Eight impressive individuals — including a Nobel Laureate, Emmy Award winning actress and the chief economic advisor to President Reagan — will receive honorary degrees from Dartmouth at commencement on June 8th. Hopefully none of them will cause as much controversy as University of Massachusetts’s honorary degree beneficiary, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. More »
After reading Tom Mandel ‘11’s column a number of times (“Concordantly Fratty,” May 6), I still find it hard to distill its essence. Mandel begins the article with what seems to be a criticism of “frat” vocabulary at Dartmouth, but soon assures the reader that he only becomes irritated once the lexicon’s unvaried and repeated use causes our interactions to “go by without any mental effort.” However, after giving an example of one of these standard frat-basement interactions — which itself is coincidentally free of frat-specific language — Mandel resumes his original attack of our use of the lexicon, arguing that “we all got so dumbed down” because we lost sight of the irony with which we initially adopted “ultra-fratty” words and expressions. Mandel concludes his article by suggesting that we should improve ourselves by talking about politics and other “real world” topics while in the basement. More »
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