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(10/31/95 11:00am)
When I was younger, my father and granfather took me fishing in a forest that was filled with tall evergreen trees, oaks and maples, rolling hills, streams, lakes and deer. There are supposed to be bears in this forest, but we never saw those, so I can't say whether or not that's true. This forest, though, is remarkable, not because of what it has in it or because of its deer or trees. It is remarkable because it lies only forty-five minutes from the heart of midtown Manhattan.
(10/13/95 10:00am)
I readily admit that I'm not the most health-conscious person in the world. I generally don't watch what I eat, rarely remember to take my vitamins and have never been in the weight room at the Berry Athletic Center. I did run a few times, but I ended up in muscle pain for about 72 hours after logging only a mile. I know that a lot of people find exercising fun, running to be invigorating and weight lifting to be a hobby, yet, probably unfortunately, I just find all of those things boring.
(10/06/95 10:00am)
I was going to refuse to write about the end of the O.J. Simpson trial. Mainly because I have no new knowledge about the verdict, no sparkling insights into the case and no real idea why the jury decided in the way that it did. I have only my feelings, which were strong enough to make me ill for two hours Tuesday afternoon.
(10/02/95 10:00am)
It is a slow, deliberate, marked shift. Yet it is practically a transformation. It has happened before in our history, and may happen again. It is said that politics moves in cycles, and this may well be a cycle. Of course, it may not, and that is the object of my concern.
(02/17/95 11:00am)
I'm glad that I deciided to take Speech 25 this term. The class is on persuasive speaking, and all of us in it pick a topic or issue in which we're interested to look at in depth over the term. Our primary goal is to convince our audiences (other members of the class, and the professor), through speeches, that our feelings on an issue or topic are right, and to spur them to some sort of action -- hopefully one that will lead to an ultimate resolution of a problem or at least a change in general attitudes.
(02/09/95 11:00am)
You know something that happens in politics or that is passed by Congress just has to be good if it can be applied to our regular lives and have a positive effect. This event is sort of rare, but in a roundabout way, the line-item veto that was passed by the House of Representatives on Monday fits into this category.
(02/03/95 11:00am)
Sometimes I wonder if it's okay to be happy or content or pleased with where you are and how your life is going. It seems to me that a lot of times, if you're here at Dartmouth, and you're happy with the way things are on campus, or your social life or your academics, you are seen in an almost negative light. It's as if you don't care, aren't interested or you are, for God-sakes, conservative and reactive -- when, in all honesty, you're just sort of content.
(01/27/95 11:00am)
It's been good to see--members of Dartmouth's Greek system have taken the lead recently in resolving issues raised by the College pertaining to housing and alcohol policy. Both Coed Fraternity Sorority Council President Matt Raben '96 and Panhellenic Council President Dani Brune '96 have asserted early leadership through their organizations to provide a knowledgeable voice and to act as advocates for the rights of fraternities and sororities on campus.
(01/20/95 11:00am)
Government has far toomany rules.
(01/13/95 11:00am)
Trust is a very important thing. Yet in today's remarkably cynical world, trust is incredibly hard to gain, difficult to keep and almost impossible to build into character. Character is of course, built on trust. It is the product of a person's honesty, commitment and nature, and is directly tied to someone's actions and words.
(01/04/95 11:00am)
Before I left to drive home to New Jersey for winter break, I ran into Collis to pick up a copy of the Report on the First-Year Experience. I had glanced quickly at the recommendations of the Report earlier in fall term, and had heard primarily about its suggestion for freshmen dorms. I wanted to sit down and read the report in-depth in October or November, but as often happens, papers, friends and sleep sort of kept it off my list of things to do.
(11/18/94 11:00am)
Deep within the Student Assembly, there is the centrist. There is the dedicated woman or man who has no plans to marginalize groups with different ideas, different visions and different thoughts.
(11/11/94 11:00am)
As I look back on Tuesday's midterm elections, now that the pundits have stopped predicting and the commercials have stopped reverberating, it is clear to me that the election season was one of both great hope and great disappointment.
(11/04/94 11:00am)
Before I start, I'd like to qualify my opinions by noting that I am not a member of a Greek organization.
(10/21/94 10:00am)
I went to lunch this past Tuesday at the Rockefeller Center. It was one in a series of lunches in which some of us here at Dartmouth meet with some residents from Kendal, a retirement community on Lyme Road, and discuss political and social issues. The aim is to foster some inter-generational common ground on current issues, and to see how different generations view today's world.
(10/13/94 10:00am)
The "Big Tent" has made a comeback in American politics. In years back, political parties were said to have formed a Big Tent when, for the success of their organization, they welcomed groups with different ideas and views of government into their fold. Whether it was the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, these groups realized the importance of putting minor differences aside for the sake of better government.
(10/07/94 10:00am)
Sometimes it's difficult having been a lifelong resident of New Jersey. People always joke about my state, ask what exit I'm from (163) and what oil refinery I live near. Either that, or they say that the only places in New Jersey that they've ever seen are the undeniably non-aesthetic Turnpike and Newark International Airport.
(09/30/94 10:00am)
It has been almost 35 years since a young, progressive Irishman ran for President. He was from a wealthy New England family, had gone to prep school and had graduated Harvard. He was also a veteran of World War II, an able Congressman, an effective Senator and a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Yet in 1960, in many areas of our United States, there was a substantial part of his life and character that worked against him.
(09/22/94 9:00am)
As I watched the American soldiers leaping onto the tarmac at the international airport in Port-Au-Prince this past Monday, a realization slowly crept into my mind.
(08/03/94 9:00am)
On Sunday afternoon, the United Nations Security Council authorized a military invasion of Haiti by the United States.