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Touching The Void

By Sam Buntz | May 22, 2008

I've recently experienced my first Green Key weekend, and I have to say that it was a weekend like any other weekend, except longer and with more ennui.

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Filling Their Shoes

By Jordan Osserman | May 22, 2008

There are a number of privileges that we freshmen get to enjoy for just three terms: We can suck at pong, be unabashedly promiscuous and go frat hopping in obnoxious groups of 15, just to name a few. By the time we come back next fall as sophomores, it's expected that we'll have grown out of all this.

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Alumni For Jabberwocky?

By Roger Klorese | May 21, 2008

As with other conservative movements, the take-over faction who has brought suit against the College is attempting to define its issues by changing the language.

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Stop And Smell The Roses

By Lydia Chammas | May 21, 2008

Green Key is over -- the ultimate sign that the end of term is near. With finals nearly in sight, I quote Dr. Seuss and ask, "How did it get so late so soon?" As a Dartmouth alum himself, Dr. Seuss would know better than any other writer how time at our College seems to fly by.

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$540 A Pop

By Phil Aubart | May 20, 2008

Dartmouth Dining Services has a pricing system that surely shocks us all. Although we have become rather apathetic about the exorbitant costs involved with eating at Dartmouth, the concept that our Declining Balance Accounts are not filled with real money cannot completely desensitize us to the costs of eating here.

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Dishonorary Degree

By Brian Solomon | May 19, 2008

Eight impressive individuals -- including a Nobel Laureate, Emmy Award winning actress and the chief economic advisor to President Reagan -- will receive honorary degrees from Dartmouth at commencement on June 8th.

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The Rudder and The Rock

By Nathan Bruschi | May 16, 2008

David Shipler's letter to the editor demonstrates a lot of what is wrong with the expansion plan for the Board of Trustees ("The Conservative Campaign," May 5). He postulates that the motive behind the AoA lawsuit -- designed to maintain parity between elected and appointed members on the Board -- is "to allow inroads by a highly publicized and pervasively ideological brand of conservatism." This encapsulates the perverse logic of those in opposition to the lawsuit -- the assumption that we only support democracy insomuch as we agree with those who get elected. I confess that I once supported the anti-lawsuit position.

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Verbum Ultimum: A Fresh Start for SAAP

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 16, 2008

This summer, Sexual Abuse Awareness Program interim coordinator Rebel Roberts will be replaced by Michelle de Sousa ("DeSousa named new coordinator of SAAP," May 15). The new hire provides a convenient time to reassess SAAP's tone in order to ensure it is effectively supporting the Dartmouth community. Like most other college campuses, Dartmouth is home to a risky combination of young people, alcohol and a hook-up culture that makes sexual assault a very real problem.

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Pound for Pound

By Spenser Mestel | May 15, 2008

Dartmouth College rarely encourages me to make decisions based on my happiness. Watching reruns of "American Gladiators" may produce more serotonin than my x-hour, but I am yet to successfully use that as an excuse for missing class.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Relationship

By Zachary Gottlieb | May 14, 2008

Recently, I've been fond of analogies. While my last column was about the parallels between DASH and sex, this week's topic demands more subtlety. One of Dartmouth's greatest weaknesses is the lack of sustainability.

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McCanned, McNews

By Lucy Stonehill | May 14, 2008

To admit that you have not heard mention of the name Madeline McCann is to confess that you haven't picked up a newspaper or watched televised news broadcasting in the past year.

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Vox Clamantis: Not Dumb, Just Fratty

By Nathan Wersal | May 13, 2008

To the Editor: Tom Mandel '11 is on the right track when he notes the peculiarity of Dartmouth's "ultra-fratty" vocabulary ("Concordantly Fratty," May 6). I object, however, when he calls this language "dumbed down." In my years as an observer of campus basement culture, I have come to realize that our speech patterns are nuanced and intellectually revealing. The words themselves are simple and crude, but the irony Mandel hears in the speech of freshmen does not disappear over time.

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Report From The Ground

By Susan Ackerman | May 12, 2008

I write on behalf of some 25 Dartmouth professors who are among those faculty both privileged enough to teach here and also to hold a Dartmouth undergraduate or graduate degree.

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