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September 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Sitting at the Republican National Convention right before Sarah Palin’s speech, a man tapped me on the shoulder and handed me a handwritten note. It read simply “Vox Climantis in Deserto”, the Dartmouth motto. I knew instantly that he was…
Todd Zywicki, professor of law at George Mason University and a Trustee of Dartmouth College, writes on the Volokh Conspiracy about the conspicuous absence of congress in responding to the recent economic goings on. The Democrat-run branches of Congress are…
The Times book review for what looks like an extremely witty satire on a very interesting subject. Christopher Buckley is already one of the greats, and Supreme Courtship looks as though it will not disappoint. I just ordered a copy…
If you use an iPhone, bookmark the new iPhone edition of Dartblog for easy reading while waiting in line for three-eggs-scrambled-wheat-toast-dry—or whatever Crisco’d comestible it is that you order each morning at the Hop. Using your iPhone, simply go to…
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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…