Iturrey: Disruptive Dining
Dartmouth students complain about almost everything. Any time College administrators alter our routine, the community gets flustered and finds itself discussing the negative aspects of the change.
Dartmouth students complain about almost everything. Any time College administrators alter our routine, the community gets flustered and finds itself discussing the negative aspects of the change.
Friday's Verbum Ultimum discussed the popularity of corporate recruiting among Dartmouth seniors.
Microfinance the provision of small, group loans to poor people in poor countries is, depending on whom you ask, either the latest way for western capitalists to exploit third world laborers or the miracle cure that will allow the world's poorest citizens to successfully run their own business and thereby work their way out of poverty.
U.S. News and World Report confirmed this week what will come as no surprise to Dartmouth students: Internship experience is the norm, rather than the exception, on this campus ("College receives high ranking for internships," Sept.
Despite my best efforts over these three-odd years, I can tell I've started to grow up. Not entirely, mind you that would never do but with the slow march of time has come a burgeoning sense of well a sort of maturity.
I like to imagine that I'm wise enough to be suspicious of my own desire to seem wise after all, even good advice is usually useless, since it rarely changes the recipient.
Next weekend, many male members of the Class of 2014 will enter the basements of their favorite fraternities to participate in the infamous ritual of rush.
Almost two years ago to the day, I picked up this newspaper and read a now-infamous column written by senior Mirror columnist Matthew Ritger '10 ("The Gospel According to Matthew," Oct.
I was four years old when my mother organized a "play date" with one of her acquaintance's young daughters.
Ordinarily, I disagree with most things that Roger Lott says, and the same holds true for his most recent column, "Invisible Men" (Sept.
The house smelled like roasted ground nuts and upturned soil. Yolam Okello wiped dirt off of his shovel with his work shirt.
Friday's Verbum Ultimum issued The Dartmouth Editorial Board's call for a more diverse spectrum of campus voices to appear on the opinion page this year.
And so it begins: the controversial and rumor-plagued meal plan proposal of last Spring is the new dining reality for a skeptical mob of upperclassmen and a guinea pig class of freshmen locked into the largest plan.
To the Editor: Hopefully, the newspaper's Verbum Ultimum, "Your Opinions Here," Sept. 23, will not be a "last word," but the beginning of a lively debate as to what the opinion page of The Dartmouth should look like. While the invitation to students to become engaged in writing commentaries is a good start, that enjoinder is a bit narrow.
It is no secret that The Dartmouth's opinion page is widely and frequently criticized. Writers for this page receive every possible kind of feedback from our readership sometimes constructive, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes mean-spirited.
Diversity is a popular buzzword these days, but for all the progress towards diversity that we've made in several particular areas, there is one major realm in which intellectual homogeny still reigns: our politics. This homogeny exists both theoretically and practically.
This Tuesday, I attended a panel discussion called "What I Wish I Knew As A Freshman Girl." The female upperclassmen speakers talked very frankly about their mistakes as freshmen and offered their warm support to the assembled first-year women.
On Sept. 11, I was both mentally and physically as distanced from Ground Zero as was possible in the continental United States.
This column isn't about 9/11 as a watershed geo-political moment when "everything changed," it isn't about how "America lost its innocence" and it isn't about "9/11 as the end of an era." Instead, this column is mainly about solipsism and America today.
The economic news this summer has been disastrous. Growth has stalled, unemployment has risen and the possibility of a double-dip recession has increased.