Dartmouth College

By Joseph Asch '79 Addendum: John still runs the Rassias Foundation with his daughter Helene as they seek to spread the Rassias Method far and wide. Though the College does not much like them to compete for alumni dollars, a few bucks to John Rassias will go further than if dropped into the black hole from whic...

Stereotypes, regardless of their validity, have to start somewhere. Some say that Dartmouth’s conservative label can be attributed to the College’s staunch adherence to tradition. Others attribute it to The Dartmouth Review’s national audience, while still others would say that Dar...

It’s pretty hard to deny that Dartmouth has a stereotype of being the “conservative” member of the Ivy League — the Fox News to Brown’s MSNBC, some have said.

Senior men discussed the events that have shaped their identities in front of a packed audience on Thursday night in Collis Common Ground. At the third annual “Men of Dartmouth” panel, the students discussed experiences ranging from racial self-discovery to the challenges of socioeco...

When computer science professor Hany Farid released a study affirming the legitimacy of an oft-disputed photograph of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald earlier this month, the College’s Office of Public Affairs posted a press release online — and also uploaded a video on Farid’s fin...

By Nathan Bruschi(noreply@blogger.com) Two nights ago, I found myself unable to sleep and so with a friend of mine, who was drunk with the pride of getting a high-paying job offer (as well as alcohol), misadventured out to the Dartmouth Golf Course at 4 a.m. to see the Leonid Meteor Shower. This particular astrological spectacle occ...

By Joseph Asch '79 My family suffered a terrible tragedy last weekend while I was in Hanover for the Cornell game. My stepdaughter and Jeremy Rick's (#27) stepsister died in a car accident on Friday the 6th before the game. The outpouring of support from the Dartmouth Football community was amazing! From the...

Dartmouth was ranked first in the Ivy League for study abroad participation in the Institute of International Education’s 2009 “Open Doors” report. During the 2007-2008 academic year, 61 percent of Dartmouth students studied abroad, placing the College sixth in the ranking of all doc...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Community members voiced their concerns on Monday about the proposed affiliation between Catholic Medical Center and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — the multi-specialty group physician practice affiliated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center — at the New H...

By Phil Aubart This level of support should represent the minimum standard in regards to the treatment of ROTC on an American campus today. It is embarrassing that some of the other Ivies cannot even do this. Dartmouth should be proud of leading its peers on this issue and should continue to be out front.

By Joe Malchow Tonight we went to Thompson Arena to see the end of the women's hockey game, but mostly we were there to meet the Dartmouth skater for whom we are the host family. The reason the game was secondary to us is we were playing Quinnipiac, a New Hampshire school that traditionally has been just a tun...

By Phil Aubart I was at the Hopkins Center attending a Dartmouth College Gospel Choir concert. One of my best friends had to threaten me with the end of our friendship to goad me into attending, but once I sat down and started listening and watching, I was glad to be there. Especially so after witnessing the s...

On DartmouthSports.com, advertisements for Muscle Milk — the “ready to drink functional beverage” — have become seemingly omnipresent. The product’s presence on the site, which began just this year, is a result of Muscle Milk’s recent corporate sponsorship of Dartmouth athletics.

Dartmouth field hockey standout Kelly Hood ’12 has broken the Ivy League record for goals in a game and both the Ivy and Dartmouth records for goals and points in a season this year. Just a sophomore, Hood is well on her way to becoming an Ivy League field hockey legend.

By Joseph Asch '79 What solution did the egalitarians propose to rectify this inequality? They put into place the current lamentable state of affairs where a random housing lottery bounces students around Hanover each time that they return to campus. I have met students who have lived in five or six differ...

field hockey team extended its winning streak to three with a 5-3 win over Harvard (5-10, 2-4 Ivy) Saturday, a game that saw Kelly Hood ’12 break the College record for most points in a season.

In what event organizers said was an effort to show alumni that support for the LGBT community at the College has increased in the past 25 years, the Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/ae Association held its 25th anniversary all-class reunion this past weekend.

