Timothy Geithner, who looks to be the next US Secretary of the Treasury and is currently running the NY Federal Reserve, was a year ahead of me at Dartmouth...there's a chance we took Money & Banking the same term, though obviously he's making much better use of it.
So, I am definitely in the running for the title of "least successful Dartmouth grad ever"...go team!
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maybe if you went to a school with a better nickname people would keep track of you. but for secretary of treasury - BIG GREEN!
We used to be the Indians, but people got upset.
Besides green is cool now.
Stanford also used to be the Indians. They became the Cardinal (singular, the color not the bird). What is this movement away from racially offensive names to colors? And why do pro sports apparently not have to deal with this? What's sacred about the name of a baseball team?
Well, we had actual native americans on campus who, for some reason, objected to the idea of a drunken guy in a mohawk out on the ice at hockey games. There were also very old songs about the college founder providing barrels of rum to the locals and causing all kinds of mayhem. It was insensitive, ya know? Colleges care about offending people. Perhaps Major League owners do not? Anyway, I think the Atlanta Braves have run into some flak about the chopping thing a year or two back.
Yeah, but the Braves still have Chief Homarunna or whatever his name is. And if there's anything dumber in sports than a stadium full of people doing the Tomahawk Chop I've yet to see it. It's offensive in its stupidity alone, then you throw racism into the mix.
Ah well, it turns out I'm offended by many things but used to most of them.
I went to Dartmouth after they'd booted the Indian, but a lot of the old guys were still pissed about it and wore those indian ties.
They're weren't crazy about women there, either, but whatever.
It's even better going to a (very good) Canadian school, because then no Americans have heard of it or think it's any good.
I don't think too many of my music friends are as interested in this as I am, but on the off chance, I found a really interesting article at the New Republic about how Summers and Geithner will likely work together in the new administration:
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/22/why-the-geithner-pick-is-even-better-than-you-think.aspx
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