The Dartmouth Review: February 7, 2000

The Dartmouth Review

The Mardi Gras of the North
by Robert Paterno and Alexis Jhamb
This weekend, Hanover will be filled with the sights and sounds of a legend: the Winter Carnival, Dartmouth's annual festival once dubbed “the Mardi Gras of the North” by National Geographic magazine. Carnival has changed substantially since a Dartmouth Outing Club member first organized the weekend in 1910, which would become “Winter Carnival” the following year. The event originated as a weekend of athletics, with participants from nearby colleges trekking to Hanover in vain attempts to defeat Dartmouth men at skiing and showshoeing events.

What's the Value of an Ivy Degree?
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
A recent National Bureau of Economic Research study by Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist, and Stacy Berg Dale, a researcher at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, makes an even more arresting point. Put baldly, their paper says that, in terms of future success, the renown of your college makes no real difference.

CSLI: More of the Same
by Nilanjan Banerjee
The report produced this term by the Committee on the Student Life Initiative (CSLI) is merely the most recent in a long line of College analyses of social and residential life. Like its predecessors, the report deals at length with the Co-ed, Fraternity, and Sorority (CFS) system. The Committee, however, seems to have paid little attention to the effect of those previous reports on College policy—both what has already been attempted, and what controls are currently in place. The majority of CSLI recommendations on the CFS system are either redundant, or repetitions of failed experiments of the past.

Letters to the Editor
Mark Greenstein, Candidate for President by Andrew Grossman
A Poorly Drawn Map by Alexander Nazaryan
Germans Love David Hasselhoff by Bradford Stanley

by Gordon Haff

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

—Theodore Roosevelt