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One "Community"

By Chris Talamo | January 21, 2010

I can't help but notice that there's been a lot of talk about Dartmouth's community over the past year and half, coincidentally the same time that we have been considering budget cuts.

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National Issue

By Jasper Hicks | January 20, 2010

In his column last Friday, Zachary Gottlieb '10 quipped about his fellow opinion staffers feigning expertise when writing about national issues ("Fouad For Thought" Jan.

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Stale Ideas

By Sam Buntz | January 20, 2010

The noted public intellectual Louis Menand recently authored a book entitled "The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Reaction in the American University." Menand argues that the 19th Century creation of the research university caused professors to seal themselves off from the world, retreating into their own abstruse interests.

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Timeout!

By Raza Rasheed | January 19, 2010

Earlier this month, Dartmouth men's basketball head coach Terry Dunn resigned amidst scandalous rumors that, for my money, are too absurd to be dignified in print ("Men's basketball coach steps down midseason," Jan.

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Be The Change

By Leonard Lewis | January 19, 2010

The word "change" is everywhere, as are people who claim to be "working for change." But is it possible for individuals and well-organized groups to improve the world or at least, Dartmouth?

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Face the Music

By Josh Kornberg | January 18, 2010

Listening to the radio these days is about as painful as watching a Kay Jewelers commercial alone on Valentine's Day.

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Bro Talk

By Josiah Proietti | January 18, 2010

The critical debate about gender equity has been a vibrant source of discourse since coeducation was introduced to Dartmouth in the early '70s.

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Secure at Random

By Justin Murray | January 13, 2010

As wild, unpredictable and insane as terrorism may seem to us, it is not random. Terrorists have a method they wait silently until they see a gap in our security, carefully analyze the gap and then exploit it. So far, it has proven extremely difficult to disrupt this pattern.

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Point Beyond Pandora

By Jordan Osserman | January 13, 2010

For a sci-fi film that is essentially about the struggles of a group of 3-D blue cat people, James Cameron's "Avatar" has generated a surprising amount of controversy and grossed over $1 billion dollars worldwide. If you missed it over break (and don't bother seeing it in Lebanon; they're not showing it in 3-D), here's the plot the year is 2154 and humans have paved over every last scrap of Earth's natural beauty.

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Organic Division

By Ben Gonin | January 12, 2010

Over the last decade, the general consensus among food scientists and left-wing politicians has been that the American food industry has run amuck with unhealthy, non-sustainable products.

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Letter to the Editor: Rethinking the habit

By John Funk Jr. '12 | January 10, 2010

To the Editor: Raza Rasheed's Jan. 7 op-ed "Reform to Rebound" bewilders me to no end. Why, after listing the countless pitfalls of the ultra-liberal agenda pushed by the Democratic Party recently, does Mr. Rasheed suggest a legislative effort that he believes will elevate this failure of a party?

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The Proof is in the Profile

By Blair Sullivan | January 10, 2010

In her article last week, ("Timeout, TSA," Jan. 5) Emily Johnson '12 addressed the issue of airport security, asserting that tax dollars are best spent on gathering intelligence which can help prevent attacks before they occur.

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