By Phil Aubart The next year saw the creation of Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association, a group dedicated to veterans issues on campus and made up of veterans from several countries. The following year was marked by heavy publicity for the group and a raised awareness around campus about veter...

men’s golf team earned a split against Harvard and Cornell at the first annual Ivy League Match Play event on Cape Cod on Saturday. The Dartmouth women’s golf team, meanwhile, shot 700 at the Kelly Gutshall Invitational to finish ninth out of 10.

By Joseph Asch '79 How about adopting the following goal? Dartmouth College should have the very best benefits program among large employers in New Hampshire, but no better than the next best big company. We cannot afford to continue the wasteful indulgence that ate up almost $129 million in 2008.

By Nathan Bruschi(noreply@blogger.com) The Dartmouth College Fund raised $38.1 million in fiscal year 2009, down programs, athletics, the arts, and service opportunities for students around the world. Dartmouth College Fund. The Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience is now raising the final $60

Brophy Field played host to its first ever Ivy League match on Saturday, as host Dartmouth men’s rugby trounced Yale, 62-8. Dartmouth (3-0, 3-0 Ivy) jumped out to an early 21-0 lead on tries by Tommy Brothers ’11, Derek Fish ’12 and Will Lehmann ’12.

By Nathan Bruschi(noreply@blogger.com) Take a recent example. I happened upon a Dartmouth ID belonging to-- let's call her Kelly-- and immediately went about trying to get it back to her. I found your Dartmouth ID and have it with me now in Rocky 02. Please come and find me if you'd like it back. I should be here for the next couple hours.

By Joseph Asch '79 So why is the Inn failing? Why is the Daniel Webster Room -- which should be the Upper Valley's best restaurant -- no longer open for dinner? Why do the amenity baskets in the rooms contain Goldfish cracker packets that are past their sell-by date, as President Kim himself perspicaciously...

By Christine S. Tian(noreply@blogger.com) I know that the decision to leave Dartmouth has been a difficult one for Tom and his family. Tom started at Dartmouth in January 2008, after serving 10 years as Vice President of Student Services at Grinnell College in Iowa, where he had worked for more than 25 years. Tom has decided to return t...

 NH How do you look back at your decision to leave Tufts for Dartmouth? As much as anything, I was happy to come back to New Hampshire. It was easily the best decision I've ever made. Just the quality of education I've had at Dartmouth, the very location ...

Dartmouth College is one of the oldest colleges in the country, among the top Ivy League institutions, and a landmark in New Hampshire's Connecticut River Valley. The college celebrates its 239th anniversary this year, graduating a class of over a ...

No essay this week, I confess, as I've happily spent the last seven days entertaining my friend Walter, down from Boston for a springtime visit, our first since we saw each other at the opening of Dreaming Their Way in Dartmouth two and a half years ago. So instead, I'll take this opportunity...

By Paul The actions of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees (in concert, I assume with the outgoing president) have alienated some Dartmouth alums, including me. The decision to renege on the College's commitment to permit alumni to select half of the Trustees was particularly galling. I doubt that D...

By Zak Moore The importance of this principle has become particularly obvious in light of the recent budget cutbacks, but has been and will remain essential. When the campus--Student Assembly, student opinion columnists in The Dartmouth and Dartmouth Review, panelists on various budget discuss...

The University of Pennsylvania saw a decrease in the total number of applications for the Class of 2013, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Penn received a total of 22,845 applications, 90 fewer than last year. While the university saw a slight increase in regular decision applicatio...

By Nisanth A. Reddy(noreply@blogger.com) Dick Ramsden, former CFO and Trustee of Brown University, wrote a piece in the Valley News following the 2001 budget cuts at Dartmouth. Joseph Asch '79 has kindly sent us the article which can be found after the jump. It's especially absurd that the astronomic spending increases were so myo...

Hanover, NH —Dartmouth medical students fanned out to Upper Valley agencies for the fourth annual Common Good Day Oct. 21. Under the aegis of Dartmouth Medical School's Community Service Committee and the DMS 2008-09 Schweitzer Fellows, ...

By Joe Malchow The subject of fixing the Committee on Standards came about two years ago when Adam Shpeen and Michael Herman, both Class of 2007, proposed new rules that would institute time-honored procedural protections at Dartmouth. These were simple, viewpoint-neutral proposals: right to an at...

