Batchelor: An Open Letter
To the Class of 2015: Relax. Everything will be okay. You're about to begin a new chapter in your lives, and it's going to be a doozy.
To the Class of 2015: Relax. Everything will be okay. You're about to begin a new chapter in your lives, and it's going to be a doozy.
Congratulations '15s you have made it through that wonderful and peculiar form of coerced bonding we call "Trips" and are now poised for a radically different introduction to the Dartmouth community.
After reading Andrew Lohse's most recent diatribe of baseless statements ("Misleading Voices," Aug.
This term, I enrolled in two biology classes. The first, Genetics and Heredity, discussed the established, accepted ideas that form the foundation of the discipline.
Having been away from Dartmouth and in the "real world" for the past year, I've had to make the awkward transition back into this skewed landscape of wasted privilege, lockstep anti-intellectualism and rapacious yearning to at any cost to ourselves and each other become or remain upper class.
Following the recent gridlock during the debt ceiling debate, many Americans wonder whether politicians will ever be able to take quick, decisive actions.
In recent weeks, this page has featured an eloquent dialogue on the merits of careers in corporate America.
Last week, the world watched in stunned silence as rioters burned and pillaged dozens of neighborhoods in nine major British cities, with the lion's share of the chaos occurring in and around London.
I recently found myself at an ice cream shop with a UC Berkeley student named Javier. Javier's mother was just 14 years old when he was born, and he spent his early years in a poor neighborhood in El Salvador.
Last week, Princeton Review and Forbes released their college rankings, unleashing the perennial wave of anxiety through college-bound students everywhere.
Good grades, a social life or enough sleep. At other colleges, you might get to only pick two, but here at Dartmouth, you will always have all three!
You've distinguished yourself from a highly competitive applicant pool of 22,385 individuals. One out of 9.7 students was accepted.
Class of 2015, we're not so different, you and I. We both start off the term with a familiar sense of nervous excitement.
This week, I came across one of the most disturbing images I have ever seen. On the front page of Tuesday's New York Times was a picture of a little boy starving to death, reduced to a thin sheet of skin clinging to a clearly visible skeleton.
Congratulations, '15s, and welcome to Dartmouth College. We're excited to have one of the most accomplished and motivated classes ever to grace the Green join us in Hanover this fall.
Tomorrow, Greek houses and other student groups will come together to host the College's annual Consent Day to raise awareness of sexual assault and other sexual health concerns.
To the Editor: Andrew Lohse's recent column on the effects of corporate recruiting on the hapless men and women of Dartmouth seems to have struck quite an internet nerve.
To the Editor: At Bridgewater Associates, we place a high value on accuracy and feel the need to correct even small inaccuracies so that misimpressions do not linger.
It is my firm opinion that the Leading Voices in Politics and Policy lecture series will, if it continues, go down as one of President Kim's greatest achievements as Dartmouth's president.
Dartmouth distinguishes itself from its Ivy League peers through its adherence to liberal arts education, touting on its website that its course load is "structured to maximize your understanding of the world in ways that enable you to be a leader in your future work." During President Kim's inauguration, the College added another adage to its publicity arsenal by challenging its students to "aspire to change the world." It's time for the College to own up to its words.