Wednesday, May 28, 1997
Volume 17, Issue 7

President James. O. Freedman: A Decade of Turbulent Deceit

President Freedman was notable, oddly enough , only because he was so generic. He embodied all the stereotypes of a College President. Dressed in clothes that could only be described as forcibly casual, President Freedman had the most insincere of grins stretched across his face. He spun to and fro, at the command of his wife, to momentarily grasp the hand of each eager freshman, nod, unhearingly, at the nervous muttered stutters, and stumble to the next hesitating hand. He looked thoroughly uncomfortable; interacting with other people obviously did not suit him.

A Decade of Response: Voces Clamanti on President Freedman

The following quotes are a compilation of highlights from columns, letters, and interviews concerning Dartmouth President James O. Freedman, which have been published in The Dartmouth Review over the past ten years. They are grouped according to subject matter.

Destroying Excellence

The jewel of the New York City system has long been three fine high schools,
Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech, and the Bronx High School of Science. You have to take a tough entrance exam to get in, and admission has always been purely on the basis of academic merit. Over the decades, students from these three schools have monopolized the national awards, including the famous Westinghouse Science Prizes.

Dave Pan on Racism

After my first year here, I've learned that it's not Dartmouth's white population that's racist or exclusionary, but rather it's the organized minority groups themselves. At the beginning of this year, I was given a Big Brother by the Dartmouth Asian Organization (DAO) to help me get settled, was put on the Asian Christian Fellowship (ACF) mailing list, and invited to numerous exclusively Asian functions.

Ruggers Fall in Round of Eight

On the weekend of April 18, the DRFC traveled down to State College, Pennsylvania, to play Rice University in the round of sixteen, and possibly advance to the round of eight, in the college rugby national tournament.

Pearson Walks on the Wild Side: Reviews 'Walk on the Wild Side' and 'Locked in the Cabinet'

On assignment to interview Robert Reich , I ventured down to the Dartmouth Bookstore last week to buy the former Labor Secretary's newly published memoir entitled Locked in the Cabinet.

Letters to the Editor

I appreciated your article on Dartmouth's bureaucracy in the May 14 issue of The Review. However, had the editors dug just a little deeper and compared the Dean of the College flow chart, which the editors were given, with the Dartmouth College Staff Directory they would have discovered that the dean's chart has some serious discrepancies.