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September 3, 2026
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Opinion

Giving does not demonstrate approval

By Dan Linsalata | October 4, 2007

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.

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Reject the lawsuit and the politics

By Ed Dailey | October 4, 2007

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.

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Redirect alumni focus

By Carol Hillman Van Dyke | October 4, 2007

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.

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Listen to the Voiceless

By Daniel Belkin | October 3, 2007

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.

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The Bear and the Olive Branch

By Zachary Hyatt | October 3, 2007

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.

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Supporting the Board Changes

By Anthony Magro | October 2, 2007

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?

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The Cholera Report

By Claire Murray | October 1, 2007

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.

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Activism for the Next Generation

By Tom Atwood | October 1, 2007

Unless something unprecedented happens in the next three years, the first decade of the 21st century will likely be remembered as a lost decade: a decade punctuated by an aimless and divisive war, spattered with terrorist attacks, and one during which people were fleetingly but admirably brought together by catastrophic natural disasters.

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Thank you, Dartmouth community

By Andrew Samwick | September 28, 2007

To the Editor: As the director of the Rockefeller Center, and on behalf of the offices on campus who took the lead in hosting Wednesday night's Democratic Candidates Debate, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the members of the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities.

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Dartmouth owes success to President Wright

By John Engelman | September 27, 2007

To the Editor: To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "well Joe, there you go again." In the winter of 2006, Joe Asch '79 wrote an op-ed for The Dartmouth calling for College President James Wright's resignation ("Wright Must Be Replaced," March 1, 2006). Clearly that screed gained no traction among the trustees and alumni of Dartmouth, so now Asch tries again ("Time for Wright to Step Down," Sept.

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