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October 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Earlier today I jotted down a few guidelines for dealing with the coming administration. They ran: 1. Lacking marginal incentives, abandon work early. 2. Languish on isolated sunny hills through late afternoon. 3. Achieve crapulence,…
SHE: “It would make me very happy if one of these days you called me, sua sponte.” ME: “No it wouldn’t. You just wanted an excuse to write ‘sua sponte.’”…
on a library computer in Novack….
In a recent email, Saybrook College Community Issues Committee Chair Akina Younge ‘11, asked students to avod using blackface makeup when creating their Halloween costumes because of its racist connotations. This email was reportedly responding…
“[Earl Warren’s Supreme Court] wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted…
In one of their fantastically funny (free) podcasts, the Onion reports on the challenge posed to John McCain by Joad Cressbeckler, an even older, more grizzled, third-party challenger….
This sort of thing, incidentally, will have to routinize over the next four years of the Obama Administration. In fact we would probably do well to put it in writing, yes? PLAN FOR OBAMA…
Joe posted some time ago about the establishment and subsequent efforts to abolish the Milton Friedman Institute, part of the University of Chicago system that would devote itself to economic research. Judge Richard Posner comments…
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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…