Saturday, November 23, 2002Weekend Sports UpdateUpdate from the world of Dartmouth sports:Football: The football team wraps up another disappointing year today at Princeton, losing 38-30 to finish the year with a 3-7 (2-5) record. Hockey: The men's hockey team prevailed with a 5-4 win over Yale on Friday to move to 4-3-0 on the year (3-2-0 in ECAC play). Lee Stempniak led the way with 2 goals, while Hugh Jessiman had the game winner and added an assist. Nick Boucher got the win in net. Dartmouth defeats Princeton 3-2 Saturday Night to improve to 5-3-0 (4-2-0) on the year. Dartmouth moves into a tie for 3rd place in the conference, and is now 5-0-0 at Thompson this year. Coming to Hanover on Tuesday is #1 Boston College for a non-conference game. Basketball: The Dartmouth men dropped their season opener to Lehigh 68-62. They play Vermont in Burlington on Tuesday. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ben at 1:31 PM (0 comments) Friday, November 22, 2002That Fat BastardWired News:"Years From Now They'll Call it 'Payback Tuesday'," Moore wrote in a hyperbolic letter urging his fans to vote in the U.S. elections Nov. 5. The full letter, posted to michaelmoore.com two days before the vote, predicted, "We will deny Bush control of the Congress next week ... Expect a wake-up call from me at your bedside 6 a.m. Tuesday!"As he's already well-known as a liar (or "factually challenged": see and here), is it any surprise that Moore is a hypocrite as well? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:11 PM (0 comments) Fascists...real live oneshttp://www.ufu.gq.nu/id31.htmThis is the website to the United Fascist Union. It's leader is pure comedy. I urge all to check it out--give fascism a chance. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by barrett at 2:06 PM (0 comments) Re: EmmettRollo: I'm saying that Aegis destroyers will make up the first iteration of a missile shield -- an Aegis (-based) defense. The "defense" that I'm referring to is simply the application of Aegis destroyers to NMD.As for putting them into American ports... An Aegis off of Long Island and Newport News would pretty much protect all of the Eastern seaboard from Atlanta to Boston from short- and medium-range nuclear attack. However -- who's going to launch a short- or medium-range nuclear attack on New York City? The Canadians? The dictates of geography mean it would, by necessity, be a long-range attack. Far better to deploy the Aegis defense in hotspots around the world: the Sea of Japan, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the Bay of Bengal... Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 12:50 PM (0 comments) EmmettYour last paragraph is confusing me. Are you saying that the Aegis cruisers, which have been around for several years, do not have Aegis defenses? Or are you saying that we're going to but Aegis cruisers into ports like NY and DC (a la Tom Clancy) to provide "Aegis-based defenses"?Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 12:08 PM (0 comments) Good News on National Missile DefenseFox News reports on the latest successful interception of a ballistic missile in tests yesterday, bringing us one step closer to developing a full-fledged NMD program. This particular test is of great interest; it involves the interception of a missile before it goes beyond the atmosphere. This is a crucial strategy for avoiding the problem of MIRVs (Multiple Independent Re-Entry Vehicles -- multiple, independently-targeted warheads on a single missle that detach in space and re-enter the atmosphere separately).Also, the delivery of the interceptor missile is of great interest. It was launched from an Aegis-class destroyer. Aegis destroyers are slated to be the first iteration of NMD; they are highly mobile, highly accurate, and -- since they also happen to be bad-ass warships -- can serve other purposes as well, giving us a measure of protection on the cheap (relatively). When deployed, the Aegis program will provide us with a rudimentary and localized NMD shield. This plan was designed, incidentally, with North Korea in mind (that's why we have so many Aegis destroyers in the Sea of Japan). Early estimates put the date for full-scale deployment of Aegis-based defenses in 2003 or 2004, and Rumsfeld is certainly pushing ahead. I wrote an article about this back when Bush was just elected; it's here. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 11:40 AM (0 comments) Manchester Union LeaderHas an editorial on diversity at UNH. Beats the hell out of that crap the D tried to pass off as editorials today.They also report on a Dartmouth grad and Hanover resident who's being considered for GM of the Red Sox. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 8:34 AM (0 comments) Major RequirementsI've just been flipping through the ORC, and somebody really needs to go through and standardize major/minor requirements. For example:An engineering major modified with economics is twenty (20) courses. A religion major is ten. A major in women's studies is ten courses. A minor in applied math is ten courses. This is a crock of shit. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 7:53 AM (0 comments) Re: AugustaClark:First of all, hilarious catch on my earlier post. Regarding Augusta, however, I really don't think the Times was calling on Tiger because he's black. I think they singled him out because of his drawing power (admittedly his drawing power may have something to do with his race, but I think it's got a lot more to do with his ridiculous ability to play the game of golf). I mean let's be serious, the guy sometimes gets more for showing up to tournaments than he gets for winning them, so if you're going to single out a player whose attendance is going to effect the Masters, it's not Ernie Els. The Review, of course, wholeheartedly supports the boycott on the Masters and is calling on its readers to protest the concept of private clubs by mailing their tickets to PO Box 343, Hanover, NH 03755. You can send them to my attention. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 2:29 AM (0 comments) Thursday, November 21, 2002Anti-Divestment at YaleYale now has a group and a petition opposing the ludicrous divestment movement there.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 3:40 PM (0 comments) Re: FascinatingThe key to the whole article is the last sentence: "And I'll be stuck in between, plenty on my mind and nothing useful to add." "Nothing useful to add" pretty much sums up the whole article. What a truly self-centered person with no respect for anyone in her family.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 1:49 PM (0 comments) AugustaGreat Bill Simmons column today on this stupid debate surrounding female members at Augusta.What annoys me most about this is when the New York Times calls on Tiger to boycott the Masters next year because of this. Why does it have to be Tiger, why are they not calling on Phil or Ernie or any of the other top players to boycott? Could it possibly be because they assume that since he is black that he automatically agrees with them? Few things annoy me more than journalists who call on athletes to be more political. Witness all the columns urging to Michael Jordan to do more for the Gantt campaign against Jesse Helms is '96 or the deification of Muhammed Ali that has certainly been aided by the fact that his political views meshed nicely with liberal views of the '60s and '70s. Much like actors and other celebrities, who cares what they have to say. Just let them play the damn game. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 1:32 PM (0 comments) FascinatingJessica Corsi is a student at Georgetown. Her vagina does not do dishes, she tells us. It's just as well, I suppose, but I hope it does housecleaning, or else she'll never get married.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 1:01 PM (0 comments) Wesley ClarkTo CNN's Judy Woodruff on a potential candidacy for prez: "Well, I'm looking at all of the issues and the problems confronting our society. I'm looking at my own situation. But I don't have any plans. I don't have any intent, and it's just a long way from anything like that. But I do think this country is in a very difficult set of circumstances right now. If you look at where we are, we've got Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda still throughout. We've got troops on the ground in Afghanistan. We now recognize that despite all the rhetoric of the election, U.S. forces do have to be involved in nation-building and peace-keeping, because that's essential to international security and maybe there's bipartisan recognition of that now. And meanwhile, another conflict facing us in Afghanistan, the economy's in difficulty. People are losing their jobs. Good people are losing their jobs. We have other problems that we're wrestling with in this country. So I think it's a time of significant challenge."I couldn't find the transcript on CNN.com (didn't look very hard), but that's excerpted from Hotline. Sounds like the Dems may have a candidate after all. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 12:36 PM (0 comments) Drivel from DascholeIt's been all over the place, but yesterday Tom Daschole (D., Ottawa) finally went into meltdown mode.Comparing conservatives to Islamofascists? The man should be ashamed of himself. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 12:01 PM (0 comments) And now, GeorgetownA Lebanese newspaper reports this (via Sullivan):The �international Zionist movement� is leading the United States to wage war against the Arab world with the intentions of colonizing the region, according to a professor speaking here during a lecture Tuesday.Here's a telling biography of Sharabi that leads me to believe he probably wasn't misquoted. For what it's worth, Sharabi has gone emeritus, but the Georgetown history department has been active of late commemorating his tenure. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:03 AM (0 comments) Of interest, perhapsIn The New York Times today, "Poet Who Spoke Against Israel Is Reinvited to Talk at Harvard."Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alison at 10:53 AM (0 comments) Political Polarization among ProfessorsA recently-released study by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) suggests that professors are becoming increasingly politically polarized -- and that the polarization is happening exclusively on the Left. Only one-third of professors identify as moderates. While only 18% identify as "conservative" or "far right," a whopping 48% of them identify as "liberal" or "far left," with the trend to extremes strongest among women.If you ignore the ridiculous anti-Republican spin HERI is giving this, it's quite revealing... Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 10:28 AM (0 comments) Freudian Slip?Rollo, did you mean "homicide" when you wrote "homocide" in your post about transgender murders?Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 10:07 AM (0 comments) Howard DeanFrom an edit in today's D, "We noticed the political puttering and wanted to find out who Gov. Dean is. We met with Gov. Dean in a handsome Manchester residence before the midterm elections. Gov. Dean sat atop a blue child's bed while we asked questions from our position on the floor. It felt like story time all over again, but Gov. Dean's words were no stories -- they were charming words of wisdom, words of a political physician."I think I'm going to be ill. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 10:02 AM (0 comments) Today's Union Leader"Two Ku Klux Klan Motorcycle Club members� convictions for methamphetamine trafficking yesterday crushed the only known significant supply of the highly addictive drug to New Hampshire and also crushed the outlaw motorcycle group, investigators said."The article is here. According to the US attorney, they weren't racists. Brilliant. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 6:13 AM (0 comments) TDR on GoogleMuch more significant than anything Grossman mentioned: we're number 10 for "Bloody Mary mix reviews"Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 6:05 AM (0 comments) TransgenderI have just learned from the Center for Women and Gender (the old WRC) that "In a year marked with TWO DOZEN [emphasis in original] reported anti-transgender murders, members of the transgendered community will be holding events on November 20th to honor those lost." I somehow missed the events, but I have to question the statistics.If twenty-four transgendered people were murdered, even at the normal homocide rate (i.e. no one was murdered because they were transgender) that means that there are approximately 400,000 transgender people in America (I'm using the 1999 FBI homocide rate of 5.7 murders per 100,000 people). This means that only 1/700 Americans are transgendered (bear in mind the term includes cross-dressers); somehow this seems like a vast underestimation. So, by hosting these events are we discrediting many transgendered people, or are we simply promoting bullshit statistics and using them to promote a non-existent cause? Or, alternatively, am I simply wrong, and only 1/1000 or 1/10,000 people are transgender? If anyone has reliable data on the number of transgender people in America, I'd love to hear them. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 3:22 AM (0 comments) Wednesday, November 20, 2002Out on topTDR wins these Google searches:dartmouth snobFind any others? Let us know. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:41 PM (0 comments) Poisoned IvyHannity (of Fox News's Hannity and Colmes) mentions Review alum Ben Hart's Poisoned Ivy in a discussion on the Amherst Student Senate's "diversity seats," one of which was just denied to campus conservatives.Colmes asks their guest, head of the Amherst College Republicans, "Are you really saying that a while, heterosexual, male conservative is a disadvantaged minority?" Hannity and the guest both reply, "At Amherst." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:35 PM (0 comments) Penn students tar Princeton debaterThe Princeton debate team was in Philadelphia for a weekend tournament.The student and his sleeping-bag were doused in motor oil. The police are investigating. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:29 PM (0 comments) US rejects Internet hate speech banCNET has the story here. Glenn Reynolds asks, "Want to bet that the Bush Administration won't get much credit for this move from the people who claim it's 'stifling dissent'?" Good point.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:24 PM (0 comments) Barak at BerkeleyBlogger Stefan Sharkansky gets assaulted at the protests outside Barak's speech:The biggest lesson that came out of this episode for me was the nature of the demonstrators. It was clear from their puerile signs and vapid slogans, their hostile attitudes, the yelling, the disruption, the theft and destruction of my camera, the various multi-cultis who have no connection to the conflict, not even by ties of ethnicity. Few, if any of them know anything or really care about Palestinians. They simply require something to hate and to attack, and Israel just happens to be the fashionable target du jour.Hilary Miller '02 assaulted this reporter as he took in an anti-Israel protest at Dartmouth when Barak came to speak. