Friday, May 26, 2006

Student Assembly

This past week saw the announcement of a number of changes of importance to students. The final revisions to the Dartmouth Dining Services proposals, including the raising of the Topside limit to $200, were unveiled, as was the Student Assembly budget of Student Body President-elect Tim Andreadis. These two events provide both a positive indication of the power of student agitation as well as the pitfalls of unreachable goals. More »

Dartmouth by Numbers

By Joe Asch, Guest Columnist

A management consultant learns to “push the numbers:” to look for the real meaning behind figures advanced by corporate executives. This exercise bears fruit at Dartmouth, too. More »

Earning the right to vote

To the Editor: The op-ed piece regarding immigration and the hurdles for legal immigrants seemed to raise the issue of allowing legal resident aliens the right to vote (“The Problems with Being Legal,” May 23). Surely this must be a mistake of the author, since it would be the height of lunacy to suggest that someone who chooses to retain his or her native country’s citizenship, but has not opted for U.S. citizenship, somehow has the right to vote in U.S. elections. More »