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Rhetoric or Real Reform?

By Rick Routhier | July 27, 2007

To the Editor: In his recent guest column Professor Stephen Smith decries the latest "establishment" challenge to alumni rights ("Countering Campaign Charge," July 17). Fortunately, Trustee Smith is now in an excellent position to make a real difference, if he chooses to focus on real issues. Whether he spent $20,000 or $200,000 is not the issue.

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YouTube, You Choose

By Tina Praprotnik | July 27, 2007

Just as the first televised debate, the famed 1960 match between Kennedy and Nixon, revolutionized the campaign process by putting candidates on display in millions of American homes, YouTube is once again redefining the role of democracy.

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Secondhand Smoke

By Claire Murray | July 24, 2007

Incentives run the world. People go to work in exchange for a salary. My dog sits when I tell her to because she knows I am holding a dog biscuit.

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A call for cooperation

By Ed Dailey | July 20, 2007

To the Editor: I was surprised this morning to read Stephen Smith's rather charged opinion ("Countering Campaign Charges," July 17). Now that Smith is a trustee, I expect that he will represent all of us.

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Making an Impact

By Gahl Rinat | July 20, 2007

People always ask me what I want do in my life. Each time, my answer includes "making an impact." I suspect others like me exist at Dartmouth.

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Countering Campaign Charges

By Stephen F. Smith | July 17, 2007

Before the ink was dry on the press release announcing my election to the Board of Trustees last month, we were let in on a secret: a Board committee from which petition trustees have been excluded is exploring alternative methods of selecting Trustees -- a euphemism, really, for stripping Dartmouth alumni of their longstanding right to elect half of the Board. The basis for this unprecedented assault on alumni rights is a series of false charges made by those who have again found themselves on the losing side of an election. The leading charge is that I essentially "bought" the election.

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Parking Peeves

By Christian Kiely | July 17, 2007

We have all done it. You are studying late Sunday night in the library with a midterm the next day only to realize that you still need to take your car back to A-Lot.

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Don't Tear Your Hair Out

By Brian Kennedy | July 13, 2007

To the Editor: I was pleased to read the recent articles by Tina Praprotnik ("Gah-Gah for Gu," June 29) and Zak Moore ("The Hair Up There," July 6) about the art installation by Wenda Gu, currently on display in Baker-Berry Library and commissioned by the Hood Museum of Art.

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Check Your Local Listings

By Zeke Turner | July 13, 2007

Here is a scene from ABC Family's newest show, "Greek." It is freshman orientation, and two roommates -- Dale and Rusty -- sip Red Bulls and mingle with their new classmates at a party full of engineering dorks.

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Internship Insanity

By Daniel Belkin | July 10, 2007

Why would anyone work for free? After the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865, unpaid labor in this country pretty much went out of vogue.

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Citation Corrected

By April Thompson | July 10, 2007

I am writing in response to Christian Kiely '09's column regarding flaws in the administration of discipline at Dartmouth ("Citation Error," July 3). Kiely provides a perspective from his personal observations, but I would like to clarify some information about the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs and the Committee on Standards. First, there are not "differing levels of attention" paid to serious misconduct at Dartmouth or "divergent standards of proof" in the disciplinary system.

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Finkelstein Tenure: Denied

By Ken Meyercord | July 6, 2007

To the Editor: A grave injustice has been done to an outstanding academician and I am hopeful Dartmouth has the opportunity and the desire to help remedy the situation.

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A Call for Real Democracy

By Frank Gado | July 6, 2007

To the Editor: At the May Alumni Council meeting, Rick Routhier, chairman of the nominating committee whose candidates lost the recent alumni trustee race, pronounced the electoral process broken.

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The Hair Up There

By Zak Moore | July 6, 2007

It is not that I dislike all modern art. I have made many trips to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, perhaps like any college student aspiring to be "open minded," and I have generally been quite pleased.

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A Dangerous Myth

By Gahl Rinat | July 3, 2007

We Israelis have been unjustly branded as thieves. A respectable Dartmouth professor once asked me why we Israelis have any claim to our land.

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