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September 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Christopher Hitchens asks “Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless?” But Obama is not, really; and the self-deception that believes the lie about the pacific Obama campaign and its transcendent refusal to muck about…
What role should student assessment play in the hiring (or firing) of professors? That is the subject of this very interesting article. I think the article relies too much on anecdotes from a few professors,…
This fall, two of Dartmouth’s most distinguished professors Meir Kohn and Douglas Irwin, both of the Economics Department, will be leading extracurricular reading groups. Both groups will meet on Monday evening; Professor Kohn’s will discuss…
If you are a Dartmouth student, you know that the most popular (and the only useful) section of The Daily Dartmouth is the one that includes the crossword, comics, and sudoku. I would venture a…
Or Bill Safire will watch it for you. Safire’s On Language column this week examined some great college-relevant vocabulary. If you can’t make it to the full column, or to spoil a surprise even if…
One of Dartmouth’s star economists also helps to set interest rates for the Bank of England. Danny Blanchflower is in the Guardian today calling, as he has been for a good while, for lower interest…
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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…