Friday, April 8, 2005
Volume 25, Issue 10

So Many Democrats, So Little Time

Of the 341 professors registered to vote in Hanover, NH, Lebanon, NH, and Norwich, VT, 225 (66 percent) are Democrats and eighteen (5 percent) are Republicans. Ninety-eight (29 percent) did not register a party. Put another way, there are 12.5 registered Democrats for every registered Republican.

The Trustees, Diversity, and Free Speech

Both petition candidates, Peter Robinson '79 and Todd Zywicki '88, have attacked the College's restrictions on free speech in their election statements, as has Gregg Engles '79, who was nominated by the Alumni Council.

Daniel Klein Uncovers Academic Bias

Santa Clara University Professor Daniel Klein on Wednesday laid out the current state of ideological diversity among college and university faculty: there is none.

Klein: Academia to Grow More Lopsided

Daniel Klein: Departments and administrators don't want to hire Republican or conservative professors, and Republican or conservative seniors do not want to march into machine gun fire. It is a self-reinforcing cycle.

Hold Yer Horowitz

With constant access to the inner workings of the hard left, conservatives have an opportunity to firm their own ideological grounding and to critique that of the Left. It is an opportunity conservatives ought gladly take, rather than adopting some their opponents' most craven tactics.

Intellectual Property Is So Last Year

When a non-political statement of fact, unsupported by even an iota of evidence and in conflict with common knowledge, cannot be challenged in the classroom due to the intimidation and denigration of all dissenting views, the hopes for free inquiry on complex normative topics—for example, modern legal thought—can be all too readily inferred.

Ross Douthat Explores Harvard: The Iviest of the Ivy League

Didn't my grandparents and parents immigrate, surmount xenophobia, accrue debt, join the military, climb out of poverty, attend school and work hard precisely so I could comfortably sit here and write self-indulgent, introspective sentences like this one?

Midwestern Girl Gone Wild

While only time will tell whether this novel will someday adorn high school reading lists alongside The Catcher in the Rye, as one commentator recently predicted, it is more certain that Prep constitutes an earnest and sometimes poignant rendering of the East Coast educational establishment.

Rugby Starts Spring with Win

Last Saturday, the Dartmouth Rugby Football Club adapted to wet conditions and trounced the poorly-mannered and ill-educated Terrier squad.

Indian Sports Roundup

The men's hockey team lost a three-game series with Vermont in the ECAC quarterfinals, thus putting them out of contention (by only one position) for the team's first NCAA tournament bid in decades.

The Last Word

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything, but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Barrett's Mixology

San Francisco Iced Tea—Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into shaker and give one brisk shake.

Letters to the Editor

Defending the Alumni Governance Task Force; Defending Big Green Bikes; Against the Neoconservatives; A Happy Subscriber