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April 9, 2026
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The Western Tradition of Trans Fat

By Jon Wisniewski | October 6, 2006

A friend of mine was recently quoted in the Generic Good Morning Message as saying, "It's like a Noah Riner speech just exploded all over my life." Not being particularly clever myself nor able to pass up a great mental image when I stumble upon it, I must paraphrase and adapt it to a feeling I got recently while getting my news junkie fix.

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Rebuttal to Misleading Claims

By T. J. Rodgers | October 6, 2006

I write to rebut Doug Keare's '56 letter ("Time for Dartmouth to move on," Sept. 27) that claims the petition trustees did not work cooperatively with the Alumni Governance Task Force on the new constitution, a statement also echoed in a story in The Dartmouth ("Trustees turn down requests for participation," Sept.

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Proper Placement

By Tina Praprotnik | October 5, 2006

We all know about the guy in German 1 who has taken six years of the language in high school, or the girl in Math 3 who has been taking college-level math courses since she was 12.

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Credit D-GALA

By Susi Kandel | October 4, 2006

To the Editor: Timothy Dreisbach '71's recent letter asserts, without any factual basis, that the recent upward trend in donor participation is somehow related to the election of petition trustees ("Petition Candidates and Alumni Participation," Sept.

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The Danger of Fear

By David Glovsky | October 3, 2006

The opinion pages of this newspaper have recently been filled with arguments for and against the proposed alumni constitution.

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The Politics of Admissions

By Jacob Baron | October 3, 2006

With Harvard's decision on Sept. 12 to discontinue its Early Action program, college admissions issues have again come to the forefront of attention in the national education consciousness. Ostensibly, Harvard's decision stems from the allegations that early admission programs bring an inherent bias to the college admissions table.

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The Papal Insight

By Michael Belinsky | October 2, 2006

Those who still doubt the intensity of the Western cultural and political conflict with radical Islam should take a closer look at the lecture delivered by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg, and the severe reaction it sparked among some Muslims. Pope Benedict, himself a professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, delivered an academic lecture this month about the role of reason in theological discussions.

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Moving Beyond the Constitution

By Austin Lord | September 29, 2006

Over the past months, both sides in the alumni constitution controversy have drawn caricatures of each other for potential voters, obscuring the more diverse underlying position each actually represents.

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Petition candidates and alumni participation

By Tim Dreisbach | September 28, 2006

To the Editor: Peter Fahey '68's recent letter supporting the proposed constitution made several points, some which merit consideration and some of which are incorrect, such as the erroneous belief that the current trustee election rules force a splitting of votes across nominated candidates ("Five Reasons to Vote, and Vote "Yes,"" Sept.

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The "Promise" of Diversity

By Evan Meyerson | September 28, 2006

The one term utilized ad nauseam more than any other throughout freshman orientation at Dartmouth is "diversity." The College preaches "diversity" almost to a point of overcompensation while trying its darndest to use this diluted word as a grand sales pitch for prospective students.

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Time for Dartmouth to Move On

By Doug Keare | September 27, 2006

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.

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Intolerance of Difference

By T.J. Rodgers | September 26, 2006

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.

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