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If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Power Line takes on Priya Venkatesan and Dartmouth’s writing program. 

Congratulations to Damon Wright ‘08 and Russell Young ‘08, who were drafted to the Giants and Indians, respectively. 
 

At least, not today. Tomorrow is another day though. Seriously, Professor Venkatesan seems to waffle quite a bit about… well… everything. To sue or not to sue? To publish a memoir, or to keep her affairs to herself?
From The Dartmouth:

Former Dartmouth writing instructor Priya Venkatesan ‘90 said she no longer plans to publish a memoir [...]

Happy No Diet Day! Put off feeling bad about your bodies until tomorrow. For today, it’s Häagen-Dazs for breakfast, lunch and dinner! 
Tabletops littered with Ghirardelli chocolate bars, slices of ham, graham crackers and mini eclairs attracted students to Collis Common Ground on Monday to commemorate International No Diet Day, an annual event to raise awareness about the [...]

I guess it’s better off this way. [The Dartmouth]
Students in Priya Venkatesan ‘90’s Winter term Writing 5 classes will have the option of receiving credit for the class without a grade, Associate Dean of the Faculty Lindsay Whaley informed them on April 31. Venkatesan, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical [...]

…Dartmouth football player Conner Kempe.

Writing professor Priya Venkatesan isn’t pleased with her students’ performance last term, and it isn’t just because of their classroom participation.
From The Dartmouth:

Priya Venkatesan ‘90, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical School, is threatening to name seven of her former students in a potential civil rights lawsuit against the College, [...]

On Sunday, the Harvard Republican Club and Harvard College Democrats passed a bipartisan bill in the Undergraduate Council specifically geared towards Harvard ROTC students. This bill, entitled Supporting ROTC Students and developed according to recommendations from the Harvard ROTC Association and current ROTC cadets and midshipmen at Harvard, has three primary components:

An extra section will [...]

Last night, I posted about Dartmouth’s pilot energy usage program, which depicts a residence hall’s current energy usage with an animated display of a polar bear. Green Lite Dartmouth passed out energy-efficient light bulbs and power strips at the program’s launch yesterday.  Yesterday, Brown University kicked off a conference on environmental sustainability called Brown [...]

From the Dartmouth College of Public Affairs:

This animated polar bear lets students know how well they’re conserving energy.

The initiative, Green Lite Dartmouth, aims to educate Dartmouth students, through real-time feedback, on how much energy is used, for example, by a hairdryer, a microwave, or a laptop. Green Lite Dartmouth will also serve as a resource for [...]

From Dartlog:
Commencement Speaker announced Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female president of Africa, will be speaking to the graduating class of 2008 on June 8, 2008. Genevieve Haas, of Dartmouth’s Public Affairs Office, writes, “Johnson-Sirleaf, known as Africa’s “Iron Lady,” is a leading promoter of peace, justice and democratic rule. In November 2005, she [...]

From Dartblog:
Last night, Dinesh D’Souza ‘83 returned to campus to debate philosophy professor and well known atheist Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on the question “Can We Be Good without God”. Speaking to about 400 students and community members packed into Alumni Hall, the debate followed a string of exemplary efforts on the part of Mr. D’Souza. Sinnott-Armstrong [...]

From Dartlog:
April 21, 2008
Dear Dartmouth alumnus or alumna,
I am president of the Dartmouth Association of Alumni, an official College organization comprised of all alumni, whose primary responsibility is conducting the elections that determine the association’s nominees for Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees.
Recently you may have received a letter purporting to be from the Association of Alumni. [...]

Yesterday Deroy Murdock spoke at Dartmouth College about discrimination. Not black-white-legal-illegal discrimination, but the act of discrimination itself, a phenomenon he calls a “fact of life.” A surprising perspective, considering Murdock is both black and gay. Here is the crux of Murdock’s remarks, from TheDartmouth.com:
Murdock, who is black and gay, supports the right of American [...]

Now this is what the Ivy League’s all about! Study, study study before midterms and finals–and senior theses–then kick back and wreak havoc the whole rest of the year. Here’s how Dartmouth’s finest are harassing next year’s potential froshies, from IvyGate Blog:
A memo sent from Dartmouth Assistant Director of Admissions to student tour guides:
Date: 04 [...]