Thursday, November 23, 2006
Squaring the Globe (07:16 PM) - A blogger called Harry notes several things that the Boston Globe article of this ayem, on the topic of Dartmouth’s accusatory Native American group, omitted….
David Blaine Survives (07:08 PM) - Defying the odds, fearless madman David Blaine has escaped from his corporate-branded gyroscope just in time to lead one hundred kids on a Targer shopping spree….
North Dakotans Respond (05:08 PM) - An article at the website of the CBS television affiliate in Bismarck, North Dakota decries Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper’s nigh-infamous letter-to-the-editor, which apologizes to Dartmouth students for Dartmouth’s upcoming game with the University of North Dakota’s hockey team. Why?…
Something to be thankful for (05:01 PM) - Charles Mitchell, writing for the Family Security Matters group, makes note of the perils of being a modern college student. As Charles writes, using the recent Dartmouth example, chief among these perils is the risk of being labeled a racist…
The Fires of Dell Hell Are Eternal (01:01 PM) - An old post of mine, “An Open Letter to My Dell Notebook Computer,” continues to get a lot of attention. People are just fed up with shoddy computer manufacture, and they want to know they aren’t the only ones. Just…
A Bit of Bad News from Hanover (11:31 AM) - George Potts observes that the winners of the latest Fulbright, Rhodes, Marshall, and Luce scholarships have been announced, and there are no Dartmouth students among them. That’s a shame. UPDATE: A reader e-mails a clarification:George Potts has some incomplete data…
The Union Leader Reports on Dartmouth’s Apology for U. North Dakota’s Team Name (09:58 AM) - In morning editions, Jim Fennell, reporter for The Union Leader, makes note of the odd apology offered by Dartmouth athletics director Josie Harper to Dartmouth’s one hundred Native American and part-Native American students for the team name of another college…
The Boston Globe Reports on Indian Fracas (09:07 AM) - Marcella Bombardieri for The Boston Globe provides a swell summary of Dartmouth’s latest contretemps. She also notes—and this is something I did not realize until a reader pointed it out to me—that the ad taken out by the Native Americans,…
Happy Thanksgiving (07:58 AM) - A little cartoon from my friend Gregory Pence:…