Saturday, April 13, 2002On the News: Crowd counts are notoriously unreliable. Remember the flap over the Million Man and Million Woman Marches? It's repeated daily, like this:In today's edition, the NY Times claims that "Thousands in New York Rally for Palestinians"--in fact, that's the title of the story. It notes "a few thousand protestors" in the text itself. The AP, however, reports "more than 500" protestors and notes "hundreds of chanting pro-Palestinian demonstrators" in a second mention. The Post puts the crowd at "About 1,000". The Daily News contains no mention of the protest at all (being fair, it did not run a full article on an earlier pro-Israel protest). LI Newsday agrees with the Post: "About 1,000". USA Today: yeah, right. So, who's off by an order of magnitude, the Times or everyone else? Finally, the Washington Post runs a full story (with versions picked up by several wires, as well) titled "Thousands expected for pro-Israeli rally Monday [in D.C.]" and predicts "tens of thousands" of participants (hedging their bets with a weak 'are expected'). The Times makes no mention of this that I could find. It was, however, picked up by the Manchester Union-Leader. Go figure. Truly finally: Cornell West resigns from Harvard. How long will Princeton placate a professor who refuses to publish (do rap albums count?) or teach? Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:07 PM (0 comments) Saturday Happenings: (also see yesterday's post for Saturday morning events)"The Business of Strangers" 7 & 9 P.M., Loew--"Debut director Patrick Stettner's dark thriller about a successful businesswoman (Stockard Channing) and her young assistant (Julie Stiles) who toy with a slow-witted businessman (Fred Weller) while stuck at an airport hotel" ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). "Milque and Cookies" 8 P.M., Phi Tau--If you haven't gotten a t-shirt yet... Bring 12-sided dice. "The Lost Trailers" 11 P.M., Psi Upsilon--Visit the band's website. "Discoteca" 11 P.M., Sigma Delta--Featuring a new subwoofer. "Johnny Lawrence" 8 P.M., Sigma Alpha Epsilon--The SAE brother puts on an acoustic show. Tucker Events (see yesterday's post for pre-10 AM events) "Music, Multi Culturalist & Human Survival" 10:15 A.M., 105 Dartmouth--Hafiz Shabazz, Director,World Music Percussion Ensemble and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music. "Religion at Dartmouth Post 9/11 Panel" 10:15 A.M., 28 Silsby--Includes panelists from various religious groups. "Panel of Tucker Deans" 10:15 A.M., Filene Auditorium--Seven of them, actually. "Spoken Word Poetry Workshop" 11:20 A.M., 105 Dartmouth "Making the World a Little Better" 11:20 A.M., 1 Rockefeller--At first I thought this was a bit vague, but a subtitle notes a focus on "Community Service." "Ethics In the Workplace Panel" 11:20 A.M., 3 Rockefeller--Facilitator is Ronald M. Green, chair of the religion department and director of the ethics program. "Affordable Housing In the Upper Valley Panel: Matching Needs to Resources" 11:20 A.M., B03 Moore "Student Voices: Agents of Change" 11:20, 28 Silsby--Four students show that by speaking up about what matters to them, they can be given reign over a panel discussion of their very own. "Lunch" 12:30 P.M., Commonground "Multiculturalism & Pedagogy: Other Peoples' Lives" 2:30 P.M., 113 Silsby "The Roots of a 'Liberal Arts' Education & Its Meaning for our Time" 2:30 P.M., 1 Rockefeller "Faith Based Ideas And Initiatives: Does Anybody Really Care... And If So, Why?" 2:30 P.M., 2 Rockefeller "Making the Right Choices" 2:30 P.M., 3 Rockefeller--No subtitle: this really is vague. "Art and Culture for the Greater Good: From Concept to Implementation" 2:30 P.M., 213 Silsby "Cultural Extravaganza" 2:30, Alumni Hall--"Hosted by Dartmouth students for children of the Upper Valley and anyone else who wants to celebrate diversity." "Collegiate Gospel Fest" 8 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium More information available here. Send updates, event notices, etc. to dartlog@dartreview.com. