The Age of the Obvious
Ours is an age of the obvious. Ours is an age in which men confuse raging lust with high affection, an age in which subtlety is mistaken for cowardice. Ours is an age of small passions and trivial disappointments.
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Ours is an age of the obvious. Ours is an age in which men confuse raging lust with high affection, an age in which subtlety is mistaken for cowardice. Ours is an age of small passions and trivial disappointments.
To borrow a phrase from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), do you count yourself among "[President Bill Clinton's] high taxing, free-spending, promise-breaking, Social Security-taxing, health care-socializing, drug-coddling, power-grabbing, business-busting, lawsuit-loving, U.N. following, F.B.I.-abusing, I.R.S.-increasing, $200 hair-cutting, gas-taxing, over-regulating, bureaucracy-trusting, class-baiting, privacy-violating, values-crushing, truth-dodging, Medicare-forsaking, property-rights-taking, job-destroying friends?" If so, you may not have watched last night's first presidential debate.
Well, after watching the presidential debate I am still alive and awake -- just barely -- and standing firm in my support of Bill Clinton. Perhaps you are as well, or maybe not, but no matter where your political views lie, the political forum for discussion keeps getting weaker.
Thirty years ago, French Professor John Rassias decided to revolutionize the way language was taught in colleges by bringing the Peace Corps' language training program to the academic world.
At the end Spring term members of the Class of 1998 had to declare their majors, and the results of the most popular major contest are in.
The Coed Fraternity Sorority Council will consider re-evaluating the Coed Fraternity Sorority Judiciary Committee and the minimum programming requirements for Greek houses this term.
Students and professors watching last night's presidential debates generally agreed that candidate Bob Dole failed to pull off an appearance that would help him gain much-needed ground in the polls.
The women's crew returned to the waters of the Connecticut last week with some unfinished business to take care of. Last Spring, the squad surged past some powerhouse crews to capture the bronze medal at the Eastern Sprints Championships.
It took a tie breaker, but the men's golf team pulled off an impressive win yesterday afternoon at the Northern New England ECAC Qualifiers.
Dartmouth returns home after a successful road trip to face Patriot League foe Fordham in the first of three straight home games for the Big Green. At 2-0, the Big Green are off to their best start in the five years of Head Coach John Lyons' career, and look to extend their unbeaten streak to 10 games when they kickoff against the winless Rams (0-4) at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow at Memorial Field.
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Free bagel brunch in Collis Common Ground." Your pulse quickens. You're there.
Some people had big goals for senior year: writing a thesis, landing a sweet job, finally picking a major. As for me, well ... I just wanted to live off campus. I dreamed of living in a place where only my housemates would steal my food from the kitchen, where I could watch television without the constant presence of the New Hamp TV Man, where my floor didn't vibrate from the stereo of the boys downstairs with cretinous taste in music. Each night in my Topliff triple, after stepping on my roommate's face to climb into my bunkbed, the radiator softly sang me to sleep, and I dreamed of leaving dorm life far behind.
Everybody loves to hate the Greek system. Sororities are for bimbos. Frats rape. All sorority members are anorexic and blond. All frat guys are stupid jocks with beer bellies. The Greek system is elitist, racist, homophobic, exclusionary and sexist. The only purpose of fraternities is to provide free alcohol to the campus, and sororities are just a "mindless pack" often heard muttering the all-important question: "Do I look fat in this dress?"
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is a delicate thing and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is playing "catch" with it. Like a child, he misinterprets, misreads, miscalculates. He has all but ruined everything that Yitzhak Rabin gave his life for.
To Biology Professor Mary Lou Guerinot, the rewards of scientific research are worth the long hours in the lab and the uncertain results.
The Women's Resource Center and Health Resources kicked off Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a teleconference yesterday, which featured information about new domestic violence legislation and the resources available to victims of domestic violence.
Although fall is officially just two weeks underway, cold weather has already come to Hanover.
Wilma Mankiller, who was the College's Montgomery Fellow last winter before she was diagnosed with cancer, is recovering from chemotherapy treatments she underwent this summer.