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June 26, 2026
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Francfort: Putting Country Over Party

By Kevin Francfort | May 1, 2012

It's no secret that the political climate in the United States is currently tense. Conflict between Republicans and Democrats seems to affect nearly every big issue this election cycle, from President Barack Obama's decision to put off authorization of the Keystone XL Pipeline until after the elections in November to the House Republicans' repeated attempts to repeal key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Americans have been disappointed in policymakers' inability to reach compromises.

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Vox Clamantis

By Helen Damon-Moore | May 1, 2012

To the Editor, While Lulu Chang highlighted an important issue in her recent column about education in the Upper Valley ("Inequity in Our Backyard," April 24), her broad generalizations about school quality with respect to socioeconomics missed the mark in some significant ways.

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Valdes: Letting Go of a Broken Past

By Dani Valdes | April 29, 2012

I spent the weekend of Dimensions of Dartmouth collecting signatures for a petition articulating the concerns that many prospective students and their parents have regarding Greek life on campus ("Petition circulates to prospective students," April 24). As I collected signatures, I had the opportunity to speak with parents of prospective students, who overwhelmingly expressed serious concerns about Greek life.

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Zeveloff: A Golden Kopportunity

By Dennis Zeveloff | April 26, 2012

The College announced yesterday that Wendy Kopp is the Class of 2012's Commencement speaker. I believe she is a speaker worthy of Dartmouth. In the past 20 years, Kopp has become the midwife of modern education reform.

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Vox Clamantis

By Chris O'Connell '13 | April 26, 2012

To the Editor: On Wednesday evening, I attended the performance of "Undue Influence" presented by the Hopkins Center, the theater department, the Office of the President and the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program and found the show to be a thought-provoking way to raise awareness about the pervasive issue of sexual assault on Dartmouth's campus. In recent months, senior administrators and student leaders have emphasized that sexual assault is an issue that extends beyond the Greek system it is a community-wide concern that requires all members of this campus to work together if we are to successfully address it.

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Wildes: A Crisis of Respect

By Sarah Wildes | April 24, 2012

We, the Panhellenic Council, feel it is necessary to take a public stance against the demeaning language in the alleged "pledge notes" distributed over the weekend.

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Chang: Inequity in Our Backyard

By Lulu Chang | April 23, 2012

For some, part of Dartmouth's charm is largely contingent on the existence of "the Dartmouth bubble." Being in the middle of nowhere, it becomes easy to forget that the world does, indeed, exist beyond our campus.

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Blair: Unproductive Accusations

By Peter Blair | April 22, 2012

Last Friday, Andrea Jaresova published a column criticizing Vita Clamantis' "Cemetery of the Innocents" display ("Unproductive Discourse," April 20). Jaresova's piece is a masterwork of misunderstanding, willful ignorance and fallacious reasoning.

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Zehner: Sacre Bleu

By Nicholas Zehner | April 22, 2012

While most Dartmouth students were likely preoccupied with the continuing roller coaster ride that is the Bruins-Capitals series or our men's soccer team's triumph over Cape Verde, the eyes of economists and political commentators were settled on France. In yesterday's French presidential election, neither President Nicholas Sarkozy nor his socialist challenger Francois Hollande could muster an outright majority of the vote, and the two candidates must proceed to a runoff election on May 6.

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