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 7:03 AM (0 comments) Friday, April 12, 2002Friday Happenings: "Spring Gala" 6 P.M., Hood Museum--Party to celebrate the museum's "High Society" exhibition of psychelia."Social Justice Coffehouse" 9:30 P.M. - 1:30 A.M., Commonground--"an exciting and dynamic aspect of the Tucker Foundation's 50th anniversary celebration." Right. Student performers will spend ten minutes apiece onstage and be compensated $100 for their trouble. It may not be social justice, but it sure beats a living wage. "Kiss & Tell" 9:30 P.M., Poison Ivy (that empty room in the basement of Collis)--All three episodes of this student produced (?) program will be shown. Refreshments. "SiNgLeD OUt!!" 7 P.M., Brace Commons--Should probably be avoided for the capitalization alone. "You could win a Super Fantabulously Amazing Date!!!!!" Good grief. "The Existential Pleasures of Engineering" 3:30 P.M., Cummings--Samuel Florman from Kreisler Borg Florman Construction of Scarsdale, NY, speaks. "Men's Tennis v. Princeton" 3 P.M., Topliff Courts Tucker Anniversary Events: "Keynote speaker" 4 P.M., Spaulding (for those with tickets), Moore, and 105 Dartmouth--Maya Angelou speaks about...well, they didn't say what she was going to speak about, but it's Maya Angelou... "[Jewish] Services" 5:30 P.M., Roth--Regular Friday night services. Not sure what these have to do with Tucker, but they're in the brochure. "Social Justice Coffeehouse"10 P.M., Commonground--(see above). Saturday Tucker Events: (as we may sleep late tomorrow) "The State of the Tucker Foundation" 7:30 A.M., Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn--Dean Lord speaks. Continental breakfast. "All welcome" (unless they limit the event to Tuck students and alumni, like they did to Friday's "Leadership Luncheon"). "Balancing Professional Life & Community Engagement" 9 A.M., 3 Rockefeller--Ann McLane Kuster '78, Attorney, Rath, Young & Pignatell. "Diversity & Leadership Education" 9 A.M., 2 Rockefeller--Garvey Clarke '57, President, LEAD Program in Business. "The Evolution of 4charity.com" 9 A.M., B03 Moore--Tracey Pettengill '93, Cofounder and CEO, 4charity. "Faith, Values & Work" 9 A.M., 1 Rockefeller--Richard Kiphart '63, Head of Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Member of the Executive Committee, William Blair & Co. "Integrative Medicine: Looking to the Future" 213 Silsby--Maureen Bunce, M.D. '83. "Grant Proposal Writing Workshop" 113 Silsby--Kevin Peterson '82, Senior Program Officer, Upper Valley Community Foundation and Joanne Smogor, Director, SCA Northeast Region. More information can be had here. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:48 AM (0 comments) Thursday, April 11, 2002Another ground-breaking study: Our friends at the Dartmouth Medical School have discovered that experienced hospitals do a better job on complicated surgeries than their less experienced counterparts. Read more about this ground-breaking study here.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by JR at 11:06 PM (0 comments) War on Drugs: Lindsay Earls '05 has made national headlines recently, challenging of her high school's drug policy. Earls was tested against her will because she participated in the school choir and the marching band. The Supreme Court heard her case a few weeks ago.CNN jumped on her case, but now so has GNN, the Guerrilla (spelling mistake theirs, not mine) News Network. Check out their story here. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by J. Lawrence at 8:00 PM (0 comments) Ben Stein Update: The current issue of the American Spectator features its monthly installment of "Ben Stein's Diary." Stein writes about his recent trip to the Upper Valley, specifically his visit with his son in Vermont. (No, he does not mention Novack Cafe.)For those of you who remain in shock over Stein's visit to campus, visit the library to read the article. "Ben Stein's Diary" is not online. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by J. Lawrence at 2:30 PM (0 comments) Wednesday, April 10, 2002Thursday Happenings: "Sigma Nu Senior Symposium" 5:30 P.M., Sigma Nu--"Chris Bowen '02 will be talking about his research comparing the economies of China, Taiwan, Mexico, South Korea, and India for the years 1960-1999."Stanley Plumly, 4 P.M., Wren Room--Part of the "Poetry & Prose 2001/2002 Reading Series." Find a Plumly biography and several examples of his poetry here. "Senior 'Tails" 8 P.M., Top of the Hop--Seniors only, first drink free, bring legal identification. "Mock Hearing on Sexual Abuse" 7 P.M., Commonground--From the event flyer: "Find out how the Dartmouth Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Office