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Corporate Rush

By Lauren Rosenbaum | November 30, 2010

Watching my portfolio-clutching peers rush to interviews in suits and heels, I can't help but think of going through sorority rush two years ago (replace the portfolios with nametags decorated with stickers from CVS). "Who are you interviewing with?" "Where did you get asked back for round two?" "Do you think the Bain interviewer will judge me for wearing this skirt?" "Do you think the girls in (house X) would judge me for wearing these shoes? "I can't believe he got at interview with Goldman and I didn't!

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Losing Focus

By Roger Lott | November 29, 2010

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal this March, College President Jim Yong Kim asserted that the actual annual cost of educating a Dartmouth undergraduate is approximately $100,000.

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Positive Expectations

By Rustam Jamilov | November 29, 2010

Economics is a science of cycles, and cycles are the very nature of life. Prosperity and growth only follow after the grim periods of recessions.

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Dartmouth Secure

By Suril Kantaria | November 28, 2010

Not too long ago an undergraduate advisor in Mid-Massachusetts hall, where I live, blitzed all residents to inform us that over the weekend, someone had entered the building and destroyed multiple windows, television screens and the vending machine glass.

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Committing to Memory

By Sam Buntz | November 28, 2010

I have a considerable amount of nostalgia for the 19th century. This is possibly misplaced after all, we have abolished slavery, discovered penicillin, etc.

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Playing Chicken with the Future

By Jonathan Pedde | November 21, 2010

The United States federal government is headed for a fiscal train wreck. It has made significant spending commitments primarily on defense, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid but does not have a tax system that will produce enough revenue to meet these commitments in the future.

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Wrong and "Wrong"

By Lauren Rosenbaum | November 21, 2010

In responding to the two recent columns by Jordan Osserman '11, Intra-Fraternity Council President Tyler Brace '11 wrote, "[Osserman] cannot understand that wearing a uniform or carrying a lunchbox surely a traumatizing and dehumanizing experience for all is actually a mark of honor for pledges who choose to demonstrate their pride in becoming a part of something greater than themselves," ("Right' and Wrong," Nov.

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"Right" and Wrong

By Tyler Brace | November 18, 2010

Correction Appended In his recent article "Right and Right' (Nov. 18)," Jordan Osserman quips: "I guess that means I'd better start apologizing to the Interfraternity Council." While doubtless intended as a snide remark to further belittle our fine institution, it is actually the best idea he has had yet.

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Right and "Right"

By Jordan Osserman | November 17, 2010

Apparently words have more power than I thought. Last Saturday, I was hanging out with a group of poets visiting from Washington University who wanted to see a "Dartmouth party." A friend and I took them over to a fraternity that was hosting one.

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Survey Says

By Chris Talamo | November 17, 2010

If there is one thing that Dartmouth students are great at, it's knowing how to complain, loudly and often.

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Reasonable Expectations

By Emily Baxter | November 16, 2010

Of all the lessons I have learned at Dartmouth, the most important may be: Try to help change the world for the better; don't try to save it. The difference between facilitating change and attempting to rescue the world from its ills may seem largely semantic, but there is a difference in meaning, too.

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Making Our DBA Count

By Sarah-Marie Hopf | November 16, 2010

On June 3, I used my leftover DBA to donate over 150 pounds of fresh fruit, yogurt, vegetables, milk and orange juice from Dartmouth's dining halls to Willing Hands, a local organization fighting hunger in the Upper Valley. While some of us at Dartmouth find ourselves with unspent DBA at the end of the term, members of our local community including children, veterans and working families, find themselves unsure of from where their next meals will come. Like other students, I had to ask myself: "What do I do with my leftover DBA?" Students have found pragmatic solutions.

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Off the Beaten Path

By Lauren Rosenbaum | November 15, 2010

Even before matriculation, Dartmouth impresses upon its students that Language Study Abroad and Foreign Study Programs are integral to the "Dartmouth experience" and are the "best" ways to study abroad.

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Short Answer

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | November 14, 2010

Friday's Verbum discussed persistent race issues at Dartmouth. What can be done to bring more students of different backgrounds together on campus? It's up to students themselves to understand their own tendencies to self-segregate and decide whether or not to break away from them.

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Sophistical Students

By Peter Blair | November 11, 2010

As those who have had the opportunity to read Plato know, Socrates' archenemies were the group of professional teachers and rhetoricians known as Sophists.

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