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Vox Clamantis: Parity and the Presidential Search

By Alexander Abate | May 9, 2008

To the Editor: With all due respect to John Mathias '69, his piece insults the intelligence of both students and alumni ("Time For Alumni Unity," May 6). To be clear, I take issue with his motivation and reasoning, not with his love for Dartmouth. The reason behind the timing of President Wright's resignation -- announced a mere three days after the court granted an injunction against the Board's expansion plan -- has now become abundantly clear.

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Time For Candor

By J. Michael Murphy | May 9, 2008

John Mathias '69's recent Opinion piece mentioned only once the key issue in the Association of Alumni election -- maintenance of alumni parity on the Board of Trustees -- but what he said was interesting: "Issues of alumni governance and 'parity' should be addressed in constructive dialogue with the trustees" ("Time For Alumni Unity," May 6). There's a slight problem: Mathias also wrote that "I do not think that parity is a good idea at all" (according to a post attributed to him on the AoA blog, Nov.

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Verbum Ultimum: Money Talks

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 9, 2008

Given the volume of dialogue that has raged in the pages of this and other publications for months over the Board of Trustees' expansion plan, it is increasingly hard to believe that any lack of communication precipitated the current state of affairs.

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Vox Clamantis: The Conservative Campaign

By David Shipler | May 8, 2008

To the Editor: The election in the Association of Alumni, which began this week, is critical to impeding the radical right's long-term campaign to control Dartmouth.

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Our Uninformed Trustees

By Joseph Asch | May 8, 2008

Board of Trustees Chair Ed Haldeman '70 and presidential search committee head Al Mulley '70 have invited the entire faculty to meet with them this Friday to discuss the search for Dartmouth's next president.

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An Army Of Half

By Brian Solomon | May 8, 2008

Picture yourself as a United States private and medic in an Afghan village, dodging bullets from Taliban fighters as you heroically shield and treat your fellow soldiers beside a burning Humvee.

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Imagine The BlitzMail Possibilities

By Dmitriy Gutkovich | May 7, 2008

When Ellen Waite-Franzen took over as the College's vice president of information technology in 2007, the glory of BlitzMail was already fading fast.

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High School Movie?

By Lydia Chammas | May 7, 2008

I didn't have a typical American high school experience -- well, it wasn't even an American high school.

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Concordantly Fratty

By Tom Mandel | May 6, 2008

Think back to all the time you spent learning SAT vocabulary during your junior and senior years of high school.

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Time For Alumni Unity

By John Mathias | May 6, 2008

The most pressing issue facing Dartmouth today is the identification and recruitment of its next president.

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Discrimination Debauchery

By Suzanne Lehrer | May 5, 2008

When it comes to classroom debauchery, I thought I'd heard it all. There's always the one about the student who did or didn't plagiarize and got Parkhursted, the one about the student who slept with the prof, the student who got arrested for drunkenly participating in a class he wasn't enrolled in with his shirt off, the student who said something memorably and inappropriately crude, or that kid in the back who was so high -- the list goes on.

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Think Before You Sign

By Denise Hotta-Moung | May 5, 2008

Dartmouth's BlitzMail provides an outlet for students to spread their beliefs to the rest of campus with the simple click of a button.

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Vox Clamantis: Majority Fools?

By Isaiah Berg | May 2, 2008

To the Editor: In a recent column, Jordan Osserman '11 outlined his rubric for choosing Dartmouth's next president.

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Pastor Problems

By Michael Belinsky | May 2, 2008

The Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. came back to the political spotlight this week -- with a vengeance. Wright, Senator Barack Obama's former and longtime pastor, delivered a barrage of what The Daily Show's Jon Stewart called "mild, medium and spicy" remarks.

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Verbum Ultimum: Seeking Professional Help

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 2, 2008

Priya Venkatesan '90's recent threat to sue the College, Dartmouth Medical School and the students in her Writing 5 class is, simply put, outrageous.

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Oh, Called Out!

By Spenser Mestel | May 1, 2008

I'm a freshman. I hide a campus map at the bottom of my backpack just in case I get lost, I consider myself lucky when I get sixths on a pong table, and I have overwhelming urges to walk with my 20 closest freshmen friends everywhere I go.

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Students Against Reason

By Laura Little | May 1, 2008

The April 28 edition of The Dartmouth was awash in a larger-than-usual amount of campus controversy.

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Monopolies And Mythmaking

By Daniel Belkin | April 30, 2008

In the past week, undergrads have enlisted themselves as foot soldiers in the Battle for Dartmouth. No longer relegated to just the ballot box, mass mailings, the media spotlight and the blogosphere, the ongoing governance skirmish between alumni has landed right in the laps of current undergraduates. BlitzMail inboxes have been flooded with petitions drafted by students both in favor and in opposition to the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College.

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A DA$H Of Discretion

By Zachary Gottlieb | April 30, 2008

It's time we address the ever-important campus issue of consent. I want to introduce this sober discussion within a new context, however -- DASH grilled cheese.

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Minority Rule

By Jordan Osserman | April 30, 2008

What do Harvard, Princeton and Brown have that we don't? Forget about tougher admissions -- apparently we beat Brown by 0.1 percent.