The Dartmouth Review: April 23, 2001

The Dartmouth Review

Frat Under Fire for "Sexist" Newsletter
by Rollo Begley
In the wake of the hearings and eventual probation of Psi Upsion, the College’s Judicial Committee and Office of Residential Life have begun investigations into allegations concerning a sexually explicit newsletter circulated among the brothers of the Zeta Psi fraternity. Copies of two of the newsletters were given to Martin Redman, Dean of Residential Life, by several anonymous female students. The issue was discovered this term by four female students, who discovered it torn up and discarded in a trash bin. After removing vomit and beer from them, the students reassembled the paper, which has since, by photocopy, made its way through the Deans’ offices, the various Greek governing committees, and the Daily Dartmouth.

Bush's Missile Defense
by Emmett Hogan
Throughout his election campaign last year, then-Governor George W. Bush made National Missile Defense (NMD) a centerpiece of his defense proposals. Now that Candidate Bush has become President Bush, the controversial program – which aims at developing a defensive shield of anti-ballistic weaponry around America to shoot down incoming nuclear missiles – is back in favor in Washington, and in a big way. The current administration is, unquestionably, the most pro-missile defense administration to date. Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice both enthusiastically endorse the plan. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld chaired a commission that reported to Congress in 1998, strongly endorsing the development of such systems. And, of course, President Bush and Vice President Cheney both stand firmly in the ranks of NMD’s supporters. President Reagan’s administration was never as united on the issue.

L. Brent Bozell on Bush in the Media
by J. Lawrence Scholer
Face it. The national media is liberal. Dan Rather is speaking at Democratic fundraisers. President Bush gets lambasted for the way he handled China. John McCain steals attention from the Bush tax cut with his campaign finance reform plan. Fortunately, the Dartmouth Review managed to get in touch with L. Brent Bozell, founder the Media Research Center, to elucidate the subject and to provide some of his own insights.

After the Plane Crisis
by Jeffrey Hart
The Bush administration handled the reconnaissance plane crisis quite well, despite rumblings from the direction of "The Weekly Standard" and growls from some in Congress. With Colin Powell in the foreground, the administration was steady but firm, "regrets" and "sorry for the loss of life" but no "apologies for wrong doing." Typically, in the official Chinese translation, our language was transformed into Chinese vocabulary that did admit wrongdoing. But, though this incident is now over, the prospects in the middle distance are ominous.

Bush vs. Electricity and the Environment
by Darren Thomas
Environmentalists everywhere have decried the environmental policies of President George Bush from the start of his presidential campaign. He declared the death of the Kyoto Treaty, declining to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2). The Dartmouth Review sat down to talk with environmental consultant David Wojick on Bush’s policies thus far. Dr. Wojick is a columnist for the Electricity Daily and a consultant to the energy industry. Dr. Wojick is is also a scientific advisor to the Greening Earth Society. He received his B.S. in engineering from Carnegie-Mellon and holds a Ph.D in mathematical logic and conceptual analysis.

The Heart of a Conservative
by Alexander Talcott
Marvin Olasky, the editor of the Christian news magazine World and whom President Bush has called "compassionate conservatism’s leading thinker" shows that the catchy alliteration is more than a soundbite in Compassionate Conservatism: What it Is, What it Does, and How it can Transform America. Olasky believes it is a "full-fledged program with a carefully considered philosophy," that it does miracles for those in need, and that it is already working wonders for America. Olasky rejects compassion’s literal definition based on com-passion, or "suffering with." However, he also repudiates the failing modern welfare state that allows people to keep suffering. According to Olasky, this modern welfare state—which so many conservatives regard as extravagant—is actually quite stingy. He asserts that welfare programs "salve our consciences even as we scrimp on what many of the destitute need most—love, time, and a challenge to be little lower than the angels rather than one thumb up from monkeys."

Students for Change! by J. Lawrence Scholer
The Future Will Be Created in the Basement of Parkhurst by Alexander Wilson

Notes From the Forgotten Colonies by Christian Hummel
Florida Comes Up Clean by Emmett Hogan
A Smarter New York Times? by Vijayendra Rao

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