Jim Yong Kim named Dartmouth’s 17th College President
Earlier today, the Dartmouth Board of Trustees announced that Harvard professor Jim Yong Kim would ascend the green presidential throne in Hanover. Dr. Kim was the chair of the Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and previously headed up the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department. Winner of a 2003 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, Kim is now the first minority male to hold the office of president at an Ivy League college. He might also have super powers.
The news sent the publishers of Dartblog reeling all the way to the *DELETE POST* button as they had quite impressively announced the presidential pick earlier today. Must've been a bad tip since Dartblog's pick, Jamshed Barucha, definitely did not get the job. Given his budgetary experience as Provost of Tufts, Barucha might've been a smart pick since Kim is already getting criticized for managing only $120 million for the measly WHO rather than something closer to Dartmouth's strapping $700 million operating budget.
Nevertheless, Kim means business. According to his acceptance remarks, he's getting started by mobilizing some global ambition in those earthy little woods-dwellers:
If we teach nothing else at Dartmouth, we must teach our students to find their passion, to aim high… work hard… and settle for nothing less than to transform the world. I know Dartmouth students can achieve anything to which they commit themselves.
Cue the triumphant return of Dartmouth mascot Keggy the Keg. Get the details after the jump.
IvyGate's Everybody's favorite mascot was welcomed back to Dartmouth with a storm of empty solo cups and shaky frat boys. While some might call this providence, it's quite clear that it has everything to do with Jim Yong Kim taking over the big office. With all the talk about virtues and robust-ness, it's clear that everybody's favorite curer of AIDS threw a beer-flavored bone at the students before the election:
Education is not just about transferring knowledge - it's about learning how to be citizens of the world, how to work effectively with others as part of a team, and how to emerge from your studies with an enduring and robust philosophy of life.
Dartmouth is better equipped, perhaps more so than any other school in the nation, to teach these virtues... to help educate well-rounded leaders who can go forth and make the world a better place.
Yes, all that citizen stuff and team work business applies directly to the school's fantastic beer-pong traditions. And when it comes to leadership, we know they build some kick-ass fires up there, and that shit takes planning! So welcome home, Keggy. Keep doing old Dartmouth proud.
And congrats to President Kim, whose wife also had a baby just a couple days ago. You are a pretty impressive family.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
“The news sent the publishers of the Dartlog reeling all the way to the *DELETE POST* button”
First of all, Dartlog and DartBLOG (the blog you linked to) are completely different things. Here, I’ll show you:
http://dartlog.net/
http://www.dartblog.com/
Second (minor qualm), it’s not “the Dartlog [sic],” just as it’s not “the IvyGate.”
Third, and this has nothing to do with IvyGate, The D’s “news analysis” feature appears to be a badly-written joke…just like the D. Since when was any of the current Ivy presidents masters of money-management? I’m sure that Ph.D. in history James Wright had served him well in that arena. Dear D reporter TURIA LAHLOU: THAT’S WHAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS FOR! That’s why you have hedge fund managers, business execs, and the CEO’s of GE and eBay sitting on the board. Learn something. There, I’m done.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Actually, it was dartblog.com that incorrectly predicted the Jamshed Barucha pick. Dartlog.net is the official blog of The Dartmouth Review (www.dartreview.com) and a completely different entity.
Sorry, picky, I know, but those are the two most frequently updated and widely read campus blogs and they’re pretty different; that only one letter distinguishes one from the other was unfortunate/pretty bad planning.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I hope that the 17th president will keep the college small, but increase the graduate programs and strengthen the professional schools.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:51 pm
1. Dartblog sucks.
2. Good choice, Dartmouth.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 am
Even though you sound like a bitter liberal, Dartblog has really gone down the tubes after they all but stopped political analysis (Joe’s post on Belafonte was great). Their updates are rare now, and most of what they do report on doesn’t interest me in the slightest.
The good ol’ days:
http://www.dartblog.com/data/2006/12/006782.php
http://www.dartblog.com/data/2006/12/006769.php
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:13 am
Yeah Dartblog has really gone down the tubes. Zak Moore, if you’re reading this. You suck. Although I didn’t like Malchow personally, he was a damn better writer and kept the blog interesting. Moore, you’ve single handedly killed your readership.
IN other news, an interesting choice for Dartmouth! I hope his time pans out well, and wish him only the best. He almost makes me want to stick around for a little while longer to see how he works out. But alas, I like James Wright, am retiring from this place at the end of Spring.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Dartblog sucks, whether or not you’re liberal or conservative. Malchow is a hack who mangles the English language, and most of his posts are about the latest Hoover Institute fellow from whom he’s gotten an autograph. Also, he was a scumbag during the alumni lawsuit brouhaha.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:43 am
how did you miss that he is Brown ‘82??
March 4th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Because Brown doesn’t matter?
March 4th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Why is he “Dartmouth’s 17th College President” instead of “Dartmouth College’s 17th President”? Does Ivygate think there is a separate undergraduate college within Dartmouth College?
March 5th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Why is the Ivy League so incestuous for selecting its leadership? Oh, that’s right. Because we’re the fucking shit. And self-centered as balls.