Dartlog: 08/24/2003 - 08/31/2003

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Dartmouth X-country

Goooo team!

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Posted by alex at 1:50 PM (0 comments)

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Well read?

Kumar Garg, who doubts we're well read, writes:

I guess being a conservative really is a disease. So says a British psych study which "has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". ...

The first sentence of the article:

A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".

One wonders if Garg even read the article?

Some might remember that this was big news, oh, a month or so ago, which is a long time on this Internet-thing, right?

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:55 PM (0 comments)

He "figured it out"

Kumar Garg at FreeDartmouth:

I Figured it Out: I always wondered whether Dartloggers really were reading as widely as their posts of obscure mentions of Dartmouth in the media might suggest. In fact, their posts correspond almost exactly with a Google News search on "Dartmouth College." Oh well.

1) Actually, we have a newswire.

2) And we do read a lot. I've found that conservatives are more likely to read the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and then some than liberals are to read anything besides the Times. At least at Dartmouth...a place where even offering facts and statistics can be racist or just not PC (e.g. opinion poll results on the U.S.'s disapproval of reparations).

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Posted by alex at 3:49 PM (0 comments)

Monday, August 25, 2003

Name Debate

The Washington Post reports of a rift among those of the hispanic/latino descent in the U.S. as to what to be named. Some on campus are adamantly opposed to the 'term' Hispanic while others (myself as a Cuban-American) can care less. Being that we're becoming the largest minority group, this could be an important issue rather soon.

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Posted by Eduardo at 6:34 PM (0 comments)

Dartmouth Bookstore news

An article in the Concord Monitor

"If we don't get our overhead down, it's conceivable we could be closing," said [part owner Dave] Cioffi.

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Posted by alex at 1:38 PM (0 comments)

Re: Food

Mark Yohalem '02 writes:

I assume they're talking about Collis, which was always known for its baked goods, and had food prepared on the spot almost exclusively (stir-frys, smoothies, and omelets). Though one can niggle over whether or not it was healthy, it almost certainly was healthier than other locations. The salad bar was, as far as I know, stocked by the Dartmouth Organic Farm as much as possible. There was almost always a vegetarian entree at the far left end of the counter and a vegetartan soup.

Have you ever tried the vegetarian entree? Ick.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:26 PM (0 comments)

Re: A fond reminiscence

Stan Horowitz writes:

Notice that the NY Times article on Animal House doesn�t mention Dartmouth. Jim Wright must be very happy.

Mr. Horowitz beat me to the punch. I thought the same thing but probably would have said it more verbosely.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:22 PM (0 comments)

Cramer-watch

'04 is on the Payton Award Watch

Dartmouth senior Casey Cramer is the lone tight end among the 16 players on the Payton Award Watch while Harvard senior linebacker Dante Balestracci is the only Ivy Leaguer on the Buchanan Award Watch.

The Walter Payton Award is awarded annually to the top player in I-AA football while the Buck Buchanan Award goes to the top defensive player in I-AA. The honors will be presented at the 17th annual I-AA College Football Awards on Dec. 18 in Chattanooga, Tenn., on the eve of the 2003 I-AA National Championship. The Eddie Robinson Award, honoring I-AA's top coach, and the Sports Network Cup, bestowed upon the nation's best I-AA mid-major program, will also be presented at that ceremony.

Cramer, a first-team All-American last year, caught 72 passes for 1,107 yards in 2002. Both of those numbers were -- by far -- the most by a tight end in Division I-A and I-AA.

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

A fond reminiscence

Remember the old strategic vision for Dartmouth?

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Posted by Stefan Beck at 10:51 AM (0 comments)

Sunday, August 24, 2003

Re: Food

Def. not the Pavillion; the letter writer is an '89 (n.b., the Pavillion opened two years ago). Plus the food in the Pavillion is 1) no healthier than anything else served elsewhere, 2) not vegetarian-targetted, and 3) not particularly good (at least the couple times that I ate there; the staff had to prepare in advance so many options for so few diners that everything was cold and dead).

Jonathan Eisenmen thinks that she means Collis and adds that some of the salad bar selections come from the Organic Farm. Any confirmation? What about the other stuff grown that's not salad bar fare (e.g., tubers, onions)?

It's definitely humorous that no one can agree on which is the healthy place to eat on campus. Perhaps this is because there is no consistantly healthy, fresh, etc. dining choice?

Update: Yes, we know that Homeplate and the Pavillion do offer vegetarian options. That's not the same, however, as being "vegetarian-oriented." Jasmine rice, my dinner one evening when I ate at the Pavillion, doesn't really make a meal. And, as much as I like pasta, I don't think that offering it nightly with that thick sickly-sweet marinara in Homeplate counts either.

To be fair, Homeplate did offer some not-bad vegetarian entrees (e.g., lentil stews), but this was certainly not the norm. And it was definitely not a "healthful, vegetarian-oriented student restaurant that is popular with students, faculty and visitors who crave its delicious, made-from-scratch dishes and baked goods."

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:25 PM (0 comments)

Re: Food

I'm guessing the writer's referring to The Pavillion, not Homeplate. But that's not vegetarian oriented - they serve plenty of meat, just not pork.

And I have no idea on the Organic Farm - and don't really care to.

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Posted by Ben at 9:13 PM (0 comments)

Dining at Dartmouth

I hadn't noticed this before, but I think it's stretching the truth a bit:

According to "Food and Man at Yale" (news article, Aug. 16), David Davidson, who runs the dining services at Yale for Aramark, a food service provider, thinks that Yale's new sustainable food project could be the beginnning of a change in how colleges look at food.

Yale is behind the times. Dartmouth College, my alma mater, has long had an organic farm that students and professors tend. It also has developed related courses.

Dartmouth also has a healthful, vegetarian-oriented student restaurant that is popular with students, faculty and visitors who crave its delicious, made-from-scratch dishes and baked goods. Dozens of colleges nationwide have similar programs.

This last paragraph is the most troublesome. Homeplate, to which I assume the writer is referring, is often unhealthy (particularly w/r/t saturated fats), not-at-all vegetarian oriented (I wish it had been), and rarely serves much that's delicious. Sure, there were rare exceptions, but most of the time Homeplate was just a like alternative to the dining hall fare next door. That is, more of the same.

Does anyone know anything about how food from the Organic Farm is used? Does DDS get it or what? I know that it is not sold to local markets, for fear of undercutting "real" farmers. I can only think of the irregular sales held on the sidewalk in front of Collis.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 7:09 PM (0 comments)