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July 17, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Opinion

On the job education

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The passing of Green Key is a symbol that summer is just around the corner. Students of the College spend their summers in a variety of ways.


Opinion

Hopkins Institute should back off

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Recently, an organization of 2,000 Dartmouth alumni has been complaining about what they perceive to be an excessive number of administrators at the College. The group, called the Hopkins Institute, charges that the College is wasting money on these unnecessary employees and that the resulting bureaucracy is cluttering the administration.



Sports

A strong start for women's ultimate

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The women's ultimate frisbee team came close to qualifying for nationals this weekend at the Ultimate Frisbee Regional Tournament here at Dartmouth. The Frost Heaves, as all Dartmouth ultimate teams are known, went 2-2 over the weekend, losing to Columbia and Brown, but beating UVM and SUNY-Purchase. "We're only four years old," team member Amy Hannah '93 said.




News

College plans cuts to employee benefits

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The College's top two financial officers yesterday presented academic department heads with a plan to avoid a projected budget deficit by cutting the benefits packages given to all College employees.




News

1,064 enroll in '97 class

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The 1,064 students who plan to enroll as members of the Class of 1997 form "the strongest academic profile that Dartmouth has ever had," according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg. Furstenberg attributed the incoming class' strength to the increase in the total number of applications received this year.



News

English department adds course to major

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The English department will add requirements to its major starting with the Class of 1996, including an eleventh course chosen from a different department and a final culminating project. The department will also increase the number of courses required for an honors major from 10 to 13 and require that all honors majors write a senior thesis. "The English major felt kind of light to us," said Professor David Wykes, vice-chair of the department and chair of the Committee on Departmental Curriculum (CDC). "English majors were doing less work to get the major than a student at Dartmouth should. "It is unusual to have a 10-course major with no prerequisites," he said. Currently, English majors are required to take a course in each of four period groups (Medieval or Renaissance, 17th and 18th Centuries, 19th Century, 20th Century), a course examining a single author and five additional courses. In the past, students have petitioned the CDC to substitute courses from outside the department for credit on their major cards, Wykes said. "The effect of the change is that people will still take the outside course, but they will be forced to take more courses in the English department," Wykes said. Members of the Class of 1996 will have to satisfy the 10 existing requirements and then take an additional course in a related discipline outside the English department.



News

Thornburg calls for reforms within U.N.

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Former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh spoke on the need for personnel and financial reform within the United Nations last night before a large audience in Hinman Forum. Thornburgh, who also served as U.N.



Sports

Big Green's baseball final record improves over last year

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It's amazing how timing can warp perspective in sports. If the baseball team had only ended the season the way it started it and not the other way around, everyone would talk about the team's great season and how the program was headed on the up-swing and will contend for the Ivy League Title next year. Instead, it was the second half of the season that featured a nine-of-11 losing streak and the first half that saw the team jump out to a promising 10-6 start that filled Big Green baseball fans' heads with delusions of pennants. Make no mistake, the 1993 team was a much improved baseball team from its 1992 season.


News

Committee: Switch athletics to Division III

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Academic department chairs yesterday discussed a report that recommends moving Dartmouth athletic teams from National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I to Division III classification. The report, issued a year ago by the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid was presented at a meeting of the Committee of Chairs by Anthropology Professor Hoyt Alverson, who chairs the admissions and financial aid committee; Bob Ceplikas, an assistant to the Athletic Director and Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenburg . The report examined the implications of Division I recruiting on the College's budget and on the admissions process. Furstenberg said the report recommended switching to Division III or reforming athletic recruitment regulations within the Ivy League.



Opinion

Abortion debate part II -- is the fetus a human?

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In celebration of the end of this weekend's alcohol-consecrating festival, which I have personally found to be vastly superior to winter's pseudo-carnival, I will return to a suitably serious topic in order to get your brains moving past the hangovers from which you are undoubtedly suffering: abortion. In last week's column I set my goal at trying to refute that abortion was justified on the grounds that a person has sole control over her body and what she can do with it, although abortion is perhaps defensible on other grounds.


Sports

Ultimate frisbee hosts tournament

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As he walked off Sachem Field with a shirt that looked like the "before" picture in a detergent commercial and clumps of grass and mud clinging to his legs, ultimate frisbee team member Jordan Stern '94 bent down to pick up a rusty length of pipe and a weather-worn, heavily chipped piano leg. "We take them with us wherever we go.