Saturday, May 04, 2002Saturday Happenings: "Everything at Dartmouth after 11 A.M." (rushed edition)"5K AIDS Awareness Run" noon, Hanover Green--Prizes for top runners ($5 registration fee). "Greek Olympics" 1 - 4 P.M., Webster Ave.--Part of "Greek Week." Featuring a barbeque and several attractions. "May Day Festival" 1 - 8 P.M., Organic Farm (Vans leave from behind Robinson at 1, 3, and 5 P.M.)--Work in the fields until 5, pot-luck dinner to follow. "May Pole Dancing, Lawn Game Olympics, and the infamous White Mountain Oyster Bluegrass Band." "Dog Show" 2 P.M., Tabard lawn--Greek pooches compete for honors. "Bait & Bullet feed" 5 - 9 P.M., 19 E. Wheelock--Featuring "mooseburgers, whole chickens, Harry's Coweta County Cornbread carefully crafted from a secret family recipe...and luck permitting a little New Hampshire wild turkey" (free for DOC members, $3 otherwise). "Trembling Before G-d" 7 & 9:30 P.M., Loew Auditorium--"A groundbreaking documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality and religious fundamentalism," featuring "intimately told stories of gay and lesbian Hasidic and Orthodox Jews." "Spring Sing" 8 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--"College a cappella groups perform, joined by guest singing groups from other colleges" ($3 Dartmouth students, $8 gen. admission). "8 Hours of Leisure" 10 P.M. - 6 A.M., Panarchy--"DJs spinning music for the people." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 8:09 AM (0 comments) Friday, May 03, 2002Alumni: I have some things add to Andrew's blitz on the Dartmouth Alumni for Open Governance. The purpose of the organization is quite simple. It aims to reinvolve Dartmouth alumni in charting the course of the College. In the past, as described in detail on the DAOG website, such an arrangement was the norm, much to the benefit of all concerned. By involving the College's graduates in its governance to a degree largely unknown in other such institutions, Dartmouth managed to build a base of alumni support that remains, even in its much degraded condition, the envy of the nation's colleges and universities.In recent years, however, the College has gradually reduced the role of the alumni, and centered what power remains in a small, cooperative group of alumni "leaders" that is increasingly self-pertetuating, if not directly chosen by the College administration itself. As the involvement of the wider body of alumni in the governance of the College has diminished, so too has their support for it. Nor is it an accident that this decline in alumni authority has coincided with a de facto cessation of consultation with the alumni over the future of Dartmouth, even as radical reforms have been contemplated and initiated. Whether they believe, as I do, that administration and Board of Trustees' path towards a research university model is a terrible error, and whether they agree with me that the attempt to eliminate Greek organizations in favor of an ill-defined new "student life" structure is an improper and foolish attempt at social engineering, any alumni of the College should be deeply disturbed that these decisions have effectively been removed from our hands. The alumni are the conscience of the College, as well as its financial backers. Faculty and administrators come and go, and are inevitably succeptible to the latest fads in higher education. The alumni are always there, and have an institutional memory that is invaluable and irreplicable. To exclude us from the governance of the College is to lose a large part of what has allowed a small school in the backwoods of New Hampshire to compete effectively with massive institutions in Boston or New York. The Dartmouth Alumni for Open Governance are dedicated to reversing this trend. It is a laudable goal for anyone who believes in the continuing connection of alumni to Dartmouth. I urge all alumni to go to the DAOG website and join. There is no monetary or time commitment involved unless you so choose, but you will be kept informed of important developments relating to these issues. I also urge any who can to attend the meeting of the Association of Alumni on Saturday May 18 (Green Key Weekend), where several important resolutions will be debated. Anyone interested in DAOG, or alumni affairs generally, should feel free to contact me: ajwi@alum.dartmouth.org Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alexander at 4:27 PM (0 comments) Clinton: House Maj. Whip Tom DeLay spokesperson Jonathan Grella on Clinton's sit-down with NBC execs: "I thought they already had a show called 'The Bachelor.'" he wanted to call it "'Bill Clinton is Making Even Less Sense Than Alan Keyes'...It's a far better concept than a show entitled 'Everybody Love Gerald Ford.'"Let us all thank Hillary for refusing to allow her hubby one-up her... Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by barrett at 3:26 PM (0 comments) A complicated history: Dartmouth Alumni for Open Governance (DAOG) today opens its website that explains the historic role of the alumni body in choosing the College's Trustees and details that ways recent administrations have undermined this process. Interested alumni can sign up to join the DAOG at the website (the link is at the bottom of the home page).Any DAOG members want to add anything? Wilson? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:35 PM (0 comments) Friday Happenings: "Everything at Dartmouth after 11 A.M." (with apologies to KMS)"Display of the AIDS Quilt" noon through 9 P.M., Commonground--Part of "AIDS Awareness Week." Fetching fun for AIDS activists and quilters alike. "Red Ribbon Campaign" noon though 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. through 7 P.M., Collis and Thayer--Part of "AIDS Awareness Week." Wear a red ribbon to show that you're against AIDS, apartheid, and the beating of defenseless children. "Dartmouth Talks about AIDS" 2 P.M., Commonground--Part of "AIDS Awareness Week." Listen to "HIV educators and HIV positive speakers." Are you aware already? "The Copernican Revolution Reconsidered" 2 P.M. 104 Wilder--Prof. Emeritus Owen Gingerich speaks. "Why things break" 3:30 P.M., 100 Cummings--Ali Argon from MIT speaks. "Strain-induced Quantization in Si/SiGe Vertical Quantum Dots" 3:30, 202 Wilder--Dr. Jun Liu of Brown University speaks. "A Geneology of Jewish degeneration: Weininger, Lombroso and Nordau" 4 P.M., 2 Rockefeller--Marilyn Reizbaum, chair of the English department at Bowdoin College, speaks. Learn about these three "'sex and race doctors' of the turn of the 20th century" and their theories of eugenics. "Free (Anonymous) HIV Testing Clinic" 4 - 7 P.M., 203 and 204 Robinson--Part of "AIDS Awareness Week." Call 448-8887 for an appointment. "Psychedelic Posters and Comix: Victor Moscoso & The Yellow Submarine" 4:30, Loew Auditorium--"Victor Moscoso, psychedelic poster artist who created posters for bands such as Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Doors, will present slides of his work. David Ehrlich, Visiting Professor of Film and Television Studies and a colleague of the animators who worked on The Yellow Submarine, will then speak about animation of the same time period." "Islam in America Today" 5 P.M., 105 Dartmouth--Part of "Islamic Awareness Week." Dr. Aminah B. McCloud speaks, with opening remarks by Tucker dean Stuart Lord. "Cinco de Mayo" 5:30 P.M., McCulloch Hall--Authentic Mexican food, "Ballet Folklorico de Dartmouth," and a discussion with visiting religion prof. Darryl Caterine. "20 Years of Theta at Dartmouth" 7 P.M., Brace Commons--Featuring food, drink, and "alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta and Epsilon Kappa Theta." The Dartmouth Subtleties will perform. "Matthew Shepard Story" (made-for-TV movie) 7 P.M., Loew Auditorium--Followed by discussion with the film's co-writer, Jake Krueger '97 (free). "The Birds and the B's" 8 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--The Dartmouth Wind Symphony, led by Max Culpepper, performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Berceuse from Stravinsky's The Firebird, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, and other selections ($3 Dartmouth students, $8 gen. admission). "Casino Night" 8 P.M. to midnight, Commonground--"Your favorite Dartmouth professors, administration, faculty, staff, and student leaders will be dealing up some mean casino games." Prizes, etc. "'Tails" 10 P.M., Alpha Theta-- "Common Creep" 11 P.M., Psi Upsilon--The band plays. "Human Nature" 11 P.M., Amarna--Prize for the best costume. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:59 AM (0 comments) Thursday, May 02, 2002Be Nice: Ehud Barak is the former president of one of America's closest allies, and we were certainly lucky to have him speak at Dartmouth since he is surely in great demand as a speaker nowadays. So I was a bit surprised at the hostility some students showed towards him during the question and answer session following his speech. Aly Rahim's question about expanding settlements in the West Bank was a good one (Barak answered it convincingly), but why did Rahim feel the need to ask it in such a angry tone? Leyla Kamalick's question was perhaps even more hostile (she basically called Israel's democratic government a racist sham).Even Linda Fowler, who introduced Barak, gave more of an apology for hosting an Israeli politician than an introduction of a famous foreign leader. She kept mentioning that Barak was a controversial speaker whose appearance should trigger debate and discussion. She talked in a disapproving tone about the expansion of West Bank settlements during Barak's administration. She generally gave me the impression that she didn't like Barak very much. I'm all for critiques, but Fowler was giving an introduction, not writing an editorial about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It also reminded me of Fowler's introductions of the participants of the slavery reparations debate. She introduced pro-reparations prof Charles Ogletree at length and in glowing terms, while she briefly forgot the name of anti-reparations prof Glenn Loury and made only a cursory mention of his academic achievements. She also characterized the moderate liberal Porter as a conservative, prompting him to correct her during the debate. Even if students and administrators disagree with Mr. Barak's views on Israel's policies, he deserves a certain amount of respect and courtesy for taking the time to make an speech here at Dartmouth. If Dartmouth gets a reputation as a hostile environment for all who deviate from the far-left's views, then we may lose even the few prominent speakers we are lucky to have each year. Ask tough questions. But don't attack world leaders. Some of us want them to keep comng here. