Saturday, May 18, 2002Excuse the tardiness, but...Clark brought up an interesting point about a week ago with his reference to baseball bats and the door locks. Should a random act of violence affect a door locking mechanism, what would happen? Would the door unlock? Surely not, as that would mean all one needs to enter a dorm is a pointy rock, allowing any militant Palestinian unfettered access to the precious Dartmouth Dormitory System.But surely the doors wouldn�t seal themselves shut? Can you imagine returning home slightly intoxicated at 4 in the morning on a January Sunday to find you can�t get into your dorm? How many of us would give up and simply pass out in the snow? On an unrelated note, did anyone else catch the letter from Ralph Allen Cohen �67 in Wednesday�s D? Apparently Professor/Mr. (he didn�t specify) Cohen taught freshman English at Duke and gave over a quarter of his students such high grades that even the students didn�t think they deserved the grades. Cohen�s concern, however, was not the state of grade inflation at elite American universities, quite the contrary: He was concerned that the students� grades were too low. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 4:52 PM (0 comments) Saturday Agenda(Why was it snowing?)"Our Lady of the Assassins" ("La Virgen de los Sicarios") 7 & 9:15 P.M., Loew Auditorium--"Occasionally venturing into dreamlike surrealism, the movie mostly hits you with a heavy dose of cinema verite. The movie is about the city of Medellin in the same way that Midnight Cowboy is about New York. The characters aren't dealing with the problem of staying human in a huge metropolis, but staying human in the midst of instability that verges on anarchy" ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission) "Handel Society" 8 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--"Conductor Melinda O'Neal leads the college-community choir in Schubert's Mass in D Flat Major, D. 950" ($3 Dartmouth students, $18 gen. admission). "It's just a party" 10 P.M., Phi Tau. "Green Room Reunites" 11 P.M., Bones Gate--Self explanatory. "Early Eighties" 11 P.M., Sigma Nu--The regular party returns. "Rockapellas" 8 P.M., Epsilon Kappa Theta--The female a capella group performs. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:12 PM (0 comments) Friday, May 17, 2002Thongs for 7-year oldsAbercrombie & Fitch push fashion trends again. If the "Two Wongs Make it White" T-shirt was enough to spawn scattered protests on college campuses, this should really cause a stir.Right? But it probably won't. And that itself says quite a bit about the more politically-correct factions on campuses. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 4:29 PM (0 comments) ContextA posting from the "Afro-American Society" public blitz bulletin. I didn't see this posted anywhere else...Date: 15 May 2002 11:59:48 -0400 Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:09 PM (0 comments) Friday Agenda(A highly subject listing of those events unlikely to induce a migraine)"The Aliens: Being a Foreign Student" 5:30 P.M., Commonground--Presentation of a student-created documentary. Semi-formal. "Israel and the Palestinians: The New Apartheid?" 4 P.M., 105 Dartmouth--Chris Hedges, former Middle East bureau chief for the NY Times, speaks. Migrain-inducing? Probably. "Granian" 4 P.M., Sigma Nu--The band plays. "Egil's Saga" 8 P.M., Moore Theater--Senior Kris Thorgeirsson presents his fellowship project, presents the works of the Viking poet Egil Skallagrimmson. Text of a translation here. "Lisaband" 10:45 P.M., Alpha Xi--Music and snacks. "Rock Kandy" 11 P.M., Psi Upsilon--The Eighties tribute band Ballz to the Wallz plays. "DJ and Kegs" 11 P.M., Chi Gamma Epsilon--The usual. "cK Sin" 11 P.M., Kappa Kappa Kappa--Dancing, Cider Jack. "Party" 11 P.M., Gamma Delta Chi--Costumes optional. "Open Dance Party" 11:30 P.M., Sigma Phi Epsilon--DJ Battle spins. "Disco Inferno" midnight, The Tabard--The regular bump-'n-grind party returns ($1). Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:40 PM (0 comments) Thursday, May 16, 2002What's Your Sign?At colleges throughout the nation, enrollment in American Sign Language (ASL) courses is increasing, notes the Associated Press. These colleges offer ASL as a foreign language, which appears to be a draw for students. Why are students flocking to these courses? "I just thought it was a beautiful language, " Kelly King, an ASL at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. However, this novel tongue is not universally embraced by colleges. Douglas Baynton, an ASL professor at the University of Iowa notes, "I think one of the reasons that people will be skeptical is because they're so used to thinking of languages as being spoken. The idea that you can have a language on your hands is just very foreign."As of yet, Dartmouth does not have an ASL program. If some students feel that this situation needs to be remedied, Dartmouth could have an issue on its hands. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by JR at 10:59 PM (0 comments) And more on dorm-locking...Astute reader Jesse McCann writes,Something not noted in the dartlog: While EBAs will surely suffer with the doorlocks, will the new supposed DDS dorm-delivery service be under the same restrictions?McCann refers to the DDS delivery service that may begin this spring (more info here; there appears to be no mention of it on DDS's website). All indications are that DDS will be able to deliver, as the new policy only affects "non-College-contracted businesses," such as local eateries and, yes, student publications. Redman rationalizes the ban on other deliveries by claiming that he merely seeks to prevent a double standard among vendors. "If we say yes to door-to-door delivery to one business, we have to say yes to all," he told the Daily D. As McCann implies, though, the College would create a larger, more competitively significant divide by allowing DDS to deliver to dorm rooms as direct competitors like EBA's and Ramunto's are shut out. There may be a larger, sinister intent here: the College is now in a position to pick and choose winners among campus vendors, like laundry and cleaning services, and earn "contracting fees," effectively kickbacks, in the process. Meanwhile, students, the ultimate customers for all of this, will enjoy fewer choices and greater inconveniences. Brilliant. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 8:50 PM (0 comments) Green Key TDR Now OnlineLarry's latest is up online. The issue's contents include the history of Green Key, Matt Tokson on public discourse at Dartmouth, Nimrod Barkan on Israel, the end of "Minimum Standards" for Greeks, a talk with Fr. George Rutler '65, turkey hunting's pre-season, and Terry Southern's Candy.Download the PDF here (about 700 kB) or visit the Review's website. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 5:28 PM (0 comments) California to Ban Indian Mascots?A bill before the Legislature would ban public schools from using mascots that reference Indians (excluding schools on reservations), reports CNN. The state would also set up a $1 million fund to aid schools in transitioning to new mascots (safe suggestion: "The Turnips"). About 100 schools would be forced to change their team names and mascots were the bill passed.As has often been the case, most American Indians seem to be against the change. David Yeagley, a Comanche and adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma, wonders about the future of Indian mascots. "There are 11 states with Indian names, and endless streets, rivers, towns and counties that have Indian names," he told CNN. "Are they going to remove that, too? Where does this ethnic cleansing end?" Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:19 PM (0 comments) Letter to the DTo the editor, Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:24 PM (0 comments) Thursday Agenda(A highly subjective look at what's on campus today)"The First Year" 7 P.M., Filene Auditorium (Moore)--The actor and "community leader" Andrew Shue '89 returns to campus to introduce and discuss this PBS documentary (he is the director's brother-in-law). Sponsored by the education department--who else? "Guelwaar" (film) 7 P.M., Loew Auditorium--Ousmane Sembene's 1992 dark comedy tracking the fallout after a well-known Christian is buried in a Muslim cemetary. French with subtitles ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). "A Socratic Interpretation of Plato's Theaetetus" 7:30 P.M., 2 Rockefeller--David Sedley, professor of classics at Cambridge, speaks. If you can tear yourself away from Andrew Shue, this one should be interesting. "Egil's Saga" 8 P.M., Moore Theater--Senior Kris Thorgeirsson presents his fellowship project, presents the works of the Viking poet Egil Skallagrimmson. Text of a translation here. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:45 AM (0 comments) Mr. RogersIn typical Daily D columnist fashion, Mr. Antony's piece today is incoherent, but it does raise an interesting question (which is rare enough for The Daily D), namely, why is it that Dartmouth manages to locate second-rate speakers with such frequency? True, my class managed to have Madeliene Albright, but her address was fairly weak and uninspiring. Were all the other important leaders and intellectuals booked already? Were they too scared to come to Hanover because of the Dartmouth Review?Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Christian at 9:09 AM (0 comments) Football feverWith spring practices over, I've been reading a bunch of college football previews. Buddy Teevens '79, prominently featured in Ben Harts "Poisoned Ivy," is Stanford's new head coach.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 3:11 AM (0 comments) Wednesday, May 15, 2002DartLog StickersOur first batch of 3 X 6 inch stickers has come in. Pick them up at our merchandise table on Main Street over Green Key or request a few for free. Here's the design: simple and to the point (the actual stickers' text is in dark green and not black).Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:40 PM (0 comments) On Door LocksI think Redman's statements only confirm the fear that many had when dorm locks were first proposed, namely that their purpose was not simply "safety" but also to further regulate students. I guess the only solution will have to be taking baseball bats to the door locks.