Thursday, April 05, 2007

The Rights of (Fresh)Men

By Zachary Gottlieb, Zachary Gottlieb '10 is a staff columnist.

After just recently acquiring the ability to read and write, I was finally able to comprehend David Glovsky’s op-ed in Monday’s paper (“Columnists With Nothing to Say,” April 2). His point, which he concisely stated here but nonetheless took 700 words to clarify, was this: “I am sick of opinion columns and columnists with nothing to say and plenty of space given to them to say it,” to which he amended, “After all, freshmen with just three weeks on the mean streets of Hanover know barely enough about the College to find their classes.” More »

A democracy of wikis

By Joe DiPasquale, Founder, CollegeWikis.com

To the Editor: We launched the Dartmouth Wiki because several Dartmouth students e-mailed us asking for one. CollegeWikis.com is a team of current and recent students whose only intention is to provide other college students with a useful and informative resource. Our wikis have been well-received at schools like Harvard, Yale and Princeton. We are not profiting from the website. More »

Alcohol policy reveals out-of-touch administration

To the Editor: In Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson’s op-ed (“Dartmouth’s Enforcement of Alcohol Laws,” April 3), he claims that “the health, safety and well-being of Dartmouth students is always uppermost in our concerns.” More »

Debating non-Western art at The Hood

By Lauren M. Smalligan, New Haven, Conn.

To the Editor: The Dartmouth’s review of the Hood’s current exhibition, “Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic,” reflects an embarrassing lack of knowledge of non-Western art historical scholarship (“New Hood exhibits emphasize anthropology over aesthetics,” April 2). More »

Keep bias out of sportswriting

To the Editor: Over the past three years I have noticed a trend of The Dartmouth putting negative spin on many of the College’s athletic teams. Two years ago it was so bad the softball team made a request for a new writer after “Dartmouth softball drops a deuce to the Great Danes of Albany” (April 8, 2005) was published as a headline. More »