Phreddie 2009-01-08

Death Wall

When it comes to death, humans have a tendency to act irrationally. Egyptian kings erected extravagant pyramids to usher their dead into the afterlife.

Credit Crisis

Apparently, you can't fight City Hall. According to the New York State Department of Labor, some historical problem with "slavery" has encouraged legislators to ban any unpaid internship that doesn't compensate with college credit.

Daily Debriefing

Business schools across the country are increasingly trying to incorporate skills relevant to running hedge funds into their curriculums, The New York Times reported.

Legacy of Treasury Sec. Paulson '68 questioned

News Analysis

Pres. search to consider economy

With the ongoing economic crisis, Dartmouth's presidential search committee will review candidates' fiscal experience and history of economic stewardship in selecting College President James Wright's successor, according to Al Mulley '70, chair of the presidential search committee.

I Feel Like... 2009-01-07

Davison '07 returns as assistant coach for women's crew

A rower during all four years of her Dartmouth career, Kate Davison '07 returned to Hanover as the second assistant coach of the women's crew team.

AS SEEN ON: New life breathed into "Scrubs"

Over the past seven seasons, the lovelorn, misanthropic staff of Sacred Heart Hospital has traveled an interesting road.

Fourth and Long

When the Detroit Lions went 0-16 this year, they made history. Yet when the Dartmouth Big Green football team went winless for the first time since 1883, no one blinked.

Stop the Whoppers

Although I'm certain I have found many other commercials more viscerally irritating, I cannot recall a series of ads so obnoxious and insulting to the conscience as Burger King's recent "Whopper Virgins" ad campaign.

Phreddie 2009-01-06

HEAR AND NOW: Spears, Take That share album title, not glory

Two words suffice to describe Britney Spears' newest album, "Circus" (2008). A masterpiece. Spears, however, is not the only multi-platinum artist to release an album named after the big top. Take That, the British supergroup best known for 1993 track "Relight my Fire," released "The Circus" (2008) in the United States just days after the release of Spears' album. Unlike Spears, who because the center of a frenzied buzz in anticipation of her release, Take That, which has sold over 30 million albums during its career, saw little excitement when "The Circus" hit the United States. Take That's unfortunate predicament is understandable; on the album, the band sounds like a drunken imitation of Coldplay's Chris Martin , if that imitation were done by the bastard child of Five for Fighting and U2. Take That singer Gary Barlow chucks in clichs like "the science of faith" and "If love is a game / then I've played all my cards" on the song "What is Love." Innovative stuff. "The Garden" and the album's title track are similarly hackneyed.