hears sexual abuse cases and decide for yourself." Decide what? Whether they hear cases well? "The Harp Consort" 8 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--"Andrew Lawrence-King leads the acclaimed early music group in Juan Gutierrez Padilla's Missa Mexicana with dancers and a chamber choir" ($5 Dartmouth students, $22 reserved seating). Join Lawrence-King for an "informal discussion" at 7 P.M. in the Hopkins Center Faculty Lounge. "Out of the Past" 8 P.M., a ounge in the Choates cluster--Another film in the "GSA Movie Series." The IMDb lists six movies with this title; you figure it out: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. "Drug Testing, School Policy, and the Law: Board of Education V. Earls." 7:30, 2 Rockefeller--Panel discussion featuring Graham Boyd of the ACLU, Richard Willard of the Washington Legal Foundation, and Lindsay Earls '05. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:41 PM (0 comments) Wednesday Happenings: "Child Pornography" 8 P.M., Alpha Theta--A discussion on the "ethics/morality" of such, hosted by Prof. Sinott-Armstrong."Christianity and Islam in the World Today" 6:30 P.M., Edgerton House--Anthropology Prof. Dale Eickelman "Discusses the impact of religion on societies, in the Middle East ...and USA." Eickelman is one of Dartmouth's best and a great speaker. "If These Walls Could Talk 2" 8 P.M., Mass Row Lounge--part of the "GSA Movie Series." 2000 HBO movie. "Murmur of the Heart" 6:45 & 9:15 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--"Diagnosed with a heart murmur and sent to a spa to recuperate, 14-year-old Laurent begins a less than innocent relationship with his mother." Part of the DFS series "Growing Pains." Comedy directed by Louis Malle ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:42 PM (0 comments) Tuesday, April 09, 2002Elsewhere: More from DHMC researcher John Baron: "Baby aspirin lowers risk of colon cancer."From CBS Evening News last night: Dartmouth Medical School researchers report the best direct evidence yet that aspirin may help prevent colon cancer. In test patients, aspirin suppressed the growth of the intestinal polyps that become colon cancer. Women's golf finishes fifth at Invitational. CS Monitor: Tuck graduates search for employment. AP: Rich pay majority of U.S. income taxes. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:38 PM (0 comments) About Hollingworth: The D left quite a bit out of its coverage of Bev Hollingworth's visit to campus yesterday. College Republican and occasional candidate Bob Gienko clears things up:On Monday, State Sen Bev Hollingsworth commendably showed interest in college students by speaking here. Unfortunately, that is the only positive to be found in her visit. NH remains a great state precisely because people like her are held at bay. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:59 PM (0 comments) Moreon GreenPrint : The Daily D reports that Mike Hogan, director of computing services, "hopes to adopt a more secure method of identification similar to the Kerberos authentication system." Yet he also assures that the College "does not plan to implement any charges" for printing. Had reporter Nathaniel Ward been thinking about it, this topic might have borne more questioning.In the GreenPrint system, as it's now implemented, users may assign to jobs any username and password combination they wish. For example, I could identify the "owner" of my print jobs as "andrewgrossman," "grossman," or "billybobthornton." More secure authentication would fix jobs to a known user, probably by using Dartmouth's authoritative name directory, the DND, which is used for BlitzMail and other applications that require positively identify users, such as browsing student records. As GreenPrint jobs are not printed until requested, students need not be contacted about wasted paper and the like. Really, the only reason to fix jobs to their actual owners would be for billing purposes (or to otherwise limit the amount that students may print). Whether Kiewit expects to implement these as soon as authentication is in place is unclear, but billing becomes possible only with authentication. Authentication brings no other benefits; users should be suspect. