To the Editor: It was reassuring to read that Daniel Chiu '09 ("Taking One Step Forward," Oct.
To the Editor: Lense, you wrote a good story ("Nobel laureate discusses development in Africa," Sept.
I'm going to start with a supposition that I think is eminently reasonable and work my way from there.
To the Editor: We find several incorrect assumptions in Ms. Gosse's letter to the editor, in which she laments the "trend towards motherhood among Ivy League Women" ("Women: Leave Home", Oct.
In his guest column of September 29, Joe Asch '79 suggests that the Alumni Governance Task Force (AGTF) is a pawn of the College administration, using it to manipulate alumni trustee election results.
The recent controversy over Noah Riner's convocation speech has inspired many Dartmouth students to raise their guard and insist that a speech defending absolute truth and encouraging a change of beliefs is inappropriate. Although we claim openness, we are actually deeply committed to a particular view of reality, which we affirm in others who share it and oppose in those who do not. William Willimon, the chaplain of Duke University, recently spoke to a group of Canadians who questioned his conviction that Christians should attempt to convert unbelievers to Christianity.
To the Editor: Noah Riner showed great courage in his convocation speech! Glad to see the First Amendment alive and well at Dartmouth.
As an '09 who's only been at Dartmouth for a mere three and a half weeks, I'm definitely still in my "take one step forward and two steps back" phase.
I am writing in response to the coverage of the trend towards motherhood among Ivy League Women (Sept.
After listening to Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate discuss Peace, Democracy, and Environmental Justice on Sept.
The effects of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita will be felt long after New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast are restored to their former conditions. The suffering of victims will surely linger, reconstruction costs will be felt for years and, as is the aftermath of all disasters whether man-made or natural, the government will enact long-term legislation -- and pour in billions of dollar -- aimed at deterring similar catastrophes in the future. In our efforts to improve what has been, by all admissions, an "inexcusable" disaster response capacity, we Americans would be wise to reexamine our foreign policy agenda as well.
To the Editor: It was with a growing sense of disgust that I read the article "Changing the Rules" in The Dartmouth ("Some female students plan for stay-at-home motherhood, not career," Sept.
Over the past few decades, gender issues have been increasingly visible in public discourse. Many advocates champion the progress that has been made, resulting in more women in positions of political power and higher education, as well as the paid workforce in general, all historically male-dominated fields.
As part of the College's commitment to providing a liberal arts education, Dartmouth often prides itself on its ability to cater to a variety of interests.
To the Editor: After reading Ilya Feoktistov's opinion, "The Mixed Message of Hip-Hop" (Sept.
The Israelites may have been slaves in Egypt, but at least they had Moses to part the waters of the Red Sea.
"When the people are unhappy with the government, in America they try to change the government; in the Soviet Union, the government tries to change the people." " Old Soviet joke. At Dartmouth, when the Administration is unhappy with election results, it tries to change the electoral rules. Having lost the last three trustee elections to anti-Administration candidates, the Wright Administration has now responded to these rebukes. However, rather than addressing the fundamental reasons why the petition candidates won their elections, a process has been set in motion to change the way the alumni vote for trustees. The Administration's first step was to look at the detailed results of the trustee elections.
Despite all the discussion of President Bush's culpability in the wake of Katrina, most Dartmouth students have yet to blame deposed FEMA Director Michael Brown, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco or New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for any of the storm's aftermath.
There have always existed two realms of discourse--the public, where actions are presented for popular consumption, and the private, where individuals are allowed to more or less do as they please.