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priya venkatesan
Welcome to Northwestern, Student-Suing Prof!
Former Dartmouth lecturer Priya Venkatesan, the woman who threatened to sue her students for being mean to her and not caring about post-modernism, is now a research associate at Northwestern. She'll definitely end up with plenty of material for her forthcoming book at NU, especially because the blog College On the Record has already published her email address and invited students to harass her. Venkatesan declined to speak with the Wall Street Journal when they wrote that terrible op-ed about the situation, saying she'd said all she needed to say to The Dartmouth Review (and boy, did she). And today, the Harvard Crimson weighed in! More »
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By PareeneComment by Northwestern: true. an example of how we evaluate some of our professors: [media.www.dailynorthwestern.com] more » | Other threads
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pompous tools
Student-Suing Professor Roundly Disliked
Now it's official: everyone involved in any capacity with the Priya Venkatesan affiar annoys the hell out of us. To recap, Ms. Venkatesan was a Dartmouth lecturer who decided to sue her students for harassment or something because they heckled her. She is clearly a pompous tool. Her students are also probably pompous tools. Now a pompous tool who writes for the Wall Steet Journal editorial page weighs in with an indictment against academia. Joseph Rago attended Dartmouth, you see, though he totally didn't like it very much and didn't even try very hard in his classes. Because of post-modernism. Writing papers for lit classes is just like "filling in Mad Libs," he explains. Writing indictments of academia for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, on the other hand, is more like Pictionary. After the jump: amusing student reviews of Venkatesan's class from an internal Dartmouth page. The kids didn't really like her!
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By PareeneComment by quinticire: If she gets fired, she'll scream post-feminism or post-racism. more » | Other threads
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cheap shots
Dartmouth's Dearth of Dictionaries
Dartmouth Dean of First-Year students Gail M. Zimmerman, in an email to students threatened with a lawsuit by Priya Venkatesan:Questions arose as to our ability to block Prof. Venkatesan's emails. Whether that ability exists or not, it would not likely stop her emails from reaching your inbox given the dearth and ready availability of other free email systems such as hotmail, gmail, and yahoo.
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priya venkatesan
Ivy League Lawsuit Update
In case you hadn't heard, Dartmouth lecturer Priya Venkatesan has dropped the discrimination lawsuit she inexplicably filed against her former students. Hopefully it'll still all end up in the book! (Complete with thinly-veiled Gawker, if we're lucky.) Venkatesan is now a research assistant at Northwestern, btw. [Dartlog]
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By PareeneComment by mrtrailsafety: You mean this isn't a 'performance' art piece, like Ms Shvarts'? I saw the blood, vaseline...no disrespects. more » | Other threads
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lawsuits
Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her
A Dartmouth lecturer is suing her class for discrimination, as she revealed in a series of regrettable and bizarre emails that promptly ended up all over Dartmouth blogs. Priya Venkatesan (Dartmouth '90, MS in Genetics, PhD in literature) emailed members of her Winter '08 Writing 5 class Saturday night to announce her intention to seek damages from them for their being mean to her. The email, and so, so much more, below:
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By PareeneComment by AdjunctingSucks: Amazing. She has a PhD in English, yet keeps revising her revised emails in order to revise how much she... more » | Other threads
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social networks
Facebook chat beta required a 1500 SAT score, or at least a legacy
Facebook Chat launched in beta earlier this week, available first to students at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Berkeley, Brown, Dartmouth and MIT— schools known for their brilliant graduates who go out and change the world. Or at least make a lot of money. Or write nasty things about the people who do. Also: Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Berkeley, Brown, Dartmouth and MIT were the first schools to make Facebook popular, having been the first networks allowed access Mark Zuckerberg's creation. So we have that to thank them for too. Harvard's Alexander Konrad begins to earn our forgiveness, panning the new feature in the Crimson.
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Comment by sget88: I'm from NYU, and I saw the feature come live at 4-5AM on Sunday. Basically the early Facebook schools (those... more » | Other threads
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charts & graphs
Which Ivy Is Booziest?
