Friday, May 25, 2007

In the Wright Direction

By THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

Recently, the Dartmouth community has spent so much time thinking about our own campus that many of us have lost sight of the real reason we are here. Judging from alumni elections and public analyses of Jim Wright’s tenure as College president, it would appear that his job boils down to the management, to Greek life, to the Committee on Standards and to athletics. Those endeavors are not the crux of the job of the leader of one of the world’s foremost academic institutions. President Wright’s initiative to encourage young veterans to attend college, as reported recently in the New York Times, is the fulfillment of an Ivy League president’s job: that of a visionary leader dedicated to taking on national and international issues through his institutional leadership. More »

Help! I Need Somebody

By David Glovsky, Staff Columnist

When I was eight, my parents sent me to a child psychologist. I was an anxious little kid. Fast-forwarding years later, in high school and college, many of us were and are overbooked, overstressed and overworked. This means that even the smallest of concerns could easily disrupt the delicate balance of commitments of a Dartmouth student. Unfortunately, the general facts of life tell us that these concerns will inevitably come along, and that at some point, we must deal with them. More »