Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Is AlcoholEdu Necessary?

By Daniel Belkin, Staff Columnist

Did you know that mental blackouts result from trauma to the hippocampus in the brain? Following in the footsteps of their upperclass predecessors, members of the Class of 2011 learned this fun fact, along with countless others, as they fulfilled their summer-before-college rite of passage and began AlcoholEdu, the three-hour online course that teaches freshmen about drinking and personal safety. Mandatory for freshmen at Dartmouth since 2002, AlcoholEdu coached hundreds of thousands of American college students just this past year alone on the hazards of alcohol consumption. More »

ExtraCurricular.

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist

Get ready to hear it again in 2008! Conservatives will warn that low taxes and less government spending are the best way for governments to help their economies flourish in today’s global economy. The evidence suggests otherwise. More »