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Most Diverse Class Ever?

By Spenser Mestel | April 21, 2008

Being politically conservative at my Seattle public high school meant wearing your Birkenstocks to school three instead of five times a week.

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Verbum Ultimum: Balancing Ends and Means

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 18, 2008

With the Association of Alumni elections close on the horizon, thousands of alumni are now gearing up to cast the votes that will determine the composition of the next AoA executive committee.

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Letter to the Editor: Thanks to the Review Team

By Skip Sturman | April 18, 2008

To the Editor: On behalf of Career Services, I wish to express my sincere appreciation and heartfelt gratitude to all of the students, faculty and administrators who took time out of their busy schedules last week to meet with Career Services' External Review Team ("External Panel Tackles Career Services Review," Apr.

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Radical, Conservative, Presidential

By David Glovsky | April 18, 2008

As the Class of 2008 prepares to embark on their long journey as alumni, talk around campus has turned to the future of our College.

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Technical Foul

By Suzanne Lehrer | April 17, 2008

Ever since its birth in 1776, America has had a tendency to misuse its resources. Our political resources, our constitutional amendments, have been misused so that the "right to bear arms" enables college students to easily obtain guns to shoot one another.

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Tear Down This Wall

By Denise Hotta-Moung | April 17, 2008

During freshman orientation, we were continuously reminded of the high percentage of international students in the Class of 2011.

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D-Plan Dilemma

By Michael Belinsky | April 16, 2008

During my four years here, I have developed a love-hate relationship with Dartmouth. I love the outdoors, the professors and the students.

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The Death of the Dinner Date

By Zachary Gottlieb | April 16, 2008

In his column "In Search of Intellectualism," (Apr. 12, 2007), Tom Atwood '08 makes a provocative point: "I don't think Dartmouth students are particularly creative or innovative with their thinking, and, as a result, conversations become stale and intellectual apathy ensues." How is this possible in a culture of 30% valedictorians, 15% salutatorians and hundreds of other students who never drank in high school?

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Beyond Paying It Forward

By Alex Caron | April 16, 2008

In her column "Pay It Forward" (Apr. 9) Nina Maja Bergmar offers a misguided solution to a community service "problem" that she has invented by misreading the actions (or inactions) of her fellow students.

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Hell Is Not Other People

By Lucy Stonehill | April 16, 2008

Robert Mugabe assumed presidential rule over Zimbabwe in 1980 at the conclusion of the country's war of independence from Britain.

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The Next Regeneration

By Dmitriy Gutkovich | April 15, 2008

Most everything that humans have dared to imagine in the distant past has eventually become commonplace in the daily hustle-and-bustle reality of the modern world.

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god plays dice

By Chris Talamo | April 15, 2008

We live in a material world. In this world, we are used to dealing with simple physical problems where masses on springs oscillate in a consistent manner and gravity is always 10.

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Letter to the Editor: A War of Words?

By Joseph Asch | April 14, 2008

To the Editor: In the 1950s, defenders of the status quo made it a practice on any number of issues (civil rights, colonialism, even fluoridated water!) to label reformers as Communist or anti-American.

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Short Answer: SA Moving Forward

By The Opinion Staff | April 14, 2008

What is the best thing that the new Student Assembly leaders, Molly Bode '09 and Nafeesa Remtilla '09, can do for the student body in their year in office? They can make Student Assembly interesting again.

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Girls (And Guys) Gone Local

By Daniel Belkin | April 14, 2008

Much ink has been spilled on these pages about the never-ending campus ruckus over the virtues of national versus local Greek houses.

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Letter to the Editor: College Under Fire

By Merle Adelman | April 11, 2008

To the Editor: As I watch this spring's Alumni Association election from the sidelines, I can't help but observe that it is a contest between two political parties: a pro-College slate led by John Mathias '69 dedicated to ending the litigation launched by the current association's executive committee against Dartmouth and a pro-lawsuit petition slate led by Michael Murphy '61.

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Verbum Ultimum: Bode and the Student Body

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 11, 2008

With Student Assembly elections settled, it is time for the organization's newly elected president and vice president to focus and organize their agenda for the coming year.

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What SA Can Do For You

By Nathan Bruschi | April 11, 2008

Services or activism? Which of these things would you like to get out of your student government?

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Funny Numbers, Fuzzy Priorities?

By Evan Meyerson | April 10, 2008

There exist few decisive processes in our society that are more opaque and arbitrary than elite college admissions.

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Like Straw in a Fire

By Sam Buntz | April 10, 2008

Last Monday, Chabad brought a speaker named Dr. Jacob Zvi Brudoley to campus as part of the second annual Dr. Tzvi Yehuda Saks Memorial Lecture on Torah and Science.