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As Dartmouth's outgoing president, World Bank Group President-Elect Jim Yong Kim stressed the importance of interdisciplinary research. The need for students to engage with the rest of the world. To push beyond their comfort zone.
It's not for a group to decide what happens next, it is up to individual students to find their own values and discover the wisdom that comes from standing up for themselves and those values. They must find their true vox and give others the respect and space to find their own as well.
There is much in the recent Rolling Stone hazing exposé that I find to be true. In particular, I am struck by the author's musing that a student might die one day as a result of hazing. His sentiment gave me pause. Because I was very nearly that death.
As a tourist in Lhasa 24 years ago, Blake Kerr witnessed Chinese soldiers and police massacring unarmed Tibetans, inspiring him to begin documenting the underside of China's military occupation of Tibet.
I've lived in San Francisco since I was two but I'm embarrassed to say the number of foggy days that occur each year still baffles me.
SAN BRUNO/HANOVER/PALO ALTO -- YouTube, which has recently introduced its live streaming platform, will stream its first live commencement from Da...
It is crucial to give credit where credit is due for colleges that uphold freedom of speech, so here is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's list.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway remarks, "You can't repeat the past." To which Jay Gatsby replied, "You can't repeat the past? Why of course, you can."
Because the standards have changed, millions have people have gone on medication for life. Shouldn't we applaud this as a wise and cautious policy? Maybe not. As the authors of Overdiagnosed point out, the milder the condition the less benefit you are likely to receive from treatment.
Now it can be told. The victory of IBM's Watson computer on Jeopardy! over two human opponents is part of Murray Hill Inc.'s master plan to remove the pesky human interface from as much of public life as possible.
I feel that we should immediately begin discussion and planning to lower the legal voting age in the United States to either 16- or 17-years-old.
What do the disasters of George W. Bush, the Wall Street melt-down, and the poison of the Tea Party all have in common? Politicos and their puppet ma...
Last week I sat down for an interview in my backyard in Brooklyn with Brendan O'Neill, editor of the British online magazine spiked. Brendan has been ...
Is there really waste in American medical care? Yes, Virginia, there really is waste in American medical care.
Reporting that Main Street was complicit in the financial meltdown is like blaming a murder victim for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We need a more careful examination of how our most prestigious institutions of higher learning spend their money, and we need to motivate them to move away from their risky investment models.
