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About Dartblog
Dartblog was founded by Joe Malchow in September 2004 as Joe's Dartblog. The weblog, a running journal of unrehearsed commentary and reportage, focuses on higher education, music, politics, literature, and whatever fancy strikes its writers at the moment they sit down to type. Jennifer Bandy, Jacob Baron, and Zak Moore joined Dartblog in the spring of 2008; Joseph Asch and Phil Aubart joined in 2009. All are Dartmouth students past and present.
The reader will forgive us that what appears in this column is on the whole hastily dispatched; it is in the nature of the Internet. We promise, though, to provide accurate data, confident reportage, a quick turnaround—and we may occasionally succeed in being entertaining. It is not, we think, a poor deal for the reader.
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About the Writers
Joseph Asch
A member of the Class of 1979 and a 1983 graduate of the Yale Law School, Joe worked for Bain & Co. prior to founding several companies which he still owns and manages. After residing for close to twenty years in Paris, in 2004 he moved with his wife and two children to their summer home in Hanover. Since the early 1990s, Joe has audited classes each year at the College. In 1998, he initiated and funded the Departmental Editing Program (DEP), which employed retired high school English teachers for nine years in Dartmouth’s departments of Art History, Religion and Mathematics, where they worked intensively with students on their writing skills.
Joe speaks French and Italian fluently, is fond of good wine and his wife’s excellent cooking, and has a passion for history. Each spring he experiences a curious fascination for the music of Mick Jagger.
Photograph by Zachary A. Ingbretsen.
Jennifer Bandy
Jennifer Bandy is a member of the class of 2009, studying government and French. She is particularly interested in American foreign policy and relations with Western Europe.
President of the Dartmouth College Republicans, Miss Bandy enjoys classical and country music and is a practicing Catholic. Before joining Dartblog, she reported for The Dartmouth, the College's student newspaper. Miss Bandy is a competitive sporting clays shooter, ranking nationally since she participated in the 2003 Junior Olympics. She is unhealthfully preoccupied with Bing Crosby.
Photograph by Joseph Mehling.
Jacob Baron
Jacob D. Baron comes from New York City—the Upper West Side of Manhattan, for those to whom that means anything. He attended Stuyvesant High School and is a member of Dartmouth's class of 2010. His academic interests lie in and around mathematics, the quantitative social sciences, European history, and French. He is studying mathematics.
Previously Mr. Baron worked as an opinion columnist for The Dartmouth. His writing there examined College policy and politics with a critical eye—a tradition of which he is proud.
Personally, Mr. Baron enjoys strategy board games, haute French cuisine, and pre-Lloyd Weber musical theatre.
Photograph by Joseph Mehling.
Zak Moore
Zak Moore was born in New York City and has lived all his life in the wonderful town of Weston, Connecticut. Mr. Moore is a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2009. For the past three years he has pursued studies in government and psychological brain sciences and hopes to attend law school upon graduation. On campus Mr. Moore mentors, participates in Mock Trial, and writes for the Dartmouth Law Journal.
Mr. Moore supports free markets and civil liberties as the most moral and efficacious means of achieving prosperity, and will often write from a classical liberal perspective. His academic interests include the U.S. Constitution, political psychology, psychology of law, Middle Eastern affairs, and civil liberties. Mr. Moore supports the New York Mets.
Photograph by Joseph Mehling.
Joe Malchow
Joe Malchow founded Dartblog just a few months after arriving at Dartmouth; over a period of four years the website became an agenda-setting publication at the College and among watchers of higher education at large. He studied government and English literature, and has written on culture and politics for The Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Manhattan Institute, National Review Online, as well as The Wall Street Journal Europe and Asia.
Mr. Malchow is specially fond of American standards and swing and Western classical music, especially the collaborations of Da Ponte and Mozart. He possesses a pleasant light baritone, and his knowledge of the Great American Songbook is a terrific annoyance to all.
ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jake Tapper '91 profiled Joe in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in 2008. [PDF]
Photograph by Wm. Ladislaw.
Featured posts
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…