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(11/07/13 9:01pm)
In early September, children’s retailer Toys “R” Us revealed that it would cease gender-based labeling and marketing in its United Kingdom stores. The move was heralded by many as a step toward progress and gender parity, but the potential precedent set by Toys “R” Us, and the staggering implications of the retailer’s decision, has been underappreciated.
(10/30/13 11:00am)
Another term, another unflattering portrait of Dartmouth splayed across national headlines. But for anyone keeping score, not a single item in the leaked documents describing the hazing practices of Beta Alpha Omega fraternity was even the slightest bit shocking. The community’s response was also unsurprising: a lot of finger-pointing, excuse-making, satirizing and drumbeating. Indeed, this is hardly the first time that Dartmouth has been down this road.
(10/09/13 2:00am)
Dartmouth has a lot of problems. The ongoing tensions borne of the multiple clashing perspectives that make up our campus have been extensively chronicled in this very paper, discussed at length during myriad forums, committees and meetings over the past several years and, most recently, featured prominently in The New York Times. The expression "Dartmouth has a problem" has been uttered with such regularity that it has taken on a meaning of its own stripped of its initial significance to become an entirely new entity, a string of empty words or a meme.
(09/26/13 2:00am)
Perhaps one of Dartmouth's greatest strengths is its sense of community. Students have a propensity to make strong and lasting connections over their undergraduate careers. Some of this may be borne out of necessity the limited opportunities to escape our tiny campus both facilitates and necessitates plentiful intracommunity interaction. Alternately, we may just get close as a way to keep warm.
(05/21/13 2:00am)
With more than 1,400 undergraduate courses spread over 40 academic departments and interdisciplinary programs, Dartmouth provides access to an incredible wealth of learning opportunities. It would take 90 years of four-term, four-course loads to appraise Dartmouth's full academic menu, assuming, that additional courses are not introduced in the meantime.
(05/08/13 2:00am)
Does Dartmouth have a problem? The fact that opinions vary so wildly on this issue surely constitutes a problem itself. How is it that certain groups or individuals feel so adamantly one way, and others just as strongly in the opposite direction? How estranged from one another must we be that such passionately diametric opinions could divide our half square mile campus?
(04/25/13 2:00am)
There is no question that the past year has been a historic one in our nation for LGBT rights. Last November, same-sex marriage was enacted in three states by a voter referendum, while a fourth voted down a proposed constitutional amendment that would have prohibited same-sex marriage. Before last year, all previous state ballot initiatives had sought to outlaw same-sex marriage, and they succeeded every time. Multiple polls have shown that for the first time, a majority of Americans support legalizing same-sex marriage.
(04/11/13 2:00am)
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in two cases pertaining to same-sex marriage. In one case, two same-sex couples seek to invalidate a successful voter referendum, Proposition 8, that limited marriage in California to opposite-sex couples. In the second case, Edith Windsor is suing the federal government for levying estate taxes on property she inherited from her deceased spouse a tax she would not have faced had her spouse been a man, owing to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Regardless of the outcome for either plaintiff, the cases will stake their claim among the most important social questions ever to arise in the judiciary canon.
(03/06/13 4:00am)
It is widely understood that prolonged, chronic stress is more or less catastrophic to the human condition, and it is exactly that sort of unmitigated, unrelenting stress that comprises a cornerstone of the Dartmouth experience.
(02/15/13 4:00am)
Tensions are high on Dartmouth's campus. It is a condition that applies very much to our present academic term. But ask any alumnus or peel through the archives of this very paper, and you will find that high tensions have plagued our campus running decades back. Even as recent incidents of racial bias have been (predictably) disregarded by many as isolated occurrences or emergent symptoms of a greater hypersensitive hysteria, they in fact increase a tally of discriminatory actions that have been occurring consistently for years. For Dartmouth, it appears that it is the rule, rather than the exception, that intolerance should rear its ugly head.
(01/10/13 4:00am)
Is our government broken? If the question sounds dramatic, allow me to elucidate.
(08/17/12 2:00am)
It has been a bloody couple of weeks: a barrage of bullets at a midnight movie screening, a hate-fueled massacre at a Sikh temple, a shootout on the outskirts of a Texas university and now, most recently, a close call when a security guard thwarted a gunman's attempt to open fire at a "pro-family" organization in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
(07/03/12 2:00am)
What do New Hampshire seat belt laws have to do with the Affordable Care Act? The connection may not seem apparent at first. On the seatbelt issue, the state of New Hampshire takes its state motto, "Live Free or Die," to the literal extreme. Regulations that have significantly reduced death and injury from motor vehicle accidents in every other American state infringe too far upon individual liberties in New Hampshire. Living free from this governmental intrusion is literally worth dying for, apparently.
(02/24/12 4:00am)
This Sunday, the filmmaking world will celebrate the year in cinema at the 84th annual Academy Awards. Many consider the Oscars to represent the pinnacle of filmmaking accomplishment. To win one of those shiny naked gold man trophies remains an ultimate ambition whether for daydreaming tots reciting acceptance speeches in front of bathroom mirrors (I may or may not know something about this personally), or for film artists toiling within the industry today. After months of celebrity interviews, magazine features and pundit commentary, millions of eyes from around the globe will tune in to the ceremony. Morning headlines are sure to herald the evening's top prizes, including the ultimate distinction of "Best Picture," which reinforces the idea that "Oscar" is truly some indicator of artistic, or at least cultural, relevance.
(02/09/12 4:00am)
When I first learned that the Susan G. Komen foundation would no longer be funding breast cancer-related health services offered by Planned Parenthood, my initial feeling was one of excitement not because I supported the decision (not in any way imaginable), but because I foresaw the incredible backlash that would certainly occur. It was time for the impregnable "not-for-profit" Komen juggernaut to face the public scrutiny it has long deserved.
(01/17/12 4:00am)
Amidst the confluence of corporate corruption, government intrusion, constitutional neglect, rising unemployment and oscillating stock indexes, the New Hampshire legislature has decided to focus on a comparatively immaterial policy matter: repealing the legalization of same-sex marriage.
(11/18/11 4:00am)
The word "faggot" is unforgivably offensive. The same goes for "fag." You might think I'm stating the obvious here, but, much to my persistent dismay, not everyone including many on this campus seem able to grasp this concept.
(11/08/11 4:00am)
Much has been made of the fact that Dartmouth is noticeably, perhaps ostentatiously, rooted in tradition. "Lest the old traditions fail!" we proclaim as alumni pour back onto campus and our newest classmates race around a skyscraper of timber and flame. From a distance, Dartmouth's Homecoming festivities no doubt resemble some bizarre ritualistic sacrifice.
(10/11/11 2:00am)
On this year's National Coming Out Day, an annual occasion to celebrate and build support throughout the LGBT community, I think back on my own experience. The memory replays as vividly as a film I'm perched across from my sister, swaying anxiously as if carried by waves, and I felt seasick. What brought me to this moment was nearly a lifetime of guilt, confusion and dread, but my pain had finally crossed some threshold. "I'm gay." The words scraped and stuck to the back of my throat like swallowed shards of glass, but I was beginning to taste the sweetness of freedom.