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September 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
In honor of my return to Hanover on Monday, a brilliant piece from Bing Crosby and the Rat Pack entitled “Mr. Booze”. A fitting way to start my senior year, I’m sure:…
Abortion has been a hot topic in the United States for decades, but opponents of abortion are just now raising awareness of the subject in Russia. This public discussion of course coincides with government desperation over negative population growth. Now…
The New York Times reports that “E.R. Patients Often Left Confused After Visits.” The gist of the problem is that they are not given, or do not understand, adequate information on what steps they should take pertaining to their malady…
What has the Rosetta Stone people so damned convinced that it is there is a tremendous unaddressed need amongst mallgoers for foreign-language instruction? Those little yellow bodegas are positively profligate—and no one ever, ever buys. (Posted from BlackBerry)…
Seen posted around campus, perhaps a little early yet with Homecoming still a few good few weeks away (October 17 and 18), nevertheless: Also, A fantastic article, old in date but timeless in content, featuring everything from musings on the…
Have you ever described a roommate this way? I think most college students have had at least one negative experience with a roommate, but this story is truly terrifying. Mia Henderson, a freshman at the University of Arizona, was stabbed…
A fine piece of economic analysis, in the New York Times (?!), that looks a little deeper in to the recent economic upheaval than what seems to be the solution du jour: throw as much money and regulation at a…
Joe Biden has taken heat in the past for multiple incidences of plagiarism. He also, quite impolitely I should think, called Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” and referred to…
Dartmouth’s annual freshman orientation, now playing, is packed with events advertising free food—often pizza. I am reminded of this Mac advertisement, therefore, which is cute, clever and on-target….
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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…