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 8:19 PM (0 comments) Last One, I PromiseIs it just me, or is it a little silly to judge Social Norms, a program whose whole idea is to make heavy drinkers think they're out of step with their peers, on how many students admit to being heavy drinkers?Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alexander at 5:31 PM (0 comments) Door LocksHaving not read Dean Redman's e-mail (Andrew, your link doesn't work), I'm not entirely clear on how he connects student publications and commercial deliveries. I must say though, its an interesting new definition of commercial that encompasses publications that are distributed free to all students. The commerce aspect would seem to take place entirely outside of the dorms. This article seems to be saying that Redman's basis for this decision is an equality argument, that allowing the Review in the dorms but not EBA's is somehow unjust. How student-run, free distribution journals are equivalent to restaurant deliveries is beyond me, but that's besides the point.The real issue is how this relates to safety. The only reason to limit food deliveries is to keep people from entering the dorms who wouldn't normally be able to. That group doesn't include students, who already have access. A strong case can be made that letting students deliver food would lead student employees of local establishments to lend their ID's to non-student employees for delivery purposes, justifying a ban on all deliveries. But this has no applicability to publications which are operated entirely by students. Banning Free Press deliveries won't have the slightest impact on the possibility of an assault at Dartmouth, which is the entire rationale for door locks in the first place. Of course, that rationale was absurd to begin with. For reasons I wrote about last spring, locking dorms doesn't increase safety. At best, it creates the illusion of safety for those who want it, for just as long as their isn't another incident in the dorms. At that point even the illusion will be gone. In return for this immense benefit, Dartmouth is about to cut off a large portion of the intellectual ferment among students by limiting access to student publications and drastically reduce students knowledge of what goes on in the world (no more New York Times delivery remember). For students, there's the added perk of having their movements constantly recorded. Dean Redman says this will never be looked at except in a criminal investigation, which I know will comfort the seventeen students who've never noticed the administrations habit of playing fast and loose with their promises. Especially with that new requirement to register any gathering of more than 8 students. This is not a promising trend boys and girls... Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alexander at 5:10 PM (0 comments) Alumni MeetingThis Saturday at 1:30 in 105 Dartmouth Hall there will be an important meeting of the Association of Alumni, the organization whose membership is all alumni of the College. At issue will be a number of proposals, put forward by the Dartmouth Alumni for Open Governance and another independent reformer, that aim to increase the transparency and democracy of the Association's operations. I wrote here recently about the reasons why DAOG's mission is important, and this meeting represents a first, crucial step towards its goals.The reform proposals call, among other things, for alumni to be allowed to vote on Association proposals by mail or e-mail. Currently, only the 300 or so alumni with the time, money or College sponsorship to attend the meeting in Hanover are making decisions for tens of thousands without them. This is not a situation that is conducive to significant alumni involvement. The proposals also call for the Association leadership to present a yearly budget to the membership, which they do not currently do, and to limit the number of terms officers may serve. They would further require a greater role for the membership in the calling of special meetings and the creation of committees, and for the annual meeting to be held concurrently with Alumni reunions after Commencement, as suggested by the Association's Constitution to increase attendance. Finally, they would insist on a full and immediate report to all alumni regarding plans, currently under consideration, to dissolve the Association entirely, and restrict action on any such plan except after a vote of all alumni, whether in person, by mail, or electronically. I find it hard to imagine objections to most, if not all, of these proposals, outside of a desire for continued control among the small group of alumni who wield power under the current system. This is a simple matter of providing all alumni with both a reasonable opportunity to contribute to the decision-making process and the information they need to do so wisely. Yet given the traditionally miniscule turnout at alumni meetings, a tiny group of alums opposed to doing so are in a position to defeat the reforms. That is why it is essential that concerned alumni attend this meeting now and ensure that the overwhelming majority do not remain disenfranchised any longer. