Saturday, November 15, 2003Confederate CopycatsApparently students in Iowa have followed the example of the flag-wavers here at Dartmouth. From yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle :"As he spoke on college campuses, a group followed him holding signs displaying the Confederate flag, a reminder of Dean's remark that he wanted to be the candidate for Southern men with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. He apologized for the comment after intense criticism. "At Iowa State University, he sarcastically chided the sign-holders. "'We don't think you should use the Confederate flag," Dean said, laughing. "It's a divisive symbol.'" Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Scott at 5:52 PM (0 comments) "Dixie Comes to Dartmouth": One More LinkYesterday's Opinion Journal Best of the Web . Fifth item down.Also note the thanks to our own G. Rollo Begley at the bottom. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Scott at 5:22 PM (0 comments) Confederate Flag imagesThe Review's article on the Battle Flag incident now has images for those who haven't seen any yet.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 3:21 PM (0 comments) Jim Baehr on CNNDiscusses politics and the Confederate Battle Flag. It's the Nov. 14th Washington Journal link, right around the 2 hour 25 minute mark.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 2:42 PM (0 comments) Friday, November 14, 2003Dean's Confederate BrethrenThe Review's more expansive coverage of the fiasco yesterday is now online.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 7:08 PM (0 comments) Hot off the pressesLook for the new "Bureau-craZy!" issue outside of your door or around campus.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 6:30 PM (0 comments) Be careful tonight, Dartmouth party-goers/hostsDartmouth Safety & Security Officer Gregory L. Timmins reports/e-mails/warns:"Dozens of Castleton State College students were cited for underage drinking. The Vermont Department of Liquor Control sent an undercover State Police officer into a keg party last night at a fraternity. After paying a two dollar cover - he ticketed 41 young people for consuming alcohol beverages. Three of the fraternity brothers also face 42 counts of enabling minors to consume alcohol. Under Vermont law, they could get up to two years in jail and a two thousand dollar fine." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 2:22 PM (0 comments) For you beltway aficionadosYou'll be pleased to know that the Dean visit made the Hotline:DEAN: Those Crazy College Campuses AP's Sneyd reports, A group of students who attended ex-Gov. Howard Dean's (D-VT) 11/13 Dartmouth College appearance "unveiled Confederate flags as he was introduced." The group of "about nine students" sat "with the flags draped across their shoulders throughout" the event, and "did not otherwise disrupt" Dean's speech on higher education. "Fellow students and Dean campaign staffers" identified them as "conservative activists." Dean "did not acknowledge them or refer to controversy surrounding his recent remark that he wanted to attract voters with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks" (11/14). Still, "the action sent a murmur through the crowd" (Gold, Los Angeles Times, 11/14). Dean's only comment: "Things happen on college campuses" (Wilgoren, New York Times, 11/14). Dean spokesperson Matthew Gardner "dismissed the incident as 'a political trick'": "It's sad that whoever is behind this felt forced to resort to misrepresentation." Dean's appearance "also was marked by posters around the Dartmouth campus bearing the Confederate flag image." The posters "were identical" to posters printed by the Dean campaign, "except that they were against a backdrop of the Confederate flag and they said 'sponsored by young Democrats'" (AP, 11/14). Young Dems Pres. Paul Heintz said they were a "hoax," and neither Generation Dean nor the Young Dems were involved. Heintz: "Whoever is doing this is engaging in the most negative form of campaigning imaginable or participating in the most awful sort of prank" (Ourbuch, The Dartmouth, 11/13). Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 2:18 PM (0 comments) Dixie at DartmouthPeter Robinson comments about the rebel flag wavin' Dartmouth boys on the Corner."Howard Dean, Meet Johnny Reb" Good job, lads. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 1:40 PM (0 comments) Media BlitzExpanding media coverage on the Dean visit...Articles from: Valley News The Dartmouth The New York Times The Guardian The New York Post The Boston Globe The USA Today The Union Leader (with AP photo) San Jose Mercury-News Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Courtney at 10:34 AM (0 comments) PhotosTaken by photographer/publisher Michael Ellis. Two of these aired on Fox News.
 Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Scott at 12:48 AM (0 comments) Drudge.Whoever those saucy postersmiths are, they sure as hell made it to Drudge. Congrats, mystery men.UPDATE: Drudge has been updated. Peep that. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Stefan Beck at 12:18 AM (0 comments) Thursday, November 13, 2003Faux Statistics ProfferedIn Dean's speech today on higher education he offered the fact that one in three students will not make it to graduation before dropping out. It must have been believed that the crowd would overlook this with the slew of numbers shot at them. Dean also attempted to attribute this "increase" in dropouts to the Bush Administration. Could have fooled me... The November report from the National Center for Education Statistics reports that the rate is at an historic low for non-Hispanic whites, with only 7 percent of students not attending school. The high rates for Hispanics is in part the result of the high proportion of immigrants in this age group that never attended school in the U.S. Asian/Pacific Islanders, with a dropout rate of 4 percent, had the lowest dropout rate among all racial and ethnic groups. The gap between non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites is also being bridged, with the current rate down to 10.9%.The Child Trends Data Bank offers the insight that : "The dropout rates of Hispanics vary greatly by how long they have been in the United States. In fact, much of the gap between Hispanics and other racial and ethnic groups appears to be due to the high dropout rate among Hispanics born outside of the United States (43 percent in 2001). This rate is almost three times the rate of first-generation Hispanics born in the United States (at 15 percent). " Sounds to me like to solve this problem he'd have to end immigration and border hopping...(that is IF the dropout rate were something so grievous as 33.3%) Another highlight was when Dean stated that if anyone worked hard enough they would be able to attend college. This comment may have marginalized human ability and capacity. Inherent capabilities don't play a role in this perfect world of Dean's. Every child is entitled to $10,000 per year as well...This in the same breath as "we're balancing this budget", "we're taking away this $400 billion in credit-card debt". *by "credit-card debt" he meant the budget deficit, clever colloquialism. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Courtney at 8:40 PM (0 comments) What can I do to help?Help Howard Dean get elected by writing letters to the editor of The Dartmouth Review. Or the editor of the Daily Dartmouth. But don't bother writing one to the editor of the Dartmouth Free Press. That would be a waste of time, because nobody reads it.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Stefan Beck at 7:41 PM (0 comments) Fox News Picks Up Dean StoryThe election report on Brit Hume's 6 pm show featured coverage of Dean's appearance at Dartmouth. The item featured three photographs of the attendees unfurling Confederate flags taken by our own publisher, Michael Ellis, with credit given to the Dartmouth Review.At a media conference later in the day, Dean refused to answer a question about the appearance of the flags, saying something to the effect of: "Things happen on college campuses. They wouldn't say who they were or who they represented, so I have no comment." UPDATE: The story showed again in the 7 pm hour and again just now. Either they added text or I gleaned more this time around. Apparently "the college is investigating the incident" and "rival campaigns have denied involvement." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Scott at 7:02 PM (0 comments) Self-defenseI hope any conservative student involved in the grandstanding at the Dean event who explained his actions as being in protest of Dean's insensitive, stereotypical comment was just saying that to cover themselves and not look too mean. Maybe they feared being beat up by a room full of pacifists.As conservatives, our message should be that "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," isn't worth all the intraparty Democratic fuss. They should cut their own guy some slack and understand his message. This is not much different than President Bush welcoming support for his reelection from pro-choice Republicans. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 5:34 PM (0 comments) Great photo from the Dean eventHereFull post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 5:27 PM (0 comments) Wednesday, November 12, 2003And in THIS CornerDid anyone else notice that some literature for perennial candidate Lyndon LaRouche popped up at Thayer this evening?Though the suggested donation was $5, I picked up a copy of Children of Satan: The 'Ignoble Liars Behind Bush's No-Exit War' for no charge. Highlights of this third edition include the article "'Insanity as Geometry': Rumsfeld as 'Strangelove II'" and the anti-Straussian appendix "Synarchism: The Fascist Roots of the Wolfowitz Cabal." If anyone catches these folks around campus, interview them. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Scott at 9:50 PM (0 comments) Dartmouth v. UNH tix on saleJust a heads up, since the college has done a pretty piss poor job of getting the word out themselves.Tickets to the hockey game between Dartmouth and UNH in Manchester, NH on January 13th (that's a Tuesday, but it's only a week and a half into the term) have gone on sale. Game time is 7 PM at Verizon Wireless Arena. The past two years it has ended up being a sellout with 10,000+ people in attendance, and with the crowd probably split 80% for UNH and 20% rooting for Dartmouth. Tickets are $5 for Dartmouth students w/ID and $27/$23 for everyone else, and can be bought at the Dartmouth ticket office during normal business hours M-F. The catch for students is that it's reserved seating and you can only buy one $5 ticket with your ID, so if you and your friends want to sit together you all need to buy your tickets together. I also believe they are planning on arranging buses down there if you don't have access to a car, but that I am not 100% sure about. