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February 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
So what is going on here? Some background: Erstwhile Dean of the College Tom Crady explicitly sought to lighten the enforcement of the alcohol laws by Safety & Security so that the College’s efforts would…
Students in attendance at the meeting and their advisors were vigorous in their response. The first volley of questions sought to determine why this policy was being put into place now. Students stated that alcohol…
Chief Giaccone’s presentation began with the observation that alcohol abuse by Dartmouth students seemed have increased in the past months and therefore the Town Police was going to ramp up its enforcement efforts to a…
At a meeting this evening at the Town of Hanover offices, Chief of Police Nick Giaccone announced to the assembled leaders of the College’s Greek organizations that due to “numbers” which pointed to increased drinking…
On Tuesday I dropped off 832 petitions to the Office of Alumni Relations. Thank you to everyone who sent in petitions in support of my candidacy. I am now officially on the ballot. The D…
The NYT reports on Yale’s budget cutting: lots of personnel cuts, but the faculty remains untouched: “Actions taken last year eliminated more than half of the total deficit, but, as we communicated in the fall,…
Ask someone what the Dartmouth Experience is. Then ask another. I bet you the two people didn’t have the same answer. Sure, there are certain traditions that remain similar if not the same, and perhaps…
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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…