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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Saturday, July 27, 2002
Welcome to the Dartmouth Observer. You are probably wondering: who are we and what are we all about? A good question. The Observer was conceived by Chien Wen Kung ’04 and myself a few weeks ago as a publication intended to promote intellectual discourse on the Dartmouth campus from a non-partisan perspective. I deliberately borrowed those words from CW. (Be sure to check out the archives for the debate that has been on going on for two weeks.) This journal is a forum for topics that are only hesitantly discussed in the larger Dartmouth scene. Gender, race, political correctness, identity, poverty, the role of the individual, religion, and the nature and role of the government are all topics that can never exhaust my patience nor in which my interest can be quenched. All those who post here are under no ‘requirements’: Karsten Barde, Anthony Bider-Hall, Laura Dellatorre, Jonathan Eisenman, Alexander Horn, Paul Pope, Vijay Rao can all attest to this. We only ask that what is posted is well written and that you care about the subject. We hope soon that the members of this community will begin to argue with each other more often to help draw out the substance of the things that we debate about. Where else can you find a journal that can easily switch from a discussion of the core curriculum to race to feminism and colonialism? This journal is an important part of the underground Dartmouth community where we discuss the most important aspects of our lives and beliefs openly and forthrightly without glossing over the differences that divide us nor the ending the common love of truth that unite us. This underground community will help reclaim the original meaning of the word ‘university’ which is a conflation of two words: ‘unity’ and ‘diversity.’ Notice both at play in our work. Therefore, I pray that you, the reader, if you are not already a part of our community will join us, engage the debate and take your place in the larger Western discourse which began with Socrates. |