Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Professors’ Mortal Sins

By Michael Kreicher, Staff Columnist

This term, I have been having an increasingly difficult time paying attention in some of my classes. It is hard enough to focus when I wake up at 8:30 in the morning almost every day and suffer through three classes back to back to back on six hours of sleep. It is even harder in my Spanish class each morning when I struggle to understand levels of Spanish that most students learn over the period of years, not weeks. Follow this with two consecutive hours of somewhat complicated economics, and it goes without saying that I have attention issues by the end of my day. More »

Pragmatism Over Collective Action

By Megan Rast, Guest Columnist

It was a quiet Monday night at the Montgomery House. The intimate dinner catered by the Hanover Inn was as ordinary as a posting on the free food bulletin — until the conversation took on a life of its own. More »

Super Best Friends

By Peter Gray, Staff Columnist

The Djemaa el-Fna, the great square of Marrakesh, is home to some of the strangest sights, sounds and smells in the world. Sheep’s brain, a henna-camel-dung blend marketed as hashish, and the healing powers of dried animal parts are all up for sale. More »

Too Much Blitz Spam

To the Editor: I have recently had to use the spam filter on my BlitzMail because of companies sending e-mails to Dartmouth BlitzMail accounts. Luckily, my trusty spam filter sends most of these to a folder where they don’t clog up my inbox. More »