Rasheed: Lockout Losers
It's a difficult time to be a sports fan. The owners of the National Football League are currently locking out their players in an effort to secure a greater share of future league revenues.
It's a difficult time to be a sports fan. The owners of the National Football League are currently locking out their players in an effort to secure a greater share of future league revenues.
Last month, a prestigious private university announced plans to significantly change its dining plan.
A fundamental tension, born out of Dartmouth's two centuries of existence, stands at the crux of campus debate and causes tremendous harm to dialogue about the College's future. That tension goes back to 1819, to that oft-cited line in Daniel Webster's argument before the Supreme Court, "It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college.
Having grown up in a college town that cast more votes for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader than for George Bush in the 2000 U.S.
The new dining hall renovations announced this winter have drawn a wide variety of objections from the student body.
When I first learned of the Japanese earthquake, I didn't think much of it after all, seismic activity in Japan is as inevitable as snow in Hanover.
I met College President Jim Yong Kim last spring. He's surprisingly tall, as perhaps many already know, with eyes that sparkle like obsidian and a soothing voice that sounds as if primed by the constant sucking of mentholated lozenges.
Most first-world countries subsidize the heck out of their farmers. The United States alone spends about $20 billion per year on direct subsidies money taken directly from your pocket and given to farmland owners.
To the Editor: Who said anything about wanting a color-blind Dartmouth? First, let me be up front.
This Wednesday you will probably see a lot of people walking around with stuff on their foreheads.
Last year, the prospective student I hosted during Dimensions asked me the predictable question: "What do you like most about Dartmouth?" While it seems simple, an honest answer to this question actually requires a lot of reflection.
A few weeks ago, I proudly announced to my roommate, "Guess what? I'm going to major in Romance studies!" He just started laughing.
For the first seven years my life, I lived in Korea, a country that has maintained its ethnic and cultural homogeneity for centuries.
All the recent alarm about the resignations of three minority faculty members (See: "A Troubling Trifecta," Feb.
Friday's Verbum Ultimum discussed recently announced changes to the College's dining plan options.
Campus dialogue this Winter has centered on particularly heavy issues, from the intractable problems of sexual assault and binge drinking to rising concern about the administration's approach to diversity.
At Dartmouth, we seem to have a series of perennial issues that take turns as the focal point of campus discussion.
The ongoing battle to reduce the United States' enormous federal budget deficit (roughly $1.3 trillion in this fiscal year alone) represents a shameful public policy failure and illuminates the depressing inability of policymakers Republicans and Democrats alike to honestly address the significant challenges facing our nation.
For the first time in Dartmouth history, professors now award more A and A-minus grades than all other grades combined. Think about that for a minute.
Last week, Montgomery Fellow Dan Barber gave a lecture on food ("Barber discusses food production," Feb.