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April 14, 2026
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Misplaced Priorities

By Matthew Stumpf | August 16, 2010

A fiery debate has been raging throughout the country about the planned construction of a mosque and cultural center within blocks of the former site of the World Trade Center.

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Over-citing up a Storm

By Kevin Niparko | August 16, 2010

Here is one truth you will never hear a librarian, professor or college administrator admit: the difference between plagiarizing and not plagiarizing is, in fact, a vast, bottomless chasm of gray area that students underprepared, unequipped and unfamiliar with the treacherous terrain are rarely able to successfully navigate. Let's begin with two examples.

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Return to Glory

Last week, College President Jim Yong Kim appointed Harry Sheehy as the College's new Athletic Director, filling a position that had been vacated by former Athletic Director Josie Harper more than 19 months ago ("Sheehy appointed as new Athletic Director," Aug.

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BlitzMail (1987-2010)

By Jessica Tory | August 12, 2010

After a long and protracted battle with newer e-mail technologies, the ground-breaking Dartmouth e-mail system, BlitzMail, has passed away in Hanover, N.H.

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Teach for Prestige

By Emily Johnson | August 9, 2010

In the last few weeks, the 4,500 college graduates who entered Teach For America after graduation have finished their intensive five-week teacher training crash course.

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Orgasms or Oral Contraceptives? Both!

By Sharang Biswas | August 9, 2010

In his recent column, Jasper Hicks '12 took umbrage with the Sexperts workshop "How to Have a Gender Neutral Orgasm," ultimately asserting that such liberal discussions of sex on campus "pollute the otherwise important message" that organizations like the Sexperts offer ("Over-publicised Orgasm", Aug.

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Over-publicized Orgasm

By Jasper Hicks | August 5, 2010

If you're like me, you probably received a few blitzes over the last few days from various campus organizations telling you to come learn how to have an orgasm.

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Clearinghouse Courses

By Andrew Clay | August 5, 2010

If you're free during the 10 time slot in the next few weeks, I encourage you to go sit in the overflow room of Astronomy 2/3 in Wilder 111 for the first few minutes of class.

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Regrading the Mark

By Natalie Colaneri | August 2, 2010

During Orientation week of freshman year, it seemed like almost everyone I met identified themselves as "pre-med." Two years later, I've seen many of these students swear off math and science forever and switch to majors in the humanities.

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Short Answer

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | August 2, 2010

In "Constant Vigilance," the summer editorial board noted last week that the administration resolved to focus on reductions to administrative spending during the most recent budget reduction process.

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BlackBerry Plague

By Kevin Niparko | July 29, 2010

The other day I waited in a small room at the back of the Hop along with College President Jim Yong Kim and five other students to greet New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg before he delivered his speech to students and community members. You would think a small gathering of that sort would be full of excited chatter and cordial presidential-student conversation.

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Constant Vigilance

Despite projections of a $2.5 million deficit in the College budget for the 2010 fiscal year, we have ended the year with a $5.6 million surplus ("Dartmouth Ends Year with Surplus," July 23). Throughout the budget reduction process, College President Jim Yong Kim continually stressed changes to "back of the house" spending that would preserve the quality of the student experience at the "front of the house." Nearly half a year later, it seems that the College has followed through on its promise.

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Deficit Danger

By Raza Rasheed | July 26, 2010

Over the past two years, Republican lawmakers have criticized nearly all of President Barack Obama's economic initiatives for adding to the federal deficit.

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Top Secret America

By Jacob Batchelor | July 26, 2010

Anyone familiar with the spy movie genre knows that the intelligence world is one wrought with big secrets, giant egos and even larger inefficiencies.

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Task Force Diplomacy

By Jasper Hicks | July 22, 2010

During the inaugural installment of the Presidential Lecture series last Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged students to find "common sense, common ground solutions" to difficult problems ("Bloomberg presents his B Plan,'" July 20). A few hours later, the student body received an e-mail from the Dean of the College with an update on the administration's decision regarding swimming options this summer.

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Blame to Share

By EJ | July 22, 2010

This May, Israel handed its most vocal detractors an unexpected present, gift-wrapped and served on a silver platter.

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Challenging Convention

By Peter Blair | July 19, 2010

At one point in the movie "Metropolitan," a few characters are debating whether or not to play a game in which the players must answer any question they are asked no matter how embarrassing or how revealing the answer.

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Short Answer

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | July 19, 2010

In "Mind The Gaps" (July 16), the Summer Editorial Board expressed concern over the College's failure to fill several job vacancies on campus, including the Director of Greek Letter Organizations.

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Mind the Gaps

This week, the College announced the formation of a second search committee to find an interim director for the vacant Director of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies position after a Spring term search failed to find and hire a suitable candidate ("Carney position remains vacant," July 13). The unfilled GLOS directorship is only one of a long line of job gaps that have emerged in administrative, student life and student services departments as a result of budget cuts and other efforts to restructure the administration.

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Taming Desire

By Natalie Colaneri | July 15, 2010

Along with many other sophomores this summer, I'm taking Classical Studies 4, or "Classical Mythology," having never been exposed to Greek tragedy before.

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