Saturday, March 29, 2003Worst person of the weekMengchao Yu '03It was "Hawks and Doves," not "Hawks, and Doves Go Bugger Off"!! And why not have a party with a world affairs-related theme? Would that really be second-rate to "DJ, Kegs" for a party at an Ivy League school? >Date: 29 Mar 2003 12:27:01 EST >From: Mengchao Yu >Reply-To: Mindy Yu >Subject: Re: Change of Plans >To: (Recipient list suppressed) To the brothers of Sigma Nu: While the original party invite for the "Hawks and Doves" was in extremely poor taste, I am more disappointed and angry over the fact that Sig Nu has not chosen to publicly apologize and acknowledge the ramifications of their original theme. Your email was sent to a significant cross section of Dartmouth students, many of whom may be directly or indirectly impacted by the war. Sigma Nu as an organization has shown itself to be a pathetic coward by sliding the issue under the rug as a "change of plans." Your organization's inability to publicly acknowledge the real issue at hand simply shows that Sig Nu caved to undoubtedly much negative reaction to the original theme but does not actually care to address the main reason behind the change of theme in an HONEST MANNER. I am appalled at how Sig Nu insists on acting as if absolutely NOTHING happened and will continue to party tonight as if nothing has happened. Congratulations on being the epitome of the "bubble" that characterizes Dartmouth in general. Sure, people should totally go on w/ their daily lives and socialize at this time, if only to forget and get away from the reality outside of Hanover. But ONLY on this campus would serious and tragic world events be turned into a cause for drunkenness and pong. Oh yes, more American GIs and Iraqis are dead! Let's drink some more! And more importantly, only on this campus would such an egregious error be swept under the rug as a dismissive and seemingly innocuous "change of plans." That is the truly offensive act. Mindy Yu '03 Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 5:17 PM (0 comments) Friday, March 28, 2003Policy Review ParadiseThe more Reviewers, the better.In the April/May issue of Policy Review, former Review Editor Ben Wallace-Wells '00 reviews The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty by Thomas E. Patterson. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 9:29 AM (0 comments) Kareem at Columbia?The debate about world-class research professors versus liberal arts teachers is one thing.But world-class coaches is quite another. This is indisbutably cool. The NBA's all-time leading scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, interviewed with Columbia officials last week about the head coaching vacancy on their men's basketball team. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 9:19 AM (0 comments) Wednesday, March 26, 2003Re: DDS in the DI rather liked the article. It's just not front-page news. Even college dailies are very magazine-ish these days.Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:05 PM (0 comments) Ghandi and Thomas Mann can't be wrongIs there a Vigil for Freedom going on elsewhere?Also, note the word "untruth" in the Ghandi quote. Untruth?????? >Date: 26 Mar 2003 12:06:15 EST >From: Why War >Subject: Vigil for Peace >To: Recipient List NOT Suppressed, notes Talcott A VIGIL FOR PEACE will be taking place tomorrow, Wednesday the 26th, @ 7 PM on the Green. A COMMUNITY FORUM will follow the Vigil and will begin @ 7:30 in 105 Dartmouth Hall. Students and faculty will be speaking out for peace. Come join us in expressing sorrow for the deaths of soldiers and civilians in Iraq. Let us unite in solidarity in our desire for peace. "Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence." - Ghandi "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." - Thomas Mann ~~Why War Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 4:00 PM (0 comments) The Daily Dartmouth: Adventures in Navel-GazingI understand why The D feels the need to make the news relevant to Dartmouth -- but aren't these lines from the news page just a little inane?Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Emmett at 11:33 AM (0 comments) Harvard's H2OH2O is a unique type of discussion software created at Harvard and recently opened to the public. Group conversations are organized around something called the Rotisserie, described thusly:The Rotisserie implements an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that that traditional threaded messaging systems do not. The basic concept of the threaded messaging board is to enable broadcast-to-broadcast communication among a group of people, meaning that every participant in the conversation receives every post from every other participant. This mode of discussion inevitably leads to the domination of the discussion by a few very verbal participants and silence by the lurking majority. The Rotisserie breaks this mode by assigning every post within the conversation to another, specific participant for response. The resulting conversation guarantees that every post will be responded to by at least one other participant and that every participant must respond directly to the post of another participant.Unsurprisingly, this structure seems especially well-geared to class discussions (more so than, say, any of Blackboard's interactive features) and group projects. The site is set up now to allow anyone to create and join a discussion (called a 'project'). Projects may be setup by their creators to be open or invitation-only. Any profs who've been driven away by the CS-feel of other discussion software may wish to give H2O a try. