October 2005

Choosing the Trustees

Alumni Council Trustee Nominating and Search Committee Chairman Julie Amstein Cillo ’92 defends the alumni Trustee selection process in today’s Daily Dartmouth. The process, she…


Crying Wolf: False Rape Claims

In Friday’s issue of the New Hampshire, the University of New Hampshire’s student newspaper, Patrick McClary, decries a spate of falsified rape accusations in the…


More Useless Rankings

Dartmouth does not appear at all in this Ranking of the Top 100 Worldwide Universities. I would like to believe that this is because Dartmouth,…




Folt’s Response

A commenter on my original post added this e-mail from Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt in response to Prof. Appleton’s allegations. Here it is…


What is acceptable speech?

In a letter to the editor of the Daily Dartmouth, Prof. Ronald Edsforth, who started a campus debate on free speech with his protest outside…


Appleton Leaves Dartmouth

Jon Appleton, Dartmouth’s Arthur Virgin Professor of Music and a pioneer in the field of electro-acoustic music, recently announced that he was leaving the College…



‘Conflicting Rights’

Campust lefist Andrew Seal ’07 writes in today’s Daily Dartmouth that rights should be governed by reason and cannot stand on their own. Using Prof….