Opinion

Verbum Ultimum: The Off-Campus Disconnect

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 29, 2008

Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman's announcement this week that room draw will be closed to seniors after 400 of them have received housing requires examination on two dimensions -- the sensibility of the policy and the efficacy of its implementation. As far as the policy itself is concerned, the Office of Residential Life has created a solution to correct the imbalance of seniors living on-campus following the construction of the McLaughlin Cluster and Fahey and McClane residence halls, which kept ORL from making good on its guarantee to house all sophomores during the last room draw cycle. Redman's campus-wide mailing, which reached Hinman Boxes on Monday afternoon, explained the policy by hitting all the right notes.

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Opinion

True Confessions

By Daniel Chiu | February 29, 2008

"I pretend to be braver than I really am." Or so admitted one of the many contributors to "Wrinkles of Discretion: The Confessional Booth," an interactive sculpture created by Jennifer Lopez '08 that was on display earlier this month at the Hop.

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Opinion

ObamaCorps

By Nick Ware | February 29, 2008

The heated democratic primary race forces voters to redefine their moral values. To what extent does experience improve a leader's decision-making ability?

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Opinion

Footballer's Republic

By Denise Hotta-Moung | February 28, 2008

A commercial that aired during the 2006 World Cup showed a Caucasian man joining a group of locals in Dubai for a friendly game of football.

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Opinion

Sharing the Wealth

By Brian Chao | February 28, 2008

I am writing in response to Nina Maja Bergmar '11's column about American universities in the United Arab Emirates ("Education City," Feb.

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Opinion

... What Were We Fighting For?

By Michael Belinsky | February 27, 2008

Why don't we protest as much as previous generations used to? This is the question posed by Dr. Rita Colwell to a dozen Dartmouth students at a dinner last Tuesday.

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Opinion

Greek Sustainability

By Anthony Arch | February 27, 2008

I'm writing in response to Phil Aubart's column regarding recycling in the Greek System ("A Greener System," Feb.

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Opinion

Education City

By Nina Maja Bergmar | February 26, 2008

Our "bearers of democracy" have adopted a new strategy to expand American influence: American universities are conquering the minds of the young Middle Eastern elite as they venture abroad. An enclave of American universities called "Education City" has become a new gathering spot for Middle Eastern upper-class youths in search of higher education.

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Opinion

Jack and Jill: An Uphill Battle

By Lydia Chammas | February 26, 2008

Lots of things have been said about the Dartmouth Woman: She can drink as much as any frat boy but look good while doing it, sink a pong cup and hook up without expecting the courtesy of a morning-after Blitz.

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Opinion

The Lost Art of Respect

By Evan Meyerson | February 25, 2008

I am convinced there is an epidemic at Dartmouth: there must be some medical explanation for how some of the nation's brightest students transform into Neanderthals each and every Friday around 8 p.m.

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Opinion

The Love-Hate Reality

By Lucy Stonehill | February 25, 2008

On February 12th, after three months of sign picketing and protesting, the Writer's Guild struck a deal with media companies -- primarily over the distribution of digital and media rights -- and the strike came to an end.

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Opinion

A Greener System

By Phil Aubart | February 22, 2008

Since I am a conservative, it is generally assumed that I do not care about the environment. Judge me after this opinion column.

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Opinion

Verbum Ultimum: The Enrollment Crunch

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 22, 2008

After the close of course election today at 4 p.m., Dartmouth undergraduates will begin to wait to see which of our courses we actually get into.

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Opinion

The Wright Fix

By Joseph Asch | February 21, 2008

Where do we go from here? With President Wright leaving office in 14 months, the procedure for choosing his replacement merits close scrutiny.

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Opinion

The Selectivity Corps

By Daniel Belkin | February 21, 2008

Have you been turned down by Teach for America? Did DREAM stop responding to your blitzes? Did the Peace Corps laugh at you? Nowadays, cutthroat competition is no longer reserved for the high-rolling analyst positions of lower Manhattan.

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Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Conservative Criticism

By Kevin Pellecchia | February 20, 2008

To the Editor: Max Bryer '08's column ("Grow Up, Conservapedia," Feb. 19) was merely a childish jab at people he does not agree with and a liberal mirror image to his main point of contention in the piece.

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Opinion

Executive Recruiting

By Nathan Bruschi | February 20, 2008

The common explanation for George W. Bush's election and re-election was that he was the candidate "voters would rather have a beer with" (even though Bush is a recovering alcoholic and does not drink). Today, comparison between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been greatly sidetracked by voters' subjective, personal and arbitrary emotional reactions.

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Opinion

Till Death Do Us Part?

By Tina Praprotnik | February 20, 2008

Remember trying to choose that perfect, cleverly representative AIM screen name in middle school?

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Opinion

Big Brother Day

By Brian Solomon | February 19, 2008

Constant and complete surveillance is no longer material for a good science-fiction read or a paranoid joke: last Tuesday, Big Brother arrived. An FBI announcement and separate Senate vote -- both of which were buried in the news cycle behind primary coverage and Roger Clemens's testimony on steroids -- quietly made February 12, 2008 an infamous day in the history of this country.

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Opinion

Grow Up, Conservapedia

By Max Bryer | February 19, 2008

I would imagine that by now most Dartmouth students have some experience using Wikipedia. Even some of my professors have used it on occasion.

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