Dr. C. Everett Koop '37 said last week that America's tobacco companies are "equally evil" as the sellers of illegal drugs, and that they're the "real terrorists" in our world.
We 03s know the story. Dartmouth College, back in the day, was Apple country. In 1999, incoming freshmen were advised, "more than 90 percent of students and faculty use Macintosh." In those sweet days of yore, the Macintosh was as much a Dartmouth fixture as Blitzmail, Food Court and muddy March quagmires.
As your typical music-obsessed Dartmouth student, I can't help but go green with envy upon hearing about the exciting craze that's been sweeping college campuses for several decades now: they call it "free-form college radio." Apparently, some schools have this cool deal where students can broadcast their favorite tunes in crystal clear FM stereo, without being told what to play and when to play it.
Last Friday at the Rockefeller Center rally for Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' apparent best presidential hope for 2004, there was sometimes a jarring discontinuity between his obvious sincerity on topics like his stance against President George W.