After the College’s announcement last week that the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience has reached over $1 billion in gifts, this week’s unveiling of a new financial aid policy has put the possibility of the Dartmouth experience within reach of millions of America’s poorest students. More »
The freshman fifteen is a little exaggerated. Maybe it’s the alliteration or just a result of melodramatic eighteen-year-olds, but I don’t think too many college first-years actually undergo such extreme weight gain. I’ll admit that before writing this introduction, I weighed myself and discovered that I had, in fact, gained a few pounds during my first term at Dartmouth. But my jeans are snug — not busting at the seams. More »
Without a doubt, the day off from classes on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a welcomed, once-in-a-blue-moon breather from the weekly grind. Over their four-year stint at the Big Green, seniors can count on one hand the number of times that national holidays have left classrooms empty for the day. Why does the College observe so few federal holidays? More »
Perhaps the most commonly uttered phrase in political discourse is the statement that ‘liberals are charitable and conservatives selfish.’ Too often conservatives uncritically accept this dictum by shamefacedly embracing the concept of selfishness in the name of efficiency or some other abstraction. Too rarely do conservatives employ empirical fact to prove that it just ain’t so. More »
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