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October 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Whether it be women’s “reproductive rights” or “equal pay for equal work,” the Democratic Party fancies itself as the sole champion of women and women’s issues. However, after a close examination of the Democratic Party’s…
Inside Higher Ed explores the subject of universities and colleges holding classes on Election Day. Here at Dartmouth we are just a few weeks past Columbus Day. Regular classes were held on this day without,…
University of Chicago Law School Professor and preeminent law and economics scholar Richard Epstein shares some thoughts about Barack Obama (courtesy of Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy)….
Why is it, Peter asks, that institutions of higher learning seem to fumble into so much legal trouble?…
Harvey Silverglate: “Can We Change The Campus Culture?”…
Time Magazine explores an occurrence of VWI— Voting While Intoxicated. Of note to voters displeased or disgusted with their ballot choices in this election, it is evidently legal to drink and vote! Now everyone can…
Mark Foley was the one, you will perhaps recall, who had trouble with pages—but not the one who had trouble with pages in airport lavatories. He was the one who had trouble with pages from…
Featured posts
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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…