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ben at 5:08 PM (0 comments) College-Lebanon showdownIn the Nashua Telegraph, courtesy of the Associated Press:Dartmouth College and some city officials have different ideas about the best use of some 150 acres that the college owns. Short article here The College wants to build research facilities and some housing. Meanwhile, several city council members are advocating "smart growth" in the form of multi-family housing and coin laundromats. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:49 PM (0 comments) The Wright salaries?In response to this article on college president compensation, Alice Givan, a member of the research faculty of DMS in a letter to the NY Times: hereFull post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:36 PM (0 comments) Clark and Dean on campus>Date: 12 Nov 2003 03:09:49 EST>From: Young Democrats >Subject: Wesley Clark on campus today >To: (Recipient list suppressed) Two presidential candidates coming to campus in two days: General Wesley Clark today at 12:30 in Brace Commons and Governor Howard Dean tomorrow at 9:45am in Alumni Hall. Details below. -------------- WESLEY CLARK ON CAMPUS! WEDNESDAY AT 12:30 IN BRACE COMMONS! General Wesley Clark, a Democratic candidate for President, is coming to Dartmouth. He will be having a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in Brace Commons in the East Wheelock Cluster. Gen. Clark will give brief remarks and then take questions from the audience. Come meet General Clark and ask him questions about the issues that are important to you. --------------- HOWARD DEAN IS COMING TO DARTMOUTH! *** THE DOCTOR IS IN! *** Thursday, November 13th, at 9:45am in ALUMNI HALL at the Hop. Governor Howard Dean, MD is coming to Dartmouth to roll out his Higher Education and National Service Initiative. Hear his plan live as he unveils it to the nation. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 10:53 AM (0 comments) Tuesday, November 11, 2003New Research FacilitiesThis article in the Vally News raises a menacing specter: Dartmouth plans to build more research facilities in the DHMC area. One hopes it's related to DHMC itself, but you never know. Fortunately, it looks like Lebanon will be making it impossible with zoning ordinances. Guess these things cut both ways.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 4:10 PM (0 comments) Pump It Up>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:39:44 -0500 (EST)>Subject: Any Thoughts on the Gym? >From: Kresge Expansion Group >Reply-To: KEGs (Kresge Expansion Group) >Precedence: bulk >To: Alexander D Talcott **************************** Any Thoughts on Kresge Gym? **************************** Do you love Kresge Gym? Do you hate it? Is there not enough space to stretch? Do you want more machines? Is it just too small? Are you interested in Kresge and how it can be made better? Here is your chance to ask questions about the gym and contribute suggestions for how it can be improved. Be there: Tomorrow Wednesday, November 12 At 3:00pm In Tindle Lounge (located inside of Thayer by the Smoothie Bar) The community forum will feature Roger Demment, the Associate Athletic Director for Physical Education and Recreation, and Sarah Berger, whose major responsibilities are Kresge Fitness Center and late night programming. They will be there to answer your questions and hear your suggestions on how the gym can be enhanced. All of this is part of the Student Assembly's 2003-2004 campaign to expand the Kresge gym and support athletics at Dartmouth. Please join us for refreshments and to contribute your ideas for how Kresge can be improved. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 1:41 PM (0 comments) Monday, November 10, 2003Think back......two weekends, and two Dartmouth football wins ago, to our homecoming context versus Columbia.During the half-time show, I remember hearing some partial-birth abortion references by the Columbia Marching Band. Unable to ever decipher the halftime marching band shows over the PA system at Memorial Field, I turn to you to help figure out exactly what was said. Andrew Grossman brought this Mass News account of the event to my attention. An archive here of Columbia Marching Band halftime show transcripts doesn't include fall shows unfortunately. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 2:39 PM (0 comments) Re: The results, peeps!I experienced, firsthand, Mr. Buckholz's pong abilities last week. If he is the best and the brightest of his generation, then perhaps TDR should call it quits now. He and J. Lawrence were unable, as a team, to beat someone who hasn't played pong in more months than a (normal) person has fingers.In their defence, that "someone" was probably the best pong player on staff when he was here, and also one hell of a guy. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Nilanjan at 10:37 AM (0 comments) On a related noteAs the media swarmed around Mr. Haines earlier, he asked for business cards from all. I whipped mine out, someone else did the same, but the D reporter, not surprisingly, didn't have one. Mr. Haines berated him for his lack of professionalism. The reporter's whining response: "But I'm just a college kid." How telling.