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The Dartmouth
June 22, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Short Answer

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Friday's Verbum Ultimum discussed the current transition in the Kim administration. How do you perceive this transition, and what should Kim be doing to ensure that the process runs smoothly?


Opinion

Nobel Abuse

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On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded President Barack Obama one of the world's highest and most distinguished honors, the Nobel Prize for Peace.




Opinion

The Obama Effect

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When it was announced that College President Jim Yong Kim had been selected to be Dartmouth's next president, a stranger asked me in passing whether or not I agreed with the assertion that Kim seemed to call to mind President Barack Obama.


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Dartmouth Discontinuity

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So much for institutional memory. Just three short months after Provost Barry Scherr announced he would remain in his current role through June 2011, he's jumping ship, in the latest high-profile departure from Parkhurst.


Opinion

Meet the Roommate

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"Joshua, based on the information you provided on your housing questionnaire, your suitemates(s)" I began to sweat like a galley slave on a Byzantine warship. For months, I'd been able to ignore my anxiety about a future roommate.



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Success is Optional

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Last Saturday, in the pouring rain, Dartmouth football dropped a heartbreaker to the University of Pennsylvania to extend its record losing streak to 15.


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Kegs Please

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Whenever I read a party blitz that has the word "kegs" in it, I am always less excited to go to that party than I was before.


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Life, Liberty, Health Care

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For those who have been living outside the U.S. or in a cave, two health care reform bills have been proposed to universalize the American health care system.


Opinion

Short Answer

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Friday's Verbum Ultimum called for the College urge Hanover Police to change their approach to arresting intoxicated, underage students transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center following Good Samaritan calls. What do you believe is the role of the College in enforcement of state alcohol policy?



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Healthy Cooperation

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In his column last week ("Time to Go It Alone," Sept. 22), Raza Rasheed '12 expressed his frustration with the current political system, pointing specifically to this summer's health care debate.


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The Sun God Also Rises

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"Vulgar." "Disrespectful." "He'd be a better fit at Brown." These were just a few of the grumblings I heard at last week's inauguration ceremony as College President Jim Yong Kim took the podium.


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The End of a Roman Holiday

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According to the American social conscience, child molesters are the elite of all felons. Their crime is about the most evil thing one person can do, and the law dictates that these criminals be permanently removed from society with strict regulations of where they're allowed to walk, whom they're allowed to talk to and who must know about their dark past.



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No Such Thing as Free Learning

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Harvard, Stanford, Duke and Oxford universities, along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, may all be considered among the most exclusive universities in the world, but you no longer have to be a valedictorian, an All-American athlete, the founder of a successful not-for-profit or even a high-school graduate to attend one of their classes. Harvard is the most recent addition to the small but growing group of prestigious universities that are making some form of their course materials available to the general public, online and free of charge.


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Dartmouth's Singular Identity

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Singularity. It is a word that can refer to everything from objects that stand alone to those crazy spots in the outer reaches of the universe where the rules of space and time no longer seem to apply.


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Keg-Standing up for the Greeks

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Before continuing the current debate about the Social Event Management Procedures, we must acknowledge that Greek houses are out of necessity the unlucky hosts of the inevitable behavior of Dartmouth's ubiquitous daytime-scholarnighttime-socialite. It is easy to overlook the consistently virtuous behavior of Greek houses with respect to alcohol use.