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Friday, June 07, 2002

To All The Seniors

In honor of your impending graduation, allow me to provide the most valuable gift I can offer: one piece of advice that would have saved me a great deal of trouble around this time last year. Simply put, there is NO REASON to attend the commencement rehearsal. DON'T GO. Its only purpose is for those who have hard-to-pronounce names to make sure the person who will be calling theirs at commencement has it right. For everyone else, it's useless. You will learn nothing you couldn't have figured out in 2 minutes the following morning. Last year, I found myself listening to the Senior Class Dean share that I should always, "be what you is, not what you isn't, because if you is what you isn't, then you isn't what you is." Hungover, at 9 in the morning. Please, don't let that happen to you.

Congratulations, and have a great last few days in Hanover.

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Posted by Alexander at 2:32 PM (0 comments)

More on Rogers

It seems like Mr. Rogers has got plenty of fans. This is representative of the emails we've received (though not any, I should note, from students):
Dear Graduating Students:

Upset about having Mr. Rogers speak at graduation? You think it's silly
because he had a children's TV program and liked to wear sweaters and he
isn't exciting enough for you? I suggest to look again. Here's a man who
followed his bliss. He continued on even though people have been making fun
of him and his program, for years. He not only followed his bliss but became
more popular and influential towards children and finding goodness in them
than anyone else. So, he followed his bliss, went against current trends,
became popular, and overall very successful; and his "own" person...now,
there's a guy you hate giving advise to young people just starting out in
life. Mr. Chris Moore, the philosophy major, had better look beyond the TV
show and props and discover the man behind it; who has lead a fulfilling life
and contributed to the welfare of its children; he need to open up his
philosophical insight.

Thank you,

Dave Miller

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:07 PM (0 comments)

Thursday, June 06, 2002

"Mr. Rogers Causes a Stir at Dartmouth"

AP story here. My guess is we could've gotten someone from the current administration--maybe Rumsfeld or, at worst, Rod Paige--but, for Dartmouth's own administrators, it just wasn't an option, politically. So we get Mr. Rogers. If he makes us sing, I'm leaving.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 8:57 PM (0 comments)

More Weirdness

"Yeah, huh, what?" Someone was knocking on my bedroom door. How long had it been going on? I couldn't say.

Bob, clad in boxers, stumbled in. "It's the head of the anthropology department. He says it's important." He handed me the phone and went back to bed, himself.

Important? Was there an anthropological crisis of some sort? Did they want to give me an award? Was I in trouble? Was this a dream?

"Andrew, this is Kirk Endicott, chair of the anthropology department," he began. "There's a problem with your major."

It was an academic nightmare. And, only three days before graduation.

Great. Well, I thought, at least I've got a second major so they'll let me graduate. Two years of study down the drain wasn't a thrilling prospect, though.

The department's records indicated that I had only taken nine of ten required courses. Had I petitioned for another course to be counted? I hadn't. Had I filed a major card? I had. Endicott apologized: the department had lost it. I was pretty sure that I'd taken the ten courses, but, lying in bed, twisted in the sheets, groggy, I doubted that I could name them all. Had I taken ten courses? I'm not a math major; I sometimes miscount things.

What courses had I taken in other departments that I might petition to be counted towards my anthropology major? There was that religion class with Reinhart; that was close. I had done several independent studies with a faculty member who had since left Dartmouth; any of those could be made to qualify, probably.

Endicott asked me about specific courses. He asked if I had intended "The People and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa," which I had taken during the fall term of my freshman year, to count towards my major. Wasn't it an anthropology course, anyway? Yes, actually, it was; in fact, it was the prerequisite for the second anthropology course that I'd taken (and, presumably, been given credit for, otherwise I would have had only eight courses). So why wouldn't the class, numbered, I remembered, Anthropology 44, count? Somehow, it had been listed on my transcript as being in the "African and African-American Studies" department, a cross-listing.

As if I needed another reason to dislike AAAS.

"Well, it all checks out. I'm sorry for bothering you, Andrew. If I woke you up, you can go back to sleep."

Now I'm just waiting for the economics department to call.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:54 PM (0 comments)

High Wierdness at Dartmouth

I was at last year's Commencement. My memories of it are a bit hazy, but I'm almost sure it didn't involve anything like this (if you have a high-speed connection, use that video; I couldn't get the 56k one to work at all).

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:04 PM (0 comments)

Rehashing an Old Topic

The Barcelona LSA is winding down, and of the four classes we took, two had self-grading components. I never realized how common this practice is.

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Posted by Rollo at 6:57 AM (0 comments)

Wednesday, June 05, 2002

Wednesday Agenda

(hey, it's Senior Week; some of us just woke up...)

"DJ Blackout" 11 P.M., Chi Gamma Epsilon--Plus the usualy beery accompanyments.

"Pizza" 11 P.M., Collis Porch--College social events persist. Pizza by Ramunto's and music by "Common Creep."

"Salsa" 11 P.M., Poison Ivy (that usually empty room in the basement of Collis)--College social events persist. Could-be candidate for least-attended event of the season.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 4:53 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday, June 04, 2002

Time Just Flies

Several Dartmouth Review staff graduate this year. Read about them here and peruse several of their best articles.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:14 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday Happenings

(It's senior week! 'Bout time)

"Senior Week" 3 - 5 P.M., Commonground--Kick off with ice cream and t-shirts.

"Songs and Arias" 7 P.M., Faulkner Recital Hall--Tenor Nathan Swift '02, accompanied by Timothy Newton on the piano and mezzo-soprano Rachael Degenshein '04.

"American Pie 2" 9 P.M., Blunt Hall--Yawn...

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:17 PM (0 comments)

Monday, June 03, 2002

British Marines

They have been battling it out in the mountains of Afganistan for I don�t even know how long, and what�s their biggest fear? Gay locals. "They were more terrifying than the al-Qaeda," says one battle-hardened marine. The Scotsman reports.

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Posted by Rollo at 12:33 PM (0 comments)

Oregon Residents Vote to Ban U.N.

"Don't play coy with me. You know as good as I do, who 'they' are..."
Newsday.com

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Posted by Ryan at 11:24 AM (0 comments)

Sunday, June 02, 2002

Home Sweet Home

It seems as though New York State has been doctoring the passages used for the reading comprehension part of the Regents Exam (required for public high school students in NY). "Most Jewish women" are now "most women;" "Jews are Jews and Gentiles are Gentiles" gets deleted (without elipsis points); Kofi Annan no longer praises "fine California wine and seafood," but "fine California seafood;" people no longer "went out to a bar" but merely "went out;" "skinny" people are suddenly "thin," while a "gringo lady" is now an "American lady," and "hell" has now become "heck."
In short, virtually all references to race, religion, ethnicity, alcohol, profanity, etc. have been edited out of the works of Chekhov, Annie Dillard, John Holt, Frank Conroy, and others. The State Education Department says that it is merely following "sensitivity guidelines," but apparently some of the authors have found out and are a little less than pleased. This is all in Sunday�s New York Times, but I think you need a password to access it. I�m a little nervous about posting this, but I can just hope Dartmouth doesn�t get any good ideas out of this.

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Posted by Rollo at 12:07 PM (0 comments)

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