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December 24, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Opinion

Time for Dartmouth to Move On

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I congratulate The Dartmouth's Editorial Board for its excellent editorial on the proposed new draft constitution which aims to restructure Dartmouth's alumni organizations to, among other matters, enable greater alumni participation in governance of the College (Verbum Ultimum, Sept.


Opinion

Intolerance of Difference

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Proponents of the new constitution have set aside arguments of merit, advancing instead two arguments: that we should adopt the new constitution because a task force worked hard on it for a long time and that a group of "radical dissidents," as Peter Fahey '68 wrote in The Dartmouth ("Five Reasons to Vote and Vote Yes," Sept.







Opinion

A Battle for the Whole of Dartmouth

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Last spring, I collaborated with Dan Linsalata '07 on an op-ed opposing the constitution ("United Against the Constitution," May 31). I now wish very much I had reserved my judgment on the matter.




Opinion

Remembering Steve

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On Sept. 4, while shooting footage for his eight-year-old daughter's television show, Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter," was killed by a stingray, one of the ocean's most docile and harmless creatures.



Opinion

An Ill-Legal Philosophy

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When our country's fundamental laws were written based on the ideals of fairness and democracy, our founders could not have envisioned that there would one day be a president, the guarantor of these legal protections, who understood himself and his administration to be above and thus exempt from the very laws their elected and appointed positions require them to protect.



Opinion

Considering the Amendments

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Voting has begun on the proposed new constitution from the Alumni Governance Task Force, as well as on the four amendments to the current constitution that were proposed by petition (requiring 1 percent of the alumni body to sign for each). The Executive Committee of the Association has issued a recommendation of how to vote to all alumni.




Opinion

Another Alumni Debacle

Last week, two vocal opponents of the proposed Alumni Association reforms accused senior College administrators -- who claim to be neutral in a contentious constitutional debate -- of using their positions to squelch criticisms of the document.


Opinion

Gado's Got It Wrong

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To the Editor: In your Aug. 15 story, "Alumni election suit thrown out of court," Frank Gado '58 responds to the dismissal of the John MacGovern '80 lawsuit against the Association of Alumni with allegations of legal corruption in the New Hampshire court system and claims that the lawsuit was not really about proxy voting, but about alumni enfranchisement.


Opinion

How to Alienate People

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In the days following the foiled terrorist plots in airports across England, British Muslims have come under renewed scrutiny as a threat to security.