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:17 PM (0 comments) Another unlocked door... According to a Safety and Security Bulletin, early this morning, a male entered the unlocked room of a female student, removed his shoes, and crawled into bed. I contacted S & S, and they refused to comment whether the bed was occupied by the said female. In any event, the said female yelled, and the male left the room, walking unsteadily.Why can't students learn to lock their rooms? Read Andrew Grossman's analysis of a similar recent event here. Also, read Alex Wilson's article on this subject. Below is the full text of the S & S report. On 4/9/02 at approximately 4:28AM, Safety and Security received information that a male entered a female students room (in New Hampshire Hall) which was unlocked; he took off his shoes and crawled into bed. The woman yelled and he left walking in an unsteady manner. Hanover Police and Safety and Security responded immediately and canvassed the area with no success. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by JR at 12:51 PM (0 comments) Tuesday Events: "The Wedding Banquet" 8 P.M., Rip-Wood-Smith lounge--Ang Lee's 1993 comedy. Worth seeing despite being associated with the "GSA Movie Series.""Men's Dinner" 7 P.M., 218 Collis--Join Framji Minwalla, assistant professor of "theatre," and the Men's Kouch Klub for dinner and conversation. Topic: "Are you what you wear? The Intersections of Sex, Masculinity, and the Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly catalog." Recommended attire: Helmut Lang. "Bang on a Can All-Stars" 8 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium "Pillars" 5:30 P.M., Collis 212--Let the Collis staff show you how to set up sound and lights for your programming event. Dinner served. RSVP to "pillar". "Amarna Open House" 9 P.M., 23 E. Wheelock St.--Free ice cream at the Coed house. "ECO Themestorm" 7 P.M., Collis Basement--Help the Environmental Conservation Organization think up ideas to force students to waste their time on environmentally useless tasks. RSVP to "Eco". Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:36 PM (1 comments) Take back the night: Last night, students and faculty members who participated in a march and candlelight vigil against sexual violence listened to Katie Olivero '01 likened sexual assault to terrorism. According to an article in the Daily D, Olivero stated, "Sex is used as a tool of violence. It is a strategy of war." Really. Also, philosophy professor Susan Brison read from her recent book, "Aftermath." She stated that she thinks the Zantop murders were sexually motivated, because they are rooted in our cultural perceptions of masculinity and violence. "We are raising our boys to be violent and not to be empathetic," she said. Later, participants huddled in the middle of the Green, holding candles. Some Review staffers joined the group briefly, leaving after a male participant read a poem in which he admitted that he was not a woman.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by JR at 9:50 AM (1 comments) Another study on college drinking... In a study released today, the Task Force on College Drinking, part of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, found that "the consequences of college drinking are larger and more destructive than commonly realized." The study claims that 1,400 college students die each year in alcohol-related incidents. It also counted as college students those aged 18-24, meaning a majority of legal-aged drinkers were counted as students. The study did not discuss if these statistics have been increasing or decreasing in recent years. It reviewed several possible solutions, labeling as "promising" Friday classes and exams, Saturday morning classes, and consistently enforced discipline for alcohol policy infractions. We've heard this before.