Preserving What Matters
To the Editor:
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To the Editor:
Why did I ask Ehud Barak, "What is peace?" I asked Mr. Barak what is peace because I believe it is the one question that is not being asked. Instead of focusing on a broader vision of what a peaceful settlement might be, what it would look like, Israel, Palestine and the rest of the world are trapped in a quagmire of immediate political concerns. I did not expect Mr. Barak to answer my question. Nor would I expect Mr. Arafat to provide us with some vision of what it would mean to live at peace with Israel. The problem is that neither Mr. Barak nor Mr. Arafat nor Mr. Sharon has stopped to consider what peace is and what peace would mean. Israel, Palestine, the United States and the international community are caught in political concerns that conceal the obvious path to security for Israel and Palestine. We must realize that Sept. 11 was only the beginning. We can no longer afford to split our world into east and west. We can no longer afford not to ask what is peace.
Why is there such a wide gulf between the administration and the students? Why are some Dartmouth students apathetic? Why are decisions made without effective communication? Are we too busy and to see the connection between political will and personal happiness? Perhaps we do see this connection but we are simply too fed up and frustrated with arbitrary authority? The first proposition places blame on the citizens for not making their interests known. The second theory places blame on authority for not acting according to the interests of the community.
Books are caskets, vainly walled against decomposing time: knowledge eternally embalmed.
"On New-Years eve, the year was [seven-teen] eighty-nine, All clad in black, a Dartmouth college crew with crow-bar, sledge, and pick ax did combine to level with the dust their antique hall, In hopes the president would build a new..."
Totally deaf and blind at age two, Helen Keller(1880-1968) led a life of determination and wonder. Touch, smell and taste were her only guides in a world of complete darkness and silence. Her teacher, Ann Sullivan, taught Helen how to communicate by spelling out signs into Helen's hand. Helen began to understand these signs as words. With very keen intelligence and remarkable imagination, Helen soon mastered every nuance of communication, every word, both concrete and abstract. She learned to speak by putting her hand up to Mrs. Sullivan's mouth and throat and imitating the vibrations. After spending several years at institutes for the blind, she was admitted into Radcliffe College and graduated cum laude in 1904.
With its majestic Corinthian columnar entrance, the Rauner Special Collections Library seems more like a temple than a repository for old books. Inside there is abundant light. White, crisp and confident, classical lines and ornaments adorn the ceiling coffers, the balustrade of mini columns, and the four massive Corinthian pilasters, which together frame an almost improbably vast and clear space. The 1965 galleries on both sides of this space allow a privileged view onto the Baker Lawn and Rollins Chapel. At the heart of Rauner are the stacks: a four-storied crystal palace of memory, filled with the most venerable and valuable books. The Hickmott Collection, for example, with original editons of the works of Shakespeare, may be worth more than the combined value all the books in the Dartmouth Book Store, store included!