Dartmouth’s admirably progressive culture has spawned a small but vociferous faction of malcontents for whom nothing will ever be good enough.
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. On Friday, The Dartmouth reported that three Greek organizations had been placed on social probation and further sanctioned due to allegations of misconduct surrounding the houses' fall formals ("Five Greek orgs.
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.
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.
With the ubiquity of ad hoc committees on this campus, it's understandable that students feel that such committees have lost their saliency. One that will inevitably form over the coming months, however, will exist as a rarity -- it will actually address an issue that has direct implications for generations of Dartmouth students to come.
I have a question for Mr. Tom Alciere, ("Legislation Under the Influence," Jan. 28): Are you serious? Mr. Alciere claims to represent an organization known as Underage Drinkers Against Drunk Driving.
I am not the first person to write about corporate recruiting woes and probably will not be the last.
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.
From gun charges to blood doping, it seems as if professional athletes are getting themselves into trouble more and more often these days.
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.