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:20 PM (0 comments) Dershowitz on free speech at Harvard Law"These are people with extraordinarily thin skins who want to be treated as adults but insist that Mommy, Daddy, and the dean come to their rescue instead of debating in the market of free ideas."Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:16 PM (0 comments) Arielle Farber RespondsThe following comes from Arielle Farber, a co-sponsor of the pro-Israel resolution, who was -- predictably -- misquoted in The Dartmouth. I've never been so happy to be corrected.***** You wrote: That being said, a sponsor of the resolution said this: [Arielle] Farber ['03] also said that the phrase "struggle against terrorism" is meant to condemn the suicide bombings which have harmed or killed American citizens visiting Israel. And what about the suicide bombings that have harmed or killed Israelis? Does the resolution condemn that? Do their murderers not deserve condemnation as much as the murderers of Americans do? All people are equal, you see; but -- even for the sponsors of a pro-Israel petition -- all people are more equal than the Israelis. As you guessed, I was misquoted. Not only did the D attribute something that Michele Nudelman [the resolution's co-sponsor] said to me, mislabel DIPAC as the Dartmouth Israel Political Action Committee when it is actually a non-political organization called the Dartmouth Israel Public awareness Committee, but they also ommitted half of the sentence I said in regards to terrorism in Israel. What I actually said was that the struggle in which Israel and the US are engaged, that against terrorism, is meant to condemn attacks that both Americans and Israelis have tragically come to understand through suicide attacks in both countries, including a recent bomb at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that killed innocent Israeli and American college studenst just like us. In no way did I mean to imply that the loss of American life is any more tragic than the loss of Israeli life, or the loss of any life for that matter. All terrorism is condemned by the resolution. I hope that helps clarify my position. Arielle Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 4:16 PM (0 comments) Department of "Feels So Good"Jim Jeffords is already trying to come in from the cold.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 3:55 PM (0 comments) Department of the UnexpectedThe Student Assembly engages in X-treme navel-gazing. Your dollars at work!Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 3:32 PM (0 comments) Jeff Jacoby: No room for this campus minorityJeff Jacoby's Column from the New York Times News Service on conservatives pushing for their own diversity seats on the student government at Tufts and Amherst."Real diversity encompasses the spectrum of human variety - a vast array of tastes and talents, beliefs and backgrounds, passions and personalities. What passes for diversity on campus and wherever the left holds sway is an impoverished fraud. Depressing that it should still be necessary to say so." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ben at 11:07 AM (0 comments) IncidentallyStanley Kurtz, of National Review, agrees with me on the Saint Xavier University affair:TOO FAR [Stanley Kurtz] Having condemned the viciousness and hypocrisy of Peter Kirstein, I must say that I think St. Xavier has gone too far by relieving Kirstein of his teaching duties, even if only for a semester. The best way to combat Kirstein's outrageous statements is by making arguments and issuing condemnations, not by banning him from the classroom. True, the case against punishment is not iron clad. Professor Kirstein's outrageous letter did violate the standards of professionalism promulgated by the American Association of University Professors. It would be perfectly fair to take Kirstein's actions into account in a tenure decision, and a teacher who grievously and persistently insulted his students in class could not be allowed to continue with impunity. But in a case like this, while punishment may not be categorically illegitimate, it is nonetheless best to act on the principle that the best remedy for offensive speech is more speech. Punishing Kirstein will only license craven and politically correct administrators to silence the speech of anyone who dares defy campus orthodoxy, not matter how politely they speak. Posted at 12:19 PM Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 10:45 AM (0 comments) Transphobia at HarvardThe gay student group at Harvard, the BGLTSA (don't even try to decipher it), actually doesn't want to get its freak on. They're protesting the -- ahem -- "heteropresumptive" policy of same-sex rooming on campus.First, gays want to be able to have sex with each other. Now, they want not to be able to have sex with each other. Curious. Incidentally, the BGLTSA is looking to expand Harvard's nondiscrimination policy to include "gender identity and expression" -- meaning this blog, at Harvard, would be officially verboten. The aim, they say, is to reduce transphobia. