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September 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
We can now report that Dean of the College Tom Crady has composed a letter to Dartmouth announcing changes to the College’s disciplinary committee. These changes come in response to student discontent with the kangaroo-court policies which bereaved accused students…
This column extends an eager welcome to The Right-Wing Professor, a new website by a nameless mathematician who is also, release the hounds, a Dartmouth alumnus or alumna. May our fair College’s domination of the industry of profligate Internet commentary…
There is some controversy over whether the McCain campaign’s characterization of Barack Obama’s abortion position—by any construction the most permissive of any prominent American politician—has been overwrought. Specifically, supporters of Mr. Obama have in their inboxes this aft a note…
For a while now Congress has been looking for a new way to inject itself in to private, higher education institutions (which are doing quite well, thank you). U.S. News reports on a list of schools that are committed to…
Here is Boris Kachka’s piece in New York magazine on the health of the book industry….
or, Everybody Loves a Maverick Donald Trump is just the latest high-profile former Hillary supporter to declare that he will back John McCain in the general election. Earlier this week we heard about Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who raised over…
Jackie Calmes and Jeff Zeleny begin their article: “The presidential race has turned into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.” So far, I say, George W. Bush is in the lead. None dare put the…
A very funny Onion News-in-Brief: High School Student Whines His Way To 4.0. Hopefully there are no such 2012s among us….
U.S. News reports on a number of factors that might contribute to lower textbook prices. I hope Wheelock Books (and Amazon and others) get the memo. Any discussion of especially textbooks brings to mind one of my favorite Winston Churchill…
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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…