Friday, February 10, 2006
Volume 26, Issue 8

Alumni Association Votes Sunday

The famed warmth of the Dartmouth community’s camaraderie has continued to chill since the October 23 defeat of D. Dean Spatz ‘66, Joe Asch ‘79, and other petition candidates in Alumni Association elections. Despite a concerted effort to the contrary, the majority of alumni voters present in Hanover (many culled from the ranks of the administration-friendly Alumni Council), rejected the increased budget transparency and electronic voting pledges of “outsider candidates” like Spatz and Asch.

A Short History of Winter Carnival

Winter Carnival began as a tradition of the Dartmouth Outing Club ninety-six years ago to invite nearby college students to compete against Dartmouth’s best skiers. The celebration took on its official name the following year, and the spirit of athleticism and competition has since remained, along with other social festivities that promptedNational Geographic magazine to call it “the Mardi Gras of the North.”

Cultural Revolution at Zoo Mass?

Creating, offering, and/or engaging in drinking games or other behaviors designed for the purpose of rapid and/or excessive consumption is prohibited.

Image Problems

"Frankly, Mr. Mohammed... a few Danish cartoons are the least of your image problems..."

Know Thy Enemy

A government major can say that all people want democracy and that equality is the default existence of man until it is perverted by external forces, but a Chinese scholar can tell you that democracy may never come to China for reasons that are rooted in the cultural consciousness of its people.

Teevens Looks Ahead to Football

Buddy Teevens returned to coach football at the College in the wake of scandal—a letter, sent by Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg to president Alfred Bloom of Swarthmore, denouncing the culture of football as “antithetical to the academic mission of colleges such as ours.”

TDR Interview: Coach Bob Gaudet

They’re tough teams to play back-to-back, but you have to gear up for that and you really have to play 60-minute games.

A Williamsburg Cookbook: Soviet Gumbo

It’s oft said that you aren’t a “true” resident of Williamsburg until you hang out with (or at least clean up after) a stripper. I considered this my entrée into the wide world of “cred” and discounted cover charges.

TDR 25: Delhi, Deliverance, & Dartmouth

In the balkanized and Orwellian world of Dartmouth in the late 1980s, the only place that I experienced complete meritocracy and egalitarianism was on the staff of the Review.

Nobody Funds an Abstraction

Within the pig, the virus recognizes both avian and human cells through its cell-surface receptors. Here, influenza makes the species jump that Mr. Davis claims now threatens all humankind.

Letters to the Editor

Helpful Hipster Guide; Collis Strikes Back; What Goes Around Comes Around; How Romantic; Sick of Sic; Book Review Plaudits; Against The Covenant

The Last Word

As was his language so was his life.
—Seneca

Barrett's Mixology

The Plague

8 oz. Keystone Light
Warm air and humidity, for fermentation

Allow Keystone to come slowly to room temperature. Open and pour slowly into plastic cup. Garnish with foam. Serve warm and repeatedly until symptoms abate.