The D Headlines

Unable to shake up the standings on the last day of the NCAA Championships, the Dartmouth ski team produced a fifth-place finish.

If you're sitting in a movie theater and see a charming Coca-Cola commercial, take pride -- it was produced by a Dartmouth alumna.

A group of alumni led by B.V. Brooks '47 is planning to file an appeal with the New Hampshire Supreme Court that seeks to reverse the January dismissal of the group's lawsuit against the College Board of Trustees by the Grafton County Superior Court, according to the group's lawyer, Eugene Van Loan.

JoeVsDartmouth.com -- which billed itself as a web site founded by Dartmouth alumni against the petition candidacy of Joe Asch '79 for the Board of Trustees -- was taken down Saturday evening. Christopher Allen '07, the chief technical officer for the shared campaign between Alumni Council-nominated candidates for the Board of Trustees -- John Replogle '88 and Morton Kondracke '60 -- created the site, according to his user profile on Blogger.com, which also cites him as the creator of the campaign web sites of Replogle and Kondracke.

To the Editor: A recent posting by Joseph Asch ’79 on Dartblog seems to suggest that a statement attributed to me in The Dartmouth ("Trustee candidates speak at alumni event,” March 10) was an endorsement of Mr. Asch's candidacy for alumni trustee. I would like to address this issue for the sake of clarity. I do not — either directly or indirectly — endorse Mr. Asch's candidacy, nor did I encourage him to run.

Here are the best of the rest of the overheards from 10W. Because it’s finals week. Because you’re probably in the library and need a distraction. Because we say too many stupid things to print each week. Because The Mirror loves you. Let’s hang once you leave the library.

The College alumni body demonstrated its greatest first day participation in elections for the two available seats on the Board of Trustees and the executive board of the Association of Alumni elections on record, according to Lynne Gaudet '81, the director of alumni leadership in the College's Office of Alumni Relations.

In an event in Minneapolis, Minn., March 9, Alumni Council-nominated candidates John Replogle ’88 and Morton Kondracke ’60 and petition candidate Joe Asch ’79 met to debate a variety of campaign issues, the candidates said in interviews with The Dartmouth. The event was attended by more than 50 alumni, Replogle and Kondracke said.

Doris “Granny D” Haddock, a noted political activist and one-time candidate for a New Hampshire senate seat, died on March 9 in her home due to complications of chronic respiratory illness, according to family friend Maude Salinger. Haddock was 100 years old.

While Board of Trustees petition candidate Joe Asch ’79 has contended that the professional background of his opponent — the Alumni Council-nominated John Replogle ’88 — would not benefit the Board, Asch has been repeatedly reticent to fully disclose his own professional experience.

The Hanover Select Board conducted a final review of the proposed town budget during the Select Board’s meeting on Monday night. At the meeting, Select Board members voted to impose funding cuts on the Hanover Police Department, including reductions in overtime pay for patrol officers, as one of several measures approved for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

The state Senate Commerce, Labor and Consumer Protection Committee approved a bill on Thursday that would create a three-member commission to oversee hospital rates in the state, a move that hospitals including Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have said they oppose. The commission, if established, would recommend how much New Hampshire hospitals should charge for medical services, state Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

After spending almost two years questioning, criticizing and even bashing U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ’83 for his controversial handling of the country’s economy, many national media outlets are recently having a change of heart.

Stanford University’s Faculty Senate decided last week to create a committee to evaluate reinstating the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program on campus, according to a March 4 press release from the University. Stanford ended its various ROTC programs in the 1970s over concerns about the academic standards of courses taught by military instructors and a provision that students could be drafted upon withdrawal from the program, according to the release. There was also opposition to the program from students and faculty who opposed the Vietnam War. Stanford currently maintains cross-enrollment agreements with three nearby universities that allow Stanford students to receive military training at other institutions. The committee was formed in light of the expected repeal of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy within the next few years, according to the release.

On Thursday Feb. 25, the group responsible for the Generic Good Morning Message — famous for its racist joke last year about College President Jim Yong Kim (“E-mail on Kim stirs controversy,” Mar. 5, 2009) — sent one containing an offensive and disrespectful joke parodying Christianity and Jesus Christ.

Last week I saw something strange while waiting for my morning omelette at Collis Cafe. After the lady asked the obligatory “egg-white or regular?” the student in front of me answered that he wanted half of each.

**Correction Appended* Competing in their final tournament of the season, seven Dartmouth squash players participated in the 2010 College Squash Association Individual Championships over the weekend. On the women’s side, Corey Schafer ’13 advanced to the quarterfinals in the Holleran division while Robbie Maycock ’13 of the Big Green men’s squad played into the round of 16 in the Molloy Division.

On Feb. 28, Bari Wien ’10 ran the Mardi Gras New Orleans half marathon with her sister’s picture stitched on the back of her shirt. When Wien was only eight years old, her then 13-month-old sister Kasey was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. After years of chemotherapy, Kasey is now 14-years-old and thriving.

English Professor Donald Pease’s new book “Theodor SEUSS Geisel” relates Geisel’s work under the name Dr. Seuss to many of his experiences at Dartmouth. Pease’s book was published on March 2, the birthday of Geisel, a member of the Class of 1925.

“Shadow Tag” — the latest novel by award-winning Native American author Louise Erdrich ’76 — traces the story of a crumbling relationship behind a picture-perfect facade. In typical Erdrich fashion, the prose is beautifully tragic, depicting the demise of a marriage and family with a masterful combination of stark realism and grace. The result of such contradictory forces — of beautiful language depicting the supremely ugly, from marital enmity to depression to child abuse — is a mounting tension that pervades the entire work.