Opinion
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...
Forum for May 6, 2024: Darmouth’s climate plan
Dartmouth’s big green planOn Earth Day, President Sian Beilock announced the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative — an approach to addressing climate change that integrates “academic enterprise, campus operations, and community engagement.” Over the next...
Forum for May 4, 2024: A daughter’s grace
The meaning of graceI’m writing to thank you for publishing a recent article related to the murders of Susanne and Half Zantop (“Victims’ daughter responds with grace”; April 19). This article by John Lippman moved me deeply by its recognition of...
The tragedy of evangelical anti-feminism
By RANDALL BALMER
I wish I could say that the death of Beverly LaHaye on April 14 signaled the end of an era, but I’m afraid that’s not the case.Please understand that I’m not reveling in her demise (or anyone else’s), but she together with antifeminist Phyllis...
Column: Act 76 is transforming child care in Vermont
By SITHEMBISO MUHLAURI and TAMMIE AB HAZLETT
Last year, we came together as child care program owners and early childhood educators from around Vermont to sound the alarm on the dire state of Vermont’s child care system. Pandemic-era federal funding was running out, and we were facing the...
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...
Forum for May 3, 2024: Newport senior housing
Approve Newport senior housingNewport has an opportunity to provide desperately needed housing for our senior citizens at a reasonable rent (“Zoning board delays senior housing vote”; April 22). The housing would be designed with seniors in mind and...
Forum for May 2, 2024: Sununu and ‘reality TV’
Sununu and ‘reality TV’After enthusiastically endorsing the odious warmonger, Nikki Haley, Chris Sununu now apparently refers to the charges against Donald Trump as “reality TV.”I wouldn’t stop there. I’d call them show trials. They’re persecutions of...
Forum for May 1, 2024: Sununu’s choice
No respect for SununuOn April 14, on the ABC This Week television show, Gov. Chris Sununu expressly endorsed Trump, as follows:“Just to sum up,” Stephanopoulos said, “You support (Trump) for president even if he’s convicted in (the) classified...
A Yankee Notebook: Old age and the way the world moves on
By WILLEM LANGE
The dying day breeze stirs only the treetops, and an evening stillness descends upon the woods. I sit on a bench in the park, as quiet myself as our surroundings. Kiki, restless as ever, alternates between the bench and my lap and short sniffing...
Forum for April 30, 2024: Briggs Opera House
How the Briggs Opera House worksA recent Art Notes (“JAG regroups with theater series”; April 18) presented mistaken information about the Briggs Opera House and its availability to community users in recent years. Until 2021, the owner (Gates-Briggs...
