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July 15, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Opinion

Olympic Wrap-up

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The 2002 Winter Olympics were officially brought to an end with last Sunday's closing ceremonies, concluding what many have called the most successful Olympics to date.


News

Linguistics to be a permanent program

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The Dartmouth faculty recently voted to elevate the linguistics and cognitive science program to permanent status, a sign of the program's success despite its somewhat humble beginnings, according to Provost Barry Scherr and linguistics program chair Lindsay Whaley. Members of Dartmouth's faculty first examined starting a linguistics program in the early 1970s, according to Scherr.



Opinion

Responsible Reporting

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Over the course of a recent weekend, Dartmouth hosted the biggest meeting of Ivy League student environmentalists that has ever taken place at the College, with the fourth-annual Greening of the Ivies conference.


Opinion

The Week

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Changing the Average The College's decision in 1994 to publish the course median grades on transcripts attempted to provide a context to judge students' marks and to hold each professor accountable for grade inflation.


News

Mission rev. gets mixed reaction

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Leaders of various student organizations expressed mixed feelings about the College's proposed new mission statement in interviews with The Dartmouth. While most praised the draft mission statement as a step in the right direction, several expressed concerns that Dartmouth has not committed itself firmly enough to fostering diversity.


News

Students protest Arctic oil drilling

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A 10-foot-tall cardboard oil rig and chains of aluminum-can pipeline were the props for dozens of demonstrators who stopped students crossing the Green yesterday afternoon during a protest of potential oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Yesterday's collaborative effort of campus environmental groups was part of the "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Day of Action," one of the initiatives that was agreed upon at last week's "Greening of the Ivies" conference at Dartmouth attended by environmentalists from all eight Ivy League institutions. "Care about caribou," Brent Reidy '05 yelled at passersby.


Opinion

Coming to an Understanding

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It's been a long time. After weeks away from the burden of confronting my own thoughts, I'm back at the keyboard because something written in The Dartmouth this term has finally captured my fancy -- or, rather, my disgust and sorrow -- to the extent that I feel an overpowering urge to pour out my guts and do whatever is within my grasp to provide hope for the campus I yearn for.


News

Police make arrest in art vandalism case

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The search for answers in the vandalism of student artwork in Clement Hall and the Hopkins Center may have come to a close on Wednesday evening, when Hanover Police arrested Emily Lewis '02 in Watertown, Mass. Lewis will face charges of criminal mischief at an arraignment scheduled for April 23, Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone said.



Sports

Struggling hoopsters hope to declaw Bears, Bulldogs

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The Dartmouth men's basketball team heads down to Providence and New Haven for its final two showdowns of the season this weekend. This evening the Big Green (2-10, 9-16) plays the Bears of Brown University (6-6, 15-10), a team that features freshman standout point guard Jason Forte and Ivy League player-of-the-year candidate Earl Hunt. Saturday night's game against the Yale Bulldogs (9-3, 17-9) provides the Big Green ballers with an opportunity to play the spoiler in a tightly contested race for the Ivy title, as Yale vies with both Penn and Princeton for first-place honors on the final weekend of the regular season. Coming into tonight's match-up at the Pizzitola Center on Brown's campus, the Big Green carries the unfortunate burden of a four-game losing streak.


News

Night owls may live longer: UCSD study

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At 3:45 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, there are still a handful of students in Novack Caf, hunched over laptops and textbooks, alternately typing, flipping through notes and frantically swigging coffee.


News

Bob Jones U. attempts to recruit minorities

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Bob Jones University, a Christian school in South Carolina that has received national criticism for its now-abolished ban on interracial dating, has begun to offer a scholarship program for minority students, though the school does not perceive itself as having a race issue. The scholarships range from $2,000 up to $10,000 -- approximately the cost of attendance at BJU -- and are available for minority students who demonstrate financial need. The scholarship fund is controlled by a board independent of the university, described by BJU spokesperson Jonathan Pait as "friends of the school." "They saw a need and wanted to address it," Pait said. The university itself offers only work/study aid programs, and government aid is denied to students because of the school's religious orientation.


Opinion

One Nation Under God

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There was once a time when I could say proudly that my country was truly a land where the separation of church and state was the rule.


News

Professors discuss 'axis of evil'

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The United States will enter into a war with Iraq in the near future, religion Professor Kevin Reinhart predicted yesterday at a panel discussion of "the axis of evil" comment made by President George W.