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June 22, 2026
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11 Ideas for a Better Dartmouth (Part I)

By Joseph Asch | May 11, 2005

The recent Trustee election campaign and student complaints in The Dartmouth have finally focused attention on the shortcomings in undergraduate education at the College. The Administration has responded by reorienting its rhetoric away from Dartmouth being a university, highlighting building projects (including new dorms -- at last!), and increasing the size of the faculty.

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It Takes More than the Players

By Abe Clayman | May 11, 2005

To the Editor: "No real progress will ever be made until the athletes decide for themselves that they actually want steroids out of the game," quoth Michael Kreicher ("It's All Up to the Players," May 5). He's right, partly. Steroids will not be out of the game until players and fans want them out. Maybe the fans like 73-home-run seasons.

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"Runaway" Media

By Daniel Belkin | May 10, 2005

JonBenet Ramsey, Scott Peterson, O.J. Simpson, Kato Kaelin, Chandra Levy, Gary Condit, Terri Schiavo, Martha Stewart, Elian Gonzalez, Monica Lewinsky, Michael Jackson.

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Improving Teach for America

By Emily Chenel | May 10, 2005

May 2 marked the deadline for those accepted by Teach for America to agree to join its ranks. Across the country some 17,000 applicants applied to the two-year teaching program that places uncertified teachers in under-resourced school districts.

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Curves, Cars and Competition

By Caleb Powers | May 9, 2005

Recently I lent my car to some friends who wanted to see a concert in Providence. Also recently, some friends of mine, who borrowed my car to see a concert in Providence, slid off the road on the way home and incurred about $6,000 worth of damage to my car, though they themselves were unharmed in the accident.

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Fortnight in Review

By N. Alex Tonelli | May 9, 2005

Alexandre Dumas once proclaimed, "I'm a Dumas." Dartmouth administrators have continued in this tradition to the point that this column is so saturated with topics to address that it can no longer attack just one egregious error in judgment.

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Belinsky Misses the Point

By Gabe Mahoney | May 6, 2005

To the Editor: Michael Belinsky suggests that "competition in the classroom would generate knowledge and promote learning," proposing this be accomplished by making it hard to get good grades.

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A Call for Full Disclosure

By Daniel Rich | May 6, 2005

To the Editor: President Wright was quoted Wednesday ("Wright comments on Zete derecognition," May 4) as expounding onthe College Counsel's assertion ("Free Speech and its Limits," April 18) that Wright's letters to the community regarding the 2001 Zeta Psi fraternity incident merely constituted his opinion.

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Breaking the Bubble

By Allette Vayda | May 6, 2005

It's senior spring. The weather's a little bit warmer, the classes are a little bit easier and the alcohol is a little bit more plentiful.

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Sustainability saves money

By Sally C. Newman | May 5, 2005

To the Editor: I've been disappointed in the vocal and narrow-minded responses to Dartmouth's decision to hire a sustainability director that have been published lately. Susan Noel ("Sustainability Director a Joke," May 3) and Randall McFarlane ("Maybe a Budget Director, Instead...," May 4) both assume that Dartmouth is throwing its money away by hiring Jim Merkel.

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It's All Up to the Players

By Michael Kreicher | May 5, 2005

Can any of us remember when steroids were not the major topic of any baseball conversation? It has been a while since the grand jury testimonies of Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi were leaked to the public, and even longer since I first wrote a column about the steroid scandal.

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(Un)separating the trustee candidates

By James Turner | May 5, 2005

To the Editor: "Wright Comments on Zete Derecognition" incorrectly (and in my view, unfairly) separates the views of two alumni candidates from the rest of the candidates in the ongoing Board of Trustees election (May 4). The article begins by immediately creating a distinction between the current administration (namely, President Wright) and two of the trustee candidates, Todd Zywicki '88 and Peter Robinson '79.

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Worthy of Fair Debate

By Michael Sloan-Rossiter | May 4, 2005

To the Editor, In his op-ed ("Worthy of Debate," May 2), Jonathan Wisniewski, a conservative, asks us to take conservative arguments seriously and debate issues instead of simply taking the "liberal" line.

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Maybe a Budget Director, Instead...

By Randall McFarlane | May 4, 2005

To the Editor: I'm shaking my head in despair over the news that Dartmouth is hiring a "Sustainability Director." I would hope that, with students unable to be certain of their living arrangements or of their ability to take needed courses, the College would prioritize its spending in a more intelligent manner.

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Playing with the Numbers

By Dan Olson | May 4, 2005

To the Editor: I was surprised to hear the statistic cited in Jen Garfinkel's article ("Grabowski lectures on sexuality, Catholic doctrine," May 2) that "family planning" was 98 percent effective against unwanted pregnancies, compared with 92 percent for oral contraceptives and 80 percent for condoms. If one examines the current publication from the World Health Organization about the failure rates of various birth control methods, one can see how Grabowski manipulates his numbers.

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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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