Saturday, February 08, 2003Dartmouth goes 0-2 on road tripDartmouth lost 2-1 tonight when Colgate scored with 24 seconds left in OT. The loss tonight followed a 6-1 whitewashing at the hands of Cornell on Friday, which broke an 8 game unbeaten streak vs. the Big Red dating back to 1998.Chris Snizek got the lone goal Friday, while Jarrett Sampson got the sole tally tonight on the power play late in the 3rd and sent the game to OT. Nick Boucher took the loss in net both nights. Dartmouth (12-10-1, 8-8-0) returns to play their last 4 home games of the season starting next weekend, when they seek revenge against St. Lawrence and Clarkson on Friday and Saturday respectively at Thompson Arena. Dartmouth gave up 7 goals apiece when they played the two teams on the road earlier this season. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ben at 11:19 PM (0 comments) Now this is what I call a Blitz advertisement>Date: 08 Feb 2003 12:50:58 EST>From: Casual Thursday >Subject: Winter Reflections >To: (Recipient list suppressed) Casual Thursday Tonight 9pm Brace Commons One improv show to rule them all In the 93-year history of Winter Carnival, many traditions have come and gone. Casual Thursday would like to invite everyone to reflect on some of the lesser remembered traditions of years past, traditions like Nude Figure Skating, idol worship, giant, sort of racist depictions of native peoples, and everyone's favorite--building igloos and throwing Molotov cocktails at unsuspecting townies and cats from inside. Oh yeah, and we're going to be doing some awesome improv comedy. So stagger on down to Brace Commons tonight, 9pm. CT--The real man's pregame Casual Thursday Tonight 9pm Brace Commons Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 1:00 PM (0 comments) Lack of confidence in a Duke degree?Student resorts to streaking. Was hoping for subsequent endorsements and fame.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 11:30 AM (0 comments) Pay up, kidsFrom AP: U.S. marshals pursue borrowers behind on student loansFull post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 11:25 AM (0 comments) Co-habitation at YaleBecause single-sex rooming �delegitimizes� homosexual students by enforcing �a heteronormative culture [which] assumes all members are heterosexual.�Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 11:16 AM (0 comments) Friday, February 07, 2003NYT on Winter Carnivalhere. I think the link requires registration. You can get it from lexis nexis as well. you figure it out.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Rollo at 2:38 PM (0 comments) Thursday, February 06, 2003Yeah right>Date: 05 Feb 2003 13:37:48 EST>From: Lena E. Previll >Subject: A Place to Party >To: (Recipient list suppressed) *********FUEL********* is available for your group's activities! ^^ ^^ ^^As a fully functional and decorated private space with lots of atmosphere and potential, all FUEL needs is your group to fill it up and make it noisy. Free to all student groups, centrally located, equiped with the latest in sound equipment, and hassle-free, FUEL is a great place to kick back after team games and meets, have a dance party, or a private function. ^^ ^^ ^^ Check it out by calling or stopping by the Student Activities office, third floor Collis, 646-3399 Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:20 PM (0 comments) Liberalism 101Harvard now teaches the fine art of being an idiot.But we already knew they did that. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 4:00 PM (0 comments) Digital DiversityAt Iowa State University, they "thought it best to take a more illusory, 'less-actual' approach in depicting this school's racial demographic."Don't the good folks at The Onion know about this? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 3:36 PM (0 comments) Tuesday, February 04, 2003Re: When Professors Attack!Hummel, unfortunately I have to side with the belief that the professors are intellectually weak. Edsforth for one, if I remember correctly, put some rather unconvincing arguments out there in class."It would destroy the power of the United Nations in a similar manner." Power to do what, exactly? To not enforce its own resolutions, appoint Libya head of the human rights commision, appoint Iraq head of the disarmament coference simply due to alphabetical order (procedure trumps all), or fail to prevent slaughters in Rwanda and Eastern Europe, among other things? The fact is the UN is an inherently weak body because it is not willing to take a sold moral stance against any of its members without the US's prodding (which it demonizes the during the whole process). The League of Nations partially failed due to a lack of US involvement. Does any one think the UN is any different? Without the US, the UN has very little power. There was also this: "If we go to war without a declaration of war," Edsforth said, "this would be grounds for impeachment." He repeatedly quoted the Constitution -- Congress has the power to declare war -- and compared action without such a declaration to the imperialistic wars of "18th century despots." There may not be explicit declaration of war, but Congress has said in 1998 and last year that the goal in Iraq was regime change. Beyond that, I believe the President does have the power to take action in Iraq without a declaration. Furthermore, he probably has the