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Saturday, June 21, 2003

Jessiman taken 12th Overall in NHL Draft

Forward Hugh Jessiman '06 was taken by the New York Rangers with the 12th pick in the NHL Draft. He becomes the highest draftee ever from the ECAC, and is the first Dartmouth player ever to be taken in the 1st round.

Jessiman broke the Dartmouth freshman scoring record and finished 2nd on the team in scoring this past season with 47 points. Dartmouth won 20 games for the first time since the 1940's.

It is likely Jessiman will return to the Dartmouth for his sophomore season. After that, whether he stays or not may depend on how the new collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and the players' association ends up. Most people are expecting a strike/lockout following the 2004 Stanley Cup.

Lee Stempniak '05 could be drafted in the later rounds.

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Posted by Ben at 2:43 PM (0 comments)

Friday, June 20, 2003

Quick Question

Is anyone -- or does anyone know -- a young conservative in southern California? Email me -- emmett -- at -- thefire.org.

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Posted by Emmett at 3:34 PM (0 comments)

Hue and Cry over "Whiteness Studies"

To read this puff piece from The Washington Post, you wouldn't know there's a hue and cry at all.

That said, if "whiteness studies" means Great Books, scotch tasting, and cigars, perhaps I could lead a course!

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Posted by Emmett at 10:14 AM (0 comments)

Thursday, June 19, 2003

'Blog Directory

Got a weblog? Add it to the Dartmouth weblog directory. There aren't too many in it at the moment, but that's probably because there aren't too many out there.

Send an email to get yourself (or someone else) listed.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:34 PM (0 comments)

"I Know What I Like, and I Like a Lot of It"

Well, you get a lot of it, that's for sure. The question is what "it" is.

(Thanks -- I guess -- to Molly Feltner for passing this along.)

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Posted by Emmett at 10:42 AM (0 comments)

Fraud on a Massive Scale

Over on Critical Mass, Erin O'Connor is blogging about a very intriguing book by historian Keith Windschuttle called The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847. The book asserts that the widely accepted account of the genocide of the Aborigines in Tasmania by British colonialists is a fiction. Turns out it never happened -- funny, that. Windschuttle's book chronicles a litany of outrageous lies perpetuated by historians more dedicated to the proper answer than to the true answer.

So what did happen? Windschuttle explains: "True, the full-blood Tasmanian Aborigines did die out in the 19th century....But this was almost entirely a consequence of two factors: the long isolation that had left them vulnerable to introduced diseases, especially influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis; and the fact that they traded and prostituted their women to such an extent that they lost the ability to reproduce themselves."

Predictably, Windschuttle is now persona non grata among his peers. He has been called a "cultural chauvinist" (surprise!); one detractor charged that he left no room for -- wait for it -- "historical imagination." Well if that don't beat all.

Here's a link to Windschuttle's comments in The Australian, an Aussie daily, from which Erin O'Connor quotes extensively. Plus, here's an article that Windschuttle posted in The New Criterion back in September of 2001, when we were preoccupied with other affairs.

UPDATE Here are Windschuttle's thoughts on Edward Said and orientalism.

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Posted by Emmett at 9:45 AM (0 comments)

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

To the rescue

Senator Judd Gregg comes through for 2003 Dartmouth valedictorian

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Posted by alex at 1:24 PM (0 comments)

A tease

An excerpt of an article by Jeffrey Hart in The New Criterion

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Posted by alex at 12:43 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Take That, Stanley Fish!

With gusto and aplomb, FIRE's legal director, Greg Lukianoff, annihilates Stanley Fish's fatuous assertion that there are "just not that many" free speech issues on college campuses today.

Well done Greg!

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Posted by Emmett at 5:13 PM (0 comments)

Monday, June 16, 2003

"Regime Change on the Charles"

In The Weekly Standard, Hugh Hewitt ponders the possibilities of Larry Summers' refreshing tenure at the helm of Harvard.

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Posted by Emmett at 12:17 PM (0 comments)

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