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In the Lion's Den

By Peter Blair | March 8, 2010

On Thursday Feb. 25, the group responsible for the Generic Good Morning Message famous for its racist joke last year about College President Jim Yong Kim ("E-mail on Kim stirs controversy," Mar.

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Don't Meet Me Halfway

By Brendan Woods | March 8, 2010

Last week I saw something strange while waiting for my morning omelette at Collis Cafe. After the lady asked the obligatory "egg-white or regular?" the student in front of me answered that he wanted half of each. Now I've heard of half-marinara, half-alfredo on pasta, and I won't deny that Thai peanut and medium sauce is a delicious stir-fry combination.

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Keeping in Touch

By Josh Kornberg | March 7, 2010

"Happy Birthday," wrote Spencer. The words, slipshod and shallow after so much silence, still profane my Facebook wall like graffiti.

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Short Answer: SPAHRC?

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | March 7, 2010

Friday's Verbum Ultimum discussed the Student and Presidential Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee. What steps must this new committee take if it is to be effective? The Student and Presidential Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee should, first, do no harm.

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Leveling the Field

By Suril Kantaria | March 4, 2010

As freshmen, we can respect tradition and absorb taunts deeming us the "worst class ever," but we should not have to accept what we believe are the worst classes ever courses that don't truly interest us just because we cannot receive spots in our first choices.

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Resolving to Reconcile

By Raza Rasheed | March 3, 2010

Thursday's health care summit the latest in a string of sad, farcical attempts to produce a bipartisan compromise bill has predictably come up short (Congressional Republicans, for their part, declared the summit a failure while it was still in progress ). Now, Congressional Democrats finally appear poised to do what they should have done months ago when they still had public opinion on their side.

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Where Did Everyone Go?

By Chris Talamo | March 3, 2010

Latin America recently became the site of a natural disaster of unfathomable power. A country that had suffered under a dictatorship for years and has only recently found democracy was struck by a devastating earthquake that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and caused millions of dollars of infrastructure damage.

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Month Passed By

By Jasper Hicks | March 2, 2010

March's arrival reminds us that another Black History Month has come and gone. For some, those 28 days of February were a revival, a re-excitement of sorts that celebrated the African-American community's rich history.

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No Sign of Dialogue

By Sam Buntz | March 2, 2010

There's nothing quite so amusing as "the conversation" that is, the conversation about race, sex and other universally divisive issues that we are always urged to have, but never really can have.

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Our Muggle Addiction

By Spenser Mestel | March 1, 2010

Slytherin trading cards, a Hogwarts Lego set, a Forbidden Forest plush pillow set: our love of all things supposedly magical truly is an addiction.

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Profiles in Silence

By Julian Sarkar | March 1, 2010

Many people on campus have bandied about the phrase "social justice" over the past few weeks. But while opposition to employee layoffs has been open and vocal, there has been a mysterious silence from Parkhurst surrounding an incident that made a student feel unwelcome at Dartmouth. While sitting in Novack Caf one night earlier this term, an international student was studying peacefully when Safety and Security officers approached him and demanded an identification card.

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Faith Under Fire

By Adrian Wood-Smith | February 28, 2010

"Terrorist chatter indicates that Al-Nur sabatoged [sic] the Phi Delt chimney." "Clearly, Al-Nur was angered by the recent negativity it received from the Bored@Baker community and consequently declared jihad on campus alcohol in collaboration with H-Po.

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