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 10:36 AM (0 comments) Divestment DopesTo the list of prominent schools that have made asses of themselves by having serious divestment petitions, add Yale.The petition, from the Yale Divest from Israel Campaign (UDIC), can be found here. Here's an article on the divestment drive at Harvard and MIT, featuring a picture of everyone's favorite idiot, Noam "September 11 was America's fault" Chomsky. Here, too, is the response to the petition from the always unflappable Alan Dershowitz. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 10:12 AM (0 comments) Paulin Reinvited, Emmett Hogan Wins One AgainAmazing!The Harvard English Department, bravely bowing to public pressure, has re-invited Tom Paulin. Stand by for re-dis-invite, and the subsequent dis-re-dis-invite. Quote of the Day: "If he comes back and has his free speech, I'm sure I'll have mine as well." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 10:06 AM (0 comments) For Dartmouth's AlumsThere's good news on the pro-Israel petition that's going around Dartmouth. One of the petition's cosponsors, Michele Nudelman, told me that alums could add their names to the petition by emailing, from their Dartmouth accounts, to DIPAC@dartmouth.edu. (DIPAC stands for the Dartmouth Israel Public Awareness Committee). The petition reads:"We, the undersigned, as registered voters of the United States of America, and as members of the Dartmouth College community, stand by Israel in our shared pursuit of democracy, freedom, and peace. We support a strong relationship between the United States and Israel in the battle against terrorism. We advocate security and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians. We pray for peace and freedom for all peoples in the Middle East." Michele tells me that they have 550 signatures so far -- 400 of which came in just yesterday. They're shooting for 1000 names. Think of it: While petitioners at Harvard and MIT pitch hissy fits over Israel and -- unconscionably -- compare Israel with apartheidist South Africa, we sensible Dartmouth folk have a resolution with a little more moral clarity. What other school can boast a fraction of our good sense? I encourage all Dartmouth alums who support Israel and would like to add their names to this petition to send a quick email to DIPAC, and let them know you support them. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 9:55 AM (0 comments) EzekielFull points to TDR's own Raphael Clarke for voicing the minority opinion in today's D in opposition to a divestment from tobacco companies. Of the six opinions published only one other took this view, the rest relying on the idea that tobacco companies are evil.I propose a solution to the divestment petitions: complete divestment. I think we should take delivery of the entire endowment in crisp new $100 bills and stick it all in the basement of Parkhurst. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 5:17 AM (0 comments) SubmarinesIf I recall correctly, Trident submarines are an early model of ballistic missile sub and are equipped with nuclear missiles. In the US, the use of deadly force is authorized for defending and protecting nuclear missiles and nuclear missile sites. I can only assume the same is true in the UK.That being the case, shouldn't these people have been shot? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 1:05 AM (0 comments) Tuesday, November 19, 2002Odds and Ends"What is it, Daddy?"Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 4:56 PM (0 comments) A CaveatIt should be said that my rant about the article on a "pro"-Israel petition in today's Dartmouth is based on the utterances of people quoted by that news source. That being the case, it is very conceivable (if not likely) that any one of the three people quoted was, in fact, misquoted in some way. If this is the case, those quoted are invited to let me know, and I will post corrections and changes as needed.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 1:09 PM (0 comments) Re: Harvard Law to ban "offensive language," Emmett Hogan surrendersSurrenders? Never! Into the breach!Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 12:50 PM (0 comments) Harvard Law to ban "offensive language," Emmett Hogan surrendersFrom the Boston Globe (via alert reader Philip Mone '02):A Harvard Law School committee announced plans yesterday to draft a speech code that would ban harassing, offensive language from the classroom, a highly unusual step for a law school and a move that runs counter to a national trend against interfering with campus speech.Does anyone else think it's strange that "Healthy Diversity" apparently doesn't include ideological diversity? Bostonian Jay Fitzgerald: "Larry Summers needs to give another of his thunderbolt speeches, this time on free speech." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:56 AM (0 comments) I Don't Know Where to BeginOkay, okay, so the D has an article this morning on a pro-Israel petition that's being circulated at Dartmouth. Great news, you say, as do I. (In fact, I wish it were online, so I could sign it myself.) But some pro-Arab students are getting their keffiyahs in a bunch over it. Why? Here are some quotes:"Expressions like 'strong relationship' and 'battle against terrorism' ring bells of discomfort in the ears of many Arabs, because to them, 'strong relationship' inevitably connotes such things as unfounded IDF [Israel Defense Forces] violence and a U.S. foreign policy unfavorable to Arabs," [Zosia Krusberg '04] wrote. Now, I know Zosia, and she's very nice. But frankly, I don't see why American support for the only democracy in the region should trouble Arabs so much. Perhaps if the Arab world provided us with a model of successful Arab democracy, this justification would be weakened somewhat. But Israel is the bulkhead of democracy, human rights, and prosperity in the region. Indeed, the Arabs who live in Israel are the freest Arabs in the Middle East. (What other country in the region actually gives them the vote?) Alas, the prospects of successful democracy in an Arab nation seem pale -- indeed, perhaps the best shot-in-the-arm for Arab democracy would be an American invasion of Iraq. Furthermore, why would a pledge to "battle against terrorism" be so "discomfort[ing]" to Arabs? This is a very shocking insinuation. Is Zosia trying to say that Arabs actually support terrorism, and are troubled by our attempts to battle it? (Sadly, if this were what she were saying, she would be right; the lack of moral outrage over the atrocities that are committed in their name is a black mark for Arabs. Though it took them forever to do it, even Amnesty International now recognizes the intifada as a violation of human rights.) "I can picture an Arab family reading the newspaper one evening, and in response to this type of statement saying, 'See, I told you the U.S. doesn't like us," Krusberg added. Well, it's really only when they launch attacks on civilians eighty-four times in the past two years that we turn cool towards Arabs. [Adil Ahmad '05, former president of Al-Nur,] questioned "why it's necessary to stand by Israel, one particular democracy" in order to support the broader goal of democracy in the Middle East. What do you suggest, Mr. Ahmad? That we be best buds with Syria? Ahmad said that the phrase "as registered voters of the United States of America" was "a pressure tactic" and a "way to pressure U.S. authorities to side with Israel." Heaven forbid they should try to actually have an impact! Ahmad also said that the phrase "struggle against terrorism" in effect compared "the Palestinian struggle against Israeli oppression with Al-Qaeda, thus denigrating the Palestinian effort to terrorism." Yes, and rightly so, Mr. Ahmad. The Palestinian "effort" is terrorism, plain and simple. Blowing up innocent civilians -- women, children, the elderly -- is not a courageous struggle of liberation. It is cowardly, it is cruel, it is evil, and it is terrorism. What a disgrace that Mr. Ahmad doesn't recognize that -- but no one ever accused the PLO or its supporters of having moral clarity. That being said, a sponsor of the resolution said this: [Arielle] Farber ['03] also said that the phrase "struggle against terrorism" is meant to condemn the suicide bombings which have harmed or killed American citizens visiting Israel. And what about the suicide bombings that have harmed or killed Israelis? Does the resolution condemn that? Do their murderers not deserve condemnation as much as the murderers of Americans do? All people are equal, you see; but -- even for the sponsors of a pro-Israel petition -- all people are more equal than the Israelis. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 10:25 AM (0 comments) From KiewitThe Office of Alumni Relations is responsible for the creation, maintenance, and general oversight of all Alumni accounts. Information about the Vox Alumni Network is posted at its Web site, located at http://www.alum.dartmouth.org/All inquiries regarding these accounts - including password and access issues - should be directed to help@alum.dartmouth.org or call (888) 228-6068 Ellen Young Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 9:32 AM (0 comments) Ammo DayDo you think The D knows that it reviewed the Grafton County Fish and Game Association on National Ammo Day?Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 7:07 AM (0 comments) NY Times, wrong againHow out-of-touch can one paper be? The Times ain't faring well in an ESPN.com poll. With 34,229 votes in so far, 86% disagree with an editorial's contention that Tiger Woods should consider skipping the Masters because of the Augusta controversy.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 12:21 AM (0 comments) Monday, November 18, 2002Alumni email outage?Any Dartlog contributors on campus have any information on the alumni mail server? It has been down for most of the afternoon.There might be something in the "Computing - Outages" Blitzmail bulletin, but, being an alumnus, I can't check it. Update: (1:40 AM, Tuesday) Still down. I'm told that there is no "outages" bulletin. Does Kiewit even know about this? UPenn's webmail is incredibly slow. Given the size of the place, Penn should have at least one Dave Marmaros. Apparently not. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:50 PM (0 comments) Puh-leezeI was hyperventilating about this last week.