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Matthew at 11:18 PM (0 comments) You Heard it Here First: Janos Marton is the new president of the Student Assembly. Julia Hildreth is the Vice President. Some sort of SA revolution has, perhaps, begun.Marton ran on a reform, pro-Greek, pro-accountability ticket, earning him the ire of Assembly traditionalists. I first surmised that Marton was not the usual SA candidate when both The Dartmouth Review and the Free Press endorsed him. When those staunch defenders of the status quo at the D endorsed his SA-favored opponent, I knew he was the candidate for me. Clearly, he was the right candidate for many of us. There is a sense that students are at last fed up with the Student Assembly's total unwillingness to fight for any sort of student voice at Dartmouth. Dissatisfaction with the SA has gained momentum like a moving train, and, as our new SA president will tell you, it's hard to stop a moving train. Ok, slogans are not his strong suit. Nevertheless, Dartlog wishes Janos Marton good luck in fixing our broken Student Assembly. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Matthew at 9:55 PM (0 comments) Support Israel: Support Israeli soldiers with pizza and Pepsi (via WSJ's Best of the Web).Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 9:10 PM (0 comments) "Black Beauty": From the "Afro-American Society" Blitz bulletin:******Afro-American Society******* What, pray tell, is a "video ho"? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:06 PM (0 comments) On the other hand: Maybe he could follow the model of another politician turned talk show host-Jerry Springer. Can you imagine Bill's reflections at the end of an episode featuring cheating spouses? That monologue, surely containing things like "Hillary and I have struggled with these same issues and I feel the pain that these couples are going through," would have to be sent immediately to the Museum of Broadcasting.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 8:57 AM (0 comments) Well, they are both fat: According the LA Times Bill Clinton wants his own talk show and would like to become "the next Oprah Winfrey." Finally, a job he is qualified to do. After all, he has eight years experience at faking emotional responses to people's sob stories. This is the logical conclusion of his substance-less presidency. However, in TV terms this may be the worst talk show since the Magic Johnson Hour.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 8:40 AM (0 comments) Sickening: The sight of Arafat's temper tantrum at his press conference and the adjoining videos of his police corps celebrating with guns in the air yesterday should leave little doubt about what kind of leader he would be if ever given real power. These resembled the actions of your average despotic thug. Hopefully, his freedom will only be temporary.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 8:31 AM (0 comments) Thursday Happenings: "Everything at Dartmouth after 11 A.M." (like you'll be up any earlier)"SA Elections" until 5 P.M., vote here--Read Alex Wilson's smart endorsement of Janos Marton '04 for president here. "Display of the AIDS Quilt" noon through 9 P.M., Commonground--Part of "AIDS Awareness Week." Fetching fun for AIDS activists and quilters alike. "Red Ribbon Campaign" noon though 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. through 7 P.M., Collis and Thayer--Part of "AIDS Awareness Week." Wear a red ribbon to show that you're against AIDS, apartheid, and the beating of defenseless children. "Community Hour" noon, Commonground--Part of "AIDS Awareness Week." Discussion of "students' off-term experiences fighting the battle against AIDS" (with swords). "Anti-war Art: the artist as witness and activist" 12:30 P.M., Hood--Amanda Potter '02, the fifth student to curate an exhibit from the Hood's collections, speaks. "Greek Community Dog Show" 1 - 4 P.M., Tabard lawn--The girls of EKT strut their stuff (kidding!). "Storytelling, Metamorphosis, and Reliable Narrators in Ovid's Metamorphoses" 4 P.M., 13 Carpenter--Michael Simpson, of the University of Texas at Dallas, speaks. "The Idea of a University" 6 P.M., Moore Psychology Auditorium--RECOMMENDED--Fr. Dr. George Rutler '65, always entertaining, witty, erudite, and accessable, speaks. "A Time of Drunken Horses" (or "Zamani baray� masti asbha") 7 P.M., Loew Auditorium--"A family of orphans struggles to survive and protect their sickly brother by smuggling goods across the dangerous Iran/Iraq border." Reviewer: "This is one of the most powerful and deeply affecting films I have seen. Using non-professional actors from the region, Ghobadi is able to lay bare the devastating hardships of life in Kurdistan on the Iran-Iraq border" ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). "Alumni Class Leadership" 8 P.M., Top of the Hop--Members of the class of 2002 are invited to meet their class leadership and the Alumni Relations staff. Free drinks until 8:30. Send event listings here and complaints here. