ExtraCurricular.
I’ve talked to so many students confused about what they really wanted to do, I thought I’d lay out a bit of my own convoluted twists and turns through academia and life. More »
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Yearning for Youthfulness
A couple of weeks ago, Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, spoke at Dartmouth. He talked about the landscapes of cities and the emotions they convey, about Turkish melancholy and the “nobility of failure,” about painting, his daughter and about writing and what that entails. He read short passages from his collection of internationally acclaimed books and short stories. But overall, the talk focused more on why he writes than on what he has written. Most importantly, the talk was about the irresponsibility of childhood freedom. More »
Outside Museum Walls
When Hood Museum Director Brian Kennedy arrived more than two years ago, I shared with him my vision of infusing Dartmouth with art, and he has embraced my call to take art directly to the broader public and place it in “unexpected places” on the campus. While plenty of Dartmouth students, faculty and staff will make a special trip to the Hood Museum to view an exhibit, I wanted to bring art outside of the walls of the Hood, to give the Dartmouth community the opportunity to be engaged with art, challenged by art and surrounded by art. More »
Support Gu-erilla Art
Regarding the recent Wenda Gu installation in Baker-Berry Library, I applaud both the Hood Museum of Art and the College for their bold initiative. These large sheets of hair successfully startled the bucolic yet static Hanover landscape, and I look forward to the Museum’s next commission of public art on campus. While I respect the witty and clever statements of the students quoted in “Adios, Gu: Never has Baker-Berry sparkled like this” (Oct. 31), I am nevertheless troubled by the constant sentiment, also expressed in a handful of other articles, that the Gu installation is somehow “bad” art. More »
Blitz: The problem is software, not infrastructure
To the Editor: In “Committee to consider outsourcing e-mail” (Nov. 2), the article confuses the difference between e-mail infrastructure and client software and suggests that the only way to have features like GMail is to simply move all student services to another system. This is not accurate. More »
Feminism and chivalry
To the Editor: Kane Kunz ‘11 articulated the pressing issue that “feminists need to choose: chivalry or equality” (“Anti-sexism posters turn heads,” Nov. 2). Despite this statement’s inanity, it does seem to represent a popular, albeit ignorant, point of view. More »
