Senior Canes

Here is a nice well-researched piece on the former tradition of "senior canes" by Joe Asch ... see: Dartblog Entry. I confess ignorance on this subject and am glad to see this history lesson. Joe has done a thorough and nostalgic job on another vanished Dartmouth tradition.

Perhaps things might have gone better if we had been tagged the Dartmouth Native Americans?

Melting Snowflakes

Another Dartmouth tradition is about to be deep sixed ... the requirement that students be able to swim 50 yards to graduate ... see: Dartblog Entry. It appears that many snowflakes must melt when they hit water. Traditions are disappearing faster on the Hanover plain than they are being created. That makes for a bland four years. So sad.

"College" on the Hill

Daniel Webster

Now here's a tradition worth fighting for and preserving (just like Daniel Webster did) -- the appellation, "Dartmouth College," and not "Dartmouth University."  For a well documented statement of said reasons see:  Dartblog

A Dartmouth Trustee to Trust

I know it's been a while since I have posted here ... and much has happened in Hanover in the interim ... some good, some bad. But now there are two openings for the college's Board of Trustees that need to be filled with thinking and probing champions of the institution we all love so much. My classmate, Mort Kondracke, is running and, although I sometimes find his cable-TV knee jerks a little too left-leaning, I do believe that he would be open-minded and a contributor to many of the tough decisions that will need to be made while Dartmouth digs itself out of its current fiscal hole.

There is another candidate for Dartmouth's Board of Trustees that I am more enthusiastic about -- Joseph Asch. Joe has been a major contributor to that very popular Dartmouth blog, Dartblog. There he has mainly posted important and quality analyses about many of Dartmouth's financial problems (warming to President Kim's serious treatment of same), championed Dartmouth's many sports teams, pointed out some irksome misallocation of our school's pedagogical assets, and shared his taste for quality food and drink. He has not yet addressed the degeneration of many Dartmouth traditions that have occurred over the last 20 or so years ... but I'm working on him for that. His background well demonstrates his financial analytic talents, his love for his Alma Mater, and his liberal (small "l") worldview. To verify that he is eminently qualified for this position, please visit Joe for Dartmouth where you might also reference, download, sign, and submit a Petition for his Trustee candidacy. I hope you'll find him as attractive a candidate as I do.

George W. Potts '60