I’m from the States, but don’t hold that against me! I have heard this joke, delivered in a nervous, mock-sarcastic tone, too many times during my stay in London. Its other variants include “I’m from America, but I didn’t vote for Bush,” and my favorite, “My accent? It’s American. Sorry.” More »
To the Editor: In The Dartmouth Editorial Board’s endorsement of the new alumni constitution (“Verbum Ultimum”, Sept. 22) you write that the school and the students are excelling. I’ll say. By any measure, Dartmouth is at the top of its game. More »
To the Editor: As a Dartmouth parent who recalls the oversubscription and large freshmen classes of several years ago, I salute Dean of the College Carol Folt for her continued efforts to address these problems and for her appreciation of the explosion of interdisciplinary study (“Folt looks to expand College faculty,” Oct. 12). More »
To the Editor: I know it is in a newspaper’s interest to have attention-grabbing headlines, but must they completely miss the point for the sake of sensationalism (“Boylan speaks on personal impact of sex change,” Oct. 10)? “Sex change” certainly sounds provocative and cutting-edge, but it fails to reflect what Jennifer Finney Boylan actually came to Dartmouth to talk about: transsexuality and gender identity. It treats the sex change surgery as the core of transsexuality, when really it is, if not a peripheral, then only one of many steps (both physical and psychological) in the journey a transsexual person may face. Transsexuals are people who consider themselves to be a different gender from the one their genitals would indicate, and as a male-to-female transsexual, Boylan informed us all about the struggle to reconcile what’s between the legs with what’s between the ears. Surely that should have been the subject of the article too. More »
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