Vox Clamantis: Intolerant Radicals
Letter to the Editor:
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Letter to the Editor:
In a now-infamous blitz to the Parking Office last spring, Niral Shah '08 decried his parking ticket, issued at 5:48 a.m., as "one of the many ways in which this college is a terribly unfunny joke." I've recently come across another way.
When the Detroit Lions went 0-16 this year, they made history. Yet when the Dartmouth Big Green football team went winless for the first time since 1883, no one blinked. Why? Because no one cares anymore. There exist many explanations for why being a football fan at Dartmouth has taken a back seat to other Saturday traditions -- like doing homework -- but one reason stands out above the rest: Dartmouth football stinks.
To borrow from Michael Scott in the season four finale of the "The Office": "[The Hopkins Center] has been cruisin' for a bruisin' for a long time. And I am now its cruise director. And my name is Captain Bruisin'." I only needed a few weeks working -- and getting lunch -- in the real world (Boston in my case) this summer to be reminded of how truly awful the Hop really is.
With the ubiquity of ad hoc committees on this campus, it's understandable that students feel that such committees have lost their saliency.
I have a question for Mr. Tom Alciere, ("Legislation Under the Influence," Jan. 28): Are you serious?
I am not the first person to write about corporate recruiting woes and probably will not be the last. As a student currently going through this process for summer internships, however, my struggles reflect a phenomenon that belies our academic culture as a whole.
Although Dartmouth does not allow students to take courses under a pass-fail option, the College offers the next best thing: the Non-Recording Option. The NRO, as it is more commonly known, enables students to elect courses out of their comfort zone without fear of destroying their grade point average.
From gun charges to blood doping, it seems as if professional athletes are getting themselves into trouble more and more often these days. Just take the recent examples of cyclist Michael Rasmussen and NFL players Adam "Pacman" Jones and Michael Vick. They are all individuals who get paid -- the latter two rather handsomely -- to perform the duties of a professional athlete. For these and many other professional athletes however, the realization that they are paid millions of dollars to play sports is not enough incentive to keep them out of the kind of trouble unbecoming of individuals in their position.
We have all done it. You are studying late Sunday night in the library with a midterm the next day only to realize that you still need to take your car back to A-Lot. The only problem is that A-Lot is located in a poorly lit residential area, a ten- to fifteen-minute walk from campus, depending on where you live.
Over the past year, I have become increasingly aware of a serious flaw in the way that the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs (UJA)operates. The heart of my opposition to the practices of the UJA lies in the inconsistency with which different types of offenses are adjudicated. Within the category of "suspension level" cases, which are deemed serious enough to warrant a Committee on Standards (COS) hearing, the UJA distinguishes between cases involving "academic integrity" and "serious misconduct" of the non-academic nature. The differing levels of attention paid to these two types of infractions may surprise you.
Recently, the organization Sustainable Dartmouth sent out a campus-wide BlitzMail message titled "A Clarification and an Apology." The e-mail responded to criticism and apologized for a previous campus-wide e-mail that referenced "hav[ing] a drum circle and smok[ing] lots of pot" on the Green in celebration of Earth Day. The author of the blitz apologized after certain members of the Dartmouth community brought to his attention that members of the Native American community deemed the remarks insensitive because drum circles serve an integral role in Native American spiritual tradition. Furthermore, they found offensive what they assumed to be an insinuation that ritual drum circles include marijuana use.