Dartmouth has reconfirmed its commitment to exceptional off-campus opportunities with the current effort to establish a Foreign Study Program in India. The initiative is a nod to many important long-term goals, such as rivaling our peer institutions and increasing the range of South Asian studies programs available at Dartmouth. But perhaps the most notable aspect of the proposed FSP is the prominent role that students have played in bringing about its creation.
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Philip Kenol, Philip Kenol '10 is a contributing columnist.
Townies take over Dartmouth!
While this might be an exaggeration, it almost felt this way last Thursday, when I tried to get into Filene Auditorium to attend former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer’s speech. I had looked forward to this event, and yet I was turned away because the auditorium was already packed. Usually, that would not be a cause for concern; I could have merely been late, and unable to find a seat. Yet I was not late; not only did I show up 40 minutes prior to the event, but it was not students who were taking the seats.
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George F. Will, George F. Will is a guest columnist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post.
It is an axiom, supposedly coined by Henry Kissinger: The bitterness of academic politics is inversely proportional to the stakes. Actually, the stakes of disputes about the governance of academic institutions are large but need not descend into bitterness.
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You cannot force someone to help another, but you can teach him or her how to discover the joy in giving. Nothing needs to be justified about the educative nature of volunteer work, and so I often wonder why it is not a part of the education system to which I belong. I cannot think of a more liberating art.
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To the Editor:
I read with great interest “RIAA Threatens Music Downloaders” (March 29) and Ben Selznick’s op-ed, “The Responsibility of the RIAA” (April 3). Both pieces will be required reading when I teach a first-year writing seminar next spring. The tentative title for the seminar is “Addiction, Obesity, Pollution, Thievery, and Other Music-related Topics.”
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To the Editor:
I read with interest your editorial (“A Weak Consensus,” March 30), in which you examined the policy positions and qualifications of the trustee candidates. All four candidates are people of significant accomplishments. However, let me suggest that there is a quality that I believe anyone who aspires to sit on the board should have — a history of at least minimal engagement with the College as an alumnus/a.
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