Friday, November 20, 2009

VERBUM ULTIMUM: Constructive Consolidation

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board

College President Jim Yong Kim will never be accused of sitting idle during his first five months in office — Parkhurst Hall has undergone significant restructuring under his watch, much of it long overdue. While we have been apprehensive about some of the change — mostly notably the unusual timing of former Provost Barry Scherr’s decision to step down earlier this fall — these rearrangements have represented significant steps toward addressing inefficiencies and redundancies that have plagued the College’s central administration for years. Many of these inefficiencies were enumerated in a McKinsey and Company review of the College conducted four years ago. More »

This War is the Answer

By Chris Talamo '11, Staff Columnist

It’s not often in our country when transfers of power produce serious policy changes. The Obama honeymoon period significantly improved the nation’s general foreign relations, but that was more of a product of our neighbors’ thankfulness that they didn’t have to put up with Bush, rather than a result of American pressure. So how is it that the War on Terrorism, the primary motivation of Bush’s foreign policy and his greatest legacy, has come under intense scrutiny? More »