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:15 AM (0 comments) Wednesday, May 01, 2002Barak Wrap-Up: "We should deal with terrorists the same way our forefathers dealt with pirates on the high seas," said former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in a speech today at Dartmouth, by way of explaining his support for the Bush Doctrine against terrorism.Barak began with general observations about the war on terrorism, which he believes will go on for some time. September 11th marked a turning point, according to Barak, after which "nothing about terror can ever be taken for granted or regarded as unthinkable." The West faces a choice, then, to "destroy world terror or be destroyed by it." For the sake of liberty and sustained economic growth, said Barak, we must fight and not allow terrorism to become a viable political tool. To this end, he forwards Jeffersonian "eternal vigilence," such as worldwide collaboration on immigration and money laundering policies. The Western world, he believes, has a lot to learn from Israel in resisting the specific threats of terrorism. To combat such threats, Barak championed greater government surveillance of suspected terrorists, while cautioning that this must be balanced with liberties. In the end, though, some restrictions may be "the cheaper price to pay," he said, drawing on his own experiences with the casualties of terrorism in Israel. Barak spoke at length on the current Middle East situation, maintaining that Israel "is under a violent terror campaign" guided by Yasser Arafat. He noted the Clinton peace plan, which Arafat rejected outright, as evidence of Arafat's desire for "a Palestinian state instead of Israel," rather than in addition to Israel. He waits eagerly, he said, for "more responsible leadership to emerge" among the Palestinians. Israel, he said, must undertake three simultaneous strategies to win its struggle on terms that it, the world, and the Palestinian people accept. First, it must maintain "an active struggle against terror..not against the Palestinian people," an objective which he believes is largely being met. Second, Israel should "make it clear that the door is open for resumption of negotiations. And, finally, Israel must maintain that these negotiations be on similar terms to those undertaken before the latest uprising, to make it clear that terrorism is not a fruitful means of diplomacy. Also, he suggested that Israel undertake greater efforts to secure its borders, constructing a "security fence" like that at Gaza. Barak concluded by justifying the war on terror, of which Israel's struggles are a part, as part of a larger effort to "achieve the great world imperative of social justice." Only when security and stability are assured, he said, will prosperity be possible. Barak spent the day speaking with groups of Dartmouth students, whom he described as "highly assertive" and often "adversarial," and in classes. The four audience members (three of them students) who asked questions of Barak following his speech were hostile in tone. A protest against Barak's visit was held in front of the Hopkins Center and featured a large banner reading "Ending Violence = Ending Occupation." This reporter was physically grabbed by protest organizer Hillary Miller '02, who challenged him to get a restraining order against her before claiming she was simply "try to engage in a dialogue." She suggested that The Dartmouth Review "run a photo spread" of her in an upcoming issue. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:42 PM (0 comments) Barak: The visit of Ehud Barak, who sill speak at Dartmouth's Spaulding Auditorium in a little over an hour, brings recent campus events to a head.Back and forth editorials and discussion on the Daily Dartmouth's editorial page and on this web site gave way to direct confrontation two weeks ago, when leftist students at Dartmouth--many involved with a laundry list of other fashionable causes--staged a "Rally for the human rights of Palestinian refugees". The protest's organizers used the event as a platform for attacking Israel's policy of occupation and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Several groups, including the College Republicans, DIPAC, Hillel, and members of the Dartmouth Review protested the event with signs and vocally before being silenced by campus police at the request of the rally's organizers. The event's