Tuesday, March 06, 2007

A New Playing Field

By Ben Selznick, Staff Columnist

Many arguments can be made about the nature of the relationship between higher education and athletics. But I won’t make them. Instead, I argue that recent discussions on the pages of The Dartmouth should give rise to what Frank Gardner, professor at Drake University, describes in his October 1960 essay “The Place of Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education” as “a co-operative study of the purpose and program of intercollegiate athletics as part of the total educational program of our schools.” I will do this through looking at a few questions that Dartmouth and other institutions may want to ask themselves regarding their athletic departments. More »

Validating Blackademia

By Zeke Turner, Staff Columnist

On Sept. 19, 2006, James Sherley, a 49-year-old black associate professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health for his work with adult stem cells. Five months later, on a gray February morning, after two bowls of Chex, Sherley began to starve himself outside of the office of MIT’s provost. He was protesting the administration’s decision to deny him tenure, which he believed was based on his race. More »

Greek gender equality exists

By Beth Krakower

To the Editor: As a woman of Dartmouth, I must call Peter Gray ‘07 to task for his recent column (“Girls, Pong and Equality,” Mar. 5). More »