October 2007

Overheard at Dartmouth, Dartlog Style

Said to me this evening in complete seriousness, causing considerable amusement: “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be offensive. I’m just saying, if you write…


Google Deems Robert Spencer Hateful

Courtesy of the blog “Little Green Footballs” comes the news that Google has removed the video of Robert Spencer’s speech from last Friday’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness…


Baker Slowly Balding

Even though Wenda Gu’s vanity project was supposed to come down on Sunday, apparently deconstructing a $50,000 piece of “art” requires some time. Although students…



What Constitutes a Private Environment?

Here is what Barbara Knauff, Dartmouth’s Blackboard guru, has to say about the situation: Instructors can monitor student activity on their sites, yes. You shouldn’t…


Student Privacy?

I can’t verify if this is true, but Dave Nachman writes that: Nearly every course at Dartmouth uses Blackboard, an online software service that lets…




Homecoming TDR

For those who haven’t made their way over to our homepage in the last week, it should be known that the homecoming edition of The…


Goodbye Gu

Today is the last day students will have to navigate around strands of unseemly hair as they make their way through Baker-Berry Library. By all…