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Teaching the Art of Writing

By Zeke Turner | April 26, 2006

Thomas Cormen leans back in his chair, crossing his arms over his chest as we talk. From time to time he looks to the ceiling of his office through his thin-rimmed glasses, searching for the right words.

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Cut the Red Tape

By Chrissie Chick | April 25, 2006

What defines Dartmouth is its students. Instead of flashy PR or Nobel-winning professors, it's the student community--from DOC trips to Drill class to sports teams to Greek and affinity houses to small classes and interaction with faculty--that makes our Dartmouth experience.

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Teaching Not Preaching

By Ben Selznick | April 25, 2006

After the publishing of my last column ("Keeping Sunday School Separate," April 6), I discussed my argument with several friends and Dartmouth staff members.

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Experience Counts

By Santi Vallinas | April 25, 2006

My name is Santi Vallinas '07, and I am running for Vice President. What makes me different from the other candidates is my three years of SA experience.

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Trusted Leadership

By Dave Zubricki | April 25, 2006

The Student Assembly is in trouble and everyone knows it. Pet projects (read: bikes that go nowhere) and internal squabbling (do we really need more constitutional amendments?) have gathered most of the student body's attention, while some really important accomplishments have gone unnoticed.

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Stand Up for Dartmouth

By Adam Patinkin | April 25, 2006

Student Assembly needs a bold and charismatic leader with the courage to shake things up. On my first day as Student Body President, I will scrap the SA Constitution and rewrite it to make sense.

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Throwing a Hat in the Ring

By Tim Andreadis | April 24, 2006

According to a discussion with Coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program Leah Prescott that was reported in The Dartmouth, there are an estimated 109 rapes a year on campus ("Many rape incidents occur yearly at College," Feb.

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Practicality versus Principles

By Timothy Dreisbach | April 24, 2006

Alumni will soon be asked to vote on a proposal to adopt a new constitution, as founding father George Mason was challenged with the United States Constitution before a Bill of Rights was added.

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Examples of Accountability

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 21, 2006

Accountability in a university setting has myriad different applications -- the accountability of students for their actions, the accountability of students to their community and the accountability of an administration for and to its undergraduates.

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Sustaining Earth Day

By Diana Jih | April 21, 2006

Tossed aside and lined with plastic, twist-tied and buried beneath heaps of cerebral refuse, waste cognizance lies in the depths of the average college student's consciousness, resting atop Oedipal latencies and the Superego.

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The Case for Dartmouth

By Michael Belinsky | April 20, 2006

Prospies: Here is why you should come to Dartmouth: Our campus is beautiful. Isolated from the pollution and over-population of city life, our campus offers the opportunities of a close-to-nature environment, while detracting little from the advantages of city life.

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The merits of teacher accreditation programs

By Jay Davis | April 20, 2006

To the Editor: I write this letter in response to your Friday article entitled "Study Suggests Teacher Certification is Ineffective" (April 14). We in the Education Department's Teacher Education Program do not question the quality of Professor Staiger's research.

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The psychology dept. exodus

By Rachel Karpf | April 19, 2006

To the Editor: I read last week's article on the National Science Foundation decision to end funding for Dartmouth's new Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience with mixed feelings ("College to lose most of $21.8m NSF grant," April 12). As an undergraduate researcher in the Psychological and Brain Sciences department for the past two years, and one of the students asked to present research at the recent NSF review of CCEN, I am glad the issue is being discussed.

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Dartmouth's Financial Aid Policy

By Karl Furstenberg | April 19, 2006

To the Editor: The Dartmouth does well to raise the important issue of financial aid in the latest Verbum Ultimum ("Leading on financial aid," April 14). The socio-economic diversity of the student body is a major priority of the College.

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New Beginnings at Dartmouth

By Daniel Chiu | April 19, 2006

Beginnings are the best: the beginning of spring, the beginning of a new term and, for many prospective members of the Class of 2010 nationwide, the beginning of college.

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