Tuesday Happenings: "Community Dinner" 6 P.M., Collis Commonground--More gaiety from the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance.



"Tuesday Night Movie/Discussion" 8 P.M., 28 Silsby Hall--Watch "Dead Man Walking" and protest the death penalty (indoors this time) with the Greens. Hopefully, protest/discussion will begin after the movie has ended.



"Lunch with DMS Prof. Lori Arviso Alvord" noon, Tucker Foundation--Part of Tucker's "What Matters to Me and Why" program. Alvord is the first Navajo woman surgeon and opened Dartmouth's 1999 academic year. She graduated from Dartmouth in 1979.



Email events to DartLog at this address.

Quiet Riot: This evening's protest by students against the death penalty was more the size of a small posse than a mob. Five or six gathered around one of the tables in front of Collis and attempted to light candles in the brisk wind. Eventually, someone brought forth some Solo cups to protect the lighted candles. After taking many more photographs than there were people, the group slowly moved out across the Green in a huddle. Cups in hand, they could easily have been a group of harmless Saturday night revelers quietly sneaking back to their rooms.



I have to say, their introspective and silent tone was a very pleasing and refreshing form of protest for us non-participants. Future protestors take note.



-- Thomas H. Camp (reposted by Andrew who hit a wrong button.)

This email's been making the rounds. What could really be so incriminating? Party announcements? Pong tournaments?

Dear Friends,



You are receiving this message because at some point you have expressed support of the work that myself and others are doing to expose the more troublesome aspects of Dartmouth's Greek system. I am writing to alert you to one possible way this work has been facilitated in the past.



Several incriminating documents meant for internal Greek house use have been found on public computers over the last few years, and finding new information in this manner remains a possibility. I would like to suggest that from now on, whenever you use a public computer, you look at the documents that are on the desktop and in the trash to see if there are any that pertain to Greek houses. This is a completely sound, legal, and noninvasive method of gathering information and it will only take a few seconds of your time. Please let me know if you find anything of interest.



I am still in the process of conducting interviews for a longer article on the Greek system, so feel free to contact me if you would like to share your experiences or know of someone else who would.



If you would like to be removed from this list, or if you know someone who would like to be added, please blitz me. The numbers are ever growing...



Happy hunting!



-XXX

Nathaniel: I'm surprised at all of you. How can you be so disparaging of a man who prefaces his solution to a 55-year armed conflict with this:



I don't know a lot about international politics nor about regional religious tensions. I know next to nothing about Jewish and Palestinian history. But I do know this: the problems in the Middle East are not simple. It is not clear who is right and who is wrong. The history of the problem is black with bitter blood and hot anger. And people are still dying.



Well, he's quite right that its not clear who is right and who is wrong when you know next to nothing about the conflict. The unkind might suggest that people who know next to nothing would be wise to learn at least a tiny bit about the issues before commenting on them.



But surely such trivialities aren't really important under the circumstances. After all, he's been a freshman columnist for the D for almost 9 whole months now, so clearly he's more than qualified to expound on this topic. That being the case perhaps he can enlighten us as to how one reconciles a lack of belief in the possibility of a genocidal force with Mein Kampf's immense popularity in the Palestinian Authority?