We’ve all heard the familiar claim that at Dartmouth we learn as much outside the classroom as we do in it — that we learn as much from our peers as we do from our professors. I suppose it’s possible that since I came to Dartmouth I’ve managed to find the least intellectual peers here, or that my sources for the above information managed to unearth every last class taught by Dartmouth’s small, but extant, flock of senile professors. But I doubt it. Instead, I’ve begun to form the opinion that the intellectual climate at Dartmouth is as bleak as four inches of snow in April.
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In Tuesday’s edition of The Dartmouth, trustee candidate John Wolf ‘70 criticized fellow candidate Stephen Smith ‘88’s position on the disciplinary process at Dartmouth, claiming that his position undermined the administrative ability of the forthcoming Dean of the College and overextended the responsibilities entrusted to the Board of Trustees.
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To the Editor:
Students may be annoyed or even angry that to watch TV could cost so much money next year (“TV watchers to face $300 box fee,” April 6). On another note, it should also be known that despite requests starting in September of 2006, these set-top boxes are not accessible to people with disabilities. This “technology of tomorrow” has ironically been used as an excuse for the inability of the set-top boxes to support closed captioning, which is used especially by students who have a hearing loss or may be deaf.
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Nora Yasumura, Assistant Dean of Student Life and Advisor to Asian and Asian American Students
To the Editor:
Several recent articles and editorials (“Departments unveil interdisciplinary FSP in India,” April 4; “India FSP and Student Demand,” April 6) have inaccurately implied that the Foreign Study Program India initiative has been primarily driven by students or only addressed by the senior administration when students became more formally involved.
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