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(05/28/98 9:00am)
It is incredible that nearly four years have already passed since I first stepped onto this campus as an anxious freshman and that I now write my farewell column. Perhaps, some of you were expecting another stinging piece from me, but I must disappoint you, as the College has espoused in me no bitter feelings. In fact, I will depart this June with a conviction that my decision to attend Dartmouth was, perhaps, the wisest decision I have ever made.
(05/11/98 9:00am)
Several astute readers of my columns have observed that my opinions often waver between antithetical positions. I have argued in favor of affirmative action, as well as against it. Some of my columns have extolled life based on contemplation, while others have glorified materialistic, unexamined life. This past term, I wrote a piece chastising Clinton's foreign policy from a conventional realist perspective -- a perspective I ridiculed last year when discussing the United Nations' follies.
(04/28/98 9:00am)
A recent speech by President-elect James Wright, in which he stressed the importance of research at Dartmouth, has become a cause of anxiety for many students indoctrinated in the belief that the College should not waver from its commitment to undergraduate teaching.
(04/13/98 9:00am)
I do not doubt that Dean of the Tucker Foundation Scott Brown is a compassionate man with noble intentions. In this age of promiscuous liberalism, an individual like him who relentlessly upholds a principle is rare. However, good intentions are often powerless -- in fact, perilous -- when they are misguided, because actions that follow such intentions can contradict them. In writing economically unsound critiques of the state of the U.S. income distribution, Brown is subjecting himself to such a contradiction.
(03/30/98 10:00am)
I once thought that there was a correlation between one's academic achievements and ability to live as a responsible member of a community. Having served, however, in various leadership positions of student organizations since my high school years, I have arrived at an unfortunate conclusion that I was utterly mistaken in ever believing such a correlation exists.
(03/02/98 11:00am)
By now, many readers of The Dartmouth might be tired of my diatribes against the occasional columns by Dean of the Tucker Foundation Scott Brown. However, as he continues shamelessly to disseminate dangerously ignorant views, I have decided once again to attack him -- this time for his latest column, "The Failure of Higher Education" [The Dartmouth, Feb. 20]. In this piece, he deplores the state of higher education that continues to be exclusive to the rich, and advocates stronger government support, so that more of the poor can enter universities.
(02/16/98 11:00am)
As the possibility of U.S. air strikes against Iraq looms, it is becoming clear that Bill Clinton's foreign policy -- often derided as "photo-op" foreign policy -- is falling apart. The alliance against Saddam Hussein the United States has mustered today, unlike the one in 1991, appears to be composed meagerly of itself and Britain. True, the absence of a visible crisis may explain this state of global partnerships; after all, Iraq has not wreaked any destruction as it did in Kuwait. Nonetheless, plenty of reasons for concern exist, for the problems within the alliance are signaling dangerous instability in the international system.
(02/02/98 11:00am)
President Freedman's announcement of his resignation at this school year's end has blessed us students with a rare opportunity -- an opportunity to influence the College's future. As The Dartmouth's editorial pages in the past few weeks indicate, however, many of us have been too quickly spouting our beliefs about the presidential selection.
(01/19/98 11:00am)
How often have we heard that people are increasingly capable of transcending race? Probably so often that it is prosaic. Unfortunately, the reality is far from such an account. This can be seen in the continuing dearth of interracial relationships, the primary reason of which is that people find the obstacles nearly impossible to overcome.
(01/05/98 11:00am)
Since my engagement last spring, a num-er of my friends have asked about my approach to relationships -- an approach which, I suppose, has been more fruitful than those of most 21-year olds.
(11/19/97 11:00am)
In his latest column, "Dialogue and Taboo" [The Dartmouth, November 3], Scott Brown writes, "When we debate, we tend to waste valuable intellectual energy proving the other person wrong, rather than promoting our point of view." I suppose he is being critical of a captious person like me. To refresh the readers' memory, I wrote a column last week that debunked the opinions favoring government intervention to overcome income inequality in the U.S. -- but without advancing my own solution.
(10/28/97 11:00am)
In the past week, triggered by Abiola Lapite's column "Inequality of Wealth is a Force for Good" [Oct. 22], a steaming debate has taken place in the op-ed pages of The Dartmouth concerning the enlarging U.S. income distribution. So far, the pages have been overwhelmed by opinions favoring government intervention to correct this disturbing trend.
(10/07/97 9:00am)
Here's another piece of advice for the class of 2001: Learn how to read.
(09/24/97 9:00am)
First of all, I would like to extend my congratulations to each member of the Class of 2001 for his or her acceptance to Dartmouth. You have arrived at a great institution, and as long as you wisely manage your life here, countless opportunities will be thrown at you upon your graduation.
(05/05/97 9:00am)
Last term, my fellow staff columnist Sam Bonderoff wrote a series of humorous columns in which he satirically characterized many of the majors at Dartmouth. Intending to help out the sophomores struggling to declare their majors at the time, however, Bonderoff unfortunately claimed that only earth sciences are more boring than economics. I, an economics major, have been yearning to demonstrate how stimulating a discipline economics is, and today I have finally found the time to pen a rebuttal against him.
(04/10/97 9:00am)
I have been pleased by the recent accomplishments of Jon Heavey and his partners in the Student Assembly, all of whom have worked hard to regain much of the respect that the organization had lost during my first year at Dartmouth. While the administration has remained out of touch with its students by endorsing numerous preposterous projects geared toward fostering intellectualism on campus, Heavey has succeeded in conveying the real voice of the student body, as demonstrated by his latest feat in convincing the Trustees to allocate funds to the renovation of the weight room.
(03/27/97 11:00am)
Although I have written a number of provocative articles in the past, I do not remember a writing of mine that attracted more scathing criticisms than the one I wrote approximately a year ago. Entitling the column "Women and Philosophy," I argued that women are less philosophical than men because of their biological constraints, in particular, pregnancy and childcare. Such constraints inhibited the philosophical genius of women, because a great mind requires the freedom to explore intellectually -- a condition of which women are deprived, as their lives are necessarily disrupted by the exhausting years during which they must bear and nurture their children.
(01/31/97 11:00am)
Last term I argued in one of my columns, using a game-theoretic model, that society might eternally need affirmative action to prevent stratification among races in the workplace. What led to this conclusion was a disturbing -- nonetheless, strong -- assumption that the cultural differences among races are so pervasive that no matter how consciously one attempts to treat members of other races fairly, one can never become color-blind. Thus, I implied, racism will never lose its cruel hold on human society.
(01/13/97 11:00am)
Will Taylor in his "American Policy and Attitude in Asia Must Change" [Thursday, January 9, 1997, The Dartmouth] attempts to portray the problematic American policy toward Asia by illustrating a few incidents that he thinks demonstrate America's parochial view of the world. Although I do not disagree with his conclusion, his treatment of the empirical evidence in support of his point is so flawed that I was compelled to prepare this rebuttal.
(01/07/97 11:00am)
A few weeks ago, a number of international leaders condemned the U.S. for lobbying against Boutros Boutros-Ghali's campaign to win a second term as the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Their argument was that U.S. policymakers had reduced their foreign policy to an instrument of their country's domestic demands that have increasingly favored isolationism. Although there is truth to this claim, America's recent choice to antagonize the U.N. was inevitable and in some sense even wise.