Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

Barack the Vote

By Mark Brzezinski | January 7, 2008

What is it about Senator Barack Obama that makes him a particularly timely and relevant candidate for America at this stage in our relationship with the world?

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Opinion

A Comedian's Words of Wisdom

By Lee Cooper | December 4, 2007

This weekend I had the unfortunate experience of being kicked out of the library on a Saturday night.

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Opinion

Booting the Bill

By Nathan Bruschi | December 4, 2007

From: [Community Director] Subject: Damages in [the cluster] To: (Recipient list suppressed) "I am sorry to report that over the weekend there was considerable damage done to the Men's Public Bathroom in [redacted communal space] in the form of vomit on the floors, toilet and walls .... If no one comes forward to accept responsibility for the damages, I will have to charge all of [the cluster] for these damages." It was not the first time I had gotten such an e-mail.

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Opinion

For One Night, Climbing the Stairway to Heaven

By Max Bryer | December 4, 2007

I would sell my soul for Led Zeppelin tickets. Are you listening, Satan? Good, because this is not a drill.

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Opinion

Over-involved Alumni: Get a Life

By John Eldredge | December 4, 2007

To the Editor: My father, Newc Eldredge '50, forwarded me the story from your Nov. 26 issue regarding Trustee Todd Zywicki '88's comments characterizing former College President James Freedman as a "truly evil man" ("Zywicki draws fire for remarks"). I find Zywicki's comments to be very unfortunate and regrettable.

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Opinion

Zywicki's 'flagrant neglect'

By Gene Garthwaite | December 4, 2007

To the Editor: Where does one begin to respond to Todd Zywicki '88's egregious and dishonorable remarks?

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Opinion

Talk That's Anything but Small

By Daniel Chiu | December 4, 2007

Last Thursday, Sylvia Spears, director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, gave a speech at the Pan Asian Council's community dinner.

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Opinion

'Christmas' at the College

By Richard Crocker | December 2, 2007

To the Editor: Each year, as the Christmas tree takes its place on the Green, I receive expressions of concern from members of the community who wonder if it is appropriate for a religious symbol to be given a place of such prominence at the College.

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Opinion

Questioning Zywicki's assumptions

By James Adler | December 2, 2007

To the Editor: Others have effectively raised a number of pertinent questions regarding the tone and content of Trustee Todd Zywicki '88's remarks at the Pope Center Conference held on Oct.

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Opinion

... Assess the Blame Down in Africa

By Nina Maja Bergmar | December 2, 2007

In his lecture at Dartmouth last Friday, "The War on Terror and the Terror of War: Somalia and the Horn of Africa," professor Abdi Samatar from the University of Minnesota explained why popular opposition to Somalia's martial law depicts South African President Mbeki as the Quisling of our time.

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Opinion

Crady's New Year's Resolution

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | November 30, 2007

Dean Crady, Fall term is ending and you are about to assume one of the most unique and challenging positions in academia.

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Opinion

The Granite State Oligarchy

By Brian Solomon | November 30, 2007

"The people of Iowa pick corn, the people of New Hampshire pick presidents," said then-Gov. John H.

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Opinion

Do U Txt Msg 2 Much?

By Daniel Belkin | November 29, 2007

E-mail is the new "snail mail." And using cell phones to make actual phone calls is so 2005. Receiving their AOL Instant Messenger screen names well-before their drivers' licenses, members of this generation have been raised accustomed to easily communicating with each other.

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Opinion

Striking for Civil "Writes"

By Suzanne Lehrer | November 29, 2007

One of the earliest maternal wardrobe memories I have as a child is an old, faded, magenta shirt my mom had that read, "Behind every successful man is an exhausted woman." Outdated, presumptuous and slightly chauvinistic?

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Opinion

Life, Really?

By Denise Hotta-Moung | November 28, 2007

In a recent episode of The Office, Dwight Schrute begins playing a computer game called Second Life as a way to escape the pain he suffers from a recent breakup.

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Opinion

Class Activism

By Claire Murray | November 28, 2007

This weekend marks the end of the 40 days of Grassroot Soccer blitzes. These e-mails (and those Mailer-Daemons!), while numerous, were, it seems, incredibly effective in mobilizing campus-wide support for the event.

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Opinion

Changes in Latitudes...

By Chris Talamo | November 26, 2007

Those 1490s ... talk about a great decade. The Moors surrendered after the long Reconquista, the Swiss won their independence and the Portuguese set out to establish an empire.

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Opinion

Grass-rootin' for Policy Change

By Lucas Richardson | November 26, 2007

"In Zambia, sex is not a negotiation," Gesh Banda, a Grassroot Soccer program assistant, and a 23-year-old native of Lusaka, Zambia, told me the other day during a conversation about Zambian culture.

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