Wednesday, February 18, 1998

President Freedman Rambles On

In the past week, two incidents have focused campus attention on the issue of anti-Semitism. On February 11th, President Freedman gave an interview to The Los Angeles Times discussing his speech on anti-Semitism at Dartmouth, delivered at the dedication of the Roth Center for Jewish Life. Six days later, the Dartmouth community experienced an act of anti-Semitic vandalism.

Freedman and The Dartmouth Review

But in the October 3 issue, "The Review Credo" read: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs. Therefore, I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: By warding off the Jews, I am fighting the Lord's work: gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." The lines sandwiched in between the two clauses by TR are from Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Dartmouth Stalls at Home

Dartmouth Alumna Gretchin Ulion '94 and current student Sarah Teuting '98 earned gold medals this week as members of the US Women's Ice Hockey Team. The Nagano games marked the first time Women's Ice Hockey was offered as an event. Ulion had several goals in the tournament while Teuting was the team's chief goalkeeper. These were the first medals earned by Dartmouth putting it ahead of several whole countries — Jamaica and Kenya, among others.

King of Them All

Don King, unquestionably one of the most powerful sports promoters in history, drew one of the largest and most boisterous crowds that I have seen at a Dartmouth lecture.

One World Record, 24 Hours

On Friday, January 30th at 8:00 p.m., the men's crew team began a mission: to break the world record for most meters rowed in twenty-four hours. It required a furious pace — an average time of under one minute thirty seconds for five hundred meters, the standard measure of how fast an ergometer (indoor rowing machine) is pulled.

Houses of the Holy: Christopher Pearson Reviews 'Yield' and 'Temple of the Morning Star'

In the past month Spin, Rolling Stone, and even The New York Times have each bemoaned the stunning rise to dominance of singles as entities independent of the artist who recorded them. One song fueled by a video and radio airplay, the press complains, is now what sells music.

Letters to the Editor

Mr. Buckley's analysis issued in the contention that Mr. Freedman's allegations of anti-Semitism had no basis in fact. In Search of Anti-Semitism is in large part about the use of false charges of anti-Semitism to gain demagogic advantage. And he concludes that among those mendaciously using the anti-Semitism charge, Mr. Freedman was the most "egregious" of the figures examined in the book.