Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Concordantly Fratty

By Tom Mandel, Contributing Columnist

Think back to all the time you spent learning SAT vocabulary during your junior and senior years of high school. You may or may not still remember the definitions of words like "abscond" and "subterfuge," despite the fact that you'd likely never use them in real life. The only place that they now seem appropriate is in a paper written to wow a Writing 5 professor or in your senior thesis, or in any of the papers that come in between. More »

Time For Alumni Unity

By John Mathias, Guest columnist and Association slate candidate for president of the Association of Alumni executive committee

The most pressing issue facing Dartmouth today is the identification and recruitment of its next president. Dartmouth's next president must be committed to retaining a focus on undergraduate education while having the academic credibility, institutional vision and dynamic personality necessary to do the following: attract and retain a world-class faculty with exceptional credentials in their academies; inspire students to pursue excellence in all aspects of their Dartmouth experience; administer highly complex operations wisely and efficiently; and energize Dartmouth's alumni and benefactors to increase support of our beloved college. More »