Monday, November 12, 2001

Public Intoxication: Your Options

In dealing with an intoxicated individual, police have three choices. The individual may be assisted home or to an appropriate location, may be released to another individual claiming responsibility, or may be placed in a local jail or correctional facility for up to 24 hours, or until it is decided that he or she is no longer intoxicated.

The New Enforcement: Every Night Unregistered

In the winter of 1999, President Wright announced the Student Life Initiative and the end of the fraternity system "as we know it." Since then, the College has moved deliberately towards restricting and even eliminating Greek houses. Last summer, the College administration rewrote the rules, eliminating outdoor pong and instituting weekly Safety and Security walkthroughs.

Maybe Less Pizza Would Help?

The table was filled with three large boxes of EBA's pizza, few slices remaining, loaded with extra cheese, bacon, meatball, ham, and pineapple, oil filling in the crevices of the cheese. Towering over the boxes was a two liter bottle of Diet Coke, and scattered around the table were plastic cups. Around the table were big chairs and benches. On the chairs sat 11 women, one from Yugoslavia, two from India, and the rest Asian- and African-American.

Columbia: Free Speech for All, Sometimes

On October 26, 2001, the University Senate at Columbia University proposed and adopted a resolution placing their stamp of approval upon an idea that the founding fathers made a part of the United States legal canon more than two centuries ago in the First Amendment.

A Presidential Controversy at Albright

In the summer of 1998, Albright College began a search for a new president, and in February of 1999, Colonel Henry Zimon was offered the job. Less than a year later, questions arose concerning whether Zimon falsified information on his resumé. Achal Mehra, a communications professor at Albright, led investigations into the accuracy of the resumé and, in spring of 2001, was charged with 'professional unfitness' and 'moral turpitude.'

Indian Football: Big Red Heartbreak

Dartmouth's lackluster performance led to a 28-24 defeat at the hands of the Cornell Big Red last Saturday at Memorial Stadium in front of approximately 5,600 fans. The game was decidedly ugly, and Dartmouth let their lead slip away in the fourth quarter for their fourth consecutive loss.

The Joys of Frog Gigging

'Gigging,' for those not in the know, is hunting for bullfrogs by first spotlighting and then spearing them. Shortly before sundown on a cool May evening my father, brothers, and I load our truck with the gigs (long pronged poles that are used as spears), waders, flashlights, a frog sack, and a small baseball bat.

Third World Report: The Zagreb Chronicles

My Fulbright grant, originally awarded for studies in Macedonia, had to be transferred. Offered a choice of several countries, I ultimately selected Croatia to be my home for the next year. Naturally though, things had to be complicated. Although I requested Osijek, a funny little town in Eastern Slavonia near the borders of Bosnia and Serbia, I was assigned to the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb.

Educatin in 'The Age of Now': Jeffrey Shaw Reviews 'Non Campus Mentis'

All-nighters, rushed deadlines, and apathy. All students have encountered these as they sit at their computers late at night staring at a blank screen. We all have written awful papers, but some students' notion of awful is mind-blowing.

Four Millenia of Literary Utopias: From Plato to Orwell; J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'The Faber Book of Utopias'

The problem with utopias is that they require a complete metamorphosis of the world. "[Utopias] aim at a new world, but must destroy the old," writes Carey. Utopians view much of the world as human constructs which can be changed. However, to change such constructs humans themselves must also be completely changed or, most easily, eliminated. 'In a utopia real people cannot exist, for the very obvious reason that real people are what constitute the world that we know, and it is that world that every utopia is designed to replace,' writes Carey.

Giving West a Shout Out: Alexander Talcott Reviews Cornell West's Rap Album

Rap, says William J. Bennett, former secretary of education and author of the Book of Virtues, is "filth and sewage" that is "degrading and dehumanizing." For Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Afro-American Studies and the Philosophy of Religion at Harvard University, rap is his latest enterprise.

Tom Dent Cabin: Trashed!

On the evening of October 25th, the members of the Dartmouth Outing Club became one of the groups to use the Tom Dent Cabin since it was turned over to the Student Assembly (SA) earlier this term. Their party, however, is now under investigation by Safety and Security (S&S).

Letters to the Editor

Such policies are bad enough at the lower levels of education, but to continue them at college would seem to perpetuate into adulthood many childish illusions about life. Surely, through its laws and customs society sufficiently limits our conduct, especially, one would think, on the campus of an elite college.