Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Volume 26, Issue 5

New Organization Opens Fire on Chavez

On November 10, the nascent Human Rights Foundation hosted its first event, a breakfast at the Yale Club in New York co-sponsored by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in which panelists gathered to "discuss the dimensions and definition of human rights." HRF is the brainchild of Thor Halvorssen, who previously served as the first executive director and chief executive officer of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an organization dedicated to upholding civil liberties on campus. Dartmouth students are no stranger to the FIRE, which was instrumental in forcing the administration to repeal its speech code this past spring.

Cartoon by Gregory Pence

Dem Leadership

Sleep "Out" 4 Awareness!

The Tucker Foundation, finding themselves lacking sufficient rain-gear and on the brink of irony, decided to launch a "Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week" whose noble ambition found its grievous climax in a sleep-out (well, not really "out", but we'll get to that) Wednesday night at the Collis Commonground porch.

New Jewish Fraternity Considered

Dartmouth could soon add a fifteenth fraternity to its storied Greek system if a newly-formed group of students has its way. Approximately twenty students have joined an interest group aimed at forming a Dartmouth chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), a national Jewish fraternity founded at New York University in 1913. AEPi currently has chapters or colonies on over 120 campuses nation-wide.

Healthy Cripples and Bad Accents

Having been sliced from my mother's womb a cripple some 21-years ago, (miraculously cured through the wonders of modern pediatrics and corrective harnesses—no lie), I would expect to be more sympathetic to Martin McDonagh's young protagonist, 'Cripple Billy,' than the average cat. Unfortunately, the ties to my lagging brethren do not extend far past the gimping and hacking figure of Billy Claven (Brett Andrews '09) to excuse the playwright for his more terminal flaws in The Cripple of Inishmaan.

McKinsey to Probe College Bureaucracy

In his October 31, 2005 address to the General Faculty, President James Wright announced a wide-sweeping and long-overdue external review of the College's administration. To that end, the College has contracted management consulting giant McKinsey and Company to "help us see what we can do better, how we can break down silos, address redundancy, how we can improve services for students and faculty and strengthen internal coordination." In short, the review will nominally seek to halt and reverse the explosive numerical and financial growth of a clumsy, top-heavy administration through an objective eye.

The American Conservative Mind: Where We Are Now

Editors' Note: The following is excerpted from Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Hart's new book, The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times, published this fall by ISI Books.

TDR Interview: Peter Lawler: Stem Cells, Nanobots, and God

Editors' Note: Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College. Since 2004, he has served on the President's Council on Bioethics, and he is also executive editor of Perspectives on Political Science. His new book, Stuck With Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future is being published by ISI Books this fall.

TDR 25: Ingraham on Bork

Editors' Note: As a part of the continuing series of retrospectives in celebration of the Review's twenty-fifth anniversary, the following is an interview Laura Ingraham '85 conducted with Judge Robert Bork in 1984, prior to his 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court.

TDR 25: Wendy Long on Alito

Editors' Note: Wendy Long '84 (née Stone) comes from a storied family of Review editors and now serves as General Counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN).

Evil, Be Thou My Good

Having delivered psychiatry to the destitute and delinquent in urban Britain for decades, Theodore Dalrymple, in Our Culture, What's Left of it, delivers an arresting, quixotic and wonderfully severe diagnosis of Western high culture and low life. Written as individual essays under a pseudonym (his real name is Anthony Daniels), Dalrymple draws the thinnest of lines—thinning even as my fingers tap across each lettered button on the keyboard—separating civilization from brutality, love from rutting, humanity from animality.

Rugby Heads to Nationals, Football Falls

This weekend the Dartmouth Rugby Football Club was the runner-up in the Northeast Championship, clinching a spot in the National Championship to be held this spring.... Dartmouth [football] was defeated last weekend, 24-14, by the Brown University Bears of Providence, RI.

Hockey Upsets Cornell in First Win

After a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Colgate which left them with an 0-4 record, the men's hockey team needed a boost to get back into winning form. That boost arrived in a most unlikely opponent—Cornell, an Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League rival ranked #3 nationally. In the course of two hours in Thompson Arena on November 12, the Indians dismantled the Big Red 6-1.

The Last Word

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
—Sigmund Freud

Barrett's Mixology

Hometown Hockey Hooch

1 large bottle purple sports drink
2 cans of Red Bull
8 oz. Vodka

Mix all ingredients in sufficiently large container.
Consume clandestinely.