Tubestock. The mention of the word inspires memories of floating on the Connecticut River with 1,000 of your closest friends on a warm summer Saturday. It also, for many, raises a potentially humorous question: How could this event be allowed? More »
A letter to the editor on Thursday, Feb. 23 (“Ringers for the Orchestra”), criticized the personnel policies of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra . To the extent that this letter was a criticism of my own work as conductor of the DSO, it could be easily ignored. For orchestral conductors, negative reactions to personnel decisions come with the territory. What I cannot allow to stand unanswered is the public denigration of the efforts and accomplishments of DSO student players that is implied by this letter. More »
After attending the debate between the Young Democrats and the College Republicans, I have to say that I was more than a little disappointed. Fully representative of their respective national parties’ agendas, the Democrats came in with no plan and the Republicans a bad one. More »
The campus’s newest uproar — the newly proposed Dartmouth Dining Services reforms — has been discussed before in these pages, but I feel the need to speak up on behalf of the group that is traditionally most exploited by DDS: small eaters. There are a myriad of reasons why some students, myself included, choose to elect small meal plans. Many don’t have the time to eat a dining-hall breakfast every day, or find that they often prefer lighter meals like grilled cheese or wraps to the larger hot dinners. Others like to cook their own food in the dorm kitchens or at their off-campus apartments. Some are scrimping wherever they can in order to afford to be here in the first place. Finally, there are those students who are simply small and don’t need to eat a million calories a day. More »
To the Editor: It appears that New Hampshire is going to make congregating on state waterways illegal? In response, I wonder if anyone has informed the recreational boaters who lash their boats together (“raft”) to party on Lake Winnipesaukee and elsewhere. I’d be surprised if such legislation were to pass this year. That would be another hit to a tourist economy already down because of a lack of snow this winter. More »
To the Editor: I want to commend the sports writer (“Apathy and complaints: the failure of Dartmouth sports fans,” March 1) on his insightful comments re Dartmouth athletics. More »
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