebook regular, but I wanted to know who these 1,100 new Dartmouth students were. Going through the Dartmouth Class of 2012 Facebook group, I saw all the usual topics of conversation: DOC Trip sections, dorms and miscellaneous apprehensions about college. Then I stumbled across a topic of conversation that surprised me: "Steroetype the person above you" (so spelled ... worst class ever).
(05/06/08 5:56am)
Think back to all the time you spent learning SAT vocabulary during your junior and senior years of high school. You may or may not still remember the definitions of words like "abscond" and "subterfuge," despite the fact that you'd likely never use them in real life. The only place that they now seem appropriate is in a paper written to wow a Writing 5 professor or in your senior thesis, or in any of the papers that come in between.
(05/06/08 5:53am)
Think back to all the time you spent learning SAT vocabulary during your junior and senior years of high school. You may or may not still remember the definitions of words like "abscond" and "subterfuge," despite the fact that you'd likely never use them in real life. The only place that they now seem appropriate is in a paper written to wow a Writing 5 professor or in your senior thesis, or in any of the papers that come in between.
(05/06/08 5:51am)
Think back to all the time you spent learning SAT vocabulary during your junior and senior years of high school. You may or may not still remember the definitions of words like "abscond" and "subterfuge," despite the fact that you'd likely never use them in real life. The only place that they now seem appropriate is in a paper written to wow a Writing 5 professor or in your senior thesis, or in any of the papers that come in between.