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A Multi-faith Community

By Elisabeth Sherman | September 23, 2005

To the Editor: As leaders of Hillel and Shanti -- the Jewish and Hindu religious groups on campus -- we feel that it is necessary to let the community know our position in the debate on Noah Riner's convocation speech.

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Unhappy with Heintz

By John Stern | September 23, 2005

To the Editor: If the Dartmouth community wishes to talk about offensiveness, let it look no further than the comic by Paul Heintz '06's comic in The Dartmouth on Thursday.

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Room for Improvement

By Frank Gado | September 21, 2005

To the Editor: I would like to see Dartmouth broadly recognized as the best college in America, but if we are ever to reach that goal, we need to think clearly about what we are and want to be. One area that calls for attention if Dartmouth were to be serious about climbing to the academic pinnacle is indicated by our lofty rank as a party school.

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Religious Designs on Science

By Chris Bateman | September 21, 2005

One word in the opening paragraph of Adrian Ng's op-ed sums up his highly misleading piece: "Apparently, in the field of astrophysics, there is a resurgence of religious interest" ("New Conclusions About Origins," Aug.

Opinion

The Community Must Cope

By Nick Taranto | September 21, 2005

It has been three weeks since Hurricane Katrina mauled the southeastern United States, and our country has learned a thing or two since then.

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Finding a Niche

By Ivy Pruss | September 1, 2005

Arriving here from my hometown of Las Vegas, my first shock came at discovering that the vast majority of Dartmouth students appeared to read "The Official Preppy Handbook" not as anachronistic social satire but as the holy scriptures of fashion -- thou shall pop thy collars and wear four shirts at a time!

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Don't Know Much (Gay) History

By Michael Amico | September 1, 2005

Now that I am at Dartmouth, I have begun to learn what being gay actually means. But I had no idea how my sexual identity was inextricably linked to a wider, ineffaceable context of history, culture, society and politics.

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A Five-Step Program

By John Rassias | September 1, 2005

Welcome! You'll be here before you know it and you're already developing a sense of the place; you feel the energy and vibrancy around you; you'll met people like you and some unlike you, and over-all you'll like what you see.

Opinion

The Right Kind of Idealism

By Benjamin Taylor | September 1, 2005

College students' reputation for idealism enjoys a mixed record. Many "adults" respect the passion with which college students pursue their political and social goals, while ridiculing the fanciful and unattainable nature of those goals.

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Hypocrisy on the Gaza Strip

By David Day | August 23, 2005

Several weeks ago, Iraqi Prime Minster Ibrahim al-Jaafari called for the United States to begin withdrawing American forces from Iraq by as early as 2006.

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