Yesterday evening, the Inter-Fraternity Council, Panhellenic presidents and co-ed organizations came together to address assault and violence in the Greek system.
The parallels between College President Jim Yong Kim and President Barack Obama have only become clearer with time.
There are two paths from which any Dartmouth sophomore must choose. One is a road of leisure, of plentiful extracurriculars and grades boosted by participation.
At a dinner party over interim a family friend asked me, "So what do people in fraternities do, other than drink?" Had I been asked that question my freshman year, or even sophomore year pre-rush, I wouldn't have had an answer.
Here is one truth you will never hear a librarian, professor or college administrator admit: the difference between plagiarizing and not plagiarizing is, in fact, a vast, bottomless chasm of gray area that students underprepared, unequipped and unfamiliar with the treacherous terrain are rarely able to successfully navigate. Let's begin with two examples.
The other day I waited in a small room at the back of the Hop along with College President Jim Yong Kim and five other students to greet New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg before he delivered his speech to students and community members. You would think a small gathering of that sort would be full of excited chatter and cordial presidential-student conversation.
Sophomore Summer. Who knew a term at college could evoke such anticipation, such hype, such excitement.
It's inevitable. This weekend, every single one of us will get sucked into a conversation with at least one crusty, close-talking alum with whiskey on his breath rambling on about the good ol' days.
"Dartmouth," someone more qualified than me once said, "is the land of 4,000 grade-grubbers." We head to office hours and ask trivial questions solely for the purpose of achieving professor facetime.
Like everyone else on campus, I came into this term with high hopes and inextinguishable optimism.