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Mehring: Repeal Without Reason

By Adam Mehring | January 16, 2012

Amidst the confluence of corporate corruption, government intrusion, constitutional neglect, rising unemployment and oscillating stock indexes, the New Hampshire legislature has decided to focus on a comparatively immaterial policy matter: repealing the legalization of same-sex marriage. Last October, amid the considerable civic turmoil whipping through our world, the New Hampshire legislature began the process of repealing the legalization of same-sex marriage, initially signed into law by Governor John Lynch two years prior in June 2009.

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Rubin: The New Grand Strategy?

By Alex Rubin | January 11, 2012

This past Thursday, President Barack Obama announced a new strategy for our nation's armed forces for the upcoming era of "austerity." The president outlined a plan whereby the $489 billion in budget cuts over the next 10 years would be part of a larger strategy of reducing U.S.

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Laskaris & Sheehy: Defending Our Student-Athletes

By Maria Laskaris and Harry Sheehy | January 9, 2012

The Dartmouth's most recent editorial ("Verbum Ultimum: Reassessing Recruitment," Jan. 6) did a tremendous disservice to Dartmouth's varsity student-athletes, denigrating both their academic credentials and their athletic achievements. Based on an isolated fragment of data from an article in The New York Times, the editorial made sweeping assertions about the academic qualifications of Dartmouth's student-athletes.

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Yang: No ID, No Vote, No Rights

By Lorelei Yang | January 9, 2012

In the Iowa primary, Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum in an outcome that may have seemed, to many observers, like a repeat of Florida's Bush versus Gore standoff in the 2001 presidential race.

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Vox Clamantis: Another View of Recruitment

By John Engelman '68 | January 9, 2012

To the Editor: Regarding your editorial ("Reassessing Recruitment," Jan. 6), here is another way of looking at the admissions of recruited of student-athletes: Since the admissions process is highly subjective at Dartmouth as it is at the other Ivy institutions, Stanford University, Duke University, Northwestern University, etc.

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Lohse: Instruments of Tyranny

By Andrew Lohse | January 8, 2012

Richard Nixon only got it half right when he wrote during the Reagan years: "At present we occupy a treacherous no man's land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them." Nixon's words were those of a man who had nothing left to lose American presidents seldom have the wherewithal to speak the truth until they have left office.

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Vandewalle: Responsibility to Protect

By Dirk Vandewalle | January 5, 2012

The civil war in Libya was an important event not only in its own right, but also because it served as a test case for multilateral crisis diplomacy, and for the United Nations sponsored principle of "responsibility to protect," nicknamed R2P.

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Kim: Occupy the Future

By Yoo Jung Kim | January 4, 2012

I hadn't planned on venturing beyond the microcosm of Hanover during my interim stay at Dartmouth, but when a former floormate invited me to tour around Boston in mid-December, I eagerly accepted.

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