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Saturday, April 26, 2003

Dartmouth shocks #2 Princeton in men's lacrosse 13-6

Dartmouth beat #2 Princeton 13-6 in men's lacrosse Saturday afternoon, giving Dartmouth their first victory over Princeton since 1988 and just their second win ever at Princeton, the other coming all the way back in 1955.

Dartmouth (10-2, 4-1) will try to earn a share of just its third Ivy Title in school history Friday night when it hosts Harvard at 7 PM. Dartmouth's previous titles came in 1964 when they shared it with Harvard and Princeton and 1965 when they split it with Princeton. Dartmouth has never won a title outright.

Cornell has already finished at 5-1 in the Ivy League and has clinched at least a share of the title. Princeton can make it a three-way tie by defeating Brown on Friday.

If Princeton loses and just Dartmouth and Cornell are tied, Cornell will get the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament due to their victory over Dartmouth earlier this season. If there is a three-way tie for 1st, a random drawing will decide who gets the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament because the other tiebreaking measures don't resolve the tie. Dartmouth could still possibly get an at-large berth if they don't get the automatic bid.

And for those wondering, there are only 6 Ivy League games because Columbia does not have a men's lacrosse team.

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Posted by Ben at 7:59 PM (0 comments)

Friday, April 25, 2003

TDR

New issue online.

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Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 4:39 PM (0 comments)

Outlawing Criticism of Israel?

Rick Santorum's already in a fair bit of trouble. If there's any truth to this report, he'll be -- or should be -- in even more. The article, from San Fran's Indy Media, says that Santorum is leading the charge to amend Title IX language so that a school could lose its federal funding if anyone engages in criticism of Israel.

This article is almost certainly erroneous in some way. The real question is how much truth is there... Does anyone know anything more about this?

UPDATE Nick Duquette adds this:
Actually, there's already a law on the books prohibiting boycotts of Israeli goods, according to a magazine someone loaned me on my UK exchange titled the New Internationalist. It makes no bones about its leftist stance, so take it with a grain of salt, but apparently it was passed in the 1970s and has been broughtback and was actually used against a news agency called La Voz Aztlan promoting an Israeli boycott. It's in the July 2002 issue of the magazine, a sitebar taking up half of page 7 if you want to pursue it.
Simply appalling.

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Posted by Emmett at 1:15 PM (0 comments)

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Re: Ah, Emmett

Hummel, I have the shameless self-promoter role down pat on this blog. Now, as for posting two links to FIRE's website, you'll not that you are really complimenting my devotion to this site. The story was hot from the presses -- er, printer -- not a long while at all before I was sharing this breaking news with you, dear readers. You'll also note that, despite this devotion, the AP still managed to get a story in (and on the New York Times website, no less). Plus UPI -- and I'm mentioned in that story. So you see, I'm graciously sharing hot news with Dartlog's d�vot��s, at a time when we're the only source.

That being said, the two links are different. The first is to our press release, where all documents can be found. The second is to FIRE's synopsis of the speech code at Shippensburg, with links to the originals. Different things entirely. Or didn't you read it?

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Posted by Emmett at 9:27 PM (0 comments)

The Big Green

I apologize for weighing in sorta late on the Big Green mascot thing which seems to have come up again, but I would just like to publicly announce that I have recently become a big fan of the "Big Green" mascot/slogan/thing. Ever since I came to Dartmouth, I thought it was really stupid, but I changed my mind when I started to really think about it.

The key is trying to figure out what in the hell whoever came up with the Big Green was thinking, and why they would choose the Big Green. So, go ahead and ask yourself:

What's big and green and associated with Dartmouth (anyone answering "the green" gets shot)?

A: Boot, obviously.

Yes, folks: we are the only college in the country with a mascot theme of getting ridiculously drunk and vomitting (at least I think we are, anyone who knows of another college please blitz me immediately). Clearly whoever came up with it was a brilliant individual and figured that Dartmouth students would be intelligent enough to catch the reference immediately (insert your own Harvey Mansfield joke here).

Now that we've discovered this (note the sweet use of the royal we), we can take advantage of this brilliant plan. Imagine: we can actually have chants again. I'm thinking maybe "Boot on Harvard," but we can have some liberal protest-attending type come up with some more clever chant that starts with either "hey hey ho ho" or "1, 2, 3, 4."

