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Thanks to the Community

By Carol L. Folt | May 25, 2005

To the Editor: This past Sunday, the Student Assembly hosted a spectacular event in Collis Common Ground, which brought close to 400 members of the Dartmouth community together to enjoy one another's company.

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A Game of Numbers

By Sowmya Kypa | May 24, 2005

If the ending of "The OC" has left you hungry for a new source of drama, look no further than the United States Senate. Instead of the usual assemblage of half-asleep senators listening to boring speeches, the Senate promises to be full of action this week. Republicans and Democrats are fighting over the right to filibuster judicial nominations.

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Whose Dear Old Dartmouth?

By Joseph Asch | May 24, 2005

To the Editor: Your Verbum Ultimum editorial of May 20 was more than a disappointment. By reprising the sad yammering of certain professors ("ideologically motivated", "nostalgia"), the D joined with the namecallers who see the world only in terms of left/right politics.

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All Employees Created Equal

By Sara del Nido | May 24, 2005

References to "Dartmouth employees" usually conjure up images of those who work directly for education: faculty, office staff and others involved in the day-to-day workings of the College.

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Ecological Footprints

By Kelly Grogan | May 23, 2005

Living in the Dartmouth bubble, we often forget that our actions have impacts beyond Hanover. Some of these impacts come in the form of environmental impacts from our use of resources and our disposal of waste.

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Examining the New SAT

By Julia Bernstein | May 23, 2005

I didn't really follow the Trustee Election, but I like that both Peter Robinson '79 and Todd Zywicki '88 are academics, and more importantly, writers.

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Power of the Press

By Robert Butts | May 20, 2005

Journalism is a rather arrogant profession. Journalists love to think of themselves as public servants, defending the helpless masses from the schemes of government, corporate America, organized religion, the military, special interests or any other convenient institutional boogeyman that is handy at the moment. And there is nothing those servants of the public love more than taking a shot at a Republican administration they don't care for. And if they can scoop their rivals in the process -- perfect. Which is probably why Newsweek editors thought they'd struck gold a week ago, when the magazine published a short item claiming that, as part of their interrogation techniques, U.S.

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Consequences of Low Turnout

By William Montgomery | May 20, 2005

To the Editor: Stuart A. Reid's analysis of the just concluded trustee election is well thought out and summarizes the results fairly ("Trustee elections tap into issues of College's future," May 18). There are other considerations not mentioned in the article.

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Teach for America Responds

By Monique Ayotte | May 20, 2005

To the Editor: I wish to thank Emily Chenel for her recent commentary ("Improving Teach For America," May 10). I welcome her thoughtful suggestions for improving our admissions process and I share much of the sentiment she expresses.

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Adding up Inaccuracies

By Kathy Paur | May 20, 2005

To the Editor: I am writing to correct a number of inaccuracies in an article published on May 16 about my talk sponsored by the Center for Women and Gender ("Paur questions stigmas, discusses Summers flap," May 16). The greatest idea that I hoped listeners would take away was the importance and usefulness of objectivity and careful evaluation of evidence, and thus I find these inaccuracies particularly disappointing. Contrary to the article's reporting, my claim is that Summers's speculation about intrinsic aptitude differences between the sexes has little basis in scientific evidence -- not that his assertions are contradicted by test score data.

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Thompson a Win for SAAP

By Sara del Nido | May 19, 2005

Ever since Abby Tassel's resignation as the coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, the student body has been heavily pressuring the administration to be conscious not only of Abby's enormous and influential role in the preservation of the program, but also of the need to hire an equally committed and competent successor.

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Racism Persists at Dartmouth

By Ariel Rosa | May 19, 2005

The other day, a friend of mine showed me a Thefacebook.com profile of a sophomore at the College which I found to be particularly offensive and inflammatory, and which I felt compelled to write about.

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Maybe Summers was Right

By Alice Taubes | May 18, 2005

To the Editor: When I read the front page article describing Kathy Paur's talk about gender equality in the Harvard math department ("Paur questions stigmas, discusses Summers flap," May 16) I had to laugh out loud.

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Teaching and Research

By Meir Kohn | May 18, 2005

In two recent articles, Joseph Asch presented "11 Ideas for a Better Dartmouth" (May 11-12). Most were good ideas -- some were very good.

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Beyond Marriage

By Michael Amico | May 17, 2005

There is a generation gap in the gay rights movement and it is getting wider every day. This is because of the gay rights movement's increasingly single-minded focus on marriage equality. On the anniversary of the first legal same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts, all people, gay and straight, should celebrate the freedom of equality under the law. But for gay youth, the celebration is bittersweet. The elevation of marriage equality as the most important issue in the contemporary gay rights movement has obscured the fact that marriage is, for the most part, not even an issue for gay youth. Historically, the gay rights establishment has never asked gay youth for their opinion on any issue and the question of "gay marriage" is no different. The bottom line: the gay rights movement has never adequately addressed the needs of gay youth. My gay peers and I support equal rights for all. However, the issue of marriage equality has monopolized the gay and straight mainstream media's coverage of gay issues and effectively sidelined other issues in gay culture. As a gay male sophomore at Dartmouth College, I see many gay cultural and political issues that need to be addressed -- issues vital to the entire movement, not just gay youth. What are these issues?

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They Opened the Gate

By Alexander Talcott | May 17, 2005

To the Editor: The op-ed title and last sentence offered by Geoffrey Berlin '84 in his piece yesterday ("Tear Down These Rules," May 16) alludes to the famous Brandenburg Gate speech Peter Robinson '79 wrote for President Reagan in 1987.

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Broader Implications

By Ross Stevens | May 17, 2005

To the Editor: Congratulations to Dartmouth and to all those who grow tired of the tiresome politics of those who control politically correct universities in this country. As a University of Pennsylvania alumni, the issues behind the recent campaign / election resonate around the country with many frustrated by politicized universities. No doubt this will not be an isolated event.

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