Traditionally Arrogant
The most important steps in moving forward in any context are to be aware of your surroundings and to embrace and motivate change.
The most important steps in moving forward in any context are to be aware of your surroundings and to embrace and motivate change.
Step into this race and I will consume you--the fires of hell will scorch you years before they torch Ashcroft's rotting carcass, and I'll sit there with my now finally legal 40 of Olde English watching." ("Done With Nader," July, 29 2003) The students of Dartmouth College should expect a loftier degree of civil discourse than this from the president of their student government.
It seems like the obvious way to go at Dartmouth. When asked to think about what a typical Dartmouth student does after graduation, the image that my mind instantly conjures up is that of a young corporate recruit rapidly making his or her way towards Wall Street.
This summer the pages of The Dartmouth have crackled with calls for the College to bolster its "Brand." Dartmouth's image -- so the thinking goes -- does not have enough pizzazz, so everyone should work to inflate its prestige, and in no time it will be zeppelin-sized.
I usually reserve furious tirades for insidious Republicans, but the fact that the Green Party is still whimpering makes my blood curl.
Talk is cheap. No matter how you slice it, you can talk about a problem all you want; it's not going to fix anything.
I love Kim Jong-Il of North Korea. I love his audacity to threaten the world's only superpower with nuclear war if his demands are not heeded.
Dartmouth College has many myths. "The Sphinx has the highest water bill inHanover," and "hey freshman, touch the homecoming bonfire and you won't get burned, I promise," are just a couple of examples.
What's the tallest mountain in the world? Duh, Everest. What's the second? HmmWho is the world's best cyclist?
Until Saturday, Tubestock remained a mystery to many of the members of the '05 class. Categorized with Homecoming weekend, Winter Carnival and Green Key, Tubestock was predicted to be a weekend of big drinking.
So here we are, in the fifth week of our sophomore summer and the question that begs to be asked is: does the reality hold up to the myth?
I have read with interest the recent series of columns relating to the development of a Dartmouth brand.
Each of us in Dartmouth College Republicans, in our own favorite places on campus, picked up a copy of "The Dartmouth" this last Friday morning with joy and expectation.
To the Editor: In The Dartmouth's recent piece, "College Removes Long-Distance Fee," (July 7,2003) I was surprised to learn that long-distance service will be provided free of charge, "like it does internet service, electricity and other utilities." Maybe standard protocol has changed since I last attended, but I seem to remember these utilities falling under the roughly $35,000 our parents were charged each year.
To the Editor: I was very glad to read that the college has decided to abandon the "I" requirement.
To the Editor: The statistics quoted in "SA, College Discuss Printing Fees" (July 9, 2003) may shock some readers, but not me.
To the Editor: The Sehgal piece about "branding" a college or university makes some interesting arguments, but just how is such "branding" achieved?
To the Editor: I have been an observer of Dartmouth for many years professionally and now unprofessionally with my son looking at schools.
Recently, the College decided that a system needs to be put in place in which students will be charged for public printing.