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The Dartmouth
September 4, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Short Answer: SPAHRC?

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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.




Opinion

Leveling the Field

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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.




Opinion

Resolving to Reconcile

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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?

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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.


Opinion

Month Passed By

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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.


Opinion

No Sign of Dialogue

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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.


Opinion

Our Muggle Addiction

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


Opinion

Profiles in Silence

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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.



Opinion

Faith Under Fire

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"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.




Opinion

Mid-Term Crisis

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I don't know about everyone else, but I have grown increasingly disillusioned with classroom learning since I came to Dartmouth.



Opinion

Eating My Words

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I thought Dartmouth would allow me to feel unashamed by hyperbolic language that I, a handsome and compelling fact-eschewing columnist, could revel in the commedia and tragedia of an opinion article.


Opinion

Electing the Owner

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As Dartmouth faces another trustee election, long before choosing which candidate to back, many alumni will decide it's not worth going to the polls.