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(05/18/00 9:00am)
Take a look at almost every public opinion poll that tracks the issue preferences of voters across the country and you will find education at or near the top of every list. Decreasing class sizes, improving teacher quality, and providing for poor and disadvantaged students are the priorities of the American public in this election year. Public opinion plays an important role in setting the legislative agenda and it follows that education is an extremely important issue for the men and women on Capitol Hill, as well as state legislatures throughout the country.
(05/18/00 9:00am)
Communism is a good idea, just no one's done it." Those were the words I overheard in the Hop several weeks ago. The student making the statement was commenting about the exchange of letters in The Dartmouth over the visit of the American Communist Party Chair Sam Webb. His comment was a disdainful rebuke to Professor Jindrich Zapletal's criticism of Webb. These sorts of comments are commonplace on college campuses and the strongly held opinion of many of our generation. The understanding is that communism is a wonderful and sound theory that simply has never been put into proper practice. And indeed the student making the comment, said it with a certain level of condescension. He was suggesting that anyone who holds communism to be both bad in practice and in theory is utterly out of touch and confused.
(05/18/00 9:00am)
To the Editor:
(05/18/00 9:00am)
Forty-six years ago, yesterday, nine people finally recognized that separate cannot possibly mean equal. Linda Brown, from Topeka, was tired of riding the bus every day for five miles when there was a school -- a white school, a supposedly "equal," but actually better, school-- just four blocks from her house. Thirteen families, in fact, were tired of situations like that, and, with the support of the NAACP, filed a class action suit against the Board of Education.
(05/18/00 9:00am)
I am writing to provide my perspective on the upcoming May 23rd talk by Yvette Schneider. Schneider will be addressing the question, "Can homosexuals change their orientation?" Yvette Schneider claims to have spent six years as a "practicing lesbian and homosexual rights advocate" before becoming a Christian and "exiting the homosexual lifestyle." She now speaks out against the "homosexual activist agenda" and reaches out to those still "trapped" in that lifestyle, according to the information on the so-called "Family Research Council" website.
(05/18/00 9:00am)
The world of Dartmouth libraries is on the brink of change. With the current construction of the Baker/Berry Library, Dartmouth is in the midst of its largest library building project since the late 1920s, when Baker itself was originally erected.
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Harriett Woods, the former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and past head of the National Women's Political Caucus, spoke at Dartmouth yesterday to a small crowd of students.
(05/18/00 9:00am)
Six senior women shared their experiences from four years at the College in a panel discussion last night, discussing topics ranging from sport and Greek participation to depression and ethnicity.
(05/18/00 9:00am)
Ever want to spend the summer in a desert? If so, you're in luck, because beginning in the summer of 2001, Dartmouth students will likely be able to participate in the brand new Arabic and Hebrew Language Study Abroad Plus program to Israel.
(05/17/00 9:00am)
Nobody will question her achievements for the Big Green softball team this season, but Christine Quattrocchi '03 finally made them official yesterday by winning both the Ivy League's Pitcher of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards.
(05/17/00 9:00am)
The Dartmouth baseball team " this year's Red Rolfe Divison Champion -- cleaned house in all major Ivy baseball awards announced yesterday.
(05/17/00 9:00am)
Here it is: Nancy's Student Life Initiative -- an attempt to enhance the quality of living here at Dartmouth. Exactly 2,086 op-ed articles have been written by '03s complaining about Room Draw (one for each rising sophomore currently without housing), so I will not address this issue. Except, of course, to say that I will be living in the basement of South Fayers. Haha! Yay for sexual favors and a complete lack of morality!
(05/17/00 9:00am)
Visualize this: a mother, new born baby at her breast, two young children clinging to her dress and four more children playing by her side. All of them hers and all living in a small village in a developing country.
(05/17/00 9:00am)
While some students sing its praises and others lament the difficulties it causes, few know the origins of Dartmouth's academic plan.
(05/17/00 9:00am)
Besides Bob Costas and a host of Nike and Reebok executives, a number of Dartmouth student and alumni athletes are among those competing to represent their countries in Sydney, Australia this summer in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
(05/17/00 9:00am)
Heated controversy surrounds the decision of Voces Clamantium to invite guest speaker Yvette Schneider, an activist identifying herself as a former lesbian who turned away from her homosexual lifestyle after becoming Christian.
(05/17/00 9:00am)
Dean of the College James Larimore has rejected Phi Delta Alpha fraternity's appeal for clemency, upholding the decision to suspend College recognition of the house until at least the fall of 2002.
(05/16/00 9:00am)
Like an overzealous abstract artist, Ridley Scott paints his sweeping epic "Gladiator" onto the screen with broad, bold strokes, using every technique at his disposal to add to the grand feeling of his film.
(05/16/00 9:00am)
I have a problem with the direction of the game of baseball. Although there are a variety of different things I feel the need to gripe about, there is one that I find truly irritating -- the home runs.
(05/16/00 9:00am)
After battling their way to a third-place finish in the petite final this past weekend at the Eastern Sprints in Connecticut, the women's varsity eight's season hangs in limbo until this afternoon, when they will hear if their performance was enough to qualify them for next weekend's NCAA Championships.