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By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 8, 2010

To a large portion of the Dartmouth campus, the "Sun God" (formally known as Johnathan James Recor MALS '11) primarily inspires a general indifference toward his professed artistic goals of "unity" and "love." Responding to a mask-wearing, boombox-blasting, lightsaber-wielding, walking piece of performance art with apathy or even scorn is perhaps understandable.

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Embracing the In-Between

By Emily Baxter | April 7, 2010

Aryeh Drager / The Dartmouth Staff Aryeh Drager / The Dartmouth Staff At the very end of a tour, College tour guides are encouraged to explain why they came to Dartmouth.

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Righteous Outrage

By Spenser Mestel | April 7, 2010

UNICEF recently estimated that 57 percent of Afghan marriages involve girls under 16. Girls as young as nine years old sometimes marry a man five, six, even nine times older than them.

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Letter to the Editor: Elections Gone Sour

By Karen R. Blum Grantham, N.H. | April 5, 2010

To the Editor: I could not agree more that the cost and rhetoric of Trustee elections have moved into a sphere that is regrettable ("Verbum Ultimum: Poisonous Politicking," March 2). Having watched this trend develop over more than 18 years, I would just wish to point out that until this election no sitting trustee ever spoke out in favor of a candidate ("Smith '88 endorses Asch '79," March 2). Although there may be no formal rules to date within the Board, it used to be understood that the Board spoke publicly only with one voice.

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The "Elite" Eight

By Brendan Woods | April 5, 2010

"We're here to play basketball. It's not a spelling bee," said University of Kentucky basketball star DeMarcus Cousins when a reporter asked him about Kentucky's upcoming game against Cornell in the third round of the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Tournament.

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Letter to the Editor: Board Misuse

To the Editor: As a former trustee, and even more as an alumnus, I am saddened and angry at the latest confirmation ("Smith '88 endorses Asch '79," March 2) that there are people on Dartmouth's Board of Trustees who believe they serve the College by mimicking the worst of electoral politics, including the appropriation of respected symbols (the Board of Trustees' letterhead) to claim a legitimacy that isn't there and the use of innuendo and hyperbole ("Enron board") to replace calm thought with high emotions.

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Great Issues

By Chris Talamo | April 4, 2010

Dartmouth is mired in a lagoon of people who love it. Many of us feel so attached to our past or present experiences that we feel compelled to serve Dartmouth in some way.

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A Major Decision

By Josh Kornberg | April 1, 2010

I often imagine what my life will be like 30 years from now. It's a disturbing habit really, a fascination with the morose that, like a fiery car crash still smoldering on the side of the road, simultaneously repulses and enthralls me.

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Truth, Leaking Out

By Jacob Batchelor | March 31, 2010

Our generation suffers a disconcerting and existential lack of a tangible common cause. Gone are our parent's days of Vietnam and civil rights, and gone are the days of our grandparents fighting Nazism in the Second World War.

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Personal Service

By Peter Blair | March 31, 2010

This spring break I went on an Aquinas House Alternative Spring Break trip to Phoenix, Ariz., and worked at Maggie's Place, a home for homeless pregnant women.

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Letter to the Editor: Hiding in Plain Sight

By J. Michael Murphy '61 | March 31, 2010

To the Editor: Buried in Wednesday's story ("Orgs. fund Trustee, AoA Campaigns," Mar. 31), which discloses for the first time that Dartmouth Undying was organized in 2008 by Dartmouth Director of Alumni Relations Emeritus Michael Choukas Jr., is at least one statement that alumni should find amazing.

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Ruining Recess

By Kevin Niparko | March 30, 2010

You're in grade school. It's 11:59 a.m. and you watch the red second hand of the clock slowly tick its way towards recess.

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No Entitlement to Violence

By Raza Rasheed | March 29, 2010

After last week's passage of the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, right-wing extremists egged on by the frenzied hateful and irrational tone of their leaders, vandalized Democratic congressional offices, shouted racial slurs at minority Congressmen and threatened several lawmakers and their families, which caused 10 Democrats to request heightened security details.

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