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Several recent incidents of insensitivity and ignorance on campus have highlighted the need for increased community understanding.
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Several recent incidents of insensitivity and ignorance on campus have highlighted the need for increased community understanding.
At its meeting on Tuesday night, the Student Assembly voted to return $5,000 of its $30,000 yearly allocation to the Undergraduate Finance Committee in a resolution urging the College to increase funding for student organizations.
The College's decision to provide cable television access in residence hall rooms this winter is a pleasant surprise and a step in the right direction.
James Wright's inauguration yesterday as the 16th president of Dartmouth College marked the latest installation in the Wheelock succession, which will keep the College on its current, steady course into the next century.
Many students have informally voiced complaints about the fines on campus in the past, and it is timely that this be addressed as we begin preparations for the new school year. Congratulations to the Student Assembly for bringing this issue to the fore in their recent report to the Administration.
The Administration has listened to the concerns of students. They have heard the protests against the locked-door policy, and immediate plans for locking the campus have been canceled. They deserve praise for recognizing the dissent between the student body and its representatives.
Although last weekend's shortage of parties was a result of both the impending end of the term and the College's recently implemented alcohol policies, it demonstrates the Greek system's central role in campus social life.
The Student Assembly's recent decision to support the "two-key" policy proposed by Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels is laudable, but the Assembly's failure to solicit student input until after the vote is cause for concern.
With last week's proposed guidelines for monitoring student publications, the Committee on Student Organizations is treading a fine line between censorship and responsible supervision.
The discouragingly low voter turnout in this year's Student Assembly elections reveals the degree to which the Assembly has failed in its purpose of representing Dartmouth students.
Although Student Assembly elections begin today, students' apparent ignorance of and apathy toward the election process demonstrate the hazards of an inadequate campaign period.
With the departure of Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco today, Dartmouth students are losing one of their most fervent advocates in the administration.
By scheduling student elections for next Wednesday, the Election Advisory Committee has made a judgment error which will have negative consequences.
Dean of the College Lee Pelton's new alcohol policies are both a demonstration of Pelton's willingness to compromise and a commendable vote of confidence in the Dartmouth student body.
The appointment of James Wright to succeed President James Freedman as the sixteenth president of Dartmouth College is both a sensible decision and a resounding endorsement of the College's current path.
Kiewit's decision to collate documents from the public printers only on the half-hour is both unreasonable and unnecessary.
The announcement of this year's Commencement speaker, Doris Kearns Goodwin, has left manyDartmouthstudents surprised at both the speaker's identity and at the early date of the decision.
The impending departure of two more vital administrators enlarges the leadership vacuum currently plaguing the College.
Several recent acts of disrespect, trespassing and vandalism on campus have brought the often-ignored issue of College safety to the forefront of discussion.
Student Assembly Vice President Nahoko Kawakyu's resignation last night has brought the Assembly into the campus spotlight for the first time this year. Unfortunately, this sudden visibility is for all the wrong reasons.