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by JR at 9:33 AM (1 comments) Monday, April 08, 2002Ivy Council Meets, Plans Next Meeting: In the D today is an article on this past weekend's Ivy League Council meeting. The Ivy council is composed of student delegations from each of the Ivies except Harvard, which refuses to attend for reasons that, in this and past articles, have been poorly described though are likely justified. This time, council members discussed "course reviews and teacher evaluations, in addition to alcohol policy, campus police and general questions of social life," basically a smattering of the issues that effect students at all colleges, Ivy or not. There was a change this year, however: meeting notes were recorded and will, sometime soon we're promised, be turned into a book. Commenting on this, a Dartmouth delegate, Stella Treas told the D, "One of the criticisms of Ivy Council was that we didn't have a product. Now, for the first time, we have records, not only discussions."It's not clear to me what the purpose of the Council was to begin with, but how could it have been doing much of anything without simple meeting minutes being distributed to members? Consider Dartmouth delegate Julia Hildreth's remark on the meeting's outcome: "We had some great discussions, and everybody seemed to take a little out of them." Well, that's states it pretty clearly: they aren't doing much of anything. "Campus leaders" from the Ivies (sans Harvard) gather, gripe about their respective schools, and, from now on, publish meeting minutes about the whole thing (finally, "a product"!). Ivy Council president Josh Marcuse described the weekend as "one of the best conferences we've ever had." Even coming off this great success, the council shouldn't hold its ground. I suggest that Council members visit the 5 Olde bar most any night to observe similar meetings underway; maybe they'll pick up some ideas about new products worthy of consideration, like the bar tab. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:33 PM (1 comments) Poor Word Choice: Jourden Abel in an editorial in today's D, "At my high school you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Jew..." Given the Palestinians' propensity for rock-throwing, I think there may be several better ways to have expressed this.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ryan at 9:10 AM (1 comments) Monday Happenings: "Take Back the Night" 4:30 P.M., 101 Collis--Sign making (suggestions: "S.C.U.M.", "Girl Power", and "Give me back my night"). 6:30 P.M., Hopkins Center--March against the men who presumably control other nights of the year."A Cappolcalypse: The Second Coming" Collis info desk--Tickets go on sale for April 14 event featuring the Tufts Beelzebubs & Jackson Jills ($3 Dartmouth students). "Regulation of lymphopoiesis in the post-natal thymus" 4 P.M., 658W Borwell--Howard T. Petrie speaks on that topic. "Tsahal (part one)" (film) 4 P.M., 13 Carpenter--Documentary on Israel's defence forces, the Tsavah Haganah L'Israel. Part two to be shown on Tuesday. Director Claude Lanzmann focuses on the individual men of the army, in a sense building up rather than painting broad and clumsy historical strokes, and, particularly, on the 1973 Yom Kippur War. "Politics, Opinions and Public Health" 7:30 P.M., Filene Auditorium (Moore)--Dr. David Satcher, former Surgeon General, speaks. From Satcher's government bio: "Dr. Satcher wanted to be known as the Surgeon General who listened to the American people and who responded with effective programs." Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:32 AM (1 comments) Sunday, April 07, 2002Elsewhere: Ronald Green, director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute, comments on reports of an 8-week old cloned human fetus in China Daily.AP: " Prosecutor Still Puzzled By Killers [Tulloch and Parker]". Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:32 AM (1 comments) Sunday Happenings: "A long walk home: A Story of a Rape Survivor" 6:30 P.M., Commonground--"a unique partnership of art therapy, social documentary and community activism.""Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico on the Drug War" noon, Filene Auditorium--Governor Johnson discusses drug legalization. "Vaughan Recital Series" 4 P.M., Faulkner Recital Hall at the Hopkins Center--William Ghezzi performs "Guitar Music of the Americas." "American Graffiti" 6:45 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--George Lucas's 1973 film ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" 8:45 P.M., Spaulding Auditorium--"So what Jefferson was saying was 'Hey! You know, we left this England place because it was bogus. So if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too.' Yeah?" ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission) Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:25 AM (2 comments) |
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