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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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Couture: Perpetuating Partisan Rhetoric

By Amy Couture | May 8, 2012

In his recent column comparing President Barack Obama's slogans "Change" and "Forward" to Mitt Romney's "pathetic" catchphrase "Believe in America," Benjamin Schwartz uses overtly biased language and damaging assumptions to incorrectly characterize Romney's campaign and personal character ("What's in a Slogan?" May 7). Schwartz relates Romney's motto to the "birther movement," arguing that it taps into some of his supporters' racist and xenophobic sentiments as part of a larger intentional strategy calling on voters to "fear Obama's foreignness." By doing so, Schwartz contributes to the exact extremism he refutes, perpetuating the partisan rhetoric that runs rampant in our increasingly superficial political culture. It is outlandish to deduce such a hostile meaning from a phrase as generic as "Believe in America." Schwartz may be right to argue that Romney's slogan is unoriginal or mundane.

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Blair: Modern Malaise

By Peter Blair | May 8, 2012

On the whole, if we know what a person thinks about any one given political issue, we can usually guess where he or she stands on most other issues.

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Brooks: Learning from Tragedies

By David Brooks | May 7, 2012

On May 2, Junior Seau took his own life with a gunshot to the chest. His was the third in a string of suicides by former NFL players, and his death brought national attention to the subject of traumatic brain injury in football. I grew up on the border of California in the town of Yuma, Ariz.

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Yang: Performing Gender

By Lorelei Yang | May 7, 2012

We are categorized into a gender before we are even born, squeezed and confined into tightly defined conceptual boxes for the sake of easy identification.

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Chang: Disgraceful Disparity

By Lulu Chang | May 6, 2012

As a 19-year-old, I don't claim to have the skills necessary to fix the world's problems. In all honesty, as I get older, it becomes increasingly difficult even to address my own.

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Casler: A Timely Trip

By Don Casler | May 3, 2012

President Barack Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday was a well orchestrated and ostensibly nonpartisan move in advance of what is sure to be a bitter general election fight against presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

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Verbum Ultimum: Expanded Options for All

Last week, the Housing Office announced that it would expand gender-neutral housing next fall to include Mid-Massachusetts Hall, the Lodge and sections of New Hampshire Hall ("College to expand gender-neutral housing options in fall," April 26). This change marks a positive step toward increasing housing flexibility, giving students the option to live with whomever they want in a wider variety of rooms without committing to the programming required of the affinity housing program in Fahey-McLane Hall. Increasing gender-neutral housing options has been one of the primary desires of Dartmouth's LGBT community and of other students involved with gender and sexuality issues on campus.

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Miller: Scapegoating Webster Avenue

By Zack Miller | May 2, 2012

In her recent column, Dani Valdes takes a shortsighted and illogical stance against Greek life on campus ("Letting Go of a Broken Past," April 30). Valdes displays a fundamental disconnect from reality by naively encouraging our college to commit budgetary suicide in order to appease a vocal minority who want to abolish the Greek system, as many of the alumni who donate consistently to the College are proudly Greek.

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Feiger: The Power of Collective Voice

By Leah Feiger | May 2, 2012

Jennifer Tyrrel is an engaged, passionate and caring mother. She was the den leader of her son's Tiger Cub Scout group and performed community service work with the boys for soup kitchens, the local Salvation Army and local environmental groups.

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Talwai: What D Shouldn't Call Me

By Aaditya Talwai | May 1, 2012

Recently, a friend pointed me to the Tumblr blog "What Should D' Call Me," specifically to a short clip of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, wearing an expression on his face that I find hard to describe.

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