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December 26, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Opinion

Time to Move On

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I recently spoke with Richard M. Zuckerman '72, chairman of this newspaper during the controversy over the decision to go coeducational 25 years ago and a leader in that effort.


Opinion

Reflections on the Career Fair

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Of all the free stuff, the squishy foam remote from Comcast was my favorite item. No less than four of the booths were giving away things that a prospective employee might squeeze should he or she wish to relieve stress.


Opinion

Tell It Like It Is

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To the Editor: It has been a national pasttime of ours since Hitler to apportion a great deal of undue credit onto our would-be enemies, and Max Bryer '08's editorial on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fits in this tradition nicely ("An Impotent U.N.


Opinion

Dictating Rationality

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to cause controversy wherever he goes. Max Bryer '08 already gave us an analysis of the Iranian leader's visit to the United Nations ("An Impotent U.N.





Opinion

Giving does not demonstrate approval

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To the Editor: After spending the better part of the last three years neck-deep in muck of alumni governance and bickering (which I wouldn't recommend to anybody), I quickly grew to appreciate the fact that a 90-hour-per-week job makes it a lot easier to stick my head in the sand and ignore all of it.


Opinion

Reject the lawsuit and the politics

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To the Editor: Can we understand the logic of an 11-member committee of the Association of the Alumni which, while claiming to represent all of the alumni, has just voted to sue the College without so much as consulting the alumni ("Alumni to take legal action against College," Oct.


Opinion

Redirect alumni focus

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To the Editor: It is unfortunate that some stubborn alumni on the executive committee cannot foresee the vision of positive change ("Alumni to take legal action against College," Oct.



Opinion

Listen to the Voiceless

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Funnily enough, it seems the only voice lacking from the past few heated Board of Trustees elections and this summer's governance reform brouhaha has been that of those actually governed: current College students. Disfranchised and voiceless undergrads have passively watched the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, "the Committee to Save Dartmouth College" via the New York Times, and the National Review offer their two cents about the state of the College and the ongoing and well-funded anti-administration insurgency.



Opinion

The Bear and the Olive Branch

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Despite the "lobster summit" held in Maine between Presidents Bush and Putin this past summer, no agreement was reached with Russia regarding the U.S.-proposed missile defense shield to be built in Poland and the Czech Republic.



Opinion

Supporting the Board Changes

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Your editorial of Sept. 7, 2007, "An Old Tradition Fails," raises two issues relevant to the wisdom of alumni electing trustees: Do alumni have a democratic right to elect trustees?




Opinion

The Cholera Report

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The only person I've ever known to contract cholera was "my brother" Henry. That was in 1851, as we traveled the Oregon Trail in our covered wagon.