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Murphy: The Grass is Always Greener

By James Murphy | November 29, 2011

A Dartmouth professor recently told a colleague: "Everything I teach my undergrads will be obsolete in 10 years." He attempted to introduce his undergraduate students to the frontiers of research in his own special field and those frontiers are constantly moving.

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Batchelor: Wake Up, N00bs

By Jacob Batchelor | November 29, 2011

The internet is in danger. Actually though.Under the terms of two recently introduced companion bills, the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act, the internet as we know it could come to an end.

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Lohse: Damning Indifference

By Andrew Lohse | November 28, 2011

As Dartmouth's annual term of fraternity hazing finally culminates in hell nights this week, less secret violence is attracting news in the country at large.

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Feiger: Gobbled Up with Gratitude

By Leah Feiger | November 27, 2011

There is a little something about Thanksgiving that makes everything seem so much better. Perhaps it's that everything smells like cinnamon, or maybe it's the bountiful and mouthwatering feasts that make the holiday so anticipated.

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Wheatley: A Little Holiday Magic

By Louis Wheatley | November 27, 2011

About two weeks ago, long before cable news networks started squawking about "holiday trees" and Dirt Cowboy stocked up on eggnog, this holiday season's Christmas tree was planted in middle of the Green.

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Water Wars

By Lorelei Yang | November 21, 2011

Some policy analysts have predicted the outbreak of "water crises" caused by large, water-poor nations like China attacking smaller, water-rich areas like Tibet while seizing resources at a terrible cost to human life.

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Vox Clamantis

By Mary Cromwell | November 21, 2011

To the Editor: At Dartmouth, we often get so wrapped up in our social and academic lives, that we can be blind to the way we interact as a community, and what our actions represent.

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Brooks: Honorable Relations

By David Brooks | November 20, 2011

Although it feels like so long ago that I was confusedly eyeing a map and carrying way too many papers as I walked around campus, I am not that far removed from Orientation week.

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Mehring: Stop the Slurs

By Adam Mehring | November 17, 2011

The word "faggot" is unforgivably offensive. The same goes for "fag." You might think I'm stating the obvious here, but, much to my persistent dismay, not everyone including many on this campus seem able to grasp this concept. Last week, someone within our community scrawled the word "fag" on a residence hall window.

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Poddar: Share the Cost

By Keshav Poddar | November 15, 2011

On Veterans Day last Friday, Dean of the Tucker Foundation and College Chaplain Richard Crocker wrote a letter exhorting "those of us who have been spared the horror of war to remember those who have suffered in it" ("Vox Clamantis," Nov.

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Casler: Healthy Deference

By Don Casler | November 15, 2011

With the Supreme Court's decision Monday to review the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's individual mandate that all citizens either purchase health insurance or pay a penalty, the health care reform debate has inched another step closer to a legal resolution.

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Batchelor: Frack Fracking

By Jacob Batchelor | November 14, 2011

Last week, Kevin Francfort '15 argued that although it is "important to remember" the environmental concerns posed by hydraulic fracturing, a controversial mining practice used to extract natural gas, our nation should support the technique even if that support comes at the cost of pursuing renewable and clean energy technologies ("In Favor of Fracking," Nov.

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