Chill Out

Yeah, well, neither is distortionary science.

When the weather turns cold in Hanover, we at The Dartmouth Review think its cool to make fun of global warming. The way we see it, sustained temperatures below zero don’t exactly heat-up the campus climate debate. In fact, they might even cool it off; after all, who can empathize with a polar bear when not even a flask of single malt can keep you warm as you traverse the Green?

Invariably, our comments do wind up making some campus lefties hot under the collar. During a January cold snap, when we sardonically mention that it certainly doesn’t feel like the Earth is getting warmer, someone inevitably pops his head out of a portal on some puke-colored Greyhound and bellows, “You blasphemous infidels! Climate change is not the same thing as weather! Read a book, you racist science-hating fools!” Relax, hippie! We understand that. We were just making a joke. Cool down and put your shoes back on – it’s cold out.

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Dartmouth Student Writes on Anti-Israeli Groups

In yesterday's Opinion column of The Dartmouth, Paul Lazarow '13 wrote an intelligent, logical defense of Israel from collegiate groups aimed at portraying Israel as an "apartheid regime." Lazarow specifically points to Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization which began at the perpetual protest that is UC-Berkeley and has an organization here at Dartmouth. His column comes days after the Florida Atlantic Univerisity's Students for Justice in Palestine put eviction notices on two-hundred-plus Jewish student's doors.

As anything that has come out of that exceptionally liberal campus, the activist group aims to bring attention to a problem without any solution, reasonable or not. The organization looks "to amplify those voices working against injustice" in the "apartheid regime that has consolidated itself in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, and 1967 Israel." 

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Rethinking Diversity

About a month ago, we at The Dartmouth Review posted an article on the divisive and iniquitous nature of affirmative action (see Affirmative Action Promotes Inequality). In it, we argued that affirmative action is and will always be a failed doctrine for one simple reason; it is simply an immense self-contradiction. By institutionalizing inequality in academia, the workforce, and society at large, liberals have birthed a system that enables the government to assign privilege to certain groups based on race and race alone. Inherent in this designation is a dichotomy that perpetuates racial self-consciousness and tension by elevating the interests of some over those of others. As result, we concluded that instead of promoting equality, affirmative action actually begets a “heighened sense of race consciousness” that prohibits progress and undermines the program’s original intent.

Apparently, no one at The Dartmouth bothers to check our website, for earlier week Kevin Francfort wrote an article much to the same effect. Entitled “Rethinking Diversity,” it makes a strong case for the need to drop considerations of race within admissions, arguing instead that diversity of opinion is much more important than diversity of skin color. No surprise there, but where the piece was most insightful was in its accompanying comments page. There, a Hannah Giorgis wrote: 

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Stop the Presses

The Daily D never ceases to amaze with the depth and breadth of its investigative prowess. This brain-buster is titled "Law, finance prove popular careers." My personal favorite snippet:

The liberal arts environment exposes students to a variety of fields and encourages individuals of all majors to question society and the marketplace both presently and in the future, according to anthropology department chair Dale Eickelman.

Cool story, bro.

--Adam I. W. Schwartzman