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alexander at 3:57 PM (0 comments) The Losers of Dorm LockingDean Redman (email) has announced that, when dorm locking goes into effect this coming summer or fall term, all commercial deliveries to students' dorm rooms will be curtailed. In this category he includes student publications, such as the Review, the Free Press, and the Contemporary. He has said, though, that students will, unofficially, be allowed to deliver publications to rooms in their own dorms and, perhaps, even clusters (a grouping of two, three, or four dorms).Who benefits from such a policy? Well, the College's administration, clearly does, being subject to less potent criticism, but also does the administration's chief information service, the Daily D. With its distribution racks all over campus, the D is the only publication that will see its reach unaffected by this policy (and will benefit, comparatively, as other publications find it harder to reach on-campus readers). It will also, like the administration, benefit from less criticism. In short, this policy will give the College license to pursue the publishers of any publication with which it disagrees while allowing the distribution of others. And, conversely, who is harmed? If Redman does allow informal (within one's dorm) distribution, then the biggest losers will be students who hold minority viewpoints. The College is effectively saying that for a publication, flyer, or leaflet to reach the entire campus, it must have the support of a certain number of students (however many dorms or clusters there are). Whether an opinion is actively unpopular or simply as yet unknown, its proponents will not be able to reach students as easily or as effectively as those who espouse ideas with broader support. This is directly counter to the liberalism that the College professes to hold. Of course, the biggest losers will be students themselves, whose intellectual lives will be that much less rich for not having been exposed dissenting points of view. The College can make a clear distinction between student publications and commercial enterprises and commercial enterprises who hire students to make deliveries. It might simply examine publishers' for-profit or non-profit status. That Dean Redman chooses not to make this simple determination exposes yet again his disregard for student dissention and speech rights. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:09 PM (0 comments) On Awe, a Summary and CritiqueSenior Christopher Moore presented his thesis and senior fellowship on the philosophy of awe yesterday. The audience, fifty strong, "exceeded my expectations," said Moore, "which is part of awe."More than simply defining awe, Moore strove to put the sensation in a cognitive framework, asking what questions could frame it--questions beyond "How's the awe going?" "What can be awesome to people?," Moore asked, and answers widely ranged, from instances of "natural awe," say at a plain or mountain, to intellectual awe, at a theory or new paradigm. But awe can also be more mundane; a "chair historian" may, for example, gain "deep perspective" from one of the lecture hall's wobbly seats. Moore went on to describe the sensation in some detail, from facial expressions and other physiological effects (quickened heart rate, sweaty palms) to psychological reactions and emotional response ("ambivalently pleasurable"). Moore remarked, and rightly so, that despite these similarities of experience, awe is difficult to pin down, for the very reason of its existence: subjects in awe are unlikely to record and measure it with necessary rigor and laboratory experiments are impossible. "It's hard," Moore noted, "to stick mountains in a laboratory." Awe is "all the things you need a toothpaste to accomplish, plus whitening," said Moore, gesturing at a projection of a tube of Colgate Total Plus Whitening toothpaste. Moore elaborated by describing his first sighting of the immensity of the Grand Canyon. He was told to that it would be "bigger than you expect," but found the canyon to be "even bigger than that...beyond language, beyond words." When one experiences awe, said Moore, one "comes to the realization of certain truths." It is unfortunate that Moore didn't draw this line of thinking out. In addition to mining his own experience, Moore looked to literature, particularly memoir, for insights into the experience of awe. He quoted Thoreau at length (no great surprise for those who know Moore) describing his reaction to the view from a mountaintop and then DeLillo, from his novel White Noise describing a threatening, toxic cloud. Moore concluded by tackling the most difficult question he had posed, on the composition of awe. The sensation is comprised of varying parts of wonder and fear, he proposed, and can be thus explained by turning to evolution. Awe of wide-open spaces, for example, is a protective reaction to being indefensible, as one would be on a plain. Awe of mountains reflects their danger similarly, as enemy strongholds or