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(11/13/96 11:00am)
Several columnists have turned their attention to the issue of intellectualism on campus. Claims have been made that Dartmouth students lack an interest in ideas and issues beyond the realm of everyday life. To a certain extent these claims are justified.
(10/16/96 9:00am)
It is not the absence of desire, as Buddha suggests, that leads to happiness. Rather, it is the presence of desires that we try to satisfy that makes us happy. A person who wants nothing out of life is utterly bored with it; and a person who has desires that cannot be satisfied is frustrated. The happy person is the one who has a lot of desires that can be satisfied.
(08/08/96 9:00am)
An academic honor code that all Dartmouth students would abide by and protect is a most noble and idealistic concept. And like most noble and idealistic concepts, it isn't much more than that. Most people are well aware that the trust placed by the community on students is frequently breached without much importance being attached to the action. And yet we hesitate to refer to these incidents in public because we would like to hold on to that beautiful notion of a body of students abiding by a set of principles even when the threat of dishonest acts being exposed is largely absent.
(07/15/96 9:00am)
Halfway through my college career, a question pops up in my mind and refuses to be satisfied with answers that once seemed satisfactory. Why exactly do human beings spend four years and a substantial amount of money to go to this institution referred to as a college, where they proceed to engage in something that on the surface is neither the most pleasurable activity available nor the most useful?
(06/27/96 9:00am)
Sophomore summer is here. It seems the College has done all it can to make this summer which I'm going to spend improving the mind in Baker instead of surfing in Hawaii as pleasant as possible. First, at the close of spring term, ORL evicted me from my pleasant little room in the Choates. (It was becoming almost like home to me, my having spent two-nineteenths of my life there).
(05/23/96 9:00am)
The Dartmouth Review recently conducted an exhaustive, scientific study concerning what Dartmouth students know and don't know. The questionnaire, which gave absolutely no indication of having anything to do with the Dartmouth Review except for its being almost identical to the one they thought of last year, posed a wide variety of questions encompassing quite diverse fields of study.
(03/25/96 11:00am)
At Dartmouth, intellectualism comes cheap: $60 a term to be precise. Now, I'm not averse to the idea of paying $60 for the company of great thinkers and scholars. But I can't help but wonder what really induced administration to levy that tax. Maybe:
(02/08/96 11:00am)
The rally on Friday protesting recent incidents of intolerance and insensitivity has elicited both approbation and criticism from diverse quarters. As for myself, had all of this occurred last year when I was an idealistic freshman, I would have criticized it. But it has occurred this year; and I, as a sophomore who has come of age, endorse it with resignation.
(02/01/96 11:00am)
Daniel Hogins, in a column that appeared last week, claimed that the College should stop trying to promote intellectualism at Dartmouth. The reason he cited was that Dartmouth students simply do not have the inclination to engage in intellectual discussion while engaged in the nobler pursuit of imbibing beer in fraternity basements. Mr. Hogins felt the College would not be able to force intellectualism down the throat of unwilling students.
(01/16/96 11:00am)
Living at Dartmouth has become a lot like living in hotels. We stay in some room in some dorm somewhere on campus and have no idea who our neighbors are. And there isn't much point in getting to know them either -- they are not to be going to be around for long. For that matter, neither are you. You are off next term, and in Spain the term after that. Dartmouth society has become too dynamic because of the mobility created by the D-Plan as well as by the lack of affinity to any particular geographic location on campus. I will refrain from saying anything about ending the D-Plan because enough has been said about it. Instead, I will concentrate on the need for undergraduate houses.
(11/21/95 11:00am)
Whenever I talk to someone about a Dartmouth Film Society movie in the "Sex in the Cinema" series, there is an attempt to divide it up into erotica or pornography. Supporters claim that the movie was erotica, while those who are opposed to the screening of the movie dismiss it as mere pornography. The way in which the two words are used to justify or dismiss something that we like or dislike is symptomatic of a hypocritical society. It usually turns out that the person using these words to mean different things has little idea of how exactly they differ.
(11/09/95 11:00am)
The turnout at the Masters-D'Souza debate indicates how important the issue of racism is to most people. It was a good sign. People care, and so we can progress toward the goal of a racially indifferent society. The Masters-D'Souza debate was an important milestone on that road to a racially indifferent society. It was a very illuminating experience for me to hear two people talk about their views on how to eradicate racial differences -- a goal both agreed on.
(10/27/95 10:00am)
The only restriction that a government should place on its citizens is one that prevents one individual from suppressing the freedom of another. That is the spirit of democracy. Yet America, the gem of all democracies, is becoming a society increasingly riddled by restrictions, many of which reflect the moral values of a section of society. The following are four examples of what constitute unnecessary restriction of our freedom. In all of these cases, the main aim of the lawmaker appears to be the upholding of a moral value rather than the protection of citizens.
(10/11/95 10:00am)
The September issue of "The Beacon" contained an article that lamented the unfortunate state of race relations at Dartmouth. The article, though flawed in some respects, contained an accurate observation: People of similar skin color tend to hang out together at Dartmouth. However, this phenomenon does not stem from racial bias and is not confined to race relations. It is a symptom of a much more deeply rooted problem.