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(09/21/05 9:00am)
It is somewhat ironic that the two heaviest hitters to guest star on Kanye West's sophomore effort, "Late Registration," unwittingly emphasize the divide between West and the bulk of mainstream American rap. When Jay-Z takes over the second half of "Diamonds From Sierra Leone," he throws down the line -- in typically hotheaded H.O.V.A. fashion -- "I sold kilos of coke / I'm guessing I could sell CDs." On the very next track on the album, "We Major," Nas pops in, spitting, "I heard the beat and I ain't know what to write / First line, should it be about the hos or the ice?"
(09/21/05 9:00am)
Buddy Teevens began his second stint as head coach of the Dartmouth football team by accomplishing something that had not been done in eight years. Backed by an outstanding defensive effort, Teevens guided the Big Green to a season-opening victory against Colgate on Saturday. The 26-21 conquest marked the team's first 1-0 start since 1997, and ended a six-game skid versus the Raiders.
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(09/21/05 9:00am)
Magnetic rhetoric can be creatively arranged to satisfy individualistic, emotional, or moralistic impulse. For example, David Day '06 plays the blame game with his argument, "Hypocrisy on the Gaza Strip" (Aug. 23). He deserves a response and alternate way of stating things. First, blame and bitterness serve nobody in politics. Second, the threat and actuality of war are an inseparable facet of humanity. Third, warfare of the past several centuries and its accompanying rhetoric are compounded by contradictions and hypocrisy.
(09/21/05 9:00am)
It has been three weeks since Hurricane Katrina mauled the southeastern United States, and our country has learned a thing or two since then. As David Brooks writes in "Bobos in Paradise," an incisive description of America's new upper class, "we are threatened with a new age of complacency, which may be just as menacing to our dreams for America as imperial overstretch or defeat in war." While our President bungled an opportunity to both help and to capitalize on a "bullhorn" moment, we know that he is obviously not responsible for the wrath of nature. Even the insulting lack of preparedness cannot be attributed only to him. The reeking ooze of bipartisan complacency and errors drips down from the White House all the way to the civil engineers stationed on Lake Pontchartrain. Because it would be too inoffensively nonpartisan to pass this situation off as an inevitability of the natural world, investigations will eventually reveal who will take the blame for this catastrophe.
(09/21/05 9:00am)
One word in the opening paragraph of Adrian Ng's op-ed sums up his highly misleading piece: "Apparently, in the field of astrophysics, there is a resurgence of religious interest" ("New Conclusions About Origins," Aug. 15).
(09/21/05 9:00am)
As Fall term classes begin today, the changing leaves won't be the only thing adding color to the Dartmouth campus.
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Economics professor Andrew Samwick linked hot-button political issues to age-old constitutional debates in a speech Tuesday night at the Rockefeller Center that focused on the First Amendment, free speech on college campuses and youth activism.
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Despite two deaths that cast a shadow over the Dartmouth community, members of the Class of 2007 still managed to mold their sophomore summer into a unique experience.
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Hurricane Katrina's assault on the Gulf Coast region has prompted a massive humanitarian effort at Dartmouth College encompassing the entire community.
(09/21/05 9:00am)
While the Class of 2009 prepares to spend the next four years in Hanover, at least 32 students from Gulf Coast-area colleges and universities will likely begin their time at the College under less favorable circumstances.
(09/21/05 9:00am)
College President James Wright reflected on the lessons of Hurricane Katrina as he officially opened the College's 236th year Tuesday. Paralympic skiing gold medalist Sarah Billmeier '99 and Student Body President Noah Riner '06 joined Wright in speaking at the Convocation ceremony.
(09/01/05 9:00am)
You will not see us in the Rose Bowl. CBS and ESPN will not be fighting over rights for televising our basketball games. If LeBron James had gone to college, he would not have been invited to dirty rush Bones Gate. Our "dreamiest" athletes are many times without their original teeth and share an annoying tendency to say "eh?" at the end of sentences. Our most popular sport is pong -- and trust me, Keystone Light and frat basements make for intense, competitive atmospheres. While a BCS rankings controversy may never hit Dartmouth, Big Green athletics are far from non-existent. With all of our 30-plus varsity teams beginning next season with new leaders, new faces and clean slates, 2005-06 will certainly be riveting. Here is a quick look back at the year that was:
(09/01/05 9:00am)
People decide to go to Dartmouth for a variety of reasons. Few come to Dartmouth because they are drawn by the presence of fraternities and sororities on campus. Yet, if you were to ask any of the recently graduated brothers of my house, they would invariably tell you that Greek life was the defining feature of their college careers. Greek life and the Greek system is the most distinctive feature of Dartmouth, separating us from many of our peer schools. Greek houses bring together a wide variety of students of varying backgrounds and beliefs, giving them a common bond of brother- or sisterhood that cannot be formed in the classroom alone.
(09/01/05 9:00am)
Now that I am at Dartmouth, I have begun to learn what being gay actually means. But I had no idea how my sexual identity was inextricably linked to a wider, ineffaceable context of history, culture, society and politics. In high school, I was out and proud when I began talking about my sexual experiences, but I did not have the intellectual or academic resources available at Dartmouth. I have a radical suggestion: we need more activism in the classroom, and by this I mean speaking what is on your mind and from your own experience among your fellow classmates.
(09/01/05 9:00am)
Arriving here from my hometown of Las Vegas, my first shock came at discovering that the vast majority of Dartmouth students appeared to read "The Official Preppy Handbook" not as anachronistic social satire but as the holy scriptures of fashion -- thou shall pop thy collars and wear four shirts at a time! In my mini-skirts and halter-tops, the only thing I had ever learned about "layering" was when I worked part-time as a cake decorator at Dairy Queen.
(09/01/05 9:00am)
Welcome! You'll be here before you know it and you're already developing a sense of the place; you feel the energy and vibrancy around you; you'll met people like you and some unlike you, and over-all you'll like what you see. Now, how do you adjust? In a word, be open, be willing to change, embrace the truth and realize that ultimately the only thing that you own is yourself.
(09/01/05 9:00am)
College students' reputation for idealism enjoys a mixed record. Many "adults" respect the passion with which college students pursue their political and social goals, while ridiculing the fanciful and unattainable nature of those goals. It's a difficult position. College students have the fervor and the passion to change the world, but lack the resources to do so. From a small town in rural New Hampshire, what can we do to make the world a better place?