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The Dartmouth
April 9, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion




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.


Opinion

Legislative Learning Should Count

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Last term, a group of 16 Dartmouth students descended on Washington. Many of us had never met before the program and little did we know that spending 10 weeks of a beautiful spring in the District would bring us so close. The first thing that had piqued my interest about the Government Foreign Study Program in Washington, D.C., was the internship component.



Opinion

Dartmouth too good for D.C.?

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On April 30, 2004, I was faced with the most difficult decision of my life. Sitting in my kitchen with my parents on either side, I stared, terrified, at two empty envelopes symbolic of the two divergent paths confronting the next four years of my educational career.