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Requiem for Two Heavyweights

By Iden Sinai | January 19, 2006

Usually I use this space pithily to opine about politics or some arcane aspect of life here at Dartmouth, but today, I would like to opine about something far more important that happened over the past weekend.

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More Than Just Changing Names

By Thomas Cormen | January 18, 2006

In his op-ed ("Poor Writing at Dartmouth," Jan. 16), Joseph Asch '79 gives the impression that all that the Writing Program has done to date is change some names: the Composition Center to RWIT, and English 2-3 and English 5 to Writing 2-3 and Writing 5.

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Universal Diversity

By Tina Praprotnik | January 17, 2006

Last year, the College invited Dorothy Allison to deliver the keynote address for the series of events in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Race, Faith and Fear

By Oosman Ansari | January 17, 2006

To the Editor: I am increasingly disturbed by Ilya Feoktistov '06's penchant in his article for fomenting racial and religious disharmony and encouraging an atmosphere of fear in the midst of our Dartmouth community ("Allahu Akbar and a Bang," Jan.

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Revisiting Alumni Guidelines

By Frank Gado | January 17, 2006

To the Editor: Those who have read Al Collins's letter explaining why he and the other members of the presumptive Executive Committee (the legality of that election is currently being challenged) should consider the following: Without much more time than it takes to have a cup of coffee after its election on Oct.

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Poor Writing at Dartmouth

By Joseph Asch | January 16, 2006

Trustee Chair Bill Neukom was following the Administration's media playbook when he said in an interview in the January/February Alumni Magazine that Dartmouth graduates are "superbly prepared." In the area of writing, this statement is just not true. A few years ago in Paris, in a moment of greater candor, President Jim Wright told alumni that student writing is a "national problem." The status of undergraduate writing was best summarized by Professor Warren Goldstein in the July/August 2005 Yale Alumni Magazine when he wrote: "There is no single topic on which faculty, nationwide, agree more than that student writing is atrocious and getting worse." The Dartmouth Administration has not been blind to this problem, but its lumbering response has been all too typical. After a 2002 outside review of the Composition Center, a review that one faculty member described to me as "scathing," the Center's name was changed to RWiT [Student Center for Research, Writing and Information Technology]. However, its organization and the role of its revolving group of undergraduate student tutors remained substantially the same. Subsequently, work by a faculty "Committee on Writing" in 2002-2004 led to the creation of Dartmouth's new Writing Program, with a three-year budget of $400,000. Writing Program Chair Tom Corman's first step was to change the names of English 2, 3, and 5 to Writing 2, 3, and 5.

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The Greatest Dynasty

By Robert Butts | January 16, 2006

A funny thing happened this Saturday night: the New England Patriots lost. After 10 straight playoff victories, after winning three Super Bowls over the span of four years, the Patriots were bounced from the NFL playoffs when the Denver Broncos capitalized on New England's five turnovers en route to a 27-13 win. For the Patriots, this losing thing may take some getting used to.

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An Uncertain Confirmation

By David Rothenberg | January 13, 2006

Although the direct questioning of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito came to a close on Thursday afternoon, I remain pervaded with a sense of uncertainty -- uncertain as to what Alito truly intends to do if given the keys to one of nine of the most powerful offices in the country, uncertain as to what the senators questioning him could have done to have elicited more insightful answers, and uncertain regarding the outcome of the upcoming confirmation vote.

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No Room for Cookbook Doctoring

By Henry Ilsley | January 12, 2006

To the Editor: Attorney Ron Snow said, "We were found guilty of negligence for following a national guideline on how to treat this patient" ("DHMC lawyers appeal $1.8 million suit," Jan.

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