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September 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
The Dartmouth Review’s first issue of the new year, addressed as usual to the freshmen, has been released. Among the perennial favorites, the best and worst professors at Dartmouth. Have a look….
New York Times: “Their goal is to restore what conservative and other critics see as leading casualties of the campus culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s: the teaching of Western culture and a triumphal interpretation of American history.” Just…
I was at a meeting the other day, and the topic of discussion was how to make sure discussion leaders in a given context were sensitive to all participating. That is to say, making sure all viewpoints are welcome, respecting…
Kevin Hassett makes a lot of sense on the Freddie/Fannie caper and just who is to blame. And Hassett doesn’t blame an unseeable, unknowable haze: he draws firm conclusions….
The subject of fixing the Committee on Standards came about two years ago when Adam Shpeen and Michael Herman, both Class of 2007, proposed new rules that would institute time-honored procedural protections at Dartmouth…
The Jawa Report Blog (and even outlets called The Jawa Report can perform investigations, in this the age of Google) has an extensive report tying a contra-Sarah Palin smear campaign to Ethan Winner, his father, their terribly progressive public relations…
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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…