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Who's Alarmist Now?

By Frank Gado | May 26, 2005

To the Editor: I, too, was disturbed by the conduct of the recently concluded trustee election -- not by "the tenor of the debate" among the candidates, which was civil and proper, but by some of the outrageous statements hurled at the petition candidates by the Association for a Strong Dartmouth crowd.

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Education Comes First

By Kevin Goldstein | May 26, 2005

To the Editor: Dartmouth College has long been a leader in labor practices and is right to pay strong wages and provide outstanding benefits to its employees.

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Holy Shi'ite!

By John Tepperman | May 26, 2005

For once, George W. Bush is right. Iran has the resources and expertise to build a nuke, and if they construct one, as many experts agree they will soon do, this Shi'ite country could possibly threaten the balance of power in the Middle East, i.e., U.S.

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Filibuster Debate in Hindsight

By Jonathan Wisniewski | May 26, 2005

Between the venerable Dr. Howard Dean and the deeply spiritual Mssrs. Frist and Delay, one can imagine why lately I have begun to question whether all who are involved in politics in this country have one brain collectively between the thousands of them.

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Vital Humanities

By Peter S.E. Jenks | May 26, 2005

To the Editor: Chris Bateman's response to Meir Kohn's unjustified polemic on the uselessness of the Humanities and some Social Sciences ("Beyond Truth," May 20) certainly made a number of important points about why Kohn is misled in his assumption that the Humanities and related fields have "no truth or knowledge to impart -- only attitude." What Mr. Bateman missed is the irony that it was an economist defining truth: any serious and honest look at the current situation of our nation would quickly lead one to the conclusion that those most concerned with dollar bills and the bottom line tend to be those with an almost complete disregard for the truth.

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Forging Ahead

By Kenan Yount | May 25, 2005

I read Friday's Verbum Ultimum (May 20) with much ambivalence. Certainly, anyone should be alarmed when a trustee candidate claims about how weblogs have taught him about the "real" situation on campus.

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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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