November 2007

Are the Ivies Exploitive?

Business Week published an interesting article today about the effect of ‘Ivy plus’ schools on public universities and on higher education in general. The Ivies…


Boguslavsky Polls College Republicans

The Union Leader reports that TDR senior editor Greg Boguslavsky polled students in New Hampshire on their primary preferences: –The chairman of the New Hampshire…


Super Dartmouth Opines

David Nachman ’09 has some further thoughts concerning Zywicki and the issue of petition trustees as a whole: 1. I believe that the presence of…


Update on Sexual Assault at the Top of the Hop

This was just blitzed out to the campus in response to this earlier blitz. >Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:41:45 -0500 (EST)>From: Harry.C.Kinne@Dartmouth.EDU>To: dartmouth-announce@locum.dartmouth.edu>Subject: Safety…



Blitz on the way out?

Inside Higher Ed reports that the College is looking into outsourcing campus e-mail to either Google or Microsoft. Dartmouth students still rely on BlitzMail today,…


Andrew Sullivan on Obama

There is a fairly intelligent piece by Andrew Sullivan in the current issue of the Atlantic about Barack Obama. A thought-provoking excerpt: Consider this hypothetical….


Fallout from Zywicki’s Speech

The Daily Dartmouth reports on possible fallout from Trustee Todd Zywicki’s ’88 Oct. 27th remarks before the John Locke Foundation. Zywicki defended his criticism of…


‘Islamofascism.’

One of my favorite writers on politics, Daniel Larison, has given the term ‘Islamofascism’ the pummeling it deserves in the latest American Conservative, one of…


Kathy Slattery Phillips, 1952-2007

Dartmouth’s athletic dept. suffered a terrible loss yesterday when Kathy Slattery Phillips, my former boss and the head SID at Dartmouth for the past 24…