Opinion
Editorial: Response to campus protests only adds fuel to the fire
It’s far too soon to tell what the ultimate effect will be of the demonstrations that have roiled college campuses this spring, including those at Dartmouth, the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont. But we hazard an educated...
Column: The value of meeting new and different people
By NARAIN BATRA
In the fall, Dartmouth College will bring to its campus a student body of 1209 young strangers, men, women, genderqueer/nonbinary/trans, including first-generation college-goers, international students, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native...
A Solitary Walker: Rich woods, handsome plants and forest succession
By MICKI COLBECK
The two little brown dogs and I crossed over our river, the West Branch of the Ompompanoosuc, a couple of weeks ago for a hike up into the rich woods nearby. We headed uphill to the fir swamp where my favorite liverwort— handsome woolywort grows. How...
Forum for May 18, 2024: Hanover’s Gaza resolution
Hanover’s Gaza resolution is ‘abuse of local government’I am dismayed by the outcome of the recent Hanover Town Meeting. Not because I opposed the resolution demanding an end to military aid to Israel; I was appalled that we were voting on it in the...
A Yankee Notebook: Old stones and new vitality in a European city
By WILLEM LANGE
Tom’s Taxi, of Lynn, Massachusetts, has been faithful as the sun for us. If you tell them that one of you uses a cane, they usually send a van. Which I do, and which they did. About half an hour later we pulled up in front of Portugal Airlines, paid...
Forum for May 17, 2024: Presidential debates
Two cheers for debatesI was somewhat encouraged when I heard the news that CNN has invited Biden and Trump to have a debate next month and that the candidates apparently have agreed that there will be no audience in attendance. When I wrote a previous...
Column: Let’s send to Congress someone who knows New Hampshire people
By POLLY CAMPION, SUE FORD and DEBORAH REYNOLDS
As we head into campaign season, and with U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster’s retirement this fall, New Hampshire’s second congressional district will be an open seat race for the first time in over a decade. As voters, let’s begin this race with a promise to...
Forum for May 16, 2024: Free speech at Dartmouth
Dartmouth should back free speechI am writing in support of the Dartmouth students, faculty, staff and community members who have been exercising their first amendment rights to speak out against genocide in Palestine. The Dartmouth administration was...
Forum for May 15, 2024: Silence at Dartmouth
Silence at DartmouthI find it unfortunate that Dartmouth “postponed” a visiting lecturer, Dr Alice Rothchild, who had been invited to campus by college faculty and Geisel medical faculty. She was to give a talk later this month about “Maternal-child...
Forum for May 14, 2024: Dartmouth astray
Dartmouth goes astrayI am a retired Dartmouth faculty member, and I am bewildered by how a group of current faculty can support the sort of uncontrolled use of force exhibited by the Hanover and State police following President Beilock’s summons.In my...
Forum for May 13, 2024: John Kemeny’s war
John Kemeny’s warMay 1 marked the 60th anniversary of John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz inventing the computer programming language BASIC at Dartmouth. This represented a huge breakthrough in the democratization of programming, sending it global and leading...
Editorial: Hartford is right to give banners due consideration
Some supporters of the Hometown Heroes project seem exasperated that the Hartford Selectboard wants to have a policy in place to regulate display of banners in town before deciding on their application. We think that to the contrary, if any sign...
Column: Protests highlight the need for humanities education at Dartmouth
By JAMES HEFFERNAN
The dust is already settling. Including the Hanover Police Department and President Beilock, virtually everyone now agrees that all of the people who demonstrated on the Dartmouth Green the night of May 1 were peaceful and that riot police should...
Forum for May 11, 2024: Trade rules for the climate
Trade rules can improve climateA recent article (“China manufactures too much”; April 27) raises important concerns regarding global trade imbalances. However, more needs to be said on how global trade could be used to address climate change.Last...
Column: Calling police to campus is always a tough decision
By WAYNE GERSEN
As a retired public-school administrator I have tremendous empathy for Dartmouth College President Sian Beilock. Throughout my career I faced many contentious and complex decisions that I knew would be popular with some constituent groups but...
Column: Spring renews a cherished pastime
By MARY OTTO
Books fall open You fall inDelighted where You’ve never been.D McCord, Norwich Bookstore complimentary bookmarkIt’s spring in Vermont. Maple trees are red, robins have returned and my neighbor has planted peas. Trout lilies and trillium bloom along...
Forum for May 10, 2024: Dartmouth’s protests
Beilock’s actions sowed divisionDartmouth students, protesting the ongoing war crimes in Gaza, built a small encampment on a corner of the Dartmouth green. This encampment irritated the college president. She called in a state police tactical unit...
A Yankee Notebook: Spectating at spring’s arrival
By WILLEM LANGE
This is written in the last days of April. From my office window, the yard and the field and the woods beyond seem to be catching their breath before tackling what’s always come next. Out back, the air on this sunny day is alive with birdsong. So far...
Forum for May 8, 2024: Dartmouth protests
Dartmouth rejects its protest historyAs a member of Dartmouth College’s class of 1977, I was shocked and disappointed to hear about the arrests of 90 students and community members, including two professors, the evening of May 1 in a violent action by...
Forum for May 7, 2024: Pregnancy an inconvenience?
A brief inconvenience?Recently, I spoke with my local state representative about her anti-abortion views, and that conversation made it even clearer to me that many of our current politicians fail to see the long term impacts of their actions. One...
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