Toward a Truly Intelligent Community
by Allen J. Fromherz

Even as we learn about the meaning of diversity, dialogue, and acceptance of divergent views in the classroom, we do not always implement those concepts into our immediate social surroundings. For some Dartmouth students, social life at Dartmouth is defined as anti-academic, a time to escape the academic, a time to "escape" the demands of intelligence, a time to "retreat" from a multidimensional to a unidimensional world. Why is there this need to retreat? What explains our ability to have an intelligent vision for Dartmouth but not necessarily live that vision?...[READ MORE]