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The Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. came back to the political spotlight this week -- with a vengeance.
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The Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. came back to the political spotlight this week -- with a vengeance.
One major item has been left out of the recent discussion of possible improvements at Dartmouth College: technological upgrades. The new Student Assembly and the future Dartmouth president should both push for the improvement of Dartmouth's hardware and software systems. Dartmouth students, staff and faculty will all benefit from this improvement.
During my four years here, I have developed a love-hate relationship with Dartmouth. I love the outdoors, the professors and the students. But I've come to dislike the Dartmouth Plan.
Why don't we protest as much as previous generations used to?
If you are a typical Dartmouth student, you have probably fallen behind on class work since the first day of this term. You didn't mean to fall behind. You told yourself that you would get a head start on homework, that you would limit pong to only three days per week and that this time things would be different. But then the term began, old friends returned, new hot freshmen caught your eye and you were back to your old routine -- struggling to catch up. This is one of the central struggles that define the Dartmouth experience.
To the Editor:
I was very surprised to read on this page that Zachary Hyatt '09 thinks the United States and Russia share similar national interests ("The Rumbling Bear: A Dying Art," May 15). I believe that Russia's recent actions, policies and rhetoric indicate the contrary.
Last year, the Darfur Action Group at Dartmouth participated in a noble, successful and ultimately ineffectual effort to divest from companies that do business with Sudan. Their end was just -- to facilitate the end of the Darfur genocide. But their divestment campaign was off the mark. They should have urged Dartmouth to divest from China.
It happens every year, on every college campus: Students gather to protest some worldly injustice or call on some faceless organization (usually the U.S. government) to right some unspeakable wrong. Dartmouth is no exception: Last year, the Darfur Action Group gathered to sell T-shirts, put on concerts and hand out ribbons. They sought to put an end to the genocide of Africans in Darfur by forcing the College to divest from companies that do business with Sudan.
The elusive cure for AIDS is one of the most important humanitarian quests of the 21st century. Over 40 million people in the world live with AIDS; almost 3 million die from it each year. No sensible person denies the pandemic scope of this disease. You can imagine my surprise, then, when I found out that neither the scope nor the immediacy of this problem stops some activists from ranking it below, say, the well-being of 100 monkeys.
I'm from the States, but don't hold that against me!
Those who still doubt the intensity of the Western cultural and political conflict with radical Islam should take a closer look at the lecture delivered by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg, and the severe reaction it sparked among some Muslims.
To the Editor:
I hate how easily we contextualize an event as tragic as the Duke rape incident along the familiar ideological lines. The conservative instantly opines that the female is at fault for being a stripper. She should have known better than to take off her clothes in front of aroused drunk athletes. As a result, she got what was coming to her. Call it "Survivor: Natural Selection." The liberal -- whatever that means these days -- retorts that our social construction objectifies women and restricts their freedom. Oh, if only there were some radical revolution that would change, nay, liberate societal conceptions! And let us not forget, the liberal would remind, that all men are evil. After all, a society ruled by women would have no wars (or urinals).
The Student Assembly presidential election produced a completely unexpected result: write-in candidate Tim Andreadis '07 beat Dave Zubricki '07, who was initially favored to win the race. Although he decided to run after the EPAC deadline, and therefore had the disadvantage of campaigning as a write-in, running outside the system may have actually helped Andreadis. Further, popular discontent with the Student Assembly, as well as the results of The Dartmouth poll, may have pushed students to vote for a "dark-horse" candidate.
Prospies: Here is why you should come to Dartmouth:
Over the course of my two terms as the Assistant Opinion Editor at The Dartmouth, I have been approached many times with the same question: How does a submission become a published op-ed? Most frequently, our Opinion staff provides the short answer -- "Through the editorial process, of course!"-- and directs the inquirer to The Dartmouth's editorial policy. But in order further to elucidate this response, and perhaps invite some feedback, I have decided to provide our readers, some of whom are future columnists and editors, with a peek inside the editorial process at The Dartmouth.
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Grokster shut down its file-sharing client as part of a lawsuit settlement with the two giant Internet cops, the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America. Groker's decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal from the lower courts. While it did not directly commit a crime, it was charged with promoting illegal activities, i.e., supporting a forum that allows people to commit crime. Because the primary use of their network was for illicit activities, the Supreme Court essentially held that it was a tacit participant in theft. The final word, however, will not come from the Supreme Court or the large industries. No. In this battle only the consumers can triumph. The abundance of such decentralized networks makes any possible enforcement of the current laws practically impossible. While Grokster has shut down, a myriad of other networks exist and programmers are busily creating others. The eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella networks, DirectConnect and the recently popularized torrent technology are just a few examples of how the expression of the public desire for sharing files on the Internet has supported the proliferation of new technologies.
Our nation's policy on extrajudicial executions should be debated, not dismissed by politicized rhetoric, as it was by some professors at a recent panel discussion (see "Torture debate marked by controversy from history prof.," Oct. 18). The issue ultimately evolves into a debate between two competing extremes. Do we forbid all targeted assassinations and tie our hands against acting on known and credible threats? Or, do we allow our nation's leaders to execute foreign tyrants and domestic insurgents without trial, and risk sliding down the slippery slope towards Orwellian lawlessness?
If our College is a research university in all but name, then why did research superstar Michael Gazzaniga leave us for UCSB? If our economics program is so popular with students, and the department so excellent, why could we not retain top-rated professor Amitabh Chandra? If Dartmouth remains so indebted to the rhetorical talent of Daniel Webster, Class of 1801, then why did the College kill the speech department and send our sole rhetoric professor Jim Kuypers packing?