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September 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
David Gessner, assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina, has an essay in the New York Times Magazine this weekend, a long wandering thing which eventually tries to answer whether he and his colleagues in the…
In a San Diego Union Tribune column of two weeks ago that escaped my attention until now, Dartmouth Professor Daryl Press sensibly makes the point that we are not running out of oil any time soon. Fears about “energy security,”…
From AboveTheLaw, partners at major firms are conducting business from their customized office workout centers: How fantastic. With any luck, Dartblog may soon be coming to you from Alumni Gym….
This morning, one of Domenico Scarlatti’s later sonatas, the delightful K. 427 in G major. Here it is as executed—at comprehensible tempi, no less—by Racha Arodaky in an unfortunately obscure French release. A highly competent, brilliantly recorded version. If you…
courtesy of the Onion: “Palin Unveils 9/11 Firefighter Cousin, Reformed Lesbian Niece, Naturalized Mexican Half Brother” Read the full (short) article here….
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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…