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What About Us

By Emily Baxter | October 7, 2010

Over the past week, the "Report of the Alumni Council Committee to Support Greek Letter Organizations" which was sponsored by the Alumni Council to examine Greek Life and offer suggestions for improvement has been a topic of discussion on the executive board of my own sorority and others on campus.

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Take a Second Look

By Chris Talamo | October 6, 2010

Oof. There's been so much heavy stuff on the pages of The Dartmouth lately, you'd think the entire campus was in the streets rioting and burning effigies.

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I am a Dartmouth Frat Bro

By Tom Mandel | October 5, 2010

I am a Dartmouth frat bro. I am not a rapist, nor do I work to create a "safe haven for sexual violence," as the recent column by Jordan Osserman '11 ("Dismissing Dissent," Oct.

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Out of the Loop

By Ethan Wang | October 5, 2010

The honeymoon period is over. The wave of optimism, excitement and admiration brought by his historic accession to the presidency has faded, overshadowed by financial troubles and controversial policies under his administration.

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Out of Control

By Zachary Gottlieb | October 3, 2010

Despite my absence from the daily intercourse of campus controversy, I did chance upon the song "Out of Control," sent out by an anonymous, auto-tuned avatar identified only by the moniker "Expecto Petronus (sic)." The balmy symbolism of Dartmouth fraternity brothers as Dementors was certainly not lost on the audience; yes, they will "steal your soul," and leave you with "no faith in mankind." The song's hyperbole presents a caricature of the universal chop-lickingly lupine Dartmouth "bro." The singer forgets, however, that sexual assault exists in any place or form as a manifestation of the lack of respect by one individual for another.

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Reason To Rush

By Kevin Niparko | September 29, 2010

At a dinner party over interim a family friend asked me, "So what do people in fraternities do, other than drink?" Had I been asked that question my freshman year, or even sophomore year pre-rush, I wouldn't have had an answer.

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In a Class, By Itself

By Spenser Mestel | September 28, 2010

In most fraternities, brothers fail to pay their dues in full. Faced with high demand for beer but with little capital, some social chairs send blitz after blitz to their house, shaming those members who still have not paid. I understand why some social chairs use this kind of peer pressure.

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Oh, The Humanities!

By Charles Clark | September 27, 2010

Yesterday, Brendan Woods '13 criticized Dartmouth's curriculum for focusing too heavily on academic quibbles, which squelches inquiry into life's "big, interesting questions" ("It's Academic," Sept.

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