Opinion

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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Opinion

Reflecting on Guantanamo

By Robert Grossman | June 10, 2006

The moon over Guantanamo Bay was full and the immense darkness was ornamented with stars everywhere I looked.

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Opinion

The Hill Winds Call Fifty Years Later

By Larry Morse | June 10, 2006

The 50th reunion for the Class of 1956 is coming up this weekend, and it carries a dismal message: We will not merely die.

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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

For better or worse, vote on the new alumni constitution

By Beth P. Krakower | May 31, 2006

Tilman C.

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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

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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Opinion

Forward Looking Reminiscence

By Robert Butts | May 25, 2006

This Green Key Weekend heralded in a new frame of reference for me, and I would be lying if I claimed it was not unbalancing. As I sat in the living room at Alpha Theta and looked at the throngs of alumni who flocked back to the College for the weekend, I suddenly realized that, come next Green Key, I would be one of them.

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Opinion

All Creatures Great, Small and Wet

By Zeke Turner | May 24, 2006

When I was a boy, before I moved to the land of brownstones and apartment buildings, I used to spend warm afternoons crouched low in my backyard with a plastic cup.

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Opinion

Hail to the Summer Blockbuster

By Maxwell Bryer | May 24, 2006

Summer is just around the corner, and, for once, I have nothing to complain about. There I said it -- nothing at all.

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Opinion

The Problems with Being Legal

By Tina Praprotnik | May 23, 2006

As a recent immigrant, I was looking forward to the May 1 campus protest for "A Day Without Immigrants," which promised to highlight the inequities suffered by immigrants and the faults of the U.S.

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Opinion

Leave Your Politics at Home

By Jon Wisniewski | May 23, 2006

Adam Patinkin '07 argues in his guest op-ed on May 18 ("Demanding Our Right to Vote") that the recent measures enacted by the New Hampshire state legislature by HB 1566 are several things: first, that campus bipartisanship which opposes the issue is inherently meaningful; second, that students as members of the community deserve a say in the laws which govern that community and are being stripped of their right to vote; and third, that the law itself is unconstitutional per Symm v.

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Opinion

An Alumni Constitution Clarification

By Martha Hennessey | May 22, 2006

To the Editor: I want to commend The Dartmouth for accurately reviewing most of the details in the May 19 article on the Alumni Council ("Alumni Council to convene, vote on alumni constitution overhaul"). There is one clarification that I believe is important to make, however.

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