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Green's First Task

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 11, 2007

In order to achieve any campus-wide goals, Student Body President-elect Travis Green must first fix the fatally flawed infrastructure of Student Assembly, which will require that he cede his power over the formation of the Assembly's Executive Committee. The charge of the Executive Committee includes setting the Assembly's year-long agenda and the agenda for the weekly general meetings.

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SEC clarifies its position

By Luke Antal | May 10, 2007

To the Editor: I want to clarify that, while Shala Byers '07 is a member of the Senior Executive Committee, her op-ed ("The Merit of Meritocracy," May 10) does NOT represent the views of the SEC or its decision-making processes regarding class marshals, class historians and class orator as a whole. Byers' idea that only "[t]hose who were chosen for the positions of class marshals, historians and orator were chosen because their merits, skills and contributions to the College deserved recognition" is her own and not how the SEC functions: We do not advocate for a color-blind meritocracy. The various and diverse ways people "represent" and "contribute" to the College were a focal point of our internal discussions.

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Stick to the Issues

By Tim Dreisbach | May 10, 2007

Regarding "Regaining the Right Role" (May 9) by Doug Keare '56, responses by Association of Alumni petition candidates warrant consideration.

Staceyann Chin, the Center for Women and Gender's eighth annual Visionary in Residence, met with students at a dinner Wednesday.
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'Visionary' poet-activist gives reading

By Amanda Cohen | May 10, 2007

Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff Poet and activist Staceyann Chin recited four poems intermixed with personal reflection, observation and advice at a dinner Wednesday -- accepting her plaque and her place as the eighth annual Visionary in Residence at the Center for Women and Gender. Chin, who had the opportunity to sit in with students in classes, at Sexual Assault Peer Advisor training and at informal dinner and lunch discussions, said she wished to push students to take the curricular dialogue around race, class and gender issues and the respect they afford their peers within a classroom into their social and extracurricular spectra. Chin noted a tendency for students to "play liberal" in a formal setting, but lose that respect for others when the formality is lifted. "You have to find a way inside of yourself and say, 'You know what, the way that I treat my friend is not in congruence with my politics -- the way I treat my classmate, the way I talk to the women around me, the way I speak to the help around me' -- It has to begin with you," Chin said. Chin opened last night's dinner with her poem, "Imagination," which mixed laugh-provoking one-liners with her overall political call for activism. "Imagination is the bridge between the things you know for sure and the things you need to believe when your world becomes unbearable," she began. As she continued, Chin listed manifestations of classism, racism and sexism which make the world "unbearable." "I believe in monsters lurking under the bed because it gives our children something to conquer before the world begins to conquer them," she said. Chin directed her dialogue mostly to women, who composed the majority of the audience of students, faculty and administrators.

Opinion

Worth Risking It

By Kathleen Onufer | May 10, 2007

As we carry around the aftermath of Dartmouth's Alcohol Screening Day and its attendant social norm-displaying Nalgenes, I am forced to report some sad news.

Opinion

A True Competitor

By Harry Norton | May 10, 2007

When I was a junior in high school, I went to the New England High School Track and Field Championships held in Plymouth, Mass.

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The Merit of a Meritocracy

By Shala Byers | May 10, 2007

I would like to thank Amanda Rosenblum '07 for her positive, negative and abstract feedback on the SEC slate for class marshals, historians and orator ("Gratitude and Curiosity," May 8). I have to, however, respectfully disagree with her close-minded approach to the holistic process and penchant to destroy entire traditions that have been around for hundreds of years in one fell swoop. Though it is nice to see that the system is continually questioned, its ultimate destruction is not the solution and Rosenblum's suggestion of such raises a greater issue that affects Dartmouth and even the United States.

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Transfer Tales

By Daniel Belkin | May 10, 2007

For giddy high school seniors across the country, years of stressful schoolhouse preparation and anticipation for the "best years of their lives" recently culminated as prospies signed on the dotted line of an admissions offer and sealed their collegiate destiny, marking their most momentous decision to date.

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