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:42 AM (0 comments) Tuesday, March 25, 2003Rather funny>Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:26:53 -0500>From: "Oh Shit!" >Reply-To: oh.shit@dartmouth.edu >To: oh.shit@dartmouth.edu >Subject: Resolution 1441 Oh Shit! ****************** The deadline to comply with U.N. Resolution 1441 has passed. Any Dartmouth students who happen to be dictators of applicable Third World countries should be advised that their country will be plunged into a roiling vortex of aerial bombing, land war, and occupation, but that all that will also be accompanied by a soft, palate-cleansing sorbet of humanitarian aid. A coalition of the world's foremost military powers -- including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Iceland and Eritrea -- will be removing dictators from power by force or, if necessary, by even more force. In other news: **Residents of French Hall are advised that their dormitory has been renamed Freedom Hall. **A prolonged international search fueled by the bloodlust of millions has failed to bring a renowned international fugitive to justice. Analysis of tapes recently released to the international media have led experts to conclude that Salman Rushdie is still alive, and indeed recording new Audiobook editions of his Satanic Verses. **With the Afghanistan reconstruction budget dwarfed by the Iraq war in the latest Congressional budget proposal, angry members of the infant Afghan government have placed their financially shafted country on eBay. **UPDATE: Residents of Freedom Hall are advised that their dormitory has been renamed You'd All Be Licking Nazi Boots If It Weren't For Us, You Commercially-Invested-In-Iraq, Anti-Semitic Effete Bastards Hall. **In recognition of the international turmoil, ORL has cancelled room draw and dealt with room assignments for next year by simply placing everybody on the waitlist. Dean Martin Redman reminds students bewildered by this decision that Dartmouth studetns are still young children, and when they grow up, they'll understand how big important adults make decisions. **The world is a scary, terrifying place. ****************** The Oh Shit! is a service brought to you by the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern. Anybody who wishes to be remove from this blitz list should take care of that, I guess, although we're not going to do it for you, you lazy slob. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by alex at 11:18 PM (0 comments) An anniversaryDartlog.net celebrates its one-year anniversary today! Dartlog was, so far as I know, the first Dartmouth-centric weblog on the 'Net.Thanks to everyone who has contributed, and keep it up. Things have been a bit light for the past couple weeks (with the exception of Mr. Flickenger, who's on the ball, sports-wise), but there is, after all, a war on. This is also the one-year anniversary, give or take a week, of the new Dartmouth Review website. The plan, a year ago, was to automate the whole site, which we did, and then to replace its design with something less ugly, which we did not do. Until now. Dartreview.com gets a new look today, based on the style that's been in use on Dartlog since the new year. It loads a lot faster (75% faster, by my measurements, for the home page), looks a lot better in standards-compliant browsers, and should be a bit less buggy. For those who care (probably no one), the new site is completely valid XHTML 1.0 styled with CSS2. For those who care (probably no one), this is the kind of thing that gets done only when one is procrastinating from writing a paper due at 10 the next morning (on public sector cash management)... Ne cede malis! Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 2:32 AM (0 comments) Monday, March 24, 2003Hockey seasons come to an end in Albany; DuluthBoth hockey teams finished their seasons this past weekend, and ended up with their best finishes in recent years. The women's team made it to the Women's NCAA Frozen Four, where they fell to eventual champions Minnesota-Duluth 5-2 before winning the 3rd place game against Minnesota 4-2. Harvard was the fourth team in the tournament and finished 2nd, losing 4-3 to UMD in double overtime in the final.The men's team wound up its season in Albany, NY, where they headed into the ECAC semifinals needing to win it all to advance to the NCAA tournament. Unfortunatly they started slow and couldn't recover in time. They fell behind 2-0 to Harvard after one period of play, and it looked to be out of control as they went into the 2nd break down 4-1 and with starting goaltender Nick Boucher pulled in favor of sophomore Dan Yacey. Dartmouth staged a furious comeback late in the game, however, when Hugh Jessiman knocked in a rebound with a little over seven minutes remaining to make it 4-2 and then senior Mike Murray was pulled down on a breakaway and awarded a penalty shot by referee Scott Hansen only three minutes later. Murray deked Harvard netminder Dov Grumet-Morris and scored on a backhand shot to make it 4-3, but that was as close as Dartmouth would make it. Harvard added an empty netter with five seconds remaining to make it a 5-3 final. The other highlight of the night was when the 6' 5" Jessiman checked a Harvard player through the glass, knocking the pane into the camera man and providing some classic replays for the crowd to enjoy. In the sparsely attended consolation game, Dartmouth took out Brown 4-2 in a game that was actually very well played considering how little everyone cared about it. Dan Yacey got the start and earned his first career win. Senior captain Kent Gillings got two goals, including the eventual game winner on a beautiful slap shot from the right point that snuck in just under the crossbar. Senior Pete Summerfelt also notched his 28th assist of the season, tying the team record for most assists in a season by a defenseman. The win gave Dartmouth a final record of 20-13-1, the first time since the 1947-48 season that Dartmouth reached the 20 wins plateau. By finishing third in the ECAC in both the regular season and tournament, it also marked the best finish by a Dartmouth team since 1980, when the team last made it to the NCAA tournament. This was also the first time since 1974 the team has finished with three winning seasons in a row. BTW, if any of you get a chance to go to this event in the coming years, I highly encourage it. A fun time was had by all, even given the loss to Hahvahd. ------------------ 2003 NCAA Women's Frozen Four: #4 Dartmouth vs #1 UMD (Semifinal): Recap : Box Score #4 Dartmouth vs #3 Minnesota (Consolation): Recap : Box Score 2003 Men's ECAC Championship: #3 Dartmouth vs #2 Harvard (Semifinal): Recap : Box Score #3 Dartmouth vs. #5 Brown (Consolation): Recap : Box Score ECAC Tournament Central The New Digs A change of venue benefits the ECAC. Hugh-ge Freshmen Dartmouth's cupboard isn't bare. Full post and comments below the fold. Posted by Ben at 2:56 PM (0 comments) |
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