Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Tag, We’re “It”

By Caleb Ballou, Contributing Columnist

Applications to Dartmouth are up 11 percent this year! Crazily enough, I’ve decided to do a very small amount of research to investigate this statistic, primarily because I have to write about something or other, and sorority rush inspires me even less. In the course of my exhaustive research, I came across the fact that this 11-point increase actually represents the fourth highest percentage increase of applicants for any college in America. More »

RIGs, The Greek Replacement

By Nathan Bruschi, Staff Columnist

Last week a number of students delivered a signed petition to Parkhurst decrying the “lack of alternatives to a traditionally and historically male-dominated social scene.” They cited the absence of prominent student-controlled social spaces where men and women can interact on equal footing in physical plants, although spaces like this do already exist ­in Collis and in the various residential communities. More »