votes, anyways. As for the ridiculous rhetoric, "the imperialistic wars of '18th century despots," come on. I didn't realize that we were trying to colonize Iraq. If we are, great, Menashi can reclaim the family textile business. ""unjust war of aggression against a country that has not attacked us and does not threaten us imminently." Well, they have been shooting at our planes for the last ten years, violated the terms of the cease fire that ended the Gulf War (remember no peace treaty was ever signed to end that war), plotted to assassinate a former president, and have harbored associates of terrorists. Other than that, they're clean. "In his view, the administration is using the pretense of an Iraq that is a danger to the world as a means for securing their own interests in the Middle East." What, such as trying to prevent further terrorists from attacking us? I'd say that's a fairly valuable interest. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 1:44 PM (0 comments) Divest Now"While the Committee on Investor Responsibility will be able to make recommendations to both the College and the companies, it will not actually have the power to enact change in the College's investment strategy."A committee with no actual power, how classically SA. Anyway, the whole idea of a group to review the College's investments is idiotic. All it will do is allow every annoying student group yet another forum in which to complain about how such and such company occasionally violates the habitat of the field mouse. Socially responsible investing is usually a sham anyways. Worldcom would passed the criteria of most socially responsible funds but how responsible was it in reality? Other companies that produce goods we need (such as pharamaceuticals) don't pass muster simply because production of their products naturally produces more waste. Anyways, I think a great idea would be socially irresponsible investing. Guns, alcohol, cigarettes, and heavy industrials. Plus the added fun of pissing a lot of annoying Greens off. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 1:11 PM (0 comments) Forthcuming in the DFP>Date: 04 Feb 2003 12:28:47 EST>From: Steven A. Zyck >Reply-To: YaLatif >Subject: SEX, GENDER & SEXUALITY >To: (Recipient list suppressed) You are getting this blitz because I know you to be a person interested in issues of sex, gender and sexuality. ****************** INTERESTED IN SEX, GENDER or SEXUALITY? SO ARE WE! The DARTMOUTH FREE PRESS (i'm an editor) Come help us plan an issue of The Dartmouth Free Press based entirely on these issues. Help us brainstorm articles and sign up to write for us. We are looking for articles about Sex, Gender and Sexuality at Dartmouth, in the US and throughout the World. PLANNING/STORY ASSIGNMENT MEETING: THURSDAY, FEB. 6 @ 2-2:50PM 106 ROBINSON HALL (if you have a 2A, just send me a blitz and i will keep you updated. or better yet, send me a story idea you would be interested in covering!) blitz "SAZ" with any questions or comments. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 12:37 PM (0 comments) Patai on Double Standards in the AcademyThe irony is rich indeed. Patai notes that such systems of reporting and publicizing certain types of speech are on campuses all across the country: Here at the University of Massachusetts, the latest version of the sexual-harassment policy boasts "two significant modifications": "the expansion of locations where one could go to report allegations of sexual harassment and the identification of campus contacts who can provide assistance to those using the process." Nothing about expanding the rights of the accused, which continue to be given short shrift, or about the "chilled" effect on professors who never know when charges against them may surface -- charges that will automatically be treated with great respect by campus political overseers.It doesn't end there. Where is the criticism of the George Washington University's nefarious "Compliance Line," under which anonymous accusations and secret investigations are encouraged? What of the "Bias-Related Incidents Team" at Ithaca College, that debated recently whether or not a speech by Bay Buchanan was hate speech? Where is their criticism of this McCarthyism, where Indiana University Bloomington keeps a website of all (supposed) racial incidents on campus -- many of which can only really be called racial, or even incidents, in pure jest? Those who argue that blacks, women, Hispanics, gays, etc., need such reporting schemes peddle the bigoted notion that members of these groups are too weak to live with freedom, and so they need the warm, paternalistic embrace of university mandarins to make sure their precious feelings aren't hurt. Greg Lukianoff, FIRE's legal director, put it well in Patai's article, with reference to the supposed "chilling effect" of mere speech: "The First Amendment requires a certain minimal toughness of citizens," Lukianoff explains. "It is understandable that speech would be 'chilled' if people felt they risked arrest every time they opened their mouths. However, when people claim they have been 'chilled' by the speech of others, simply because it conflicts with their views or casts them in a bad light, they are only saying they are cowards and would like to live in a world where everyone agrees with them."These claims are obvious balderdash, but they are not benign. These policies have consequences, not just for how justice is administered on campus, but also for how students today learn about the parameters of free speech. If they are told in college that banning offensive speech is both legitimate and constitutional, they will believe it when they are much older. