It is easy to fall into the trap of treating sophomore summer — a Dartmouth tradition since the mid-1970s — as something of a less-than-equal cousin of the Fall, Winter and Spring sessions. In all honesty, who could blame you? The weather is beautiful, the campus is at its most stunning and there is a plethora of outdoor activities to take part in, from soccer to softball, the river to the ledges. For the members of Dartmouth’s various Greek houses — especially those who live therein — the temptation to slough off work and rage seven nights a week is a powerful one indeed.
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By
Rob Whitley, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth Medical School
To the Editor:
The police blotter entry for June 17 elided several key factors that need further elaboration (“Police Blotter,” June 27). As those who read the entry will remember, it summarizes a case where a jogger returned to her “home” on a Sunday morning to find it being “burgled.” Only it was not her “home” but my home, in which my girlfriend and I were quietly having breakfast. For some reason, the jogger was confused about where she lived, and her mistake led her to call the police who arrived in force swiftly afterwards. I was interested to read that the police “quickly determined that she was observing an adjacent apartment rather than the one she was supposed to be housesitting.”
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To the Editor:
I must disagree with George McArdle ‘06’s recent op-ed (“Every Man for Himself,” June 22). He complains that the Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders Peer Advisor programs are “designed to help women at Dartmouth,” and do not confront male issues. I would like to point out that sexual abuse and eating disorders affect both men and women, and that the curricula of those programs acknowledges that fact.
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