Wednesday, April 16, 1997
Volume 17, Issue 3

Get Out of the Kitchen: Dartmouth Dining Service's Gross Mismanagement

It was during Orientation Week that we first noticed that the prices at Dartmouth Dining Services were far above their value. It was only a few weeks more before the food, which up until then had been good, became repetitive and intolerable. It was about that time, when one of our salads at Home Plate came to $7.00, that we became suspicious.

Nancy Jeton: Trustee-elect

Nancy Jeton: It was definitely different coming from an all-girls high school . The women who came to Dartmouth to be women were the ones who found the going most difficult. There were undergraduates in the other three classes who came to Dartmouth expecting it to be an all-male institution. Suddenly it changed in their midst. I think that the majority of the people thought that it was a healthy change, but there were some who resented the fact that women were there.

Black Leaders and Spokesmen

We hear a great deal of talk these days about 'reducing racial tension' and about 'racial reconciliation,' but there is plenty of evidence that it may be mostly whites who talk this way. Newt Gingrich invited Jesse Jackson to sit with him at the State of the Union Address, but who invited Ward Connerly, the black businessman who had led the successful fight for Proposition 209 in California? Certainly not the Black Caucus, and certainly not Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem.

Two Stories about Transportation

Two weeks ago, I boarded an Amtrak train in Penn Station, New York, bound for White River Junction, Vermont. The train jolted forward before I sat down, propelling me through the car with an inebriate gait. My bags bumped along the rows of seats and passenger heads, alternating between each one like a pendulum.

Dartmouth's Worst Feeder School

Imagine all of this set in the Bronx and you have The Horace Mann School, a place where the ugly paradox of country club and competitive academic slaughterhouse is neatly resolved in a cushy private school that serves as a last outpost of wealthy New York snobbishness, a pompous enclave in the gritty Bronx.

Remembering Lane Dwinell

Governor Dwinell was an instructive figure in New Hampshire politics, and indeed in the national evolution of the Republican party, and, derivatively, even of the Democratic party.

Freund's Picks for 1997

I assumed that a baseball column was a one time deal. In that article I made only three predictions: Derek Jeter would win the Rookie of the Year Award, Baltimore would win the wild card spot in the American League, and my beloved Yankees would win the World Series. All of the preceding came true. So I asked myself, 'am I gifted?' More likely just lucky. There is only one way to find out. So, here are my predictions for this year.

Women's Lax on a Roll

The Dartmouth women's lacrosse team has, over the past two weekends, surged to the top of the Ivy League standings and into the national top ten. Wins over nationally ranked Princeton and Penn and a hard fought non-conference loss to national power Penn State have left the Indians on top of the Ivy League with a 3-0 record and ranked tenth nationally in the latest Brine coaches poll.

Letters to the Editor

As a Dartmouth graduate in 1930, when Ernest Martin Hopkins was president, and one who spent over fifty years as an administrator in eleven institutions of higher education, all but two privately controlled, I was particularly interested in your article on career men and Professor Campbell's appraisal of Dartmouth presidents, all of whom since my day, I've known.