Imagine that as a high school student, you could have attended Dartmouth classes without leaving home. While this is impossible right now, the availability of classes on the Internet is already a reality for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several other schools, including Yale, Notre Dame, Bryn Mawr and Stanford. These universities have begun to offer free online courses in an effort to extend scholarship to the general public, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. While this new wealth of available information surely benefits the public, is it ultimately good for higher education to offer its courses to prospective students?
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Michael Amico ‘07 suggests that the Dartmouth community should celebrate any form of sexual expression that is “fun, pleasurable, and makes them happy,” including threesomes, bathroom hookups and pornography (“Nothing unwholesome about sex at Dartmouth,” Feb. 22). But Matt Nolan ‘07 is right that sex is too powerful and intimate to be shared with anyone at any time (“Sex: Not Like Steak,” Feb. 21). Is sex just an appetite? Most treat it as one, having long ago despaired of our lofty ideal of finding someone who will actually love us. We have become cynics, and we use our cynicism as a license for indulgence.
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To the Editor:
I am strongly disappointed with The Dartmouth’s decision to publish the names of three finalists for the position of Dean of the College (“Names of Dean candidates surface,” Feb. 22). The information printed by The D had not previously been made public, and in fact was previously released to certain individuals only on a confidential basis, in order to protect the search process.
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