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 4:44 PM (0 comments) Kirstein suspended, Emmett Hogan already hyperventilatingProf. Peter Kirstein of St. Xavier University has been sanctioned by the school's administrstration, reports the Tribune, for sending a vitriolic email to an Air Force Academy cadet. The cadet had emailed Kirstein for assistance in promoting an academic discussion at the academy.Responded Kirstein: You are a disgrace to this country and I am furious you would even think I would support you and your aggressive baby-killing tactics of collateral damage. Help you recruit? Who, top guns to reign death and destruction upon nonwhite peoples throughout the world?Kirstein has been "relieved of his teaching responsibilities" for the current semester and officially reprimanded. His record at the University will be reviewed by faculty during the spring term. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 4:08 PM (0 comments) Bollinger CavesColumbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, has finally decided to allow the Army to recruit at the University's law school, in violation, he says, of his own deep moral convictions (and everyone else's, if he is to be believed). Bollinger cited the damage that would result from the loss of 70% of its federal funding if the University refused to allow the Army on campus. Accordingly, Bollinger bravely and courageously abandoned his deep principles.Would it be too much for this smarmy little demon to say anything nice, anything at all, about the men and women who put their lives on the line so he can pontificate from his cozy tower? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 2:58 PM (0 comments) Is this supposed to be reassuring?"November 18 Hanover Police Press Release:"Update: Following its investigation into a sexual assault reported to have occurred on November 9th at the Tabard House, the Hanover Police Department is advising that a particular male has been identified as a party with involvement in the incident. The male is a Dartmouth College student. The male's name is not being released at this time. No charges have been filed to date. The investigation is continuing." They've identified someone "involved" in the assult and aren't arresting him? Wow, I'll sleep better tonight. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 2:58 PM (0 comments) Early AdmissionsFrom the AP:Dartmouth College is standing firm on its early admission policy. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:16 PM (0 comments) Sunday, November 17, 2002A Thanksgiving Experiment Listen to an interview (requires Realplayer) with William Rubel, author of The Magic of Fire, to learn what you could be doing in your fireplace. The idea is that you skewer your turkey, tie a string to it, and hang it from the ceiling in front of your fireplace. If the string is long enough, the dangling turkey can be made to slowly spin for a few minutes with a single push. Three hours of spinning and basting later, you will have, in Rubel's words, "A perfect roast! A deep, rich color," and his pictures certainly do bear this out. I'm not making this up. Read the recipe. We will be cooking at an undisclosed location on campus. If you're going to be around, why not drop a line? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:37 PM (0 comments) History prof Johnson denied tenure at CUNY - department was looking for "some women that we can live with"From the NY Sun:Twenty-three of the nation�s most prominent historians � including Donald Kagan of Yale and Ernest May and Akira Iriye of Harvard � have written a letter to the CUNY chancellor describing the decision to deny tenure to Robert David �KC� Johnson as �disastrous� and �unjust[.]� Not that such things ever happen at Dartmouth... Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:16 PM (0 comments) Hostile environment?Also via Instapundit, "Why males don't go to college," from the IWF:Part of the reason it is difficult and unpleasant to be a male college student today is that anti-male bigotry pops up by surprise all the time in the most unlikely places. For example, on my Portuguese final we were presented with some disputes and were expected to discuss possible solutions to them in Portuguese. A couple of the problems were between married couples, and in both situations there was a clear person who was right and a clear person who was wrong. The reader can guess the gender of both offenders without my assistance. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:06 PM (0 comments) Blackface at UTGlenn Reynolds (aka Instapundit) links to this Daily Beacon article, which reports that the University will not be initiating disciplinary action against students who donned blackface as part of their Halloween costumes.Reynolds also highlights this quote from a campus campus, which I'm sure Emmett will love: Gray also pressed the president on the decision to not levy any punishment on those involved in the incident. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:49 PM (0 comments) |
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