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By Joseph Asch '79 John has the gift of communicating with sincerity his interest in your life. And he can magically recall everything that you told him the last time that you spoke. Ah, the stories that he could tell -- but he doesn't. Beyond offering filling food in its restaurant , the CC's bar area often hosts...

By Joseph Asch '79 The Gang of 75 put forward another thought in their recent open letter to President Kim, this time about what the College should not do: outsource to independent companies the management of Dartmouth facilities like the Hanover Inn:

By Joseph Asch '79 Dartmouth College and professional schools will soon announce cuts to make up a $100 million budget shortfall over the next two years. Last year Dartmouth cut $70 million and the past administration estimated at the end of the academic year that we would need to cut a further $30 million. Si...

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By Phil Aubart Additionally John Replogle's and Morton Kondracke's appeals to discuss the matter with the Board before taking a stand on Parity is not what Dartmouth Alumni need to make their decision come election day. The Alumni don't need more trustees who will allow the board to sway them on such an i...

Tue, Jan 26 8pm until 9:30pm Organized by Dartmouth Women's Climbing Group Location: Collis Common Ground

By Joseph Asch '79 The real point of this email is that I would wish that you and Joe Asch would be more specific about what bureaucracy you are talking about. There is no bloat in Computer Science. Is there administrative bloat at Dartmouth? There sure is but not in our department.

By Joseph Asch '79 While Dartmouth is now in its fifth year of trying to develop a means to assess the quality of student writing, Williams seems to have decided, pragmatically, to trust the wisdom of its recent alumni in bolstering its writing and speaking education.

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Driving to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, he called his parents. "Mom, you might want to sit down," he recalls saying. ... and more »

By Joseph Asch '79 At a Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley presentation about three years ago, the writing program's director Professor Tom Cormen described the then-current incarnation of Dartmouth's writing effort (forgive me if I forget exactly which one). From the audience, I asked the good profess...

2, a group of about a dozen Dartmouth College fans rained an hour-and-a-half-long verbal assault upon the Harvard squash team during a match in Hanover, NH, ... Ivy Leaguers Gone Wild: Squash EditionFanHouse (blog) all 3 news articles »

By Joseph Asch '79 We need to have the confidence to bring in consultants. They will teach us what any local business who deals with Dartmouth already knows: the College is not "pretty efficient." In fact, if you were to make that statement to a roomful of experienced Upper Valley businessmen, the laughter wo...

Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said. By Conrad Scoville, The Dartmouth Staff There have been no major developments in the investigation of the ... Police BlotterThe Dartmouth Short AnswerThe Dartmouth all 3 news articles »

The Dartmouth Staff Betsy Williams '10 had five points and one assist in the Big Green's 57-47 victory over Bryant University on Saturday in Hanover. ... Big Green falls prey to Eagles in 31-point lossThe Dartmouth all 4 news articles »

the newspaper's coverage, New Hampshire Business Finance Authority senior credit officer Michael Donahue affirmed in an interview with The Dartmouth. ... and more »

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.

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

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) Provost Barry Scherr just sent a campus-wide blitz informing us of Dean of the College Tom Crady's decision to resign: I want to take this opportunity to wish Tom well and to express my appreciation for what he accomplished in his time at Dartmouth.

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 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...

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...

By Nisanth A. Reddy(noreply@blogger.com) The e-mail to the students: gt;From: "President James Wright" gt;Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:10:47 EST gt;Subject: A message to the Dartmouth Community gt;To: All Students:; James Wright President, Dartmouth College Dear Members of the Dartmouth Community: James Wright

By mmcneal@sacbee.com (Martin McNeal) Meanwhile, Dartmouth (2-9) lost its fourth consecutive game and third in four nights on this quick but painful Northern California trip. The Big Green (yes, that's Dartmouth's nickname) didn't do much to help its cause. Alex Barnett was the lone Big Green player to record a field goal in th...

Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet said he wasn't upset with Stejskal's night of penalties. He was whistled for slashing, cross checking, holding and tripping. The second one came on a Dartmouth power play. Fleming broke in alone on Milan and beat him to give the Big Green a 3-0 lead.

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...

By James Yu 96.4 percent of Dartmouth graduates were very or generally satisfied with the quality of instruction at Dartmouth; 97.8 percent were very or generally satisfied with the out-of-class availability of faculty, and 92 percent were overall satisfied with their undergraduate experience...

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...

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...

By A.S. Erickson The Dartmouth Review: My first question is—you are an alumna of Dartmouth—what was your experience at Dartmouth like? Was there any racism or bigotry? Was it a positive experience? TDR: Could you ever see yourself working in the Dartmouth—undergraduate—College Community again?

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 FOR DECADES, Dartmouth alumni have manifested such extraordinary devotion to their alma mater that, not altogether jokingly, the devotion has been likened to a cult. How remarkable, then, that an insurgency is raging among these same alumni. What accounts for it?

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...

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

Dartmouth equestrian tied for second with Mount Ida College at Saturday's home show, finishing one point behind the University of Vermont. Dartmouth now stands third in the region with 163 points, behind Vermont (181) and Mount Ida ...