natural hazards in their own right. The fear that Moore ascribes to intellectual awe can be explained as "fear of losing face"--in a sense, evolutionary jealousy. And, finally, the awe of danger can be linked to the thrill of being "shot at and missed" and the presumptive "contagiousness of excellence" (i.e., of those left standing). Moore has shown himself, with respect to awe, to be a very skilled empiricist but a weaker theorist (at least, as could be divined from his talk; final judgment will have to be withheld until I read his work) by saddling the phenomena with necessary fear. This decision has forced Moore to endure all manner of intellectual contortion, up to his evolutionary analysis, which, were it carried to a logical end, would have had early man paralyzed on the analyst's couch with neurosis, hardly a viable survival strategy. This explanation is just post-hoc rationalization. Moreover, though simple fear can be justified in such terms, wonder cannot. The appreciation of a pleasant vista carries no evolutionary advantage. What reason is there, then, for fear�sufficient on its own�to bind with wonder? The solution to Moore's mistake is simple: awe need not include fear as part of its experience. Consider, for example, the delightful awe taken from a fiction that affirms one of the reader's long-held prejudices, perhaps against something so mundane as a school of art or painter. Knowing that another share's one's hidden, perhaps even masked, opinion and that this respected other does so thoughtfully and logically does inspire a mundane awe of connection from which fear is absent. Of course, some awe may be colored by fear, but this is a co-occurrence, driven by more base instincts that may well be evolutionary in origin. Strong awe itself can cause fear, but it is a fear of the unknown or the unconceivable or the ineffable, not an essential property of the awe but a reaction to it. So, then, what is awe? Is it just wonder, or what? I think that Moore was headed in the right direction when he discussed the role of truth in the experience of awe. He erred by not recognizing it as crucial. Awe may be a simple subset of wonder, not necessarily characterized by fear but instead by revelation. Awe is the natural result of the forcing of truth. A mountain, for example, forces a person to confront his relative smallness, powerlessness, and youth. The mountain is bigger, stronger, and more permanent. For natural enormity to strike us, it must inspire these thoughts. An unending plain affects the individual similarly, forcing his binocular vision to converge far beyond the length at which it normally does. The individual is drawn, then, to consider the nearness of his mundane life versus the farness of possibility. The effect, of course, is humbling but also inspiring. Awe invokes a reordering of thought, a realignment of cognition, and it is this that makes intellectual awe and mundane awe possible. Einstein's famous equation, for those who grasped it�s implications, invoked a radical shift in perceptions that had been, experientially, hitherto static. Matter and energy became one thing, as did time and space. Speed lost its precision, as perception of space and time would later, goaded by Heisenberg. Fear may accompany the awe of such jarring revelations; indeed, wonder at possibilities of the unknown may, on some level, demand it. Other awe, though, is fearless through and through. Moore's example of a connoisseur coming upon a new representative of his passion is a good one. The expert is not driven to awe by what he already knows but by what is new to him. A chair expert may find on a particular model a subtle design feature, all but lost to the casual user, that changes his conception of the being of chairs--the way they're designed or used, the way a particular designer or manufacturer operates, or some other notion. This change can be a delight or a misery (perhaps forcing the retooling of old private theories) but need only be feared by chronic neurotics. Awe, then, may be wonder and nothing more, albeit a specific kind of wonder, one that requires cognition appropriate for the situation. In other words, one need be an expert to experience awe, even awe that we often consider universal, like natural awe. On the ledge of the Grand Canyon, we're all experts. So, then, why awe? Awe may be a social impulse, brought about by our need to organize ourselves into and join groups. The chair enthusiast, for example, reaffirms his being as a chair enthusiast by realigning his private theories of chair design, his internal schemas. Similarly, before a precipice, all men are equally human, equally vulnerable to the drop�s lethality. By recognizing our connection to nature, then, we recognize more strongly our connection to each other. Maybe Durkheim had it backwards. Maybe it was the acknowledgement of higher beings that brought with it euphoria rather than the other way around; after all, can any idea be more awesome than that of a great creator who is able to direct chance? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:23 PM (0 comments) RSS FeedDartlog.net now has an RSS feed for syndication. The URL is http://dartlog.net/index_rss.xml . Direct questions here.For those wondering what to do with RSS, here goes: RSS is a content description service. In our case, it allows you to read Dartlog headlines and the first paragraph of every post from any RSS client. What's the advantage, you ask? Easy: you can also collect and collate similar information from thousands of sites, like CNN and the NY Times. Moreover, you can instruct that software to update you when any of the sites you track has added new content. RSS clients are available for a wide range of platforms from Palm Pilots to Mac to Windows to perl to Mozilla/Netscape's sidebar. Enjoy. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:29 AM (0 comments) Wednesday Agenda: (A highly-opinionated listing of things that are worth attending, heckling, or diligently avoiding)"Book and Author Luncheon with Trustee David Shribman" noon, Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn--The Dartmouth Trustee discusses his Miraculously Builded in Our Hearts: A Dartmouth Reader. The Table of Contents is delightful. "Baroque" 12:30 P.M., Faulkner Recital Hall--"Soprano Kirstina Rasmussen and pianist David Chaves perform music from the Baroque and Romantic periods and the 20th century." "The Existence of a Soul" 7 P.M., Alpha Theta--The coed house hosts a dinner discussion with philosophy prof. Jack Hanson. "The Changeless Faith of God: Searching for truth from a Baha'i perspective" 8:30 P.M., Tucker Foundation--Baha'i is probably the least known of the major world religions. The 150-year old faith has six to ten million estimated practitioners. A quick introduction to Baha'i is enlightening. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:39 AM (0 comments) Tuesday, May 14, 2002On Buffet, et al: Young Jedi Tokson, I applaud you for at least reading Warrren B. His underwriting biz took a monster hit after September 11th, so pardon his fire and brimstone predictions--he doesn't like the idea of such a nuclear act, but his investor-centered mindset forces him to throw that out there to munch on. Nevertheless, he's correct. We have no proof, or scoring capabilities of this, but it WILL occur.As for Messr. Clark's proposed new slogan, I propose a revision, to: "The Dartmouth Review, providing testicles to the business of learning since 1980." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by barrett at 4:03 PM (0 comments) Event: (more regular event listings to return tomorrow)Chris Moore presents: Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:56 AM (0 comments) Monday, May 13, 2002New Slogan: In his defense of himself in today's D Professor Caterine writes,"I was forewarned as an educator of another student paper that allegedly presented obstacles to the business of learning here." Glad to see the College is still keeping an open mind about things. But this does provide a new slogan: "The Dartmouth Review, providing obstacles to the business of learning since 1980."Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 1:04 PM (0 comments) Housing Crunch: According to the Daily D, approximately 400 members of the class of 2005 are on the housing waitlist for the 2002-2003 academic year. This is significantly larger than the 220 man waitlist last year. However, this correspondent was verbally informed by the Office of Residential Life that the waitlist was much shorter, more like 150-200. Also, the ORL has set aside 1,200 beds for the class of 2006. It would seem that the incoming class will not be much smaller than the class of 2005, which was a record-breaking 1,137. It is evident that on-campus housing is as crowded as ever.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by JR at 11:48 AM (0 comments) Sunday, May 12, 2002(s)elected: Dartmouth's web site features a news item reading "Two elected to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees". Hmm, I don't remember voting for anyone. The article explains that one Trustee was "elected" by the 16 current Trustees, while the other was "nominated" by alumni (without campaigning or policy platforms, with only a small percentage of alumni voting) and then "elected" by the Trustees. Ah, democracy at work.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Matthew at 5:57 PM (0 comments) Say It Ain't So: I'm one of the many who nominated Prof. Caterine for the teaching award. I took Religion 24: Latin American and Latino/a Religions this past winter. Didn't get to choose or influence my grade in any way. You'd all be glad to know that we really didn't even get in to Latin American stuff until we first read a dense history of Christianity by David Chidester---Caterine is one of the few who doesn't bash the West or presuppose that his students know anything about the West...he took the time to lead study the ingredients of Latin religions before moving on to complex mezistaje analyses. Also, he openly dissed postmodernism. A teacher in the truest sense of the word--encouraged reading outside of the syllabus and was always up for a trip to Dirt Cowboy.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:51 AM (0 comments) |
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