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Short Answer

By The Opinion Staff | November 8, 2009

Friday's Verbum Ultimum called for Dean of the College Sylvia Spears and Student Assembly to select an Organizational Adjudication Committee student board that is representative of the student body. What do you consider to be the ideal makeup of the board, and how should Spears and the Assembly populate it?

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Give Us a Break

By Kevin Niparko '12 | November 5, 2009

You might think hell-week-and-a-half is something only the Navy Seals must endure. Perhaps you think it's just another grueling activity for those Dartmouth students with blue ribbons in their hair lugging giant stuffed animals to class.

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Protecting Journalism

By Emily Johnson '12 | November 3, 2009

Nothing in journalism class had prepared me for it. The source I had been interviewing for my very first high school newspaper assignment had just pulled my notebook out of my hands and ripped out the pages containing our interview, shouting that if I wasn't going to report impartially, then he wasn't going to talk to me.

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Prioritizing our Battles

By Chris Talamo '11 | November 3, 2009

It's been a marathon week for shouting, paranoid lunatics. Just in case global warming, nuclear proliferation, H1N1, drug-resistant bacteria and the inevitable extinction of our sun weren't all scary enough, there's a new global nemesis to face off with: gang rape.

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Hayek in the Basement

By Leonard Lewis '10 | November 2, 2009

Although Friedrich Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society" is a landmark in modern economic literature, a thoughtful reader can apply its thesis to almost any problem of social organization: even the problem of sweet dudes who hang out more than the College administration, or Mirror columnist Matthew Ritger '10, would prefer. Hayek was a seminal figure in what is called "Austrian" economics.

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Greek To Me

By Isaiah Berg '11 | November 1, 2009

If you still haven't gotten a chance, you should read the first of Matt Ritger's series of Greek-life columns published in The Mirror ("The Gospel According to Matthew," Oct.

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Long Overdue

By Julian Sarkar '13 | October 29, 2009

Correction appended The appointment of College President Jim Yong Kim was celebrated as a landmark for Asian Americans.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM: Accommodating Change

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | October 29, 2009

Last May, a group of Dartmouth students, frustrated with the College's Student Accessibility Services Office, presented a report to the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity advising that revisions be made to the College's accessibility policy ("Accessibility Services lacking, students say," June 2). These students argued in favor of increasing funding for Accessibility Services and improving guidelines for professors on how to best accommodate students.

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Green Guilt

By Ethan Wang '13 | October 28, 2009

I consider myself a pretty eco-friendly person who loves to preach about conservation, sustainability and all that good stuff.

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VOX CLAMANTIS: Mistaken Aims

By Jim Yong Kim | October 28, 2009

Mistaken Aims To the Editor: An article on the front page of the Friday, Oct. 23 issue of The Dartmouth seriously misrepresented my aim and plans for a Dartmouth study group to examine how we might make Dartmouth's leadership position in undergraduate education even stronger.

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The Missing Distributive

By Ben Gonin '12 | October 28, 2009

In his final Convocation speech, former College President James Wright remarked, "In this era, although we surely need expertise and specialization, no one who aspires to leadership can afford to focus too narrowly, at the expense of attaining a broad perspective." This quotation summarizes the philosophy behind Dartmouth's graduation requirements.

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Freedom of the Press

By Jasper Hicks '12 | October 27, 2009

Correction appended It's not hard to grasp why the White House hates Fox News. Since President Obama moved into the White House, the network has been attempting with surprising success to embarrass his administration's every move.

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