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November 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
The DrudgeReport presents a McCain a memo on how to accurately interpret the exit polls tomorrow evening. In short: 1. Historically, exit polls have tended to overstate the Democratic vote. 2. The exit polls are…
Right on the subject of my earlier post on Ivy League Political Donations, the New York Times ran an article yesterday on the degree of contagion of professors’ political views. The article concludes, as does…
It is often said that colleges and universities are some of the most liberal places in America, a claim that certainly does not become any weaker when discussing the Ivy League. If political giving is…
Evidently opera singers. AboveTheLaw picks up a very cute New York Times article here about Justice Scalia’s encounter with soprano Leontyne Price. There is certainly something special about a person who can floor justices as…
An email from a friend that might be of interest to New Hampshire voters: To all New Hampshire Voters: Since 1952 New Hampshire has held the first primary in the presidential election. The New Hampshire…
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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…