We all know those distinguished students of Ivy League colleges aren't having any sex, just writing about it constantly, but are they partying? Yes. Yes they are, according to this chart created by Dartblog. At least they are at Dartmouth, which is miles ahead of the other schools in terms of alcohol infractions per thousand students. Which actually probably means that the Dartmouth administration is just way, way more dickish about it than the rest of the graphed colleges. [Dartblog via IvyGate]
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By PareeneComment by The Warrior-Poet: @CollegeCallGirl: Congrats, CCG, Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, employs your logic to explain why it reported 286.6 liquor... more » | Other threads
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ivy league
Ivy Leaguer Shocked By Likely Future As Burger Flipper
Oh my God, guess what? An Ivy League education may not be the key to success, riches and true happiness after all! Recent Dartmouth grad Jennifer Krimm's Sunday piece in the Washington Post has earned her IvyGate's totally righteous ire. Kentucky public school kid Krimm is an Arabic-speaking Fulbright scholar and former White House intern, and she's pissed that all that resume-packing and bootstrapping hasn't landed her an appropriately impressive job. How dare America do this to her? More »
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By MaggieComment by filthygorgeous: @TONYWONDER: HAHA. That's amazing. You were turned down because someone had a higher degree than you? It's... more » | Other threads
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Dartmouth's Anonymous Website Is Even Less Articulate Than Oberlin's
A reader informs us that "those granola-eaters over in Ohio aren't the only ones to revel in the frivolous thrills of posting on an anonymous website. Dartmouth has the same thing: BoredAtBaker.com (Baker is the library on campus)." Maybe they are smarter than the Oberlin kids? More » -
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Apple is, once again, big man on campus
Apparently college kids are warming up to Macs again. While Apple's share of the overall computer market is about 5.6 percent, lots of students are picking up Mac notebooks. 40 percent of Princeton students have Macs, up from 10 percent four years ago. 55 percent of Dartmouth freshmen are using them, up from 30 percent two years ago. The study also mentions that The University of Virginia and Cornell are seeing upticks in student Mac users. This is a complete turnabout from the situation a decade ago, when Yale told incoming freshmen not to buy a Mac. Why the dramatic comeback? More »
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Comment by ccalder: The story behind the photo is that it comes from the University of Missouri J-School. A Dell may be fine... more » | Other threads
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alice mathias
Get To Know Alice Mathias
Alice Mathias, the Dartmouth senior who's blogging for the NYT, has a very interesting resum , especially for someone so young! Did you know that she won a research grant from Dartmouth for a project called "Neighbors of the Animal House: A Screenplay About the 'Girls Next Door'"? And her dad also went to Dartmouth, which is really sweet. She also wrote a bunch of columns ("Alice Unchained") for the Dartmouth paper before, come November, she didn't anymore. Let's take a gander. More »
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Comment by mef212: It's amazing how stereotypes can make their way into seemingly smart people such as the poster's above. The point of... more » | Other threads
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new york times
Dartmouth Gal To Not Spurn Well-Paid Future
If you have no Times Select, you may not have noticed a new Times blog called "The Graduates." It's written by a bunch of college seniors who are all columnists or editors at their schools' newspapers. And, whoa, they're totally nervous about the future! Haven't these people ever seen Kicking and Screaming? There's this one chick from Dartmouth, Alice Mathias? She's written a lot of words about—well, we're not totally sure. Fuck corporate America! Hurricane Katrina! Iraq! Confusion! She seems torn about what to do after college, since most of her Dartmouth friends are going to be "crunching numbers at places like J.P. Bored-Again, Bored-Again Stanley, Merrill Lynching, Deutsche Bag, or Lame-Man Brothers. The other option is to do consulting at Bane." Those names sound funny, don't they? Well! "Note: these are fake names. Real names have been withheld to ward off any more competition for my well-paying job." More »
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Media Bubble: Air America Going Off the Air, Again
• Today in articles we feel like we keep reading: Air America set to lose NYC affiliate. [Mediaweek] More »
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