After a frantic dinner at Home Plate one night last week my friends and I ran down the steps of Thayer to the women's rest room at the bottom level.
At Dartmouth, students are disappointed, but not surprised
The executive committee of the College's Will to Excel capital campaign voted Friday to extend the deadline of the fund drive by four months, giving Dartmouth until Oct.
Move would allow more time to raise $500M
Michael Boskin, the former head President George Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, said last night that government bureaucracy stands in the way of economic growth. "A highly bureaucratic, centralized, totalitarian manner of government cannot produce a successful economy," Boskin said. "Decentralization is not an easy battle, especially when it deals with governmental regulation on local, state and national levels," he said. Boskin, who is an economics professor at Stanford University, gave a speech titled "The Sense and Nonsense in American Economic Policy" to an audience of about 60 people in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Boskin discussed ways to decentralize the national government and decrease the national deficit while also balancing the federal budget. Boskin said the United States has had a huge problem balancing the budget in the later part of the 20th century.