Dartmouth College

December 5, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

Brown puts Dartmouth to shame

Featured image Years ago, I mentioned to a prominent Bush administration official with an Ivy League background that my daughter was applying to Dartmouth and Brown. “They’re equally bad,” he responded. I was unwilling then, and remain so even now, to accept the idea that Dartmouth is as “bad” as Brown. But Joe Asch demonstrates that in one important respect Dartmouth is worse. Joe shows that Dartmouth is significantly more bloated, and »
October 8, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

A “downward death spiral” at Dartmouth?

Featured image In 2006, Peter Fahey, a former Dartmouth trustee wrote: Failure to adopt the new [Association of Alumni]constitution would risk dire consequences for the College. It would be a step down the road of allowing a radical minority cabal to take over the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. If this were to begin to happen, it could well lead the College into a downward death spiral. As Joe Asch reminds us, the »
September 11, 2013 — Scott Johnson

Dartmouth’s 9/11

Featured image Following 9/11 the New York Times ran Portraits of Grief profiling many of those lost in the 9/11 attacks. We can’t capture the magnitude of the loss, or the meaning of who and what we lost, but the Times’s focus on individuals made a contribution. Taking just one small slice, I want to retrieve from the series the Times’s portraits of Dartmouth alumni who lost their lives on 9/11. With »
April 27, 2013 — Scott Johnson

The message from Dartmouth

Featured image Intending to smooth the waters over its cancellation of classes in lieu of a full day of left-wing indoctrination served up to placate a small number of protesters, Dartmouth College has sent out an email blast to alumni under the name of board chairman Stephen Mandel. Interim president Carol Folt is responsible for the disgraceful production defended by Mandel, but Folt is on her way out. She has been named »
April 24, 2013 — Scott Johnson

The disgrace du jour at Dartmouth (with Updates)

Featured image The powers that be at Dartmouth College have canceled classes for all-day left-wing indoctrination today. Like the warden in Cool Hand Luke, they mean to get the students’ minds right. Where can I go to get the pro rata portion of my daughter’s tuition back? Dartmouth senior Blake Neff hasn’t answered that question, but the same issue is on his mind and he has kindly responded to our request for »
March 10, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

Dartmouth contemplates hitting a new low

Featured image Charlotte Johnson, Dartmouth’s Dean of the College, says that Dartmouth is considering a distributive requirement or some sort of mandatory course focused on diversity and inclusion. Clearly, Johnson has in mind a course that touts the value of diversity and inclusion. But wait. Dartmouth grants racial preferences to ensure that its undergraduate population is “diverse” and “inclusive.” And by all accounts, including my daughter’s, Dartmouth succeeds in creating a racially »
February 23, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

Why Dartmouth cannot be saved

Featured image The Dartmouth Review, a publication with a proud conservative tradition, recently produced a list of “what we need from President Hanlon,” the College’s new president. It included items like restoring pre-matriculation AP credits, improving the pricing system used by the dining services, pushing back against the town police, ending the ban on kegs, doing a better job of monitoring of frat parties, and so forth. The list contained no suggestions »