Opinion

Hillary: Don't Cry For Me, Cristina

By Suzanne Lehrer | October 31, 2007

Consider us the more sophisticated half of the Western hemisphere if you must, but this past Sunday night South America managed to beat us to the punch: the progressive political milestone the majority of the world's countries have yet to reach.

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Opinion

Fall fling flops at The D

By John Beck | October 31, 2007

To the Editor: Last Saturday, the Rockapellas, the Cords and Soul Scribes performed in front of a packed Spaulding Auditorium for this year's Fall Fling.

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Opinion

Charge of "hate speech" is false

By Robert Spencer | October 31, 2007

To the Editor: In "'Islamo-fascism' speaker met with controversy" (Oct. 29), Chloe Mulderig '05 says that "Robert Spencer is unfortunately bringing hate speech on campus and hates Islam itself." She offers no evidence for this.

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Opinion

Face the Facebook Fallout

By Daniel Belkin | October 31, 2007

Big Brother is watching you. And these days, he has plenty of company: the boy from your freshman seminar, your potential future employer, the strange kid living down the hall in your dorm and the rest of the College community. Armed with the wonders of the World Wide Web, this generation enjoys an unprecedented level of interconnectivity that ties together everyone from close friends to complete strangers.

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Opinion

A Conception of Contraception

By Claire Murray | October 30, 2007

Middle schools are now handing out birth control. Earlier this month, the school board of the Portland, Maine, school district voted to approve a plan to offer free contraception to middle school students without their parents' knowledge or consent.

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Opinion

Greener Energy: A Bright Idea

By Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan | October 29, 2007

To the Editor: I am writing from Paris, where Al Gore was the honored guest at the French National Conference on the Environment on Oct.

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Opinion

Checkmate in '08

By Brian Solomon | October 29, 2007

I support a long-shot candidate for president in 2008. Believe it or not, he actually has worse odds of winning the election than any other even slightly known candidate.

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Opinion

Something We Can Agree On

By Michael Kreicher | October 29, 2007

When I read this past Tuesday that New Hampshire State Rep. Maureen Mooney planned to introduce a bill that would effectively seek to overturn the famous 1819 Supreme Court decision and jeopardize the sovereignty of Dartmouth, I was absolutely astonished ("N.H.

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Opinion

President Wright and the administration not out to misinform

By Eric Schildge | October 25, 2007

To the Editor: I thank Phil Aubart '10 for providing another student's perspective on the current alumni controversy ("A Message to President Wright," Oct.

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Opinion

Deliberating on Al Gore

By Chris Talamo | October 25, 2007

Over the din of all the harsh criticism, all the movie-bashing and other silly news stories involving not-so-clever titles that follow the formula "An Inconvenient X," Al Gore has come away with a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Opinion

Electing Not To Vote

By Jacob Baron | October 25, 2007

As we roll into November 2007 with all political eyes fixed on November 2008, do not let this year's Election Day pass you by.

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Opinion

What Matters to Me and Why

By David Glovsky | October 25, 2007

If you're anything like me, you're sick of talking about the changes to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees.

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Opinion

A Few Good Bureaucrats

By Lee Cooper | October 24, 2007

From regular "chat sessions" about our social lives, to heady discussions on our universe's constant state of flux, to pseudo-debates on political issues, my friends and I have conversations that cover it all.

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Opinion

ExtraCurricular.

By Ronald Green | October 23, 2007

On June 20, President George W. Bush vetoed legislation that would have greatly expanded the number of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines available for federally funded research.

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Opinion

Fear and Loathing of the Freshman 15

By Nina Maja Bergmar | October 23, 2007

There are some aspects of college life that most of us cannot escape. Stress, all-nighters and irregular day schedules hit all of us at some point.

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Opinion

Let's get our vocab right, here

By Liz Kolleeny | October 23, 2007

We, the residents of 9 Prospect St. (Liz Kolleeny '08, Anna Stone '08, Ty Moddelmog '08, Lauren Penneys '08, Ursula Grisham '08, Emmett Knox '08 and John Fleischer '08), are usually huge fans of Maggie Severns-O-Neill's words of wisdom in her weekly column "Cheat Sheet." This week, however, I feel as though she led the Dartmouth population astray. Under the section entitled "So-Called (Sex) Life" (Oct.

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Opinion

A Message to President Wright

By Phil Aubart | October 23, 2007

Sir, An era of 1984 Orwellian doublespeak has darkened this little College on a Hill. You, sir, are the main source of this doublespeak.

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Opinion

My Big Fat Greek Identity

By Daniel Chiu | October 23, 2007

Guys wearing laminated placards are stealing bright red sirens, while fellows with bad haircuts are walking past mustachioed lunchbox wielders.

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Opinion

Throw the Bums Out

By Shaun Stewart | October 22, 2007

It's not often that I agree with Dan Linsalata '07, but he was correct in stating that the lawsuit filed against the College by members of the Association of Alumni Executive Committee will bring nothing but national embarrassment to the College ("Giving does not demonstrate approval," Oct.

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Opinion

Filling out the facts on Denmark

By David Ong | October 21, 2007

To the Editor: In condemning libertarian economic policies of low taxes and low spending, professor John Campbell is at best misguided, and at worst grossly negligent in his pseudo-economic analysis of America and Denmark ("ExtraCurricular," Oct.

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