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Friday, May 30, 2003

A look back at Peter Cataldo

Some of you may remember the anti-Semitic scrawlings from the fall of 1999 alleged to be the work of Peter Cataldo '00, who was evicted from his dorm room and thrown off campus.

I have posted here (and, yes, this is in a readable font and everything!) an interview I conducted with Cataldo in 2000 that never saw the light of day because our editor at the time was afraid to pursue the story.

TDR really screwed up on this one, and it's no consolation that everyone else did too. I still think it would be interesting to find out what really happened administratively (and w/r/t to the the racial threats, as well, though I doubt that will ever be fully solved) and why due process, which I realize the College isn't obliged to follow, got thrown out the window.

And if anyone knows how all of this ended up (e.g., what Cataldo's up to now), please leave a comment.

Update: Some readers left a few good comments, as well as a link to Cataldo's personal website; click the above link and scroll down to read them.

For what it's worth, "Scooter" sums my position well: Cataldo had a lot of problem and maybe should have been on medical leave anyway, but that is no excuse for the way that the matter was handled by the College. Disciplinary procedures exist for a reason, and it appears that they were overlooked entirely in Cataldo's case.

If it could be proven that Cataldo was indeed the author of the threats attributed to him, both criminal and disciplinary action would be entirely appropriate. But Cataldo was deemed guilty and practically expelled before that level of process could be reached.

Full post and comments below the fold.

Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:24 AM (0 comments)

Thursday, May 29, 2003

Re: Big Brother on the hill - Green Terror

That's really an awful privacy violation.

So, this is the bounty of GreenPrint? More printing than under the old Kiewit system, less convenience, and the perpetual threat of fees. Score one for the eco-nazis.

Full post and comments below the fold.

Posted by Andrew Grossman at 9:07 PM (0 comments)

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Big Brother on the hill - Green Terror

It is important to note that more and more professors assign web based course readings in PDF format, thereby forcing many students of history, political science and the liberal arts in general to print on their "accounts" what used to be a departmental burden. It would be interesting to know if departments/profs are consciously taking note of this new way of shifting costs to the college level. In any event, this was sent to a friend of mine...she was number seventeen of the twenty-five in case you were wondering.

>Date: 28 May 2003 02:40:59 EDT
>From: Callen H. Thompson
>Reply-To: NewMouthFromTheDirtySouth
>Subject: GreenPrint
>To: (Recipient list suppressed)

Hi,
I'm writing to inform you that you are the top 25 students who used the most sheets of paper through GreenPrint last week (between the dates of May 18th and 25th).
This blitz is not meant to be a scolding, just an opportunity for a reminder.
GreenPrint is currently free to students but will not be able to continue to be if we maintain the current rate of usage. Public printing has tripled in popularity since the advent of GreenPrint and the college is footing the bill. Currently Dartmouth uses over 6 million pages of paper each year through GreenPrint and will have used 7.5 million by the end of the year if the usage rate remains constant. That figure does not include personal printers. This is tremendously wasteful environmentally and expensive for the college.

GreenPrint is to be used for academic purposes only and should not be used to print out event fliers, personal photographs, etc.
Remember:
1) to use duplex (double-sided) at all possible times. Students are sometimes hesitant to print papers duplex because they assume their professors would dislike grading two-sided documents. Often professors do not mind, so ask your individual professors to be certain---this can even be done with a thesis, ask Lauren Foley.
2) remember to correctly format documents so that they do not end up being hundreds of pages of gibberish (this has happened in the past)
and
3) think about whether or not you really need a hard copy of something before you print it out. Students oftentimes print out pages and pages of notes off of the internet without reading them through first to see if they would actually need them in a hard copy form.

I will blitz you all individually with how many pages you used total last week and what rank you were.

You do not need to respond to this blitz, this is more just an e-mail to let you know how much you used. I hope it will allow you to reduce some of your paper use.
GreenPrint is free public-printing so you have every right to use it, however, we need to curb some of this overuse and misuse (non-academic related printing).
Please help us out both for the environment and for the fiscal health of the college.

Thank you thank you and have a good night,
Please blitz me if you have any questions.

-Callie Thompson
ECO-Intern for GreenPrint.


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Posted by JR at 2:51 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Jere Daniell, Man of Dartmouth

There's a factually scant but nevertheless interesting article in today's D on Jere Daniell, a salty professor emeritus of history at the College. I took a class on colonial America with him way back when, and I always thought he was a very interesting man. Dartmouth educated himself, he's a real link to the Dickey era. Some may wince at this, but I think it's quite appealing. He always struck me as that flinty type of northern New Englander, probably liberal when it comes down to it, but certainly tethered -- liberal, that is, more out of generosity than out of ideology.

Besides, who could quarrel with a man who advises, sagely: "Don't read The New York Times. I haven't bought a Sunday New York Times in 30 years, and I've thrived."

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Posted by Emmett at 3:44 PM (0 comments)

Emmett M. Hogan, BMOC

Here's a good article in The Daily Dartmouth on my speech yesterday. (Note the use of the word "adjudicatory" -- not "adjudicable," which, as I mentioned in my speech, is a non-existent word found only in the Student Handbook. Heh!) I would point out that FIRE has not enjoyed a victory in the courts against speech codes...yet. That will come in time. Also, alas, I did not say that the speech codes at UCLA and at Harvard University are "among the worst offenders." Indeed, they are -- sadly -- quite typical, and it is for that reason that I chose to give them as examples.

Thanks to everyone who came; I was thrilled, especially, to see so many old faces. I hope that, if I didn't convince, at least I provoked. And isn't that what a liberal education is all about?

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Posted by Emmett at 3:10 PM (0 comments)

Sunday, May 25, 2003

More Shameless Self Promotion

This is reminder that I will be speaking on campus tomorrow, Monday May 26, at 4pm in Rocky 1. I will be addressing free speech in higher education, with a particular emphasis, naturally, on Dartmouth. I would be delighted if you could come; I promise it will be very interesting...

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Posted by Emmett at 11:28 AM (0 comments)

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