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 1:47 AM (0 comments) A Brush with GreatnessIt's not every day that one gets to dine with a presidential candidate, but this evening Harry Camp and I lucked out and treated Republican candidate and New Hampshire resident Robert Haines to dinner at Murphy's.You may not have heard of him, but Mr. Haines is a perennial candidate; he ran for president in both 1992 and 1996 (I believe he missed 2000 due to a conviction for felonious reckless conduct and felonious use of body armor). In 1994, during his '96 bid, he tackled an individual outside the White House who had just opened fire and was later convicted of attempting to assasinate the President. He has the newspapers and letter from Secret Service to prove it. Mr. Haines is no lightweight; he has campaigned in 36 states, and he even beat out every other candidate and was the FIRST person to submit his papers for the NH primary (photo on that link as well). Other campaigns are clearly onto him though: He suspects an operative for another candidate stole his American flag outside the Hanover Inn today. (Yes, he has filed a complaint with the police, and yes, you should report it if you know who is responsible.) In all fairness, he is sharp and fiery, and he has solid conservative stances. For example, his position on gun control: "Use both hands." He is also deeply religious. You'll probably read about him in tomorrow's D since he was kicked off campus by S&S and the Hanover Police. WDCR also did a brief interview that they'll be airing at some point. But until then, a few gems from dinner: He plans to raise more money than Bush and Dean. His daughter is named Liberty Ann Justice. He serenaded Harry and me with an original country song about his campaign. He likes ketchup. I mean, he really, really piles it on. "Wesley Clark has a handshake like a woman." UPDATE: Here's the D's rather unfair article on Mr. Haines. No worries though, Mr. Haines is on the corner of Main Street as I write this. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 12:34 AM (0 comments) The results, peeps!It is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the First Annual Rigoberta Menchu Memorial TDR Pong Tournament is one John Buckholz '04, a formidable opponent for any hopeful champion, to be sure. His opponent, the fleet-footed and nimble-paddled Stefan Beck '04, lost by a hair's breadth...having won a single game out of four. Indeed, the Vestal Virgins wept bitterly for Stefan's losses, but the rules are the rules.Personally, I was rooting for this Stefan Beck fellow. But there's no accounting for the demands of the Fates. Be sure to make it to next term's First Annual Snorri Sturluson Memorial TDR Pong Tournament. My money's on Beck in the upset. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Stefan Beck at 12:04 AM (0 comments) Sunday, November 09, 2003Diversity Dialogues>Date: 09 Nov 2003 19:09:07 EST>From: Delta Sigma Theta >Subject: Mark Your Calendars!! >To: (Recipient list suppressed) *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-*:-.,_,.-:*'``'* D I V E R S I T Y D I A L O G U E S *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-*:-.,_,.-:*'``'* IN RECOGNITION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BROWN vs. BOARD OF EDUCATION, THE OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY & EQUITY IS OFFERING A 9-PART SERIES ABOUT RACE, GENDER, IDENTITY, & EDUCATION *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* PART I WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES ON THE ACCESS TO EDUCATION The Role & Effect of the Brown Decision on the Life of Women at Dartmouth JOIN US & LISTEN TO A DISTINGUISHED PANEL OF DARTMOUTH WOMEN! A Discussion Will Follow... So... "Bring Your Own BROWN Bag Dinner" NOVEMBER 10TH 6PM COLLIS 101 ~~Light Refreshments Will Be Served~~ *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-*:-.,_,.-:*'``'* Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 7:17 PM (0 comments) Winning weekend in Dartmouth athleticsFootball: 26-17 W over Cornell...Dartmouth is now 4-4 on the year and 3-2 in Ivy Play. They are now in a 3-way tie for 2nd with Yale and Harvard.Men's Hockey: 3-1 W over Brown behind Stempniak's hat trick and Yacey's solid play in net. 2-2 Tie vs. Harvard, Jessiman and Wheelihan with the goals, and Yacey played another great game in net. The crowd of 4500 meant that hockey outdrew football at the turnstiles on Saturday, and doesn't include the people seen standing outside the arena in the 3rd period and OT because they couldn't get into soldout Thompson Arena. They stopped admitting students after the 1st period because it was packed to the rafters. Dartmouth remains unbeaten at 2-0-1 as they embark on a 2-month long road trip. Their next home game won't take place until January 2nd against UVM. Box Scores Brown 1 @ Dartmouth 3 Harvard 2 @ Dartmouth 2 (OT) Women's hockey: 8-2 W Saturday @ Vermont, 9-2 W this afternoon against Vermont in Thompson Arena. This without 3 of their best players who are off participating in the Four Nations tournament. Elsewhere both soccer teams won, field hockey won, and men's basketball won their season opening exhibition. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ben at 4:54 PM (0 comments) Crazy eventLearn how to diagnose your professors.>Date: 09 Nov 2003 13:28:50 EST >From: Student Health Advisory Committee >Subject: Who's crazy? >To: (Recipient list suppressed) Sunday Nov. 9th 7 pm Dartmouth 105 always wanted to be able to diagnose your family/friends as crazy? Tried to get into abnormal psych and found it full... here's your chance to hear an overview of topics covered in the course from one of dartmouth's best psych profs. Janine Scheiner is giving an hour talk on abnormal psychology. This event kicks off Mental Health Awareness Week brought to you by S.H.A.C (student health advisory committee) Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 2:24 PM (0 comments) |
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