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Crips/Bloods: College Hammered 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
The criticism of the Crips & Bloods party in the national press just won't let up. Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham piled on with quotes from Boston mayoral candidate John Barros '96: The second...
Tengatenga's Enemies? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:59 pm
It is always sad to see a debate distorted, with one side demonizing the other. Willfully misdescribing the nature of one's opponents is an old debate tactic; why address their concerns when you can a...
Kim: Solving All Problems 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On July 2, we noted that Jim Kim had expanded the World Bank's infrastructure financing role to include work on universal health coverage, global education, large scale land acquisitions, ending extre...
Maiori Diary: Pasta Caring 25 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
That Italians eat a lot of pasta is a given, but the extent of their affection is sometimes daunting. In the two-aisle convenience store across from our apartment building in Maiori on the Amalfi Coas...
Show Me The Money 24 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Lynn O'Shaughnessy at Moneywatch commented on August 20 on the price of higher education in America: What can you say? It is very expensive to run a school in NYC and its environs. And in rural New H...
A Comment on Trustee Cluelessness 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
In the category of There Are Some People Who Just Can't Be Pleased, take a look at this recent headline in the Times: "Newest Spy Court Pick Is a Democrat but Not a Liberal." To comment more amply on ...
All Hail The D 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
It's funny how things work. On Monday, Ester Cross 15's article on the poisonous atmosphere inside The D and the paper's slipshod journalistic practices garners 6,500 hits for Dartblog -- clearly it s...
Course Assessments: The Detail 21 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
As we noted recently, the College would be improved if the information gathered from students at the end of each term about the quality of their courses were freely available. Currently the faculty ke...
The Daycare Ripoff 20 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
That the College is run for the benefit of the staff will be of no surprise to readers of this space, nor to students obliged to pay through the nose for over-priced DDS food or the second highest tui...
Ester Cross: How The D Really Works 19 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Today's column regarding the dysfunctional inner workings of The Dartmouth was written by Ester Cross '15, who has been writing for the paper for two years. In 2012 she covered the Republican and Demo...
