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Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Wright's selective memory

In response to Rollo's post: Wright *must* be referring to our school's founding for the benefit of New Hampshire's natives. Of course, whenever the Indian mascot is brought up, everybody says that's a "myth," that the school was founded to Christianize and control the hapless Indians--and there's a lot of hand-wringing about Dartmouth's secret shame. Which is it gonna be, Wright?

Myth or no myth, I'm leaning toward the "diversity commitment" version of history. Who can argue that Old Eleazar didn't have the Indians' best interests in mind? Just think of the words to that old tune: "a Bible and a drum, And five hundred gallons of New England rum."

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Posted by Stefan Beck at 9:47 AM (0 comments)

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

President Wright

released an initial statement on the Michigan cases yesterday. The statement doesn't really say anything except that there will be more to come, but I'm really curious about one line: "Dartmouth's commitment to diversity dates back to its very founding, and we will continue to work hard to maintain that commitment."

Excuse me??? Dartmouth's historical commitment to diversity??? Has he ever seen an old school yearbook? This is a college that didn't even accept women until the seventies.

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Posted by Rollo at 11:51 PM (0 comments)

Monday, June 23, 2003

Way to go

I happened upon this in the May 24 National Journal. Congrats are in order.

Media People

The Washington Monthly is getting a new editor to succeed
Joshua Green, who wrote the recent scoop with Newsweek's Jonathan
Alter about virtue guru Bill Bennett's gambling habits. Green
will soon move to The Atlantic Monthly to be a senior editor. Joining
Nicholas Confessore on The Washington Monthly's editorial
team will be 24-year-old Benjamin Wallace-Wells, who has spent
the past two and a half years on the suburban staff of The
Philadelphia Inquirer. Wallace-Wells, who grew up in the
Bronx, got his introduction to The Monthly as a youngster, after
his policy-wonk father and education-expert mother subscribed.
At Dartmouth College, he found his calling as editor of The
Dartmouth Review. He interned at The Boston Globe before
moving to Philly. It was the sense of being where the action was
that excited Wallace-Wells, he said. "The privilege of access was
something I really responded to," he said, as well as "the
ability to shape the ways in which we try to understand the
world."

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Posted by alex at 10:22 PM (0 comments)

Interesting OpEd

in the Daily D today. Interesting because it paraphrases many of the Review's stances over the last couple years, and uses the specific examples on which we've harped (libraries, Dean of Plurality, etc.). Glad to know someone is listening.

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Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 11:23 AM (0 comments)

Sunday, June 22, 2003

More NHL Draftees

Lee Stempniak '05 was taken in the 5th round today by the St. Louis Blues. Stempniak led the team with 49 points last season.

Also drafted in the ninth round was Tanner Glass, an incoming freshman forward who went to the Florida Panthers. And David Jones, a right winger who is being recruited for the '08 class, went to the Colorado Avalanche, also in the ninth round..

Both Stempniak and Glass are still expected to play for Dartmouth next season along with fellow draftee Jessiman (1st round - NYR).

From ESPN.com's analyisis - "Hugh Jessiman, RW. The big 6-4, 200-pound winger from Dartmouth made huge strides during his freshman year, but he still needs time to develop. Hopefully, the Rangers -- not known for developing young players -- will allow Jessiman to develop at the proper pace. If they do, there might be a time in the future when they don't have to overpay for a top-end forward."

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College Players/Recruits Drafted by Round
Dartmouth Draftees
Pre-Draft article on Jessiman
NYR Press Release on Jessiman
Valley News article on Jessiman

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Posted by Ben at 6:19 PM (0 comments)

Pink Eye: New Research

Reuters:
Researchers who investigated a 2002 outbreak of conjunctivitis, a type of eye infection also called "pink-eye," among students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire have said the germs may have spread, in part, through shared keyboards on university computers.

Little new info in this story. Their experimental technique seems a bit weak, frankly:

"We don't know if the (laboratory) experiment really recreated what happens in real life with people using keyboards, so the result might not be the final answer," [Dr. Cynthia G. Whitney of the Centers for Disease Control] said. "On the other hand, we also don't know if we would have found the bacteria initially on the college keyboards if we had used more sensitive culturing techniques," Whitney added.

Still, interesting that someone's still looking into this, even if results to date are far from conclusive.


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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:22 AM (0 comments)

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