Monday, October 4, 2004
Volume 25, Issue 2

Dartmouth's Surreal Keg Policy: Asinine, Unreasonable, Preposterous

Lately, the Student Activities bureaucracy has started monkeying around with the numbers, in an attempt—by its own admission—to diminish the presence of alcohol on campus, regardless of the presence of legal-age drinkers. Only a fool would argue that the College shouldn't fight against alcohol abuse or underage drinking. But the point of the S.E.M.P.—according to its own mission statement—is to make the campus social scene safer. It isn't meant to eliminate it altogether.

Convocation: A Breath of Fresh Air

Fortunately, the 2004 Convocation, marking the beginning of the College's two-hundred-thirty-fifth cycle was not all doom and gloom. Indeed, it was refreshingly just the opposite. President James Wright's speech, directed largely to the Class of 2008, focused not upon racial and ethnic diversity, nor 'white privilege,' but rather the validity of all opinions, so long as they are "sound and well-crafted."

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Class of 2008 Endures Happy Birthday

It's your big night! The 2008s have arrived! Cake, decorations, games, party favors, fun hats, and tons more!

Frosh Summer Reading: For the Birds

Those meek, or heavily-intoxicated, pre-freshmen who never bothered to plunge into this year's literary offering from Dartmouth's First Year Office have missed out on the wealth of knowledge and understanding that lies within the foreboding heart of Terry Tempest William's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Though it's reasonable to suspect that some might find its accompanying celluloid suggestion, The Day After Tomorrow, too taxing to warrant further introspection, I'm aghast, pained, maddened, &c. by the sheer volume of Refuge copies that remain unread on desks, bookshelves, or in gym bags.

Ivy League Football Preview

Dartmouth loses much of its receiving power with the graduation of Jay Barnard and Casey Cramer. Nevertheless, the team returns 19 starters including the dangerous combination of quarterback Charlie Rittgers and receiver Andrew Hall. Add in running back Chris Little, and it is clear that the Indians' offensive cupboard will be far from empty.

The Last Word

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

—Nikita Khrushchev

Barrett's Mixology

The bartender introduced himself as Jimmy, and explained that the drink was called a Ward Eight, and he had learned the recipe from the drink's inventor, the bartender at the Locke-Ober Cafe, who prepared a batch on election night for the State Reps in Ward Eight