Furthermore, I think it's awesome that we're embracing our Animal House/heavy drinking tradition, which, let's face it, is much more academically interesting than the tradition of educating Indians.

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Posted by Rollo at 7:18 PM (0 comments)

FIRE Declares War on Speech Codes

Yesterday evening, FIRE Legal Network attorney David A. French filed a lawsuit against Shippensburg University, a public institution in central Pennsylvania. The suit challenges, on behalf of two anonymous students, that University's atrocious speech code. This is the first in a wave of lawsuits that FIRE will coordinate, across the country, until speech codes have been defeated in every federal circuit.

The goal is to establish an unequivocal precedent: America's colleges and universities that restrict free speech must be prepared to face the legal and moral consequences of their actions.

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Posted by Emmett at 6:36 PM (0 comments)

Trustee Elections

The Daily Dartmouth began a series on the current candidates for the upcoming trustee elections. Today, they featured Richard Lewis '84.

I can't say I'm terribly impressed. His ambiguous claim that Dartmouth needs to "be the very best" conspicuously skirts the one thing at which it is the very best: being a liberal arts college. He, too, wants Dartmouth University. So much for him.

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Posted by Emmett at 12:21 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Ripe For Abuse

Chris Hummel below, and Frank Webb over on Dartmouth Observer, both point out how ludicrous this teapot scandal over campaigning is. Frank hits on an important point:
Amazingly, it seems that at Dartmouth, a candidate is responsible for the actions of his supporters.
It's important to think about this a bit. How hard is it to imagine an enterprising -- and unscrupulous -- candidate plastering public areas with flyers for his opponent, who will be punished as a result? This policy practically invites fraud.

I know the elections are irrelevant, but I fulminate against policies like these for a living.

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Posted by Emmett at 5:14 PM (0 comments)

PETA at it again...

I think it's official. PETA has become a parody of itself. But then again this is the same organization that wanted the Milwaukee Brewers to add a veggie burger to their traditional between-innings sausage races.


HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) A national animal rights group has offered Hamburg officials $15,000 to change the town's name to Veggieburg.

''The town's name conjures up visions of unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows,'' said Joe Haptas, spokesman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), in a letter faxed Monday to Hamburg Supervisor Patrick Hoak.

PETA offered to supply area schools with $15,000 worth of non-meat patties for the name change.

In 1996, PETA proposed that the Hudson Valley town of Fishkill change its centuries-old name to Fishsave, since the group believed the name conjured up violent imagery of dead fish.

The town was named by Dutch settlers in the early 1600s. ''Kill'' is the Dutch word for ''stream.''

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Posted by Ben at 3:16 PM (0 comments)

Monday, April 21, 2003

03-04 sports schedules

The football schedule is set for next year, and though not official yet, the opponents for the men's hockey season appear to be set, though there are no dates available at this time.

2003 Football schedule
9/20 COLGATE
9/27 at New Hampshire
10/4 PENN*
10/11 at Yale*
10/18 at Holy Cross
10/25 COLUMBIA* (Homecoming)
11/1 at Harvard*
11/8 CORNELL*
11/15 at Brown*
11/22 PRINCETON*
* Ivy League

Football Schedules through 2011

2003-2004 Hockey opponents
22 ECAC games (11 home, 11 road) (Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Colgate, RPI, Union, St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Vermont)
Auld Lang Syne Tournament (@Vermont, with UMass and Minnesota State-Mankato)
HOLY CROSS
vs. New Hampshire (@ Verizon Arena in Manchester)
@ Boston U.
@ Boston College
@ Maine

It should be noted that Dartmouth will play at least 6 teams that made the NCAA tournament this past year, and possibly 7. They will face Cornell and Harvard twice each in conference action, plus BU, BC, UNH, and Maine all made the field of 16 this past year. The 7th NCAA team would be if they play Minnesota State-Mankato in the Auld Lang Syne Tourney.

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Posted by Ben at 2:12 PM (0 comments)

Dartmouth Weblogs

If you're a Dartmouth student, staff member, or graduate, click here to create your own Dartmouth weblog. It only takes about a minute.

There will be some domain errors until dartblogs.com starts working, which it should sometime on Monday.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:10 AM (0 comments)

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