Opinion

Yang: Silencing Students

By Lorelei Yang | July 9, 2012

Last week, the New Hampshire legislature overrode Governor John Lynch's veto on a bill requiring photo identification to vote in elections, thereby passing one of the most draconian voter ID laws in the United States.

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Pedde: A Depressing Fallacy

By Jonathan Pedde | July 5, 2012

In its decision in National Federation of Independent Businesses v.

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Sinclair: Back to the Future

By Katie Sinclair | July 5, 2012

I remember it like it was yesterday. Actually, that's not true I remember it like it was almost two years ago, a warm sunny day in September.

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Pedde: Blame Yourself, Not the Court

By Jonathan Pedde | July 2, 2012

Correction appended About a week ago, I overheard a rather distressing conversation between several students.

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Mehring: Live Free or Die?

By Adam Mehring | July 2, 2012

What do New Hampshire seat belt laws have to do with the Affordable Care Act? The connection may not seem apparent at first.

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From the Summer Editorial Board: A Momentous Decision

By The Summer Editorial Board | June 28, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling on Thursday to uphold key provisions of the Affordable Care Act has sent shock waves through the public psyche.

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Wheatley: Let Them Vote

By Louis Wheatley | June 28, 2012

Although I've only been of voting age for two years of my life, I haven't missed an election yet, either local or federal.

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Casler: Merely a Means to an End?

By Don Casler | June 25, 2012

As I groggily emerged from my post-meetings slumber last Thursday, I hit the snooze button on my alarm and scanned through my blitzes.

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Ramesh: Incestuous Myths

By Chandrasekar Ramesh | June 25, 2012

You support gay marriage, so you must be gay, right? A person asking this question would be laughed out of most conversations.

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West: A Heavy Weight to Bear

By Ryan West | June 21, 2012

When I was in the Marine Corps, my issued weapon was an M4 carbine. It was light, compact, accurate and easy to handle.

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Brooks: Focus on Policy, Not Politics

By David Brooks | June 21, 2012

As the summer progresses, the presidential election season will pick up steam. Battleground states will see ever more attack advertisements, and the American public can look forward to further swipes back and forth between the candidates, increased media scrutiny, the veepstakes and, of course, more debates.

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Hoyt: Inequality and Unpaid Labor

By Hannah Hoyt | May 29, 2012

As Spring term comes to an end, the discussion of summer jobs rises to the forefront of our conversations.

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Batchelor: Making the Most of Time

By Jacob Batchelor | May 29, 2012

A friend of a friend, a girl I never really knew, died in a car accident this past weekend, just days after graduating from Yale University. No one ever really knows what to say when a tragedy happens because there is nothing to say, not really.

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Joung: Leveling the Playing Field

By Nick Joung | May 28, 2012

When I was in elementary school, I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Since then, I have been given extra time on every test from pop quizzes to the ACT and the SAT until this year, when I stopped asking for it.

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Colaneri: Be Yourself

By Natalie Colaneri | May 28, 2012

In a few days, I will be graduating with the rest of the Class of 2012. When I look back on the last four years, I feel privileged to have gotten to know many students here who are not only incredibly intelligent, but also kind and empathetic to the needs of others.

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Wheeler: More Than an Object

By Katie Wheeler | May 24, 2012

The first time my friends and I descended into a frat basement, we were immediately confronted with the eager whisperings of upperclassmen: "She's cute.

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Verbum Ultimum: Searching for Participation

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 24, 2012

Over the past two weeks, Presidential Search Committee Chairman Bill Helman '80 and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Stephen Mandel '78 have sought input from the student body about which qualities to look for in Dartmouth's 18th president.

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Brooks: Shouting from the Rooftops

By David Brooks | May 23, 2012

In 2006, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in a concurring opinion on the death penalty case Kansas v.

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Pedde: The Danger of Statistics

By Jonathan Pedde | May 23, 2012

In our day and age, empirical evidence from scientific study is held in high regard. Perhaps as a result, supposedly "scientific" data are often used in political debates to show how one political position is "better" than another.

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Zehner: The Dartmouth Brand

By Nicholas Zehner | May 22, 2012

It's no longer possible to escape from the reality of a shrinking world. As bonds between the United States and the rest of the world become tighter, so too must the bonds between the rest of the world and Dartmouth.

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