The 2006 Winter Olympics concluded this past Sunday in Turin with all the typical glitz and fanfare of a closing ceremony that had been in the works for years. And yes, I say Turin. I have never heard of the venerated Shroud of Torino before, and neither has anyone pretentious enough to say “Torino.” More »
There is a recent and disturbing trend in American cinema in which the directors of classic films feel the apparently insuppressible need to revisit and re-edit their most beloved and heralded works in a misguided attempt to “update” them for a newer audience. The principle perpetrators in this movement are George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. They have an uncanny propensity for “bestowing” upon the American public a bevy of re-edited, re-issued, reduxed — call them what you will — versions of their movies. More »
To the Editor: If a non-student were to read all the indignant op-eds The Dartmouth has published concerning Frat-Free Friday, he or she might imagine our campus is in the midst of a heated gender war. The brave and vocal men and women writing to The Dartmouth to argue for their “faction” would likely seem to be leaders, representatives for all the angry students who share their feelings. And yet, I haven’t really noticed the wounded lying in gutters, or any pitchfork-armed sorority mobs roaming Webster Avenue. More »
To the Editor: The Dartmouth’s March 1 article (“Living wage drives up DDS costs, prices”) incorrectly places the blame for DDS’s financial woes on the shoulders of its employees. Both the original headline and the headline after the jump imply that the wage that DDS pays its workers is the company’s primary business problem. More »
To the Editor: The Feb. 28 headline, “DDS attempts to lessen costs, not reduce options” is extremely misleading. DDS hasn’t cut costs at all, but merely increased revenues at the expense of students and their parents. By forcing students to spend DBA at other DDS facilities, they are guaranteed a huge windfall at the end of the spring when leftover DBA expires and students have no practical place to spend a large chunk of money. Thirty chicken parms just don’t last over the interim. In addition, by increasing the on-campus minimum to $950 (and now $600 for off-campus students), low-consumption diners take on a larger role in subsidizing the DDS deficit when DBA expires in the spring. If DDS was going to impose a Topside spending limit, wouldn’t it make sense to lower the minimum cost of a dining plan rather than to raise it? That the Topside spending limit is far below the average student’s Topside expenditure is clear evidence that DDS has sacrificed their customers’ interests for their own. More »
To the Editor: Ana Catalano’s op-ed (“Sexual Assault: The Culture of Protection,” Feb. 28) raised important questions about who is responsible for preventing sexual abuse. I agree with her argument that men should be expected to do more to prevent sexual abuse. In fact, I said as much to the reporter from The Dartmouth who interviewed me earlier this month for a series of articles on sexual abuse at Dartmouth, which makes it hard not to take it personally that Catalano misrepresented my views in her op-ed. More »
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