<p>.....to be announced today at 2:00</p>
<p>Ooooo! Thank you!!</p>
<p>Bobby Jindal for big D Prez 2009!</p>
<p>He is a Dr. Kim-first Asian American president of an Ivy; an anthroplogist and MD who is at Harvard-very impressive man-graduate of Brown.</p>
<p>I'm listening to him now. He seems awesome. I think the place is in good hands.</p>
<p>very solid hire.
now...how does he feel about football?</p>
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now...how does he feel about football?
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He was quarterback of his high school football team.</p>
<p>I'm excited for this</p>
<p>I was mostly tongue-n-cheek but thats AWESOME.</p>
<p>Born in Seoul, Korea in 1959, Jim Yong Kim moved with his family to the U.S. at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father, a dentist, also taught at the University of Iowa, where his mother received her Ph.D. in philosophy. Kim attended Muscatine High School, where he was valedictorian and president of his class and played quarterback for the football team. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Brown University in 1982. He was awarded an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, in 1993. He is actively involved in a variety of sports including basketball, volleyball, tennis and golf.</p>
<p>Very nice first speech. He seemed to reach out to everyone in an upbeat positive way. I was of the firm belief that we needed an alum as president and that Harvard was the last place to go (after the disaster that was Freedman), but this speech was most encouraging to listen to. We will see.</p>
<p>And his second son was just born last Friday night!! How human is that! (I wonder how old his wife is, to be new mama. He's 49.)</p>
<p>His position in world health organizations is very impressive. I watched the ceremony and he is an impressive choice:</p>
<p>In 2003, he received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant,[2], was named one of America's 25 Best Leaders by US News & World Report in 2005, and in 2006 he was listed as one of the top 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.[3]</p>
<p>I personally love the fact that he was a quarterback of his high school football team his senior year and they lost every single game that year!</p>
<p>Does anybody know if his speech was online? I missed it and I'm so upset!</p>
<p>Also, I'm happy that he set up a blitz account so that students can start corresponding with him. <a href="mailto:president-elect@Dartmouth.edu">president-elect@Dartmouth.edu</a></p>
<p>"...Finally, the new president seems charismatic, thoughtful--a man who has devoted himself to causes that transcend merely advancing in the administrative bureaucracy. </p>
<p>These are all good things. Maybe my expectations were low, but I think the Presidential Search Committee might have gotten it right."</p>
<p>blog post by the Editor-in-Chief of the Review</p>
<p>Feeling hopeful too. Have long admired this man and now that I hear his speech I am very encouraged. An inspired choice.</p>
<p>Quote from Dr. Kim:
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Indeed, I'm looking forward to working with all of you in the years to come to preserve and strengthen what makes Dartmouth so special . . . to ensure that our College is appreciated and its influence felt ever more widely in the world . . . and to secure its future in a rapidly changing global landscape. These will be my top priorities as the President and Chief Advocacy Officer of Dartmouth College.
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Hopefully, he can raise the profile of Dartmouth globally. Dartmouth is the best undergraduate school IMO, but is consistently ranked at the bottom of the Ivy League in many internatonal rankings.</p>
<p>raise the profile of dartmouth?
is that something that is necessary?
i like having it be my little secret. i don't need to feel validation from people telling me what a great school i went to.
and at what cost?
despite solid qualities of our institution, Hanover is not a cultural hotbed that many top young researchers would like to choose. the teaching load is something that many research-centric geniuses would also like to avoid. we won't be on Harvard's level as a research institution. i doubt we will even be on penn or northwestern's level.
you can't have everything. if it were that easy, we would have done it decades ago.
but we made a choice. to be a college among the universities. i feel that we are too out of touch with that heritage</p>
<p>it is a small college, but there are those who love it
webster wasn't referring just to the size of the student body, but the nature and the character of the institution as well.</p>
<p>^Interesting take</p>
<p>I didn't choose dartmouth because it was the best school I got into.
I chose Dartmouth for everything it was. And everything it wasn't. And I have not regretted the decision for one moment. (Actually, once my junior year, when I realized that the course offerings in my major were so slim, b/c even the most popular dept at D was so small, that I actually had to change the major focus).
I mean there are two sides to every story. It is their (the ones that want "raised profile") school as much as it is mine. Forgive me for being selfish. I want it to remain what it is. I really would have no problem if we dropped out of USNews top 30 because all the other schools sold out for prestige while we didn't.
We fought to keep Dartmouth small, private, and lib artsy. We fought to keep the College name. This is the tradition we claim to take pride in. </p>
<p>Dear old Dartmouth, set a watch
Lest the old traditions fail.</p>