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October 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Homecoming is a tradition important not only for Dartmouth students but for the faithful alumni who return each year to Hanover to witness the newest Dartmouth class running around the bonfire. It is the first…
I mean how on earth would parents know which schools are best!? Parents have no qualifications to make these choices… I mean teachers are the professionals; parents are the worst people to bring up children!…
So advises Mr. Isaiah Berg ‘11, who asks in the op-ed below, published yesterday in The Dartmouth, that Parkhurst “put any smoke and mirrors of politics aside.” Earlier this week, I had the distinct pleasure…
A dear friend in Manhattan attended a Columbia symposium on economics on Monday. What, you ask, set this one apart from the dozens other economic symposia offered, daily, in corners of New York? At Columbia…
For our Hanover area readers: The Dartmouth College Republicans will welcome Joe Lieberman to campus this Thursday to answer questions regarding his support for Senator John McCain. Despite considerable foot-dragging on the part of the…
In a world of partisanship dominated by the College Republicans and College Democrats, some student groups have attempted to claim a middle ground of nonpartisan voter turnout programs. Oh how wonderful the world would be,…
The Onion reports that: Creative Writing Teacher Announces Plan To Sit On Edge Of Desk (and, perhaps, also purchase a baseball and throw it casually in the air as students read aloud) Read the short…
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…