The Gottlieb Roundup
It is nary fall, and this past summer’s fiery feuds of gender-oriented frat combatants, demagogue trustees and a lottery for Democratic primary debate tickets are fresh in our hearts and minds. More »
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Sociopathic Scripture
Over the summer, I once found myself on the subway with a non-New Yorker friend of mine when one of those obnoxious subterranean sermonizers stumbled into our subway car and began to rant. I had forgotten to instruct my friend to feign blindness and deafness when faced with such urban insolence, so she listened unabashedly. We were treated to some run-of-the-mill drivel informing us of the usual truism that if we do not accept Jesus Christ the lord as our savior, we will suffer an inferno of infinite agony for eternity. Just as the sermonizer finished, my friend, by a stroke of really extraordinary stupidity, exclaimed the following announcement loudly and clearly, not only to the sermonizer but also to the car at large: “Excuse me, sir, I’m an atheist.” More »
Time for Wright to Step Down
All of these governance changes just to save one president’s job… Rather than retiring gracefully after six votes of no confidence in his administration (the balloting for four trustees, the referendum on the constitution and the election of the Association of Alumni), College President James Wright is once again putting himself before the welfare of the College in dictating changes to Dartmouth’s 116-year-old governance structure. More »
Opponents of governance changes have no reason to sue
To the Editor: Having made the best of efforts to separate the rhetorical wheat from the chaff with regard to the “governance thing,” I admit to feeling left with a bowl of farina. In isolation, both sides’ arguments sound sound, and so, it becomes difficult from a distance, to understand how the synthesis could be so disharmonious. More »
