Verbum Ultimum: Matching Words with Actions
Last Monday, copies of "pledge notes" were distributed anonymously throughout the Choates residence hall cluster.
Last Monday, copies of "pledge notes" were distributed anonymously throughout the Choates residence hall cluster.
The College announced yesterday that Wendy Kopp is the Class of 2012's Commencement speaker. I believe she is a speaker worthy of Dartmouth. In the past 20 years, Kopp has become the midwife of modern education reform.
To the Editor: On Wednesday evening, I attended the performance of "Undue Influence" presented by the Hopkins Center, the theater department, the Office of the President and the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program and found the show to be a thought-provoking way to raise awareness about the pervasive issue of sexual assault on Dartmouth's campus. In recent months, senior administrators and student leaders have emphasized that sexual assault is an issue that extends beyond the Greek system it is a community-wide concern that requires all members of this campus to work together if we are to successfully address it.
While I look forward to Pride Week every year, I cannot help but wonder why we frame the event the way we do.
It is no secret that, three years since the official end of the recession, many of the world's economies are still in terrible shape.
The other day, a prospective student asked me about diversity at Dartmouth. I recalled some statistics that the Admissions Office had once thrown at me.
We, the Panhellenic Council, feel it is necessary to take a public stance against the demeaning language in the alleged "pledge notes" distributed over the weekend.
Sometimes, we have to stop and take the time to appreciate what we have. When I was younger, I wanted a job badly.
For some, part of Dartmouth's charm is largely contingent on the existence of "the Dartmouth bubble." Being in the middle of nowhere, it becomes easy to forget that the world does, indeed, exist beyond our campus.
Last Friday, Andrea Jaresova published a column criticizing Vita Clamantis' "Cemetery of the Innocents" display ("Unproductive Discourse," April 20). Jaresova's piece is a masterwork of misunderstanding, willful ignorance and fallacious reasoning.
While most Dartmouth students were likely preoccupied with the continuing roller coaster ride that is the Bruins-Capitals series or our men's soccer team's triumph over Cape Verde, the eyes of economists and political commentators were settled on France. In yesterday's French presidential election, neither President Nicholas Sarkozy nor his socialist challenger Francois Hollande could muster an outright majority of the vote, and the two candidates must proceed to a runoff election on May 6.
The Board of Trustees' decision to appoint Provost Carol Folt as interim College president was no doubt an expected and logical move.
This Wednesday, when I stepped out of my dorm in the Gold Coast cluster, I was shocked and dismayed.
Beginning with the folk music revival in the 1940s, a genre of traditional songs from England and Scotland known as "murder ballads" began insinuating themselves into the national consciousness.
To the Editor: In his recent column ("Through the Looking Glass: Transcending the Hyphen," April 13), Garrett Wymore '13 cites a number of conflicts to support a central thesis that the culture of athletics, and specifically football, is in conflict with the mission of Dartmouth and the liberal arts.
A few weeks ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner '83 made a statement during a congressional hearing that ought to have made us all a little apprehensive.
Internalizing the idea of community at Dartmouth is difficult, to say the least. We are exposed to so many communities every day, from Greek organizations to sports teams to residential halls.
Recently, we have devoted much attention to binge drinking, sexual assault and hazing on Dartmouth's campus.
This past weekend, President Barack Obama traveled to Cartagena, Colombia to attend the Summit of the Americas hosted by the Organization of American States.
After what was the only seriously contested World Bank presidential selection process in history, College President Jim Yong Kim was elected as the new World Bank president yesterday.