For giddy high school seniors across the country, years of stressful schoolhouse preparation and anticipation for the “best years of their lives” recently culminated as prospies signed on the dotted line of an admissions offer and sealed their collegiate destiny, marking their most momentous decision to date. And many will have made the wrong decision. Welcome to the world of the transfer student. More »
I would like to thank Amanda Rosenblum ‘07 for her positive, negative and abstract feedback on the SEC slate for class marshals, historians and orator (“Gratitude and Curiosity,” May 8). I have to, however, respectfully disagree with her close-minded approach to the holistic process and penchant to destroy entire traditions that have been around for hundreds of years in one fell swoop. More »
To the Editor: In Tuesday’s article about the possible return of Beta Theta Pi fraternity (“Waiting in exile, Beta strives for re-recognition,” May 8), one quote by Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman jumped out. He said, in part, “We strongly believe … that being affiliated with a national organization is beneficial for the students.” This oft-repeated chorus from College administrators is used to justify the mandate that all new Greek organizations be nationally affiliated. Empirically, it is also blatantly false. More »
When I was a junior in high school, I went to the New England High School Track and Field Championships held in Plymouth, Mass. I had qualified for this meet in the mile run, but after a long string of hard races I decided to call it a season and just go for the sole purpose of watching. At this time, Ben True was just a sophomore and was running the unseeded heat of the two-mile. Ben won this race in a time of nine minutes and 25 seconds with a huge finishing kick and placed fifth overall beating out many of the runners from the seeded heat. Needless to say, I was incredibly surprised and impressed to see a sophomore run that fast, but I must admit the thought never crossed my mind that I would spend a significant portion of my life chasing that sophomore around tracks, through the trails of pine park, and along the roads that circumscribe Hanover. More »
As we carry around the aftermath of Dartmouth’s Alcohol Screening Day and its attendant social norm-displaying Nalgenes, I am forced to report some sad news. The May 9 Collis Common Ground may or may not have impacted your individual drinking habits — I’m guessing it didn’t — but it did expose you to a new, cancer-causing risk: those very same collective judgment-quoting Nalgene bottles. More »
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