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Short Answer

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | October 31, 2010

Friday's Verbum Ultimum concerned President Jim Yong Kim's discussion of binge drinking and sexual assault at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM: Teachable Moment?

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | October 28, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim broke convention with his decision to address the issues of sexual assault and binge drinking at Monday's termly meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences ("Faculty praise Kim's topic choice for talk," Oct.

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Livin' la Vida Loko

By Spenser Mestel | October 28, 2010

Four Loko has everything young people enjoy most: caffeine, malt liquor, exotic flavors, a suspiciously low price tag, zany Spanish words spelled incorrectly and the visual irony of a can that features neon colors as camouflage.

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A College By Any Other Name?

By Mark Andriola | October 27, 2010

I have a confession: I came to Dartmouth partly because of its prestige. I appreciate that it is a member of a remarkably well-known group of universities.

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Explicit Signals

By Roger Lott | October 27, 2010

Walking past Dartmouth Hall this Wednesday, I couldn't help but notice three jack-o-lanterns sitting on the front steps of the building.

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Entitled Education

By Charles Clark | October 26, 2010

Dartmouth alumni tend to know a little something about money (see Timothy Geithner '83, Henry Paulson '68), but Alfred Valerie '01 seems to be an exception.

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The Rush to Judgment

By Matthew Stumpf | October 26, 2010

Like many Dartmouth movers and shakers before me, I spent one of my off terms trying to save the world in a developing country.

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Struggle or Farce?

By Sam Buntz | October 25, 2010

I've been having trouble, lately, throwing myself into the struggle. I realize that we currently have a massive political battle going on, which will determine our national destiny, but I have been approaching it more as a farce, by which I am entertained, than as a battle in which I am a participant.

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Don't Forget the People

By Yoo Jung Kim | October 25, 2010

Growing up, I often listened to stories about my grandfather, a Pyongyang native who witnessed the end of the Japanese occupation after World War II with strong optimism for the future of Korea.

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Whither the Reasonable Republican?

By Jonathan Pedde | October 24, 2010

Reading the op-ed pages of America's left-of-center newspapers, it would seem that the Republican Party is being overrun by angry, homophobic, anti-immigrant crackpots.

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A New Normal

By Elizabeth Hoffman | October 24, 2010

In general, I support any writing that advocates for women's or victims' empowerment. However, as a feminist and active promoter of sexual assault awareness and prevention, I cannot fully back Thursday's article by Natalie Colaneri '12 ("Empowering Victims," Oct.

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The Problem with Prestige

By Yoo Jung Kim | October 21, 2010

In addition to the nipping cold and the drifting leaves, the sight of Dartmouth tour guides leading packs of eager applicants and parents is a telling sign that the never-ending college admission cycle is in session.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM: The World's Troubles...

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | October 21, 2010

Pick a topic: The College's ban on local sororities; Hanover Police's attack on Greek life and the Good Samaritan policy; the pervasive threat of sexual assault; class oversubscription; an ineffective residential life policy; the lingering consequences of budget cuts.

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Vox Clamantis: Procurement Update

By Tammy Moffatt, Director of Procurement Services | October 21, 2010

Procurment Update To the Editor, We would like to clarify and correct some of the information that reporter Jenny Che presented in her article, "Staff criticize procurement changes" (October 19, 2010). The article states, "Copy machines throughout campus were replaced as part of a switch to W.B.

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Poddar: Don't Coddle Us

By Keshav Poddar | October 20, 2010

Last week, The Dartmouth reported that 14 students met to discuss possible changes in the Homecoming bonfire tradition ("Group Works to Improve Bonfire," Oct.

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Privacy? Please.

By Chris Talamo | October 20, 2010

Facebook is in a lose-lose situation when it comes to our privacy. On the one hand, the website can't seem to shake the perennial privacy leak, which must be the fault of either the company itself or one of its applications.

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Empowering Victims

By Natalie Colaneri | October 19, 2010

In the past few weeks, there has been plenty of discourse on the pervasiveness of sexual assault at Dartmouth.

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An International Presence

By Ethan Wang | October 19, 2010

The Dartmouth bubble. Almost everyone agrees it exists, and the columnists on these pages have sure spent a lot of time pondering it.

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The ‘V' Word

By Mayuka Kowaguchi | October 18, 2010

Yesterday, hand-held mirrors were sent to the Hinman boxes of the 1,796 female students on campus this term, with a note encouraging them to use the mirror to look at their vulva.

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Some Assembly Required

By Josh Kornberg | October 18, 2010

The recent column by Mark Andriola '14 ("Who cares?" Oct. 12) mixes fallacy and apology with a healthy coat of solipsism.