What do you picture when you think of the word "diversity" as it relates to Dartmouth College? A pony-tailed Native American male and a Caucasian hermaphrodite with purple fingernails meeting for herbal tea in Sanborn?
How many times have you heard President Clinton justify a new public policy on the basis that it will help inner-city children and low-income minorities?
The College bureaucrats are at it again -- spending our money on programs that have nothing to do with our education.
HANOVER, April 17, 1998 -- Yesterday afternoon the Board of Trustees appointed Charles A. Winthrop '68 as the 16th President of Dartmouth College.
The ground is shaking beneath McNutt and it's not because of the construction work on Mass Row. With the release of her first book, A is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting Into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges, former Dartmouth Admissions Officer, Michele A.
What do you get when you cross Pat Buchanan with a radical left-wing environmentalist? No, not a long-haired, Birkenstock-wearing hippie who fires semi-automatic weapons at women and children who attempt to cross over the Mexican-American border, but a petite, soft-spoken woman named Virginia Abernethy, Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At first sight it is hard to imagine that this Harvard-educated anthropologist with an M.B.A.
The time has finally arrived for our nation's federal judges to temporarily remove their black judicial robes in order to get fitted for their new white laboratory coats.
In a recent interview by E/The Environmental Magazine, Paul Ehrlich, population control advocate and outspoken environmentalist stated that, "the one resource that we will never run out of is imbeciles ... the don't-worry, the-environment-is-in-great-shape, all-we-need-is-unconstrained-capitalism-and-everything-will-be-fine crowd." Not a surprising statement from a biologist who was also quoted in a 1980 Christian Science Monitor article as saying, "Economists are probably the most dangerous single profession on earth..." While the environmentalist doomsayers continue to howl about impending global ecological disaster and fault "unconstrained capitalism" for leading to the destruction of our planet , it just so happens that these very same "imbeciles" that Ehrlich and the pessimists scorn have become the new leaders in an effort to conserve tropical biodiversity while promoting economic growth in rapidly developing nations. These "imbeciles," many of whom are economists, young entrepreneurs, private property owners, and CEO's of large multinational corporations, have now begun to realize the economic value of conserving biodiversity and are already making substantial profits on preserving tropical forests. In countries such as Costa Rica, there is a growing awareness amongst conservationists, policy makers, and government officials that all efforts geared towards environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity must include economic considerations that will gain popular support from the people and that will change the economic incentives for resource exploitation. "Ecotourism" and "biodiversity prospecting" are just some of the innovative free market initiatives taking shape in Costa Rica.
The environment and racism. Aside from abortion, no two issues have consumed Americans more in the last several decades than saving trees and furry animals from greedy capitalists and ensuring that the individual liberties of all persons regardless of race, religion, gender and ethnicity are protected.
Every spring when the birds and the bees make their glorious return to the Hanover plain, the letters of protest concerning tenure decisions make their annual return to the pages of The D.