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The Dartmouth
April 17, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Lessons From Hogwarts

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And so it ends. After seven books and eight movies, after all the midnight release parties and standing in front of Borders with our nerdy glasses and fake wands, the magical journey that has captivated our generation like none other comes to a sad end today with the theatrical release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.



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Tax CO2, Too

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We must do something. This is something, therefore we must do it. This is a seductive fallacy, especially when the problem is as dire as climate change.


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A Eulogy for the Newspaper

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I once wrote a freelance article titled "How the newspaper can win over the next generation" that ran on the opinion pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer a 149-year-old daily.





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Kim: Chasing the DREAM

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I landed on American soil in August 1999 as a dependent listed on my father's work visa. I attended a public school while my parents set up a small Teriyaki store and paid their taxes, with the hope that we would eventually gain our permanent residency.




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The Wild, Wild Web

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Take a hypothetical Dartmouth student in her typical day. She'll wake up in the morning and blitz her friends before heading off to class.



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Cure for Misinformation

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In February 2010, The Lancet, a preeminent British medical journal, retracted a 1998 article that established a possible link between measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines and the development of bowel disease and autism in young children.


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Office Ontologies

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It seems there are certain types of people you find only in the offices of white-collar America. There are the classic stereotypes water cooler guy, toady, troll and then there are the bona fide loons, the true idiosyncrasies, the specimens listed below for whom no amount of education can prepare you.


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Wang: Let's Be Reasonable

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College President Jim Yong Kim definitely has his faults. His administration has much to improve when it comes to transparency, many pressing problems facing the College are still not properly addressed and some of the policy changes passed under his watch are downright preposterous.


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Vox Clamantis

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To the Editor: Although Dartmouth women long ago achieved parity in admissions, they have certainly not yet attained equality on campus.


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Clark: Humane Expectations

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In his Presidential Lecture last summer, College President Jim Yong Kim demonstrated one of his own "habits of mind" when he said that at Dartmouth, "We are in the business of building better human beings that can take on the world's troubles and make them better." While in the past I've been primarily critical of the second half of that statement ("Tilting at the World's Troubles," Jan.


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Kim: Pan-Asian Misconception

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Last week, I scoured through Topside, trying to spend as much non-refundable money from my Declining Balance Account as possible by splurging on enough food to last me through finals.