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January 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
At today’s budget meeting, President Kim continued to reinforce the message that serious cuts in staffing and benefits, and a serious reorganization of the College’s business practices, were inevitable. Not only that, the uncertainty felt…
President Kim announced that Thayer will remain the College’s central dining hall and that the Class of 1953’s generous gift of $12M — originally intended for the much-derided North Campus dining facility — would be…
David Brooks takes a look at Haiti, and Third World development in general, in his column in the Times today. He comments: Third, it is time to put the thorny issue of culture at the…
Dartmouth’s first protest gathering in a long while was uneventful. About 125 Service Employees International Union Local 560 members and less than a handful of students gathered in front of the Hop as attendees of…
While I certainly feel for the SEIU members who may experience pay cuts and layoffs in the coming budget tightening, the rallying cry of “Cuts and Layoffs Hurt the Dartmouth Experience” rings hollow. A huge…
It looks like the Acting Dean of the College will not be replacing the Acting Athletics Director any time soon. >Date: 14 Jan 2010 08:50:26 -0500 >From: Dean of the College >Subject: AD Search >To:…
On several occasions I have commented (here and here) on the need for our Trustees to spend time with members of the faculty in order to obtain perspectives about the College that are unfiltered by…
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…