One Dartmouth student, class of 2010, commented to Dartblog on the recent OPA reversal of policy: Surprise, surprise, the Dartmouth Propaganda Machine will only alert you to the good things the Dartmouth Administration does. In what is essentially the largest self-call in the history...

Second, and I feel like a broken record here, Dartmouth is worse than all three peer groups in "Administration's responsiveness to students." Dartmouth students rated that item as the third-worst aspect of Dartmouth. One has to wonder how the bureaucrats preparing the report felt when t...

Next, Mathias attempts to polarize the issue by contending that somehow The Dartmouth Review is linked with the lawsuit. This is a deliberate obfuscation of the issue, and not a very good one at that. Firstly the Review was hardly around in 1891 when the contract for Parity was made. More impo...

This morning news broke here and at The Dartmouth Review that Professor Priya Venkatesan may be pursuing a legal claim against members of the Dartmouth community under Title VII of the federal anti-discrimination statutes. Professor Venkatesan is currently a “lecturer” in what is now...

The issue faced during this Association of Alumni lawsuit is not the lawsuit. No Dartmouth alumnus/alumna wanted to see a situation where the Association of Alumni would have to take steps to prevent the Board of Trustees from limiting their influence. Alumni do, however, want parity. Zak...

By A. S. Erickson Just last week <a href="http://dartlog.net/2008/02/many-of-you-are-probably-aware-of-big.php">Columbia announced</a> that they would be keeping on staff a professor caught red-handed, guilty of extensive plagiarism. And now comes news of this. Timothy Goeglein...

1. Dartmouth students drink radically more than the Ivy League average; or, 2. The Dartmouth administration is at war with its students and enforces the alcohol laws with incomparable harshness. UPDATE: The Dartmouth Review had even more on this topic in a recent issue.

In any case, for those who haven't yet heard, Dartmouth College President James Wright announced Monday that he will step down as president in June of 2009. His announcement came just on the heels of Friday's word from the Grafton County Superior Court that the College's motion to dismiss...

By A. S. Erickson It is the nature of insurgencies to seek to offend orthodox opinion, and perhaps that is the spirit in which Todd Zywicki, Dartmouth trustee and professed higher-education reformer, delivered recent remarks during a conference in North Carolina. If giving offense was the goal, he cert...

By A. S. Erickson 3. Comprehensive social engineering of student life and replacement of the Greek system for instance. Let me tell you a little bit about the Dartmouth board. Question: I’d just like to ask a question, Todd, could you explain what the speech code was at Dartmouth and why you objected to it?

Police Find Shoes Belonging To Missing Student  RI - DARTMOUTH, Mass. - Police found a pair of shoes Thursday belonging to a UMass-Dartmouth student who's been missing since Oct. 12. ... Police Search For Missing College Student Turn to 10.com all 2 news articles

I'll start with the relgion department, which is chaired by Susan Ackerman. Professor Ackerman is hardly an ideological ally of Joe Asch. In fact, she wrote a public and quite negative letter about independent trustees Peter Robinson and Todd Zywicki a few years ago. However, her endorsem...

Joe Asch is a Dartmouth alum (class of 1979) who lives near the college. In recent years, he has subsidized, at considerable personal expense, the Departmental Editing Program (DEP), which funds editors who assist students with writing assignments for classes in the art history, relig...

My Dartmouth-our shared Dartmouth-celebrates the multiple cultures and backgrounds represented in this community. My Dartmouth-our Dartmouth-is a place that encourages students to be responsible members of a wider community.

In today's Wall Street Journal, Peter describes "The Dartmouth fracas." Here is Peter's take on Dartmouth's current constitutional struggle: Ho-hum about the clash of civilizations? Blasé about the struggle for Congress? Then turn your attention to Hanover, N.H., home of Dartmouth Co...

CJADCollege Roundup: Dartmouth women to play for Team Canada  NH - Three members of the Dartmouth women’s hockey team have made the final cut and will play for the Canadian Olympic team at Turin. ... Hyped about hometown SLAM! Sports all 26 related