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April 6, 2026
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XO, I Love You

By Brian Solomon | January 16, 2008

Optimism abounded when Nicholas Negroponte announced his goal to design the $100 laptop, an item that could improve learning for millions of poor children in developing countries.

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Strictly Business

By Christian Haines | January 16, 2008

The current cause-celebre in the ongoing debate about the roles of fraternities and sororities on our campus is the eviction of Alpha Xi Delta from the physical plant it has rented from Beta Theta Pi for the last ten years. As this incident includes many of the issues that are discussed whenever the pros and cons of the Greek system are debated, I feel that a fair amount of conflation is occurring. I would like to speak directly to the AZD-Beta issue, however, instead of injecting it with many of the other issues surrounding the Greek system. All talk of gendered spaces aside, at its heart, the AZD-Beta dispute is a legal contract matter: Beta leased its physical plant to AZD. I have no personal knowledge of this lease, but I assume that in this lease there are conditions under which Beta can renew it or evict AZD from the house. If Beta breached the contract, AZD should sue Beta.

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The Privilege to Prioritize

By Dan Chiu | January 16, 2008

"I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned," investor-philanthropist Warren Buffet famously said.

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No More Sons of Dartmouth

By Sara del Nido | January 15, 2008

To the Editor: I could not agree more with Elise Waxenberg '08's opinion of what the College should do in response to Dartmouth Beta's return ("Reparations and Recognition," Jan.

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The Future of Fundraising

By Amie Sugarman | January 15, 2008

To the Editor: As a Dartmouth and Alpha Xi Delta alum, I would like to express my deep concern with the College's decision to allow Beta Theta Pi back to campus.

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Discrimination Against Beta

By Sal Sciretto | January 15, 2008

To the Editor: Seems like nothing has changed at my alma mater. Like my country, the U.S.A., Dartmouth always has me battling to endure the love-hate relationship that comes with the territory.

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Join the Dartmouth Beta-Blockers

By Kelsey Blodget | January 15, 2008

Correction appended The College didn't have to give Beta a second chance. But it did. Why, when frats already outnumber sororities on campus two to one, would the College make a move that will disenfranchise women even further?

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Republi-Can

By Zak Moore | January 15, 2008

Early in the 2008 primary season, intangible ideas seem to be most important to voters -- change and hope rather than policy or experience.

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Personality Contest

By Chris Talamo | January 15, 2008

Just when you thought we were safe from politically driven marriages and hemophiliac children, out comes Nicholas Sarkozy, President of France.

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Reparation and Recognition

By Elise Waxenberg | January 14, 2008

If you've been a Dartmouth student long enough, you've probably heard several of your peers -- male and female alike -- say something about how they would never send their daughters to Dartmouth.

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Don't Flush a Full House

By Victoria Fener | January 14, 2008

As both a woman of Dartmouth and an active, dedicated sister of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, I feel there are many points from Friday's article ("Beta seizes house from AZD," Jan.

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Ashes, Asches

By Caleb Ballou | January 11, 2008

In Tuesday's issue, The Dartmouth featured another piece from one of our esteemed alumni -- that strange, arcane population that seems intent on achieving some sense of maintained relevancy ("Zero Tolerance on Drugs, Too," Jan.

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A Tale of Two Conflicts

By Daniel Belkin | January 10, 2008

"Out of Iraq, into Darfur!" has emerged as the rallying cry for war critics lobbying Washington to bolt from its unpopular quagmire in the heart of the Middle East and set its sights on a much less contentious objective instead: halting the genocide in war-tattered Sudan. In reality, with a more critical eye social justice"seeking students should consider singing another tune -- Iraq is the new Darfur. It is a tale of two conflicts.

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The Tourism Catastrophe

By Nina Maja Bergmar | January 10, 2008

As tourists' morbid curiosity about our world's natural disasters increases, tourism itself runs the risk of becoming an additional threat to our faltering planet. A rising number of tourists take pleasure in other people's misery as they keenly follow ongoing news reports of natural disasters hitting remote parts of the world.

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Maple Leaf Rag

By D'Arcy Danychuk | January 9, 2008

As a Canadian, I have been making haphazard predictions about things Americans actually care about (like politics) and defend, which is why I predict Hillary Clinton will win your next federal election. I'm going with the Democrats for the simplest of reasons.

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Zero Tolerance on Drugs, Too

By Joseph Asch | January 8, 2008

And you thought nothing could be more wrongheaded than Dartmouth's policy on alcohol? During the 2004-2006 period, the Dartmouth administration had 75 students charged with drug infractions.

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The Threat of a Message

By Phil Aubart | January 8, 2008

Osama bin Laden is at it again. A month ago Al-Qaeda released another new bin Laden tape, following a flurry of Osama videotape releases about two months ago.

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I Heart HuckObama

By Lee Cooper | January 7, 2008

As I write from Asuncion, Paraguay, I should be calculating the probability that there is a "Hooters" restaurant showing the NFL playoffs within a mile of my apartment. Instead, I am attempting to catch up on North American news via the web, kicking myself for forgetting to register at the Town Hall of Hanover as an absentee voter for the presidential primaries -- and I am not even one of those politically obsessed students who has been canvassing my hometown for local campaigns since age nine. This election cycle is destined to be one that students of American history will be citing in midterms and senior theses down the road.

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