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Opinion: Using Outside Consultants to Cut Costs

02 Dec 2009 02:15:18 PST

Written 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...

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Opinion: Better luck with your next Dartmouth Card.

21 Sep 2009 07:28:27 PDT

Written 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.

Original story at The Little Green .

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Opinion: A Template for College Governance

02 Mar 2009 13:44:47 PST

Written 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...

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Opinion: NEWS: Daily Debriefing

18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

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...

Original story at The Dartmouth .

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Opinion: Not a Lesson Learned from the 2001 Budget Crisis

17 Feb 2009 16:11:56 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Dartlog .

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Opinion: The Other College and Univ. Presidents: Snapshots of Academic “Glory”

16 Nov 2008 16:53:28 PST

Editor’s Note: As Dartmouth’s Presidential Search Committee interviews potential candidates for the job, The Dartmouth Review presents our own list of possibilities below. As always, there are the good, the bad, and the ugly—we’ll let you determine which is which. More depth of covera...

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Dartmouth College news and blogs - December 10, 2009

10 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Dartmouth College news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Opinion: Winter Carnival: Stories of the Mardi Gras of the North -- from Dartmouth Review
• Opinion: Forever Poor: Wright Reflects on Tenure -- from Dartmouth Review
• Opinion: Barret's Mixology -- from Dartmouth Review
• Opinion: Dartmouth’s New Speech Professor -- from Dartmouth Review
• Opinion: Indian Football Week Three -- from Dartmouth Review
• Opinion: The Storied History of Dartmouth College -- from Dartmouth Review
• Opinion: OPINION: Reject Ridiculous Rankings -- by (Katy O'Donnell) from Icerocket blog search: Dartmouth
• Opinion: AoA Election: What Now? -- from Dartmouth Review
• Opinion: Living a dream -- from Cleburne Times-Review
• Opinion: Dartmouth Considers Reinventing Board - The Associated Press -- from Dartmouth "Dartmouth College" OR "UMass Dartmouth" OR Nagraj OR Siena OR DHMC OR Ida OR "fall term" OR Hanover OR Zywicki OR "hockey team" OR EPICS OR Stang's OR folding OR NH OR rugby OR "Ivy League" OR squash OR "New Hampshire" OR alumni OR tourney OR ranked OR males OR College - Google News

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Opinion: A History of Dartmouth Nights

21 Oct 2008 17:33:09 PDT

NH - Oct 21, 2008 For over one-hundred years, Dartmouth students, alumni, and—ahem—administrators have reveled in the camaraderie, good cheer, and College spirit. ... Presidential Search ad Absurdum Dartmouth Review The Business of Learning Dartmouth Review all 3 news articles

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Opinion: Michael Herman on C.O.S. Reform

22 Sep 2008 11:22:19 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Dartblog .

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Opinion: Ivy League Scores Low in Forbes’ College Rankings

15 Aug 2008 19:05:59 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at IvyGate .

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NEWS: College slips down in Princeton Review lists

31 Jul 2008 23:33:48 PDT

Despite the overhauls to the financial aid program announced in January, Dartmouth was ranked 18th out of 368 colleges for "Students Dissatisfied with Financial Aid" in the 2009 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 368 Colleges. ...

Original story at The Dartmouth .

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Opinion: Tim Dreisbach '71 Reacts to Women of Dartmouth Emails

25 May 2008 02:42:00 PDT

Dear Women of Dartmouth, The Dartmouth Review has a long history of active participation by women. [The just-elected Editor in Chief is a woman.] What traditions, disrespectful of women, are the traditions of the parity slate? Are these the traditions of the two women on that slate?

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Opinion: Unwritten Speech Codes

13 May 2008 12:28:00 PDT

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...

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Opinion: Student Satisfaction Report Released

08 May 2008 09:07:00 PDT

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...

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Opinion: Board-packing Slate Candidate, John Mathias '69, Opines

06 May 2008 08:17:00 PDT

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...

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Opinion: TDR Interview: Priya Venkatesan '90

01 May 2008 19:54:09 PDT

Written 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?

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Opinion: Interview: Priya Venkatesan Claims Title VII Discrimination

27 Apr 2008 02:11:00 PDT

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...

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White House Caught Plagiarizing from The Dartmouth Review

29 Feb 2008 14:37:17 PST

Written 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...

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Opinion: How Do the Ivies Stack Up on Alcohol Enforcement?

17 Feb 2008 04:16:00 PST

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.

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Opinion: Exclusive TDR Interview with State Representative Mooney

20 Dec 2007 16:44:46 PST

Written by A. S. Erickson
Mooney: One passed in 1893, one passed in 1921, 1961, and 1967. All four were bills brought by legislators that became law that some form or another amended the Dartmouth charter. Now my question is, why? Why did that happen four times? Nobody can give me an answer. People have asked me, I say I d...

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Opinion: Valley News Condemns Zywicki Speech

20 Dec 2007 16:44:39 PST

Written 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...

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Opinion: Zywicki Transcript

20 Dec 2007 16:44:36 PST

Written 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?

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Opinion: Punishing good deeds at Dartmouth

01 Jun 2007 20:15:46 PDT

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...

Original story at Power Line .

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Opinion: David vs. Goliath U. at Dartmouth

01 Apr 2007 08:55:25 PDT

Enter Smith, Dartmouth '88, who now teaches law at the University of Virginia. He says he wants to restore the Dartmouth he knew 20 years ago, one where student interaction was more independent of the university, and untainted by political correctness - what he calls a "New McCarthyism."

Original story at Power Line .

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Opinion: Dartmouth's Indian wars -- President Wright speaks

29 Nov 2006 22:15:52 PST

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.

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Opinion: The Dartmouth fracas

18 Oct 2006 05:11:25 PDT

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...

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