organizers also declined an offer to debate the conflict with members of DIPAC. Now the same group of people who staged the rally are gearing up to protest Barak, a supporter of the Israeli state's efforts. They plan a rally outside of the Hopkins Center, and organizers have not said whether or not they will attempt to disrupt Barak's speech, though campus rumors point to interest in this. Security at the Hop is tight. All event attendees have had to give their names, Social Security numbers, and birth dates to College personnel when picking up tickets--a procedure normally reserved for Secret Service lookups at events featuring the President or Vice President. Security staff are already on hand in the Hopkins Center and are on the lookout for unattended belongings, like backpacks and packages. The pro-Palestinian factions on campus have already demanded that the College invite a speaker representing "the Palestinian point of view" in the near future--presumably by the end of this term in early June. Look here later in the day for a post-speech wrap-up. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:07 PM (0 comments) Cancelled: Tonight's Greek life barbeque is cancelled on account of the weather.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:58 PM (0 comments) Wednesday Happenings: "Everything at Dartmouth after 11 A.M." (delayed today by Bob Gienko)"SA Elections" ALL DAY, online here--Read Alex Wilson's smart endorsement of Janos Marton '04 for president here. "Letters Day" ALL DAY--Part of Greek Week. "If you're Greek, show your Greek pride by wearing your letters." "Vaughan Recital" 12:30 P.M., Faulkner Recital Hall--"Ryan Turner, tenor, and Daniel Perkins, piano, perform works by Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc and Gerald Finzi." "Class Ring Unveiling" 3 - 5 P.M., Commonground--See the 2002 class ring, the first of its kind, be unveiled. Yawn... "Ehud Barak" 4 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium (overflow elsewhere)--The former Prime Minister of Israel speaks. Free tickets available from the Hop box office. "A celebration of Greek life" 5 - 7 P.M., Gold Coast lawn--Free barbeque, weather permitting, part of Greek Week. All students welcome. "Dark Blue World" (film) 6:45 & 9:10 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--Czech film with subtitles. Two friends fall for the same woman. "An excellent, smart, witty and funny movie about Czech pilots who fought against Hitler during the Second World War." "Is this the beginning of World War III?" 7 P.M., Brewster basement--This week's "PoliTalk," featuring history prof. Ronald Edsforth. "The Ethics of Cloning" 8 P.M., Alpha Theta--With philosophy prof. Julia Driver. Includes dinner. "Chichester Psalms" 8 P.M., Rollins Chapel--The Dartmouth Chamber Singers sing ($3 Dartmouth students, $10 gen. admission). "Seekers of Spiritual Truth" 8:30 P.M., Tucker--A discussion of "spiritual backgrounds and what the search for Truth may look like" over refreshments. "Gay Straight Alliance" 9 P.M., 204 Robinson--Discuss T-shirts, recruitment at Hanover High School, and events with the Navigators and Aquinas House. "Baptist Student Union Bible Study" 212 Collis. "A capella" 11:30 P.M., Alpha Xi--The Dodecs and Final Cut perform. "The Culture Bowl" SIGN-UP--A "battle of wits" sponsored by the Hood, with teams of 5-10 members. Email "KIMS" or "Sharon Reed" with questions and "Culture Bowl" to register by May 10. Blitz and be listed: We have over 300 events in our database. Do we have yours? Email your event notice to dartlog@dartreview.com. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:14 AM (0 comments) If There Was Ever Any Doubt: that my analysis of the election was correct, the fact that the D's editorial board takes the opposite position should clear it up.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alexander at 9:42 AM (0 comments) What?: It's long been suspected that students who write for the D do not, in fact, attend Dartmouth. Usually this suspicion arises due to the poor writing found within its pages. However, today's house editorial, endorsing Mike Perry '03 for SA President, makes it obvious that the D's editors and writers are shipped over from local community colleges. They write, "over the last few years, the Assembly has succeeded at gradually institutionalizing student voice and diversifying student services. Perry proposes to build on the Assembly's past successes rather than scrapping recent progress." In no way is this true. The administration ignores student opinion as much as it ever has. When was the last time that SA achieved real, meaningful change through lobbying the administration (being able to use one's ID card at the washing machines does not count)? The editors go on to write that now is not the time to go for radical structural overhaul. Unfortunately, this is exactly what is needed. Until the SA is made up of students who are actually elected to represent students rather than members who achieved their status through a system that is slightly more difficult than ordering takeout, there will be no reason for anyone to pay attention to what the SA has to say.