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(04/11/07 9:00am)
Legislators in Concord seem intent on treating their constituents like children. The New Hampshire House of Representatives last Thursday passed a bill mandating that all adults in a moving vehicle wear seatbelts. The bill stands to go to the Senate, and barring public outcry, soon New Hampshire will lose its place as the last state in the Union that actually thinks its citizens are responsible adults.
(03/28/07 9:00am)
Upon reading Nathan Bruschi's op-ed earlier this month ("An Assault on Assault Weapons," March 2), I was expecting an assault on the Second Amendment. I was surprised and disappointed that he ended with an assault on the First. He talks in general both about gun ownership rights and the controversy surrounding a magazine editor who spoke out against assault weapons. Both arguments are flawed.
(02/22/07 11:00am)
Legislators in Concord are hard at work right now not only showing complete disregard for the traditions of the state, but also treating their constituents like toddlers who got a hold of mommy's matches.
(02/12/07 11:00am)
Last week, Zak Moore '09 eloquently supported trustee candidate Stephen Smith '88 on this page ("Diversity of Vision Matters," Feb. 7). An issue he raised in support of his main argument -- namely, the importance of freedom of speech -- is something that struck me as particularly worthy of elaboration. It is worthier, certainly, than whatever I might have had to say about water pong.
(01/29/07 11:00am)
The idea to write this came to me during my last ride in a Safety and Security cruiser. Most of my first eight terms here saw my wild imagination produce myriad conspiratorial metaphors to describe the antagonism, produced by the simple fact of drinking on campus, inherent in the student-Safety and Security relationship. My nights spent out on campus saw the whiteboard of my mind filled with game plans for how I would dive into the bushes around Blunt Alumni Hall to avoid silver SUVs. My friends and I could barely walk 100 yards on campus without worrying that the not-quite-Astaire-like bounce in our step might possibly be noticed. I remember hearing Safety and Security referred to, admittedly tongue-in-cheek, and not a little appallingly, as "Gestapo."
(01/10/07 11:00am)
The official who came up with the name "Operation Green Thumb" must have been very pleased with himself. As reported by the New Hampshire Union Leader on Dec. 14, police officers seized over 6,000 marijuana plants with a street value of over $24 million from 10 houses throughout wealthy areas of southern New Hampshire.
(10/24/06 9:00am)
While there are times when the conservative man on my shoulder spouts vitriol about the unfairness of a leftist monopoly on higher education, recently I have been wondering if perhaps the political discourse in this nation could benefit from a little academic thought. The benefits of academia, underscored for me in the past three years, usually seem to transcend whatever political bias may exist. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent press coverage of the ongoing nuclear standoff with North Korea.
(10/06/06 9:00am)
A friend of mine was recently quoted in the Generic Good Morning Message as saying, "It's like a Noah Riner speech just exploded all over my life." Not being particularly clever myself nor able to pass up a great mental image when I stumble upon it, I must paraphrase and adapt it to a feeling I got recently while getting my news junkie fix. One of the great values of a Dartmouth education -- and bear with me for a moment while I let the Reviewer inside me see the light of day -- is instilling in us a solemn respect for the veritable sanctity of our great Western tradition. It is precisely this tradition, upon reading that New York City is now looking to ban partially hydrogenated oils from its restaurants, that has exploded all over my life.
(05/23/06 9:00am)
Adam Patinkin '07 argues in his guest op-ed on May 18 ("Demanding Our Right to Vote") that the recent measures enacted by the New Hampshire state legislature by HB 1566 are several things: first, that campus bipartisanship which opposes the issue is inherently meaningful; second, that students as members of the community deserve a say in the laws which govern that community and are being stripped of their right to vote; and third, that the law itself is unconstitutional per Symm v. United States. He makes other points, of course, but I will limit this cursory examination only to those.
