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September 3, 2026
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How Babies Are Ruining America

By Chris Talamo | March 26, 2008

There's always a lot of talk about equating people who are "pro-choice" with being "pro-abortion," or people who support capital punishment with being "pro-death." When it comes to families, there's no such equation.

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Lone Pine Propaganda

By Phil Aubart | March 26, 2008

It's happened again. Some of the alumni of our beloved College on the Hill have astounded me. Just when I thought Dartmouth and its "fine" administration had finally finished attempting to usurp power from the alumni in governance issues, I found out about the upcoming Association of Alumni executive committee elections.

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Justice for Ray Ray

By Brian Solomon | March 25, 2008

When Clemson University terminated football player Ray Ray McElrathbey's scholarship earlier this month, it showed the world exactly where it stands as an institute of higher learning: uncommonly low ground. McElrathbey's story, which began as a feel-good tale of love, family and responsibility, has become a tragedy -- or more rightly a travesty -- that represents only the latest and most cold-hearted in a long line of incidents exposing big-time college athletics as callous and hypocritical. McElrathbey, a junior running back, garnered national attention in 2006 after he rescued his then 11-year-old brother Fahmarr from foster care and a disastrous home situation, where the boys' parents struggled with gambling and crack cocaine addictions.

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The "Us" In Juicy Campus

By Zachary Gottlieb | March 25, 2008

Apparently those New Haven Elis can't handle a little free speech. According to a March 7th Yale Herald article, "Administrators ... are considering the University's legal options for restraining the site's presence on campus." The perpetrator: JuicyCampus.com. We are not, however, new to the idea of an anonymous message board; Bored at Baker paved the way for the dissemination of undergraduate libel.

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Beyond Safety and Security

By Brian Solomon | March 7, 2008

One of the questions parents ask most frequently during college visits (after "How much money will you be taking from my wallet?") is "How safe is it on campus?" Unfortunately, in the wake of random acts of violence and school shootings across the country in recent weeks and months, it has become increasingly apparent that no campus is truly safe. From last month's shooting at Northern Illinois University -- in which a gunman open fired on students during a geology lecture, killing five people before turning the gun on himself -- to the massacre at Virginia Tech less than one year ago, deadly violence has touched colleges across the country.

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Verbum Ultimum: An Effective Search Committee

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | March 7, 2008

After its quarterly meeting last weekend, The Dartmouth Board of Trustees announced that trustee Al Mulley '70 will lead the search committee for Dartmouth's 17th president. The search falls at a time of highly publicized conflict about the College, after four years of turmoil surrounding alumni governance, which has now reached a fever pitch.

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Seven Steps To Solve The Crunch

By Corey Chu | March 5, 2008

The housing crunch is back. Instead of giving rising seniors the choice of where to live, the Office of Residential Life is making the choice for them -- a third of the Class of 2009 will be forced to live off campus.

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Yes We McCan!

By Phil Aubart | March 5, 2008

It seems to be a tradition of each generation of youth to rebel against the status quo and push for change.

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Vox Clamantis Suddenly Seeking Housing

By Rachel Bernhard | March 4, 2008

To the Editor: It is inconceivable that ORL did not give notice of the housing cap to rising seniors sooner, particularly for off-campus students such as myself, who received this notice in the mail only yesterday ("College to house 100 fewer seniors next year," Feb.

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Kings of Convenience

By Tina Praprotnik | March 4, 2008

In a nation already obsessed with convenience, Dartmouth is ahead of the curve. Amid all the complaining, many of us forget just how absurdly convenient our lives here are.

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The Limits of Justice

By Nathan Bruschi | March 3, 2008

Dartmouth students fear their justice system -- and with good reason. Compared to the Federal justice system, our Committee on Standards operates with severely restricted rights.

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Literary Renaissance

By Sam Buntz | March 3, 2008

In an article from the Dec. 24 issue of The New Yorker, "The Twilight of the Books," Caleb Crain suggests that electronic media are swiftly replacing the written word as the primary means of communicating stories and ideas.

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Our Ivory Towers

By Chris Talamo | February 29, 2008

I have to admit, the view from this ivy-garnished ivory tower of ours is just fantastic! From here I can look down upon all of the people who go to inferior universities and colleges and mock them for their plebeian lifestyle.

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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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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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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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