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A Daughter of Dartmouth

By Severina Ostrovsky | June 27, 2006

To the Editor: In responding to "The Hill Winds Call Fifty Years Later," (June 10) I will not stoop so low as to explain why Dartmouth continues to be an amazing school or attempt to even begin to explain why the addition of women to Dartmouth has been one of its greatest accomplishments.

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A Political Microcosm

By Sara del Nido | June 27, 2006

Last Wednesday, Dartmouth made national news when The New York Times published an article covering the ongoing battle over the proposed alumni constitution.

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Every Man for Himself

By George McArdle | June 22, 2006

This is not a letter of equality, this is a continuation of the battle of the sexes. It is an article pointing out the complete lack of support that men receive on campus.

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Defending a Coeducational Dartmouth

By Claire Johnston | June 22, 2006

To the Editor: In response to Larry Morse '56's guest column, written for the occasion of his class' 50th reunion ("The Hill Winds Call Fifty Years Later," June 10), I would like to point out that Dartmouth is a member institution in the Ivy League, a league that was officially formed in 1954 (while he was enrolled as an undergraduate, I might add). For the sake of parity for women, and for the reason of following the example of other Ivy League institutions, I think Dartmouth made the right decision to go coed in the early 1970s. As a young woman growing up in the same decade, I was interested in going to a college with high standards where I could also be a part of a relatively small community. Today, I am a professional educator (13 years in librarianship and counting), and I cherish the fact that I was able to study at Dartmouth and to have had the opportunity to study at an institution with such a rich cultural history. Secondly, I take offense to his comment that his four years at Dartmouth were four years in the sun, four years without the insistent pressure of meeting women's demands and manipulations.

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The Best Four Years

By Colin S. Barry | June 10, 2006

At our formal welcome to this school, on a sunny morning in late September, the incoming student body president greeted our class in a speech I now regret sleeping through.

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Five Years Later

By Hank Leukart | June 10, 2006

Four years ago, a year after walking across the Dartmouth commencement stage, I wrote an essay for The Dartmouth titled "One Year Later," in which I wrote about spending my post-grad summer with a girlfriend at Dartmouth without any classes to worry about, getting trapped in Europe on Sept.

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Alumni elections

By Grant Bosse | May 31, 2006

To the Editor: I read with disappointment of the Alumni Association's decision to cancel this fall's scheduled elections ("Association of Alumni halts imminent elections," May 30). It would be disturbing enough for our elected representatives to nearly double their own terms, if it weren't also a tactless attempt to muscle through the incoherent constitution they wish to foist upon all Dartmouth alums. It is this shallow gaming of alumni elections that critics of the proposed constitution fear will become the norm under the bureaucratic and confusing rules being offered.

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United Against the Constitution

By Andrew Seal | May 31, 2006

During their three-day meeting over Green Key Weekend, the Alumni Council -- the representative body of sorts for the whole of the alumni -- voted unanimously to endorse the new proposed Alumni Association Constitution.

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Hamas' Critical Choice

By Zak Moore | May 30, 2006

In the wake of the recent elections that installed Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist group, at the head of the Palestinian legislature, there is a power struggle emerging.

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DDS is not green

By Vicki Allen | May 30, 2006

To the Editor: One point that I have not seen made regarding the new Dartmouth Dining Services plans is how "un-green" they are ("DDS announces final meal plan changes," May 24). It's as if DDS/Dartmouth is saying "Hi, instead of allowing students to purchase larger milk containers that can be reduced and reused, we will instead encourage students to buy 80 million of those little paper milk cartons from the dining halls (since they'll have to spend more of their money in the dining halls) -- oh, and by the way, we've made it really hard for students to compost those cartons in the past few years." To me, this is just another example of how Dartmouth is struggling to commit (in all aspects of college life) to a true vision of environmentally friendly/sustainable/good practices (whatever current environmental "buzz" word you want to use). Well, perhaps now that DDS realizes that students will just buy smaller-packaged quantities of things they get at Topside (but buy it elsewhere), they'll finally get those Cows (the milk-dispensers) in the dining hall that student environmental groups have been requesting for years.

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Defending Scientific Research

By D. Bradley Bate | May 30, 2006

To the Editor: I have many issues with Joseph Asch's "Dartmouth by Numbers" (May 26), but as a former Dartmouth undergraduate and now graduate student in the earth sciences department, one point in particular stands out as being especially misinformed. Based on his arguments, it is obvious that Asch's perspective on Dartmouth is skewed toward the humanities (and if we're going to talk about numbers, how about a discussion of bias?). Therefore, it is understandable that he might not understand how things work in the sciences. Asch suggests that professors in the sciences should teach more classes, presumably at the expense of their research.

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Student Assembly

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 26, 2006

This past week saw the announcement of a number of changes of importance to students. The final revisions to the Dartmouth Dining Services proposals, including the raising of the Topside limit to $200, were unveiled, as was the Student Assembly budget of Student Body President-elect Tim Andreadis.

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Dartmouth by Numbers

By Joe Asch | May 26, 2006

A management consultant learns to "push the numbers:" to look for the real meaning behind figures advanced by corporate executives.

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Earning the right to vote

By Joshua Marks | May 26, 2006

To the Editor: The op-ed piece regarding immigration and the hurdles for legal immigrants seemed to raise the issue of allowing legal resident aliens the right to vote ("The Problems with Being Legal," May 23). Surely this must be a mistake of the author, since it would be the height of lunacy to suggest that someone who chooses to retain his or her native country's citizenship, but has not opted for U.S.

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DBA Doubts

By Caroline Kaufmann | May 25, 2006

To the Editor: Thank you for your article on the new meal plan options ("DDS announces final meal plan changes," May 24). I find it really irritating that meal plans continue to be a source of confusion and frustration for students at Dartmouth.

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All About the Babies

By Julia Bernstein | May 25, 2006

The hottest accessory for spring this year appears to be a baby. From new moms Katie Holmes (Baby Suri) and Brooke Shields (Baby Grier) to soon-to-be biological mom Angelina Jolie, Hollywood's obsession with celebrity motherhood shows no signs of ending anytime soon.

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