July 2004

Kiewit break-in

According to an email from Larry Levine in Computing Services, several of the College’s computers were compromised on Wednesday. He speculated that some personal information…



Ivy League athletic recruting

Exposed in this new book by a Middlebury alum who wanted to play soccer at Dartmouth, where his father was a prof.


Record giving

In terms of money, not participation rate Dartmouth College celebrated its most successful fund-raising year ever with $118.1 million in charitable gifts in the fiscal…


Reviewers save the world

Well, one at least. Of course I refer to the continuing antics of Specialist G. Rollo Begley, with whom I spoke briefly on Sunday. While…


Ah, The Daily Dartmouth

Interesting article on Parent’s Weekend.  Particularly odd, at least to me, is how the author managed (with one exception at the end) to only interview…


Reviewer runs for office

Review writer Katie Racicot ’06 is seeking to represent the Hanover-Lyme district in the New Hampshire state legislature as a Republican, the Daily Dartmouth reports…


Fun with Yahoo

Go to Yahoo.com, and enter “sub-par school newspaper” or even just “sub-par newspaper.” The top result, sadly, may not surprise you.


Faculty for Kerry

While not shocking, it appears that 92% of Ivy League faculty who donated to a presidential candidate donated to Kerry. Interestingly, Dartmouth had the highest…