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Saturday, November 01, 2003

One of Dartmouth's best

Date: 01 Nov 2003 22:54:22 EST
From: Elisabeth F. Sherman
Subject: FREE TRADE UNDER FIRE
To: (Recipient list suppressed)



Tucker Social Justice Lecture

"FREE TRADE UNDER FIRE"

Douglas Irwin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003
Dartmouth 105
7:30pm

Prof. Irwin will be speaking about his latest book, "Free Trade Under Fire". He is a recent recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has worked in the federal government (the President's Council of Economic Advisors and the Federal Reserve Board).

Preceded by...

Presentation of Granger Award to
Micael Stern '59, T'60

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Posted by alex at 10:55 PM (0 comments)

Textbook bias

In Environment, 4th edition by Raven & Berg, the textbook for Andy Friedland's Environmental Studies 2:

During the 1990s the United States continued to depend on foreign energy supplies and was even willing to go to war to ensure that supply remained dependable -- witness the 1990 war in the Persian Gulf, which has been at least partly attributed to our dependence on foreign oil. During the conflict, President George H.W. Bush released oil reserves from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to minimize cost increases due to a demporary disruption in supply. Despite this effort, the increase in energy costss precipitated by the crisis contributed to an economic recession, the only one in the 1990s. (p. 209)

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Posted by alex at 10:54 PM (0 comments)

Hockey struggles to 2-1 win

Edit 11/4/03: The linked box score is now correct and up-to-date with everything

Dartmouth capped off a big sports weekend with a victory in the season opener for the men's hockey team, 2-1 over the Crusaders of Holy Cross in front of 3494 fans at Thompson Arena. The victory comes on the heels of the women's hockey win last night (7-2 over #5 Providence), the women's soccer win in 2ot over Harvard to clinch the Ivy Title, and of course the football game earlier today (see the post below).

The team looked like it was running on fumes for most of the 2 periods I was able to attend. Lee Stempniak '05 scored the game winner roughly halfway through the 2nd as he just took the puck down the boards and beat his defender to the corner, cut to the net and got it under the goaltender. Eric Przepiorka '06 had a breakaway chance to ice it late in the game, but was stoned by the Crusader netminder. Sean Offers '06 got sent off after receiving a spearing major and a DQ, but the team was able to kill it off.

Dan Yacey '05 stopped 25 of 26 shots to earn the victory. Jarrett Sampson '06 got Dartmouth's other goal. The box score is incorrect, as Dartmouth's 2nd goal came on the power play, making Dartmouth 1-8 on the PP, not 0-8. That also means Dartmouth hasn't scored a shorthander since the 00-01 season.

Hugh Jessiman '06 looked slow and sluggish most of the game, but I heard he took a big hit in the 1st period and sat most of the time until the intermission, so he may have been playing hurt the rest of the game.

Next weekend will be the last home games until after Christmas. Dartmouth will take on Brown and Harvard in a pair of ECAC and Ivy League contests. Brown earned a 2-0 upset win over Harvard tonight in Cambridge, MA. Faceoff both Friday and Saturday is at 7 at Thompson Arena. Expect the Harvard game to sellout, so I wouldn't plan on showing up too late or you may be stuck without a seat.

Box Score

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Posted by Ben at 9:50 PM (0 comments)

Dartmouth rolls over the Crimson

For the first time since their unbeaten 10-0 season in 1996, Dartmouth beat Harvard in Cambridge by a final of 30-16. Dartmouth held a lead of 16-9 going into halftime and never surrendered it as they cruised to victory.

The win came as Harvard is celebrating the 100th year of Harvard Stadium. Dartmouth won the very first game played there in 1903, and also won in 1953 when Harvard was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stadium.

The win improves Dartmouth's record to 3-4 (2-2 Ivy), and all of the remaining games on the schedule are winnable. Harvard falls to 6-1, and 3-1 in conference play.

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Posted by Ben at 4:14 PM (0 comments)

More MEChA Madness

The Stanford Review, Stanford's conservative newspaper, recently ran an article that ticked off many campus Hispanics:
In an editorial titled �MEChA: Social Justice Group or KKK?� The Review called MEChA �a racist organization that advocates revolution and segregation,� dubbing it �the modern-day Ku Klux Klan of Chicanos.�

[...]


�We are open to criticism from the community,� said junior Laura Godinez-Avina, co-chair of MEChA. �But they were misinformed and, based on that misinformation, made judgments on our group that were libel.�
Sheesh. Libel. People can be so incredibly stupid.

But wait! The liberals at Stanford proceeded to get even stupider. Now, some dorms are actually restricting delivery of student publications:
In recent weeks, staff members at Casta�o House and Roble Hall decided to prohibit student groups such as The Review, The Stanford Chaparral and The Stanford Progressive from slipping publications under residents� doors. Those groups must now leave publications at dorms� main entrances.
I wonder where they got that idea from... Way to promote the free exchange of ideas, fellas. Fortunately, some campus progressives aren't going to take it sitting down:
�I would encourage my Progressive successors and [The Stanford Review] and such to violate it flagrantly,� said Josh Benson, former president of The Progressive.

Senior Michael Zakaras, chief editor of The Progressive, also expressed disagreement with the policy.

�I don�t think there is any question that this policy will negatively affect the readership of The Progressive,� he said. �Distributing door to door is the only way to guarantee that all the students at Stanford have a chance to read our paper.�

Zakaras believes that the possibility of offending students is no reason to stop door-to-door distribution.

