Thursday, December 14, 2006

This Video Will Make You Smile

Check out this, ahem, creative news video of a protester up on Dartmouth's Baker Tower, brought to you on Youtube. ...

The Dartmouth '01 who says he's planning to return to campus to finish his degree shouldn't have much trouble paying his tuition after winning $105,000 on Jeopardy. He won four games before finally losing in Final Jeopardy Tuesday. Read about it here. ...

For another look at the text messaging/recruiting issue and the Ivy League's stance, click here. Yale Athletic Director Tom Beckett quoted in the Hartford Courant story:
"We're responding to where the technology is taking us. This is something that needs to be addressed because it's not fair to the (recruits). You can let a piece of mail sit somewhere on your kitchen table or throw it in a box. I'm not sure how you deal with all those text messages."
Stories by the Grand Forks (ND) Herald reporter who visited Dartmouth to investigate the Fighting Sioux controversy can be found here. There's a photo gallery here, a sidebar on Dartmouth President James Wright's letter here, and a story about the letter written by the University of North Dakota president here.

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