(04/13/06 9:00am)
The other day I was listening to Rush Limbaugh, and he mentioned the immigration debate. He said how one day back in the 1980s he talked to his grandfather about immigration, and his grandfather's response was "Oh, Lord, they're still talking about that? They've been talking about that since I was young." The pertinent point was that back in the day, people put up as big a fuss about Eastern non-WASP Europeans coming over the pond as we do today about Mexicans and other south-of-the-border types. Rush went on to make some silly point about something or other, but instead of absorbing what he said it merely reminded me of the fact that people are always predicting doomsday. Every day, we are told that our lives are in jeopardy, the issues before us are life-or-death, and the good ol' days were better. But the truth is that things are by and large much better -- and it has all been done before. Every problem we now have we have faced before, in some form or another, and immigration is no different.
(03/28/06 10:00am)
I was never much of a comic book fan. I remember being in third grade and being moderately interested in Spiderman or the X-Men -- and let's be honest, they're pretty sweet -- but I never really read many or got into collecting them. For that reason, my knowledge of comic books extends only as far as pop culture does: Superman, Batman, the two above and maybe a few more obscure ones such as Spawn.
(03/08/06 11:00am)
I was really quite shocked when I checked the news several weeks ago to find a controversy blooming over the acquisition of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company by Dubai Ports World. It struck me as obvious that the xenophobic wing of the Republican party would oppose the deal, but I was certain that the more entrenched pro-business wing would overwhelm it with the solid support of the affirmative-action-oriented Democrats.
(02/22/06 11:00am)
I have come to understand something important: the news media is nothing more than a tool. All too often in this country -- and in the world -- we confuse it in this with some grand ideal of a Free Press. We fail to see it for what it really is: a group of regular people doing a regular job with all of the regular shortcomings typical of our imperfect species.
(02/13/06 11:00am)
It's not freedom unless you don't like it. Stated differently, it's not freedom if you do like it.
(01/24/06 11:00am)
There exists this school of thought referred to as intelligent design. This view of the world, the universe, and "how we got here" claims that the complexity and beauty inherent in life is so amazing that it could only have been put into motion by an aforementioned intelligent designer. I personally cannot stand this "theory" in its current American incarnation and think it quite absurd, as I have chronicled on this page before ("Teach Your Children Well," Jan. 21, 2005).
(01/10/06 11:00am)
There has been a lot of talk recently about Congressional corruption. Quite a few scandals are erupting and it appears that the Republican-controlled Capitol Hill is repeating the errors of its predecessors in varying degrees of gravity. Right-wing media outlets and politicians would have us believe this is isolated and only slightly problematic; the more liberal-tainted media outlets would have us believe that the Republicans have done nothing less than make a pact with Satan himself and have sold the soul of the country for a few bucks and some terrible legislation.
(11/21/05 11:00am)
Humans are categorizing creatures. For whatever Darwinian reason, the ability to distinguish similar entities in our minds was a trait that contributed to our apparent victory in the survival of the fittest. However, what was for millennia a positive survival tool has outlived its use, and the time has come for us to use other powerful tools -- intellect and reason -- to defeat the enemies of modern freedom.
(11/08/05 11:00am)
There has been a tradition among detractors, since he took office in 2001, of deriding President Bush as unfit for his job. This trend is not confined to the more typical and conventional types of political critiques, but rather is manifested in attacks on the man's intelligence or character. The president has been called an idiot, portrayed as a drug-addict in popular culture, made fun of for his admittedly peculiar handle on the English language, and, in the case of the Michael Moore-ish leftists, essentially said to be an evil man. While I doubt many Americans would agree with the following sentiment, late last week Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez and others called President Bush a "terrorist" and a "fascist." The veracity of these claims notwithstanding, they do more harm than good by detracting from the credibility of the tenable and substantive criticisms of the President.
(10/24/05 9:00am)
Dartmouth prides itself on its pluralistic and free environment. A part of this environment is a sharp focus on vibrant debate. This is the foundation of our liberal arts education " that ideas are forwarded in the crucible of rigorous examination, an essential component of which is considering the alternative and refuting it. Freedom of speech is the very basis of why we are undergraduates at the College; why then does this freedom come under fire so often in our community?
(10/10/05 9:00am)
It was President Clinton who said once upon a time that "the era of big government is over." I was stricken by the irony of the situation when, less than a month ago, current President George W. Bush said, faced with a massive disaster of both the human and electoral variety, that effectively, the era of big government is back in full swing. But who cares about big government, you ask -- and why is some loony columnist wasting space on the opinion page?