Opinion
Defending Scientific Research
By D. Bradley Bate | May 30, 2006To the Editor: I have many issues with Joseph Asch's "Dartmouth by Numbers" (May 26), but as a former Dartmouth undergraduate and now graduate student in the earth sciences department, one point in particular stands out as being especially misinformed. Based on his arguments, it is obvious that Asch's perspective on Dartmouth is skewed toward the humanities (and if we're going to talk about numbers, how about a discussion of bias?). Therefore, it is understandable that he might not understand how things work in the sciences. Asch suggests that professors in the sciences should teach more classes, presumably at the expense of their research.