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Friday, September 06, 2002

Flag-color ribbons, national anthem "offensive" at Berkeley

So reported the Cal Patriot on the university's plans for a September 11th observence:
"We thought that [red, white, and blue ribbons] may be just too political, too patriotic," said Hazel Wong, chief organizer for the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). "We didn't want anything too centered on nationalism-anything that is 'Go U.S.A.'"

Wong said the event organizers are "trying to steer away" from anything political, and that, she said, includes singing the National Anthem and displaying the red, white, and blue. She said they don't want politics disrupting mourning and grieving.
Now Berkeley's Chancellor responds to defend the University: "The central allegation of The California Patriot is that the University of California, Berkeley is unpatriotic in commemorating the events of September 11. This allegation is wrong."

So is it no longer interdict at Berkeley to wear a red, white, and blue ribbon or to sing the National Anthem? That allegation is, well, so far unaddressed by the university, but the Patriot is optimistic. (via Instapundit)

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:43 PM (0 comments)

Thursday, September 05, 2002

Diversity is Muskets, Rifles, and Pistols

NR's Dave Kopel on The University of Wisconsin's refusal to allow the West Virginia Mountaineer, a sports mascot, to fire his (unloaded) musket:
"[D]iversity" also includes people who do diverse things � such as the approximately 50 percent of the American population which participates in America's culture of responsible firearms use and ownership.
Of course, this wouldn't be the issue at Dartmouth. The nascent (last I saw) Southern Society or some such group would probably protest the whole thing as being insensitive to "mountain-dwelling peoples" and as promoting "demeaning regional stereotypes."

Unrelated: Heard from several sources last month: "'Racist': the new 'faggot.'" Unfortunately true.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:29 PM (0 comments)

Indeed

"Larry Scholer, editor in chief of the Dartmouth Review, long the best-known conservative newspaper on America's campuses, says, 'There could be problems with what we print if we were funded by the school.' Which may be taken as a bit of an understatement."

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Posted by Steven Menashi at 11:56 AM (0 comments)

Wednesday, September 04, 2002

Dartmouth Weblogs

Dartmouth's director of communications services has a weblog.

Know of any other Dartmouth students, faculty, administrators, or alumni with frequently updated sites? Let us know, and we will link to them on the left of this page.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:08 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

Dartmouth representation in Albany?

Newsday reported last week that Dan Mahony has moved out of state and Tom Golisano will be running without a Conservative Lieutenant Governor running mate. Now, Andrew Cuomo is out, leaving H. Carl McCall '58 as the Dems' candidate versus Pataki.

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Posted by alex at 3:45 PM (0 comments)

Monday, September 02, 2002

The Socialist Holiday

The history of Labor Day.
More: "While in the United States and Canada, Labor Day still continues to be observed on the first Monday in September, rest of the world observes it on May 1 or other dates."

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 9:42 PM (0 comments)

RSS for The Dartmouth

It seems like nobody at the D has any idea how their website works, which means there's little chance of them creating an RSS feed for those of us who use aggregators.

Of course, we could just do it ourselves, like we did for Girls are Pretty (RSS).

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 8:11 PM (0 comments)

Sunday, September 01, 2002

Alumni Blitzmail down

It seems like the Alumni BlitzMail server is down. Maybe somebody with email access could let Kiewit know?

Great timing: just two days before I get my UPenn account.

Update: Fixed, as of 9/2 at 4 PM.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:50 PM (0 comments)

Elsewhere

The Observer:
"When a child babbles, it's not just trying to get motor control," [Dartmouth neuroscientist Laura Ann Petitto] says. Babies are "literally trying to say the sounds" they hear, and trying to make sense of "the patterns of sounds in the world around them."
Stories also from CNN, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Boston Globe, and the Telegraph.

The Washington Post:
If the careful, unifying, well-spoken, Dartmouth-educated Carl McCall hasn't earned a shot at the [New York] governorship, who has? Anthony Weiner, a congressman who represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn, described McCall as "exactly the kind" of black politician that moderate white voters have always claimed to be looking for.
Also in the Post: "Top New York Democrats Face a Collision in Futility":
"I don't know anything about these guys," says Anna Blanchie, a lifelong Democrat who has pasted a Pataki sticker on her very minimal halter top. "Why vote against Pataki?"


The NY Times (carried by the SF Chronicle):
More than two months after a national advisory panel recommended vaccinating thousands of health care and emergency workers against smallpox as a precaution against a bioterrorist attack, state and local health officials are waiting for the government to announce its official policy... Now "it's a hurry up and wait" situation, said the panel's chairman, Dr. John F. Modlin of Dartmouth Medical School.


Sciencenews: "The new investigation indicates that left-brain networks assume primary responsibility for memories and knowledge about oneself, including the key visual distinction between 'me' and 'others,' says a team of neuroscientists led by David J. Turk of Dartmouth College"

allAfrica.com: Tuck prof. Richard d'Aveni writes on corporate "spheres of influence."

The Manchester Union Leader: On the Indians' quarterback prospects this season:
Early indications are fifth-year senior Brian Mann (6-2, 205 pounds) will be battling for the job with University of Wisconsin transfer Scott Willie (6-3, 205 pounds), a junior.

Though Mann, who missed last season with a broken hand, ranks fifth in school history with 2,999 passing yards, the bet here is that by midseason there�ll be a lot of cheese lovers on the Hanover campus.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:48 AM (0 comments)

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