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Right of Refusal?

By John A. Stevenson | May 3, 2005

When Ariel Sharon first became Prime Minister of Israel, I expected that he would have both the courage and fortitude to bully the professional political hacks of the Knesset into a peace process and into dismantling the settlements.

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Commercial College Radio?

By Will Meland | May 3, 2005

To the Editor: The story on Dartmouth TV and Dartmouth Broadcasting was fascinating ("Armed with $400, DTV battles to find audience, April 28). The juxtaposition between community programming and commercial media enterprise is interesting for two reasons.

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Sustainability Director a Joke

By Susan Noel | May 3, 2005

To the Editor: I read with amusement your article on Dartmouth's creation of a "sustainability director" ("Merkel appointed first sustainability director," April 27). Is this a joke?

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

By Deborah Wassel | May 2, 2005

Turn on your television. If you flip to a news channel, you'll probably see Bill O'Reilly or Bill Maher complaining about something. If you're hardy enough to make it to the 7 o'clock news, you're likely to see stories about household items that could be deadly, a murder or two and perhaps a drug bust. Who cares if there's a bill passed to cut funding to welfare?

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Help End Animal Suffering

By Josh Balk | April 29, 2005

Though Earth Day has come and gone, we can still examine our impact on the planet and make personal resolutions to help make the environment cleaner and improve the treatment of animals.

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Liberal Hypocrisy

By Michael Belinsky | April 29, 2005

In 1994, professor and literary critic Stanley Fish told the world that, "There is no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too." He argued that the "free speech" label is and always has been a political tool used for the purposes of advancing an individual or a group agenda.

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The Wrong Priorities

By Robert Butts | April 29, 2005

I'll start with a thought exercise: you are the owner of a widget store. For years and years, the golden widget has been one of your most popular products.

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99 Rocks

By Deborah Wassel | April 29, 2005

When I agreed to do an interview for The Dartmouth concerning 99 Rock, I was thrilled that we at WFRD might get some recognition from a student body that doesn't even know we broadcast from Robinson Hall ("Armed with $400, DTV battles to find audience," April 28). I spent a chunk of time talking with the reporter and gave a huge amount of factual information, in addition to conveying my own experiences as a DJ and as the current FM Program Director.

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Only the Strong Survive

By Sara del Nido | April 28, 2005

At the beginning of Winter term, students studying Portuguese were shocked to learn that the LSA+/FSP to Salvador, Brazil, would not run in the fall of 2005.

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A Broken System

By Tim Mosso | April 28, 2005

If "three strikes" were a universal rule, the United States' prison systems would be serving hard time.

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Trying to Stay Above the Fray

By D. Marc Capobianco | April 27, 2005

I sometimes feel I no longer recognize my college. I'm not speaking of the inevitable changes to the student body, faculty, curriculum and physical campus we all ought to anticipate with any prolonged passage of time.

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A New "New Deal"

By Daniel Belkin | April 26, 2005

With the Bush Administration's assault on Social Security and nomination of a vehement anti-internationalist to the United Nations, it is likely that Franklin Delano Roosevelt will soon rise from his grave to exact revenge upon those dismantling his powerful legacy.

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The Truth about EPAC

By Peter Sokol-Hessner | April 26, 2005

David Hankins '05 is misguided in his rebuttal to The Dartmouth's "Verbum Ultimum" ("EPAC Strikes Back," April 25). While Hankins complains of inaccuracies, he has a few of his own, not to mention an apparent lack of restraint when it comes to baseless assumptions. His speculations against Palaeopitus are groundless and self-congratulatory.

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Time for DeLay to Go

By Robert Butts | April 25, 2005

I am a Republican, and I love my party. And that is precisely why I believe that it's high time for Tom DeLay to step down as House majority leader. Tom DeLay, as might be expected, sees things a little bit differently.

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Dead Wrong on Rhetoric

By Ryan Clark | April 25, 2005

To the Editor: I was disappointed to see that Professor Jim Kuypers decided to resign his position last week, likely ending the study of speech and rhetoric at Dartmouth ("Speech prof resigns, blasts faculty deans," April 22). His classes were well taught and well-received by students.

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EPAC Strikes Back

By David Hankins | April 25, 2005

To the Editor: I just want to set the record straight on a couple points because I believe there were factual inaccuracies at the heart of Friday's "Verbum Ultimum" (April 2). First of all, I think that Paul Heintz '06 most likely would not have been allowed to run for Student Body President if Palaeopitus were still in control of student elections because of the rules on college discipline that had been in place for many years.

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Slanted Views on Speech

By Kenan Yount | April 25, 2005

To the Editor: Dartmouth Counsel Robert Donin's conclusion on the state of free speech at Dartmouth is perhaps one of the most slanted views on the issue that I have read ("Free Speech and its Limits," April 18). For example, he cites the that the College has hosted speakers who are "hardly a pantheon of political correctness." To set the record straight, I think it should be recognized that being conservative does not render one politically incorrect.

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