Yesterday morning, Generic Good Morning Message (GGMM), a popular email update at Dartmouth commented on the selection of President Jim Yong Kim. The comments were racist as hell, and consequently made a lot of people very angry.  GGMM managed to pull out just about every Asian-directed xenophobic ...

Earlier today, the Dartmouth Board of Trustees announced that Harvard professor Jim Yong Kim would ascend the green presidential throne in Hanover. Dr. Kim was the chair of the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and previously headed up the World Health Or...

As if you needed a reason to love Keggy the Keg — come on, he dispenses school spirit and alcohol! — there's this: Michael Wilbon once called him "That stupid beer thing." That's enough for me. But things have been rather bleak on the Dartmouth campus so far this school year, as Keggy &m...

Image via CrunchBase I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists.  I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together. The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 ran...

I'm 99% sure that I am just screwed, but I thought I'd ask... I finished sending in the last of my grad apps today. I made a little excel document months ago with all the due dates of the programs I was applying to. Somehow I forgot that Dartmouth was due 1/09 instead of today. My advising professor...

IvyGate’s Guide to Admissions: Part I Lately, the cavalcade of admissions soothsayers seems to stretch from high school guidance counselor’s offices all the way to the bank—not to mention a stopover at the open palms of admissions coaches. Neither here nor there, the secret to getting ...

To old people who existed before Al Gore created the Internet: if you’re going to sign up for social networking sites like Facebook, you better be damn well sure that you know what you’re doing. Apparently, Dartmouth Religion Professor Reiko Ohnuma never considered that her students migh...

Software, management, startups Gregory T. Huang wrote: Collaborative work management—it’s not the sexiest topic, but it’s a big business. Seattle-area entrepreneur Brent Frei estimates that his newest startup, Smartsheet, is the “301st company in the space.” The basic i...

I have a nose for trends, among other things. In January of 2007, I predicted that the troop surge would bring about an immediate end to the war in Iraq. A year and a half later, I’m still collecting money from people who bet against me. Last summer, mere days after it came out, I accurately p...

John Gleason, Class of 1976, has composed a little trinket about the present Dartmouth governance spat: Stopping by the College on a Stormy Evening (With great apologies to R. Frost) Whose School this is I think I know, Their house too close to Wall Street though. They do not like some being here, N...