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Yang: We're Not All Tiger Cubs

By Lorelei Yang | May 21, 2012

Last Monday, I attended City University of New York professor Cindi Katz's lecture, "Superman, Tiger Mother: Aspiration Management and the Child as Waste." Katz claimed that the "Asian mode of parenting" described in Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" is producing a society of strivers, in which the middle-class Asian family compels students to experience constant pressure to succeed in order to stay competitive.

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Vox Clamantis

To the Editor: In the year leading up to the recent Dartmouth Dance Theater Ensemble production of "Undue Influence," Dartmouth became an even more dangerous environment for women. According to the most recent Clery Act report, campus sexual assaults more than doubled in 2010 over the previous year.

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Vox Clamantis

We applaud the email that College President Jim Yong Kim sent on May 11 to the Dartmouth Community notifying us of two "bias incidents" and reiterating the College's condemnation of such acts ("Kim notifies campus of harassment incidents," May 14). We would, however, like to call attention to a May 14 blog post on Dartmouth Gender Sexuality XYZ. The post raises several important issues in response to Kim's letter with which we strongly agree.

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Miller: A Long Road to Democracy

By Zack Miller | May 20, 2012

Many experts have suggested that democracy is an inevitable byproduct of revolution and that in the wake of the Arab Spring, new Middle Eastern democracies will rise from the ashes of dead dictatorships to reflect the egalitarian views of the people.

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Schwartz: Not So Science Fiction

By Benjamin Schwartz | May 17, 2012

Author Ray Bradbury, famous for his dystopian visions of America's future, once called science fiction "the art of the possible." With the powerful effects of phenomena like Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns which states that information technology increases exponentially in power while simultaneously decreasing in size and cost showing up more and more obviously in our daily lives, it often feels as though the possible and the inevitable are converging. Think of Stanley Kubrick's blockbuster classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) co-written by esteemed sci-fi author Arthur Clarke.

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Pedde: Centralization Is Not a Cure-All

By Jonathan Pedde | May 16, 2012

On Tuesday afternoon, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a lecture on the global economy in which he argued that the world is becoming ever more interconnected and that many problems will need to be solved through greater international cooperation ("Brown discusses global economy," May 16). While Brown's argument is certainly true with regards to some pressing issues, further centralization of political power isn't a wise idea in general. The first part of Brown's argument is most certainly correct: "We are all part of an interdependent economy.

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Joung: A Hybrid Identity

By Nick Joung | May 16, 2012

Since 1819, Daniel Webster's famous assessment of our school has captivated generation after generation of Dartmouth students: "It is, sir, as I have said, a small college.

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Valrie: Skimping on Scholarships

By Alfred Valrie | May 15, 2012

The New York Times recently published an impressive piece about student loan debt. The amount of debt with which current college students are graduating is not only staggering, but it is burdensome to the point of nihilism.

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Rubin: Broadening Our Horizons

By Alex Rubin | May 14, 2012

Last Wednesday, former U.S. ambassador to China Winston Lord came to campus to discuss the "sweet and sour" relationship between the United States and China ("Winston Lord talks China relations," May 10). In his talk, he recommended that the United States work with China to build a Pacific community that would encourage mutual cooperation and foster progress on economic, humanitarian and political issues within an amicable framework.

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Short Answer

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | May 13, 2012

Last Friday, The Dartmouth Editorial Board praised Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson for making a greater effort in the last few weeks to engage with the student body.

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Batchelor: The Path of Progress

By Jacob Batchelor | May 10, 2012

On Wednesday afternoon during an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, President Barack Obama once again made history by becoming the first sitting president to publicly endorse gay marriage.

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Verbum Ultimum: A Step in the Right Direction

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 10, 2012

A month ago, The Dartmouth Editorial Board criticized Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson for her seeming disengagement from the student body ("Verbum Ultimum: Open the Door and Listen," April 13), and we were not the only group on campus to express frustration with the apparent disconnect between students and administrators.

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Zehner: Back to Africa

By Nicholas Zehner | May 9, 2012

In the West, it's popular to depict Africa as a perpetually demanding charity case. Recently, however, the continent has begun to demonstrate economic progress of the sort Western cynics can't easily dismiss.

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Kim: A Patented Solution

By Brian Kim | May 9, 2012

As I crossed paths with many of my fellow '15s and their families this past weekend, I fondly recalled that moment when I first showed my parents my acceptance letter to Dartmouth last year.

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