�The few people who have been offended by a campus publication shouldn�t dictate dorm or campus policy,� he said. �Many more students will suffer from not getting publications delivered to them than the few students who will have to throw the papers away. In the end, unless the University can come up with a way to ensure the kind of wide readership that door-to-door distribution allows while at the same time protect the sensitive students from being offended, then we�ll continue to distribute.�
Perhaps Stanford will have a Left-Right free speech coalition out of this. Well, it's a start.

(This, and other great stuff, from the redoubtable Tongue-Tied.)

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Posted by Emmett at 11:14 AM (0 comments)

Friday, October 31, 2003

Hopefully Fiedler '94 can hold on

John Clayton of ESPN isn't so sure.

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Posted by alex at 2:47 PM (0 comments)

Weekend Sports

For those of you headed to Boston this weekend, a reminder that the Dartmouth-Harvard game at Harvard Stadium kicks off at 12:30. The game is being televised by the YES Network as well.

For those staying on campus, the #2 ranked women's hockey team hosts #4 Providence tonight in the season opener. And the men's season opens tomorrow against Holy Cross. The puck drops at 7 both nights at Thompson Arena.

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Posted by Ben at 11:25 AM (0 comments)

Thursday, October 30, 2003

Trouble in paradise?

Here is an amusing post from the new blog Lady-Likely, the mouthpiece of an all-female DFP splinter cell. Methinks this site will be worth monitoring.

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Posted by Stefan Beck at 3:49 PM (0 comments)

Re: Homecoming Heartbreak

WFRD is 99Rock.

The AM station is WDCR...

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:45 AM (0 comments)

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Homecoming Heartbreak

From: Jennifer A. Kosty
Reply-To: BlueCanaryInTheOutletByTheLightSwitch
Subject: Homecoming Heartbreak (and Hookups)
To: (Recipient list suppressed)

heartbreak, hookups, and horror stories!

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Posted by alex at 10:18 PM (0 comments)

Conservative Discourse

Berkeley Professor George Lakoff is claiming to know the secret of conservatives' recent electoral success. The reason, he opines, is simple:
By dictating the terms of national debate, conservatives have put progressives firmly on the defensive.
In other words, Lakoff claims that conservatives have used language to wheedle and nudge the American people into supporting them, their policies, and their candidates.

But this strikes me as facially absurd. After all, which side is more enamored of semantics -- the Left or the Right? Which side created ludicrous neologisms in the pursuit of political correctness? Which side actually chastizes (baselessly, I might add) the other for supposed insensitivity to the power that words can have? The Left produces "African-American," "life-partner," and "differently-abled"... They institute speech codes on college campuses everywhere. If anyone seeks to set the terms of debate (and sometimes, I might add, through less than honest means), it's liberals.

This argument is also a handy way for "enlightened progressives" to dismiss the success of ideas they abhor. It's not on their merits, you see; it's all attributable to the Right-wing's masterful use of linguistic trickery.

That being said, Lakoff doesn't strike me as entirely half-baked (heh, that's a good one). His observations seem somewhat insightful -- this is not a crackpot job like that report a few months ago on the psychological makeup of conservatives. For instance, he says this:
Language always comes with what is called "framing." Every word is defined relative to a conceptual framework. If you have something like "revolt," that implies a population that is being ruled unfairly, or assumes it is being ruled unfairly, and that they are throwing off their rulers, which would be considered a good thing. That's a frame.

If you then add the word "voter" in front of "revolt," you get a metaphorical meaning saying that the voters are the oppressed people, the governor is the oppressive ruler, that they have ousted him and this is a good thing and all things are good now. All of that comes up when you see a headline like "voter revolt" � something that most people read and never notice. But these things can be affected by reporters and very often, by the campaign people themselves.
A provocative thought -- precisely the sort of thing that can be taken too far, but interesting. Now I wonder what he would find if he were to turn his lens to -- say -- The New York Times?

(Thanks to Todd for passing this along.)

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Posted by Emmett at 8:07 PM (0 comments)

Monday, October 27, 2003

A Century of Seuss

PR Newswire:
Letters, letters, everywhere, written in longhand.
A stamp, a stamp is needed, for mail to cross the land.
Which one - just one? - should we use, then?
Next year you will see.
Theodor Seuss Geisel! It's the stamp for you and me!
...
Joining Steele at the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden for the unveiling ceremony were Audrey Geisel, Theodor Geisel's wife; Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.); Joseph Carvalho, president and executive director, Springfield Library and Museum; and Michael Albano, mayor of Springfield. Entertaining the enthusiastic crowd of Dr. Seuss fans and stamp collectors were the "Seuss Singers," a 40-member youth vocalist group.

Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden?


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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 12:14 PM (0 comments)

Sunday, October 26, 2003

Horrible

On our precious campus in this precious town to this precious man...

A widely circulating e-mail:

Jim, the C&A's delivery guy, was robbed between AD and Heorot tonight at around 5:30 after a delivery. The robber stuck a gun in his face and demanded his money. Jim saw him hanging around outside Heorot when he drove in and was hidden somewhere in the shadows near AD afterwards. There is a possibility that he had been hanging around this area for sometime. If you saw someone milling about who looked like they did not belong then inform the Hanover Police about it. He also ran off after the robbery towards East Wheelock. The description is as follows: 5' 9'' with a shaved head. That is about all Jim could remember and he was obviously shaken during and after the encounter so his description might not be perfect.


Please forward to your lists . . . somebody out there saw something . . . lets catch this guy.

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Posted by alex at 8:53 PM (0 comments)

Dartmouth's Libraries in the news

In today's Valley News, Alex Hanson slams Dartmouth on its library management.

Sound familiar? It should.

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Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 2:43 PM (0 comments)

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