Sustainability Director a Joke
To the Editor: I read with amusement your article on Dartmouth's creation of a "sustainability director" ("Merkel appointed first sustainability director," April 27). Is this a joke?
To the Editor: I read with amusement your article on Dartmouth's creation of a "sustainability director" ("Merkel appointed first sustainability director," April 27). Is this a joke?
Turn on your television. If you flip to a news channel, you'll probably see Bill O'Reilly or Bill Maher complaining about something. If you're hardy enough to make it to the 7 o'clock news, you're likely to see stories about household items that could be deadly, a murder or two and perhaps a drug bust. Who cares if there's a bill passed to cut funding to welfare?
When I first got to Dartmouth, it became clear that I stuck out for one giant reason: I was raised a conservative.
Though Earth Day has come and gone, we can still examine our impact on the planet and make personal resolutions to help make the environment cleaner and improve the treatment of animals.
In 1994, professor and literary critic Stanley Fish told the world that, "There is no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too." He argued that the "free speech" label is and always has been a political tool used for the purposes of advancing an individual or a group agenda.
I'll start with a thought exercise: you are the owner of a widget store. For years and years, the golden widget has been one of your most popular products.
When I agreed to do an interview for The Dartmouth concerning 99 Rock, I was thrilled that we at WFRD might get some recognition from a student body that doesn't even know we broadcast from Robinson Hall ("Armed with $400, DTV battles to find audience," April 28). I spent a chunk of time talking with the reporter and gave a huge amount of factual information, in addition to conveying my own experiences as a DJ and as the current FM Program Director.
At the beginning of Winter term, students studying Portuguese were shocked to learn that the LSA+/FSP to Salvador, Brazil, would not run in the fall of 2005.
If "three strikes" were a universal rule, the United States' prison systems would be serving hard time.
I sometimes feel I no longer recognize my college. I'm not speaking of the inevitable changes to the student body, faculty, curriculum and physical campus we all ought to anticipate with any prolonged passage of time.
With the Bush Administration's assault on Social Security and nomination of a vehement anti-internationalist to the United Nations, it is likely that Franklin Delano Roosevelt will soon rise from his grave to exact revenge upon those dismantling his powerful legacy.
David Hankins '05 is misguided in his rebuttal to The Dartmouth's "Verbum Ultimum" ("EPAC Strikes Back," April 25). While Hankins complains of inaccuracies, he has a few of his own, not to mention an apparent lack of restraint when it comes to baseless assumptions. His speculations against Palaeopitus are groundless and self-congratulatory.
Thank you to everyone that came by, filled up an eco-mug and listened to the band at Epsilon Kappa Theta on Friday.
I am a Republican, and I love my party. And that is precisely why I believe that it's high time for Tom DeLay to step down as House majority leader. Tom DeLay, as might be expected, sees things a little bit differently.
To the Editor: I was disappointed to see that Professor Jim Kuypers decided to resign his position last week, likely ending the study of speech and rhetoric at Dartmouth ("Speech prof resigns, blasts faculty deans," April 22). His classes were well taught and well-received by students.
To the Editor: I just want to set the record straight on a couple points because I believe there were factual inaccuracies at the heart of Friday's "Verbum Ultimum" (April 2). First of all, I think that Paul Heintz '06 most likely would not have been allowed to run for Student Body President if Palaeopitus were still in control of student elections because of the rules on college discipline that had been in place for many years.
To the Editor: Dartmouth Counsel Robert Donin's conclusion on the state of free speech at Dartmouth is perhaps one of the most slanted views on the issue that I have read ("Free Speech and its Limits," April 18). For example, he cites the that the College has hosted speakers who are "hardly a pantheon of political correctness." To set the record straight, I think it should be recognized that being conservative does not render one politically incorrect.
With the Student Assembly elections behind us, Dartmouth can look forward to a period of new leadership.
I have a new guilty pleasure. With dialogue worse than "The O.C." and plots more incredible than "Joan of Arcadia," NBC's miniseries "Revelations" is not to be believed.
To the Editor: In his letter defending the College's punishment of Zeta Psi, Dartmouth General Legal Counsel Robert B.