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 9:26 AM (0 comments) Tuesday, April 30, 2002The Student Assembly Election: Among my beliefs of a "glass is half full" variety, the saddest is undoubtedly the continuing conviction that the Student Assembly can someday become an effective instrument for empowering students against the administration. It has long been clear that no other organization, save an increasingly divided and ineffective Greek leadership structure, offers any hope of doing so. And with the adoption of the Student Life Initiative and the turn to a research university model over the past five years, the necessity of such an instrument has been repeatedly demonstrated. Yet the Assembly, year in and year out, refuses to take the actions that could make it meaningful. Every year, my belief in the Assembly's potential has been challenged, as the students of Dartmouth who recognize the failure of the Assembly choose to spend the five minutes required to vote doing something else, while the minority who seem unaware of the problem turn out en masse.This year presents another opportunity for change. Unlike some past occaisons, this presidential election offers a legitimate choice between credible reform and the status quo. My views on what changes the Assembly requires are unaltered since I wrote this article a year ago. Sadly, the Assembly hasn't changed since then either. Warning: The rest of this post is written under the assumption that readers care about the current election and my (profoundly enlightened) view of it. A year of a Mike Perry '03 or Tara Maller '03 presidency will, I am sorry to say, see no more effective reform than the one now past. Having worked with both of them for several years on the Assembly, I know them both to be superbly competent, but neither accepts that the Assembly should be fundamentally different than it is now, despite its manifest inadequacy to make a real difference at the College. Of the three reform candidates, Eric Bussey '01, while deserving credit for pushing for change, presents an alternative which would in fact be worse. Universal Assembly membership, based on student referendums, would make the organization even more meaningless than it is now, even if such a scheme could actually be implemented in any functional way, which I doubt. Which leaves Karim Mohsen '03 and Janos Marton '04. Both have made powerful cases for the need for change, and both have focused on important areas where the Assembly must improve. Mohsen's push for an all-elected Assembly is perhaps the most important single change that can be made. Marton's relentless criticism of the bloated, committee-driven structure of the Assembly goes to the heart of why it fails to achieve more than the most marginal of gains for students. Judging by the uninspiring statements (at least as reported by the D) of the Vice-Presidential candidates, it is a pity Marton and Mohsen didn't run as a ticket. They'd probably have been elected on the alliteration alone. That said, only one of the two can now be selected, and two things lead me to believe a vote for Marton is the wiser vote to cast: the first ideological, the second practical. On the ideological side, Marton is the only candidate to make support for the Greek system a fixture of his candidacy. My support for the system, and the reasons behind it, are on record in the Review and the D should anyone still be undecided on this issue. Given the vast majority support for the system's continuation, and the degree of adminstrative hostility to it, a Greek apologist is far more qualified for the position of Student Body President. As to the practical, Marton is 5% behind Perry in the D poll, while Mohsen is 22% behind. Even given the poll's unreliability, the latter is an impossible gap to close. Under the circumstances, the best option would be for Mohsen to withdraw and work with Marton over the coming year to make a real difference on the Assembly. Either way, all students who hope to actually have an influence on the future of the College should cast their vote for Janos Marton. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alexander at 12:46 PM (0 comments) T-shirts: Be like Nilly and purchase your 4 Indian shirts hereFull post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 10:43 AM (0 comments) Tuesday Happenings:"What matters to me and why" noon, Tucker--Professor and writer Ernest Hebert speaks. "Artificial Intelligence" noon, Thornton Hall lounge--This week's philosophy lunch. "Kudos: Recognition and Motivation" 5:30 P.M., 212 Collis--A "Pillars" meeting. Topic: "Has your group had a great year, a great term? What better way to say thank you than a celebration for the membership! Not only will the group thank you, but it will keep the group going." "Lunchtime Gallery Talk" 12:30 P.M., Hood--Mark Reed, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of counseling, and Laura Rubinstein, "health