On Power and Dissent
By Janelle Ruley | November 8, 1999I went to EKT and AXA on Friday night. I hung out and danced and even drank a little. I saw my friends, and I had a good time.
I went to EKT and AXA on Friday night. I hung out and danced and even drank a little. I saw my friends, and I had a good time.
"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world." These words blared out of my Walkman at me while I was in the gym the other day.
Jenica Rosekrans '00 died three weeks ago. Did you get that? Let me repeat it. Jenica Rosekrans '00 died three weeks ago.
Would that I were an anthropologist. Or a sociologist. Or even a psychologist. What better way to understand the place our beloved College on the Hill has become of late?
So I was thinking ... about how to reconcile my mixed feelings about Dartmouth. How can I love a place so deeply that challenges me as a person every single day?
So I was thinking ... about the issue of funding for student organizations. Before I continue, I must give credit to the Student Assembly for bringing this issue to the forefront of campus discussion.
So I was thinking ... about social space. Maybe you noticed in last Wednesday's D, buried in an article about new iMacs for public terminals, that the Student Assembly passed a resolution to support a document written by two students on the state of our needs for more social spaces on campus ["SA to install 16 iMacs for Blitz use," Oct.
So I was thinking ... about heroes. What does it mean to have a hero today? Most of us are at a point in our lives where we don't necessarily look up to others in a purely idolatrous way.
I've heard it said many times that this has been a "quiet" summer. While I personally take exception to that, I think it is true in many ways.
By the time you actually receive this newspaper and sit down to read it, I imagine that you are pretty darn excited to be coming to Dartmouth -- and with good reason.