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Clark: What's Work Worth?

By Charles Clark | February 6, 2011

Dartmouth has shed a lot of its WASPiness in recent decades. By my calculations (and by "calculations," I mean flipping through a couple yearbooks from the 1950s), the student body is roughly 50 percent less white and Anglo-Saxon than it was 60 years ago.

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Rasheed: Alliances with Autocrats

By Raza Rasheed | February 2, 2011

Since the beginning of the recent popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, debate has raged over the role that the United States should play in shaping these movements and the power transitions that they now seem likely to provoke.

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Wang: Credit Where It's Due

By Ethan Wang | February 2, 2011

Here at Dartmouth, we do not discriminate. Not against people, and certainly not against courses. I have a required x-hour for my organic chemistry class and a six hour lab every week where we labor over reactions until the cows come home.

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Cultivating Creativity

By Junine So | February 1, 2011

Last week, Sapna Chemplavil rightly pointed out that The Wall Street Journal had blatantly sensationalized Amy Chua's essay, "Why Asian Mothers Are Superior," by strategically choosing an excerpt and title that wasn't in line with the rest of Chua's memoir ("Polarizing Parenting," Jan.

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Talamo: The "T" Word

By Chris Talamo | February 1, 2011

It's a new year, meaning that while Americans are working out what their taxes are, a plethora of government offices are busy trying to make estimates of budget figures for both 2010 and 2011.

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Solomon: The 'Write' Stuff

By Brian Solomon | January 31, 2011

I've always thought it was odd that Dartmouth requires that its students can swim 50 yards before graduation, but not that they can write a coherent analytical essay of a few pages or more.

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Character Counts

By Josh Kornberg | January 27, 2011

This winter, the admissions committee will review approximately 21,000 applications applications from prize-winning researchers from California, track stars from New York and first-generation valedictorians from Massachusetts in search of the "best class ever." Every year it's the same, and 2011 offers no exception the stakes of admissions rise, the competition among applicants intensifies and the differences between those rejected and those accepted dissolves.

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Buntz: More Than ‘Skin' Deep

By Sam Buntz | January 26, 2011

"Life is a bitchin' party ..." "Life sucks ..." These two contrasting messages are entwined in the new MTV series "Skins." The show adapted from a British program has recently caused something of a fervor because it depicts underage actors and actresses, ranging from ages 15 to 17, getting high and having sex in the super intense nightlife atmosphere for which high schools are universally renowned. Some have gone so far as to accuse the show of being child pornography which, having watched the first two episodes in growing disgust and cranky disapproval, I can say is basically true.

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Colaneri: Money Matters

By Natalie Colaneri | January 25, 2011

Last week, Keshav Poddar '14 addressed race relations at Dartmouth ("The Ties That Bind," Jan. 19) and claimed that the Greek scene is inclusive of students of different backgrounds.

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Chemplavil: Polarizing Parenting

By Sapna Chemplavil | January 25, 2011

A few weeks ago, an excerpt from "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," a novel by Yale Law professor Amy Chua, was published in The Wall Street Journal under the title "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior." The excerpt promotes a caricatured depiction of Asian mothers as relentlessly strict.

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Clay: Language Limitations

By Andrew Clay | January 24, 2011

Students studying a language are often told that the best way to become fluent is not studying in a classroom, but rather immersing themselves in a country where that language is spoken.

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Lott: Break with Tradition

By Roger Lott | January 24, 2011

While listening to a '62 reminisce over Christmas dinner about the spirited traditions and rustic lifestyle he had known at Dartmouth, I couldn't help but share in some of his nostalgia.

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