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(02/23/05 11:00am)
John Stern '05, in his Feb. 22 column "Reasonable Religious Faith," is correct that it is a scientific and logical flaw to state that evolutionary theory precludes the existence of a creator. He is correct in his assessment that science can never disprove the existence of a god. He is correct in his belief that science cannot justify any sort of moral code. He is correct that science will probably never know what happened before "t=0." But the rest of his argument totally misses the point.
(10/22/03 9:00am)
I question both the veracity of the motives and the intelligence of any group that purports to campaign for the wellbeing of non-human animals while actively discouraging its members from supporting the National Wildlife Federation, the National Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society and the World Wildlife Fund. All of these groups variously raise funds to purchase habitat and educate the public about wildlife issues, engage corporations and the government inside the courtroom to protect endangered species and resources, or work to prevent human encroachment on wild places. In 2002, the World Wildlife Fund alone spent $99 million dollars "to protect wildlife and wild places, and to combat the global threats of uncontrolled deforestation, overfishing, toxins and climate change."
(09/25/03 9:00am)
We reached a new low a few years back, when some woman showed America that all you need to become a millionaire was a cup of boiling liquid and a crotch. That, and a greedy lawyer. Nearly all of us could qualify. Ridiculous lawsuits have cropped up ever since, and companies, it seems to me, have been struggling to cover themselves for some pretty inane contingencies. The lawsuits piss me off, but I have to admit, I'm a huge fan of the warning labels that have resulted
(08/26/03 9:00am)
There are a little over 1,000 of you, swooping down into this isolated part of New Hampshire. There are over 3,000 of us, ready to join forces. One thing I can promise you as you start out -- it's going to be a wild ride. Welcome to Dartmouth.
(05/12/03 9:00am)
There's been a lot of dialogue lately about gender, about behavior and innate dispositions and, in essence, the consequences of human biology and evolution on modern-day gender issues. There have been columns defending behavior as biologically hardwired and responses all but denying the existence of gender. From what I have read, they have all been fundamentally misguided.
(04/18/03 9:00am)
They really ought to offer a class on the history of holidays. I for one would take it, primarily because it'd probably be an easy and interesting distributive requirement, but I'd also love to know just exactly where we get some of these themes
(03/25/03 11:00am)
We had a problem with geese crapping on the manicured grass that lined the shore of the club on the lake. I don't know how many there were, probably five or six, but they'd come every night, fill their guts with our grass and excrete it hours later without a care in the world. Something had to be done. Dung really ruined the ambiance.
(05/20/02 9:00am)
Complying with popular culture's media demands for carnal indulgence over content, People Magazine recently announced the 50 Most Beautiful People for this year, once again proving that for most people, articles with even allusions to sex really are more interesting than discussions of the major players during international crises.
(04/29/02 9:00am)
Tropicana orange juice -- Florida fresh, 100-percent pure, not from concentrate -- is disconcertingly orange. I'm sure you've all noticed and wondered why this is.
(04/01/02 10:00am)
When I was younger, my older brother and I used to get into fights. We'd bicker about who got to play with which toys, who could sit in the front seat on car rides and which of us was just generally better. I usually won. But that's not the point.
(02/18/02 11:00am)
I woke up Sunday morning, raised my window shade and looked out to find snow falling from the sky. I have a pretty view, out away from campus, into the woods and up around the hills, now cloaked in white. I noticed, looking out, a small black housefly sandwiched between my windowpane and the screening, clutching to the screen like a supplicating prisoner. Tenacious, I thought. And then I remembered that I am a prospective ecological biology major, and there was something distinctly wrong with this picture of a fly in the middle of a New Hampshire winter -- either I had just found the first endothermic fly with a metabolism nearly defying physical law, or there was more here than meets the eye.
(02/04/02 11:00am)
The backlash of recent on-campus events, especially in light Martin Luther King Day, has brought to the forefront of discussion here at Dartmouth a much-hyped question that has simmered nationally for years: that of diversity and acceptance. I have noticed, as I know others have, that at Dartmouth those words often ring hollow. What do they mean and what are you talking about when you say you want to increase, advocate, promote, advance, stress or encourage them? The truth is that "diversity" is a political punchline, lacking both direction and suggestion for implementation, hinting at much and delivering on nothing.
(01/22/02 11:00am)
Animal phobias are strange. I don't have any. Except with regards to rats, but that only makes sense. When I was 15 or so, rats invaded our house.
(01/09/02 11:00am)
We're an addicted society, or at the very least a society prone to addiction. The signs are everywhere. In the Seattle area, for instance, a lot of them say Starbucks. You see Dunkin' Donuts too, and Marlboro and Camel, and they even remind us not to forget our daily dose of ESPN or "Survivor" or countless other TV crazes.
(11/21/01 11:00am)
I know just enough about technology to really get myself screwed. Back in the beige days of computing, before the flowering of iMacs in rainbow and "Flower-Power" (that idea crashed hard), I got suspended for hacking into a mainframe. The mainframe of my middle school. Remember the file-restriction program "At Ease?" Well I made the Islander Middle School administration distinctly uneasy. It was simple, actually. All I did (I should say all we did, hats off to my life-long friend Casey Koon), all we did was click on the "Administration" option in the main menu of that misnamed and now defunct program, and when prompted to type in the password, we guessed the last name of our school's principal. It worked.
(10/29/01 11:00am)
It is definitely getting cold. It gets cold back in Seattle, too, where I'm from. Not this cold, not near the coast, but if you head up toward the mountains just an hour away ... it gets cold. Out West, we have a way of dealing with the cold that doesn't seem too popular out here. We have figured out the best thing to do when it's cold. And it's time the East Coast caught on.
(10/11/01 9:00am)
I'm a conservationist. I love the outdoors, or
(09/27/01 9:00am)
Dartmouth College takes pride in the variety of backgrounds represented by its student body and staff. This diversity provides for an environment of different opinions, perspectives and beliefs, enriching enormously the education of the college's members. With the promotion of diversity, a trumpeted value here at Dartmouth, I was a little surprised to hear prayers incorporated into official Dartmouth ceremonies.