A Voice Crying Out in the Twittersphere

True story: Late one night my sophomore spring, I was working on a paper in a study lounge in McLane, when a black girl tried to throw herself out the window of whatever that dorm is across Tuck Drive. She was screaming out to the streets about how racist and hopeless Dartmouth is, and screaming at her friend, and climbing in and out of her fourth-floor window, and generally making it difficult for me to do my homework. She was hollering about how awful it is to be a woman, and to be black, and how disgusted she is by our false pretense of diversity here when Twitter update from MyToddelmog: "Natalie Portman just walked down my block." Humph.

VERBUM ULTIMUM: Let's Try This Again

In his inaugural address this past Tuesday, College President Jim Yong Kim discussed the philosophy of a fellow Iowan, the late W.

Phreddie 2009-09-25

Spotlight on Filligar

Pete Mathias '09, Teddy Mathias '09, Johnny Mathias '11 and Casey Gibson have bouncy, swooning voices when singing in their wildly-popular-among-college-kids rock band, Filligar.

What's your Social Site?

Upon starting your first year at Dartmouth, you probably received a copy of the Green Book, which contains a picture of each member of your class paired with some personal information limited to hometown and high school.

Facebook Frauds: When You Can't Tell Friend from Faker

Social networking sites allow us to connect with friends whether they are in the next room or the next hemisphere.

ROLLIN' WITH DOLAN: Serena at Fault

There are a lot of unfair fights in sports. Super Bowl XX, in which the Bears held the Patriots to just six total yards, was an unfair fight.

BlitzMail replacement delayed

Although the task force investigating a replacement for BlitzMail had originally planned to implement a pilot version of a new e-mail system this Fall term, the group is now in a "holding pattern," awaiting approval from College President Jim Yong Kim, according to David Gelhar '84, a Dartmouth software engineer and member of the College's Task Force on E-mail and Technology.

Daily Debriefing

Hanover Police has identified several high school students as suspects in the Titcomb Cabin arson case, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone.

Study: PSA test has shortcomings

THE CUTTING EDGE

Friending and Following (Counterpoint)

Mr. Zuckerberg, you have created a monster. The appropriate use of social networking along with the economic downturn, global health care inadequacies and climate change has become one of the great hurdles facing our generation.

Reboot and Rally

Due to Twitter's inherent limitations, a cottage industry has sprung up around it in an effort to add functionality and circumvent the 140-character limit per tweet.

The Still North 2009-09-25

The Human Canon

A typical feature of the conservative critique of modern universities is a defense of the "Western Canon" as literature of preeminent worth.

Daily Debriefing

Yale University's endowment saw a negative 24.6-percent return in the fiscal year ending June 30, the most severe decline in its history, according to the Yale Daily News.