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April 15, 2026
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Competing Visions

By Raza Rasheed | April 12, 2011

Years of cutting taxes, expanding benefits and rising health care costs with some unfortunate demographic trends sprinkled in for good measure have finally created a long-term fiscal outlook so daunting that not even our elected representatives can ignore it.

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Shared Sacrifice

By John Lee | April 12, 2011

As I passed Collis last Tuesday in the rain, I saw a group of protesters demanding fairer compensation for Dartmouth staff members.

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Pedde: Breaking the Monopoly

By Jonathan Pedde | April 11, 2011

Dartmouth students have many complaints about Dartmouth Dining Services: The food is too expensive, the food is bland, the service is slow and, to top it off, College administrators make changes without bothering to seek out our opinions.

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Solomon: Innovating to the Top

By Brian Solomon | April 11, 2011

When describing Dartmouth to an outsider, the first descriptor that comes to mind is often: "Small, but not too small." Perhaps it's silly to hedge my summary of Dartmouth, but most of our descriptions are actually equivocations.

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Hicks: Modeling Clay

By Jasper Hicks | April 10, 2011

Last week, both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., delivered speeches on the Senate floor during which they invoked the legacy of Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser" of the 19th Century.

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Buntz: Stuck in the Mental DMZ

By Sam Buntz | April 6, 2011

Our generation is largely focused on agreement. We're not a group that defines ourselves through dissent as those who came of age in the '60s did, and with the rise of the internet's ability to create an even more extensively shared mass culture than TV, it has become all the easier to plug into the same matrix of social enthusiasms.

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Rosenbaum: Reality Check

By Lauren Rosenbaum | April 6, 2011

What many of us '11s wouldn't give to be wide-eyed freshmen again to believe, as Louis Wheatley suggests, that the euphoria we felt during Dimensions and Dartmouth Outing Club Trips would last throughout our college careers ("The Flair Effect," Apr.

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Colaneri: What About My Cookie?

By Natalie Colaneri | April 4, 2011

Changes to the eligibility requirements for Student Assembly presidential and vice presidential candidates introduced this year have recently sparked discussion among the student body about whether a formerly suspended student should be able to run for an Assembly executive position ("The Parkhursted President," April 1). I have had much difficulty solidifying my opinion on this topic, mostly because I am a staunch proponent of second chances. However, I have come to believe that the Election and Planning Advisory Committee is correct in banning anyone who has been suspended from the College from running for an executive position in the Assembly. Whenever I think of Student Assembly, I am taken back to a night this past fall when I was living in the Mclaughlin Cluster.

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Wheatley: The Flair Effect

By Louis Wheatley | April 4, 2011

Come Dimensions next week, students accepted to the class of 2015 will flock to campus for what is arguably one of the most unique prospective student events in the country.

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VOX CLAMANTIS

By Will Hix | April 4, 2011

To the Editor: In Friday's Verbum Ultimum ("The Parkhursted President," April 1), The Dartmouth Editorial Board "urge[d] EPAC to reconsider its decision" to prohibit previously suspended students from running for student body president and vice president.

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Blair: K.D.S.

By Peter Blair | April 3, 2011

College President Jim Yong Kim is unpopular among many students these days. Many pieces have been published in The Dartmouth criticizing our president, from Verbums to opinion columns to Mirror articles.

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Batchelor: Leaving the Path

By Jacob Batchelor | March 31, 2011

None of us are perfect. Well, maybe you are, but I sure as hell am not. Each day, I make some error of judgment, have some flaw in my reasoning or simply misinterpret words or actions.

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