Friday, September 29, 2006

Furstenberg and Dartmouth Admissions

By THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

The announced retirement this past week of College Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg after 17 years at Dartmouth marks the end of a successful career. While in past years the admissions office has been a center of controversy — most notably as a result of Furstenberg’s remarks about the Dartmouth football program — as The Dartmouth reported earlier this week, Dartmouth flourished and our applicant pool expanded in both numbers and diversity under Furstenberg’s leadership. The Class of 2010 is the strongest yet in terms of SAT scores, diversity and includes more women than men. If trends continue, many classes to come will feature such strength in academics and diversity. More »

Moving Beyond the Constitution

By Austin Lord

Over the past months, both sides in the alumni constitution controversy have drawn caricatures of each other for potential voters, obscuring the more diverse underlying position each actually represents. Widespread misunderstanding of the motivations and intent of those behind the two perspectives has caused the controversy to become further polarized, fostering an undue hostility among the careful stewards of the College. This ideological schism, however, is not as insurmountable as advertised. Any opinion voiced here in the wilderness is also a blow against apathy, and should be given credence as such. More »