VERBUM ULTIMUM: Accurately Adjudicating
Last winter, after a series of clashes between Greek houses and the administration, voices across campus called for reform of the College's organizational adjudication process ("Five Greek Orgs.
Last winter, after a series of clashes between Greek houses and the administration, voices across campus called for reform of the College's organizational adjudication process ("Five Greek Orgs.
You might think hell-week-and-a-half is something only the Navy Seals must endure. Perhaps you think it's just another grueling activity for those Dartmouth students with blue ribbons in their hair lugging giant stuffed animals to class.
A frequent, problematic topic discussed at Dartmouth is the desire for a universal unaffiliated space.
"Is the basement a hostile place for non-members?" This is one of the questions we ask during a Mentors Against Violence facilitation, a program I co-direct.
Nothing in journalism class had prepared me for it. The source I had been interviewing for my very first high school newspaper assignment had just pulled my notebook out of my hands and ripped out the pages containing our interview, shouting that if I wasn't going to report impartially, then he wasn't going to talk to me.
It's been a marathon week for shouting, paranoid lunatics. Just in case global warming, nuclear proliferation, H1N1, drug-resistant bacteria and the inevitable extinction of our sun weren't all scary enough, there's a new global nemesis to face off with: gang rape.
Upon reading the latest Mirror column by Matthew Ritger '10 ("The Gospel According to Matthew," Oct.
Although Friedrich Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society" is a landmark in modern economic literature, a thoughtful reader can apply its thesis to almost any problem of social organization: even the problem of sweet dudes who hang out more than the College administration, or Mirror columnist Matthew Ritger '10, would prefer. Hayek was a seminal figure in what is called "Austrian" economics.
If you still haven't gotten a chance, you should read the first of Matt Ritger's series of Greek-life columns published in The Mirror ("The Gospel According to Matthew," Oct.
The fact that students formed a committee this spring to advise College administrators on disability-related issues is a step in the right direction.
Correction appended The appointment of College President Jim Yong Kim was celebrated as a landmark for Asian Americans.
Last May, a group of Dartmouth students, frustrated with the College's Student Accessibility Services Office, presented a report to the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity advising that revisions be made to the College's accessibility policy ("Accessibility Services lacking, students say," June 2). These students argued in favor of increasing funding for Accessibility Services and improving guidelines for professors on how to best accommodate students.
I consider myself a pretty eco-friendly person who loves to preach about conservation, sustainability and all that good stuff.
Mistaken Aims To the Editor: An article on the front page of the Friday, Oct. 23 issue of The Dartmouth seriously misrepresented my aim and plans for a Dartmouth study group to examine how we might make Dartmouth's leadership position in undergraduate education even stronger.
In his final Convocation speech, former College President James Wright remarked, "In this era, although we surely need expertise and specialization, no one who aspires to leadership can afford to focus too narrowly, at the expense of attaining a broad perspective." This quotation summarizes the philosophy behind Dartmouth's graduation requirements.
Correction appended It's not hard to grasp why the White House hates Fox News. Since President Obama moved into the White House, the network has been attempting with surprising success to embarrass his administration's every move.
Quarantined in my bedroom, sweating, coughing and nauseated, I felt like Glenn Beck responding to callers demanding a public option.
Coming up with a catchy name for our generation is a task that has long stumped journalists and sociologists.
The young passenger tries to cover his mouth as he coughs, but the airborne pathogens that are causing him to hack and sputter are released to infect the other people on his transcontinental flight.
Congressional Republicans have spent the first nine months of President Obama's term throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him.