Most students couldn’t care less about Student Assembly. Even as a former member who maintains contacts in the Assembly, I rarely feel personally represented in the organization, and only occasionally have more than tepid feelings of approval for Assembly actions. I do appreciate Assembly sponsorship of rallies and I have picked most of my classes using the course guide, but other than the hand-sanitizer stations near BlitzMail terminals that have come and gone, I can’t name an Assembly action that has impacted me in the last year in more than a symbolic way.
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I met Stephen Smith ‘88 when I got here to the University of Virginia Law School, though I had heard about him before. Older friends had mentioned him as one of the law school’s best professors, a man to take a class with if you could get a seat, which was no easy task for a teacher of his popularity. The more I’ve gotten to know Smith the more honored I’ve become that he’s a graduate of Dartmouth and the more impressed I am that he’s running for the Board of Trustees.
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As recent reports in The Dartmouth and elsewhere have made clear, I am a member of a growing movement within the student body which seeks to substantially overhaul our student government in order to better advocate student interests. This movement seeks to advance two goals within Student Assembly: The first is a substantial reformation of the structure of the Assembly, and the second is the censure and removal of Assembly President Tim Andreadis ‘07.
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To the Editor:
I appreciate Student Assembly committee chair Molly Bode’s attempt to clear the air after her organization’s embarrassing mishap (“No SA plan to abolish the Greek system,” Jan. 22), but to attack the integrity of a newspaper for straightforward reporting on a newsworthy document is an immature lashing out that displays a lack of ethics one would not expect to find in one of the College’s top leaders. Was it really wrong for The Dartmouth to print such an article?
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To the Editor:
Joseph Asch ‘79 is exactly right in saying that the College must balance teaching with research (“Teaching versus Research?” Jan. 19). I sympathize with any student who has suffered through a class “with a faculty member for whom the flame has gone out.” But I sympathize equally with any student who has braved a class with a professor dedicated solely to the lab, for whom the transmission of knowledge to those less educated is a painful nuisance to be shunned.
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