educator," discuss why people use psychedelic drugs. "Academic Gala" 5:00 P.M., Commonground--The senior studio art majors exhibit, and several senior present their theses for the College president and community. Topics include: "A realistic novel about a young woman's summer traveling alone through Scotland;" "the local geopolitics of WalMart development in northern Vermont;" "a theory on immigrant women's shame;" and the always-entertaining "mechanical properties of articular cartilage as a biomaterial." "Dartmouth Sororities: A Look from Within" 7 P.M., Top of the Hop--Short speeches about sororities, on topics such as "body image and eating disorders to rape and abuse to being a minority woman and sisterhood at Dartmouth." "Men's Dinner" 7 P.M., 218 Collis--Les Lawrence, Lebanon High School football coach, speaks about coaching boys. "Omara Portuondo" 8 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--The "Buena Vista Social Club" player performs ($5 Dartmouth students, $30 gen. admission). "Questioning and Curious" 8:15 P.M., Sanborn Poetry Room--"safe, confidential student discussion about sexual orientation, gender identity, midterms, life, spring." Safe? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:15 AM (0 comments) The Op-Ed so nice, they posted it twice: Nilly's first letter to the editor in a while.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 7:07 AM (0 comments) Monday, April 29, 2002Thinking About The Unthinkable: Washington D.C.'s Brookings Institution has released a cost/benefit study on terrorist prevention that urges the Bush administration to focus on preventing the most costly attacks - those committed with weapons of mass destruction. Called "Protecting the American Homeland" the report credits Bush with setting the right initial priorities and encourages increased spending on terrorist prevention. It won't be easy or cheap, but, unfortunately, we have to do all we can to prepare...and prevent.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Matthew at 6:47 PM (0 comments) Being Republican at Dartmouth: College Republicans meeting on this topic tonight at 9, in 212 Collis.Some CRs adverts concocted by yrs trly. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:04 PM (0 comments) Monday Happenings: (Another strange chapter in the GreenPrint saga--from the "Computing - Outages" bulletin: "The GreenPrint machines and the public print window in the Berry basement are closed until we clean up and assess any water damage to GreenPrint.")"Free Tibet" noon, Dickey Center--Lunch with Ani Choying Drolma of the Nuns' Welfare Foundation of Nepal. "New-Release Party" noon, Fairchild--Pick up a copy of the latest Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science. Sure to be happening. "The House of the Vettii in Pompeii" 4 P.M., 13 Carpenter--Barbara Kellum speaks. "World Week in Review" 6 P.M., 206 Baker--Current events discussion, quiz to follow. "Dinner at Amarna" 6:30 P.M., Amarna--Dine with Christopher Jocks, assistant professor of Native American studies and religion. "Chanting Performance" 7 P.M., Rollins--Ani Choying Drolma of the Nuns' Welfare Foundation of Nepal. "The Commitments" (film) 7:30, Collis lounge--Sponsored by the Irish Society. "Guster on-sale" Collis information desk--Purchase tickets to their concert on Friday, May 17 ($15 Dartmouth students, $20 gen. admission). Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:25 AM (0 comments) Sunday, April 28, 2002Fascists, or just lazy?: GreenPrint, no matter how poorly conceived (explained here), seems so much more compelling now that they've stopped sorting documents at the print output window. Is this the beginning of the official end of public printing or did someone's cigarette break just run a few hours over?Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 4:06 PM (0 comments) Our Man in the Field: With a bit of help from Ryan Gorsche, I've finally posted The Kalb Chronicles, the collected recent writings of TDR's Appalachia correspondent. Read and enjoy.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:59 PM (0 comments) Sunday Happenings: (Forget Mac IE; Mozilla's finally better)"3 on 3 Bball tournament" 2 - 5 P.M., Alumni Gym basketball courts--Including a DJ, refreshments, and raffles. "A Soulful Review" 4 P.M., Faulkner Recital Hall--Michaella Frederick '04, mezzo-soprano and Micah Dortch '05, baritone, perform. "Splendor in the Grass" 6:45, Spaulding Auditorium--"A take on Romeo and Juliet, this film stars Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood as star-crossed teen lovers kept apart by their parents." Directed by Elia Kazan ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). "King of the Hill" 9:05 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--"Left on his own in St. Louis, 12-year old Jesse talks his way into school and befriends prostitutes in order to survive." Directed by Steven Soderbergh ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:40 AM (1 comments) |
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