Daily Debriefing

A six-year study of Gates Millennium Scholarship Program applicants suggests that black students who major in "high-paying fields" tend to make less money immediately after graduating college than Asian-American and Hispanic-American students who major in the same fields, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Teach For America sees increased applications

If there is a silver lining in the recent Wall Street meltdown, it may be the opportunity for Dartmouth seniors to pursue postgraduate options they would not have otherwise considered, like Teach For America, according to Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations.

Panel assesses an Obama presidency

President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an inauspicious slate of challenges, the likes of which have not confronted incoming presidents in decades, when he begins his term in January, an interdisciplinary panel of professors agreed.

Endowment plunges $220 mil. in 3 months

Dartmouth's endowment fell 6 percent, or $220 million, in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which began July 1 and ended Sept.

The Still North 2008-11-07

I Feel Like... 2008-11-07

Spotlight: Eben Clattenburg '09

Eben Clattenburg '09 is the tobacco cessation intern for the College's Health Resources department and is a member of the Tobacco Task Force.

Overheard

'10 Theta Delt: I was in Collis, and some girls started crying and stuff. Dude, girls are going to be so horny because Barack won. '10 Panarchist [watching Election Day coverage]: I don't want to remember who won tomorrow morning! '09 TriKap: Hoorah!

The DM Manual of Style: Gossip Girl

Spotted: Dartmouth students having a not-so-secret love affair with WASPy prep-school staples -- luxe tweeds, proper plaids and argyle sweaters.

Reboot and Rally: Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Netbooks are the new craze in computing. Everybody and their mother seems to be making these very small, very low-cost laptops.

Counterpoint: Condemning smokers is hypocritical

Dartmouth students are notorious for letting their "vices" meander into casual conversation. As long as they do not venture into "self-call" territory, nonchalant mentions of unprotected (or simply promiscuous) sex, binge-drinking, drugs and, for the less adventurous, procrastination, mean bonus points in the Dartmouth social arena.

Point: A letter from mom

I'm once again in the middle of midterms. I've got a cold; there's laundry piled up on my floor; I have no idea what classes I want to take next term and no time to write for The Mirror this week.

The First Coming

There were thousands of us, celebrating the arrival of our salvation and Hope. The politically meek came to celebrate inheriting the Earth en masse.

Verbum Ultimum: Politics In The Classroom

A number of recent studies and an article in The New York Times ("Professors' Liberalism Contagious?

Editor's Note

Our generation has been pounded with anti-drug, anti-smoking rhetoric for as long as we can remember.