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 10:06 AM (0 comments) Monday, February 03, 2003Men's GroupThey used way too many exclamation points in a blitz for a men's group.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 10:42 PM (0 comments) Men InitiativeHow many stupid publications are there? Does every f------n group need their own venue to sound silly? Hell, join a fraternity or buy a "Playboy" if you need something manly.(Sorry, but I think most of this whole gender is a load of horse manure. But then again, people say I'm not that sensitive.) Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Christian at 9:41 PM (0 comments) Get it rightThat's the "Center for Women and Gender."Much like the forthcoming "African and African-American and Anything Else Non-White Department." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 5:20 PM (0 comments) Boy PowerHeh... Does anyone else find it funny that the way the Women's Resource Center tries to deal with boys is to try to turn them into girls? Sounds like a feminazi plot to me...But wait! Gender is socially constructed! Oh, right, it's not. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 4:59 PM (0 comments) Boy Power, Pt. 2>Date: 03 Feb 2003 16:19:21 EST>From: Men's Project >Subject: De-Stigmatizing Depression in Men >To: (Recipient list suppressed) Join us for dinner and a discussion on depression as a men's issue. This dinner also marks the beginning of the Male Depression Inititive, which will include a weekly discussion group centering on issues of depression in men. When: Tuesday, February 4 from 7-9PM Where: The Center for Women and Gender (6 Choate Road) Hope to see you there! Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:23 PM (0 comments) Boy Power, Pt. 1>Date: 03 Feb 2003 15:20:28 EST>From: Men's Project >Subject: NEW MEN'S GROUP >To: (Recipient list suppressed) The MEN'S PROJECT is helping to organize a NEW STUDENT ORGANIZATION that will deal with issues of men and masculinity. Come to the FIRST MEETING of this group and help us write our constitution, pick a name and discuss major projects for the rest of the term and spring!!! Maybe a conference, more speakers, starting a publication??? THIS WEDNESDAY, FEB 5. 7 PM 221 COLLIS! We want your IDEAS! It is important you get involved early to help show support when we apply for COSO recognition. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:23 PM (0 comments) Speech Office RunaroundThe College still hasn't done anything about making the Office of Speech into a genuine academic department or program. It seems the alma mater of Daniel Webster doesn't really prize the noble study of oratory that much.The emphasis today is on developing departments like Middle Eastern studies, which were ignored three years ago but are now receiving much more attention and student interest, [Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities Lenore]Grenoble explained.Hmmm. At a liberal arts institution, should what's hot be on the curriculum, and what's not... well, not? A liberal arts education is not must-see TV: it's education in those ageless ideas that have given definition to man's intellectual activity and brought him furthest down the road toward fulfilling his potential. If speech was good enough for Demosthenes, it'll do quite nicely for a Dartmouth undergrad, thank you very much. Oddly enough, students would be delighted to take more speech classes -- even minor in the subject, if a minor were created. PS -- The director of the Office of Speech is Professor Jim A. Kuypers, whose book -- Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues -- is available from Amazon. Buy it! Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 2:50 PM (0 comments) Academic Standards -- Still in a TailspinAt Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, two students -- who both used the same "private tutor" to "edit" their work -- turned in papers that were exactly alike. Because the professor flunked them both, she was charged by the University with discriminating -- on the assumption that one student actually wrote the paper and the other student copied it.It seems more likely that the tutor was the author... Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 2:25 PM (0 comments) Why Not?****************************Why War? Why Not? A Panel Discussion on the merits(?) of War with Iraq **************************** TONIGHT 7:30pm 105 DARTMOUTH HALL Speakers: Ronald Edsforth Professor, History Department Allan Stam Professor, Government Department Dirk Vandewalle Professor, Government Department **************************** *What are the reasons behind a U.S. attack? *Is an invasion the only resort or can economic sanctions still work? *Are political or military strategies providing the real motivation towards an attack? Come hear 3 renown Dartmouth Professors speak on the motivations for war, and whether or not they are legitimate. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 2:03 PM (0 comments) |
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