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April 8, 2026
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Democracy Starts at Home

By Thomas R. Carter | April 5, 2005

As someone who believes strongly in democracy and who has spent his adult life working to promote economic development, I wish I could share Mr. Wisniewski's enthusiastic optimism ("Spreading Democracy -- Our Duty," April 4). I cannot. While I would agree that democracy can flourish in many different soils, I would argue that it succeeds when it strikes its own roots, not when it is imposed by force of arms or the inducements of financial aid. Building a democratic society is an arduous and difficult task, one that requires enormous courage, conviction and patience on the part of democrats. Sadly, today, our actions abroad and at home betray the very democratic values we claim to support.

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Burmese Daze

By Nick Taranto | April 4, 2005

The average Dartmouth student, let alone the average American, probably at best knows little to nothing about Myanmar, and at worst mistakes it for an island off of East Africa. During three weeks of travel around this nation of 57 million, formerly known as Burma, I did not meet one other American.

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Spreading Democracy -- Our Duty

By Jon Wisniewski | April 4, 2005

Our world has changed. Five years ago, foreign policy was decidedly different than it is now. Today's international arena is dominated by words like "freedom," "liberalism," and the granddaddy of them all, "democracy." We see an Earth in which oppressed peoples everywhere, particularly in the much maligned, so-called "Arab world," are rising up and taking advantage of their inalienable right to govern themselves.

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Verbum Ultimum

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 1, 2005

As corporate scandals in the national news increasingly call to mind the business ethics of the Gilded Age, the recent furor over a security breach in admissions at the nation's top business schools is warranted ("Tuck considers apps from accused hackers," March 29). Applicants to the Tuck School of Business who took advantage of a flaw in the programming of an external admissions website to view admissions decisions early clearly violated ethical standards and deserve to face consequences, even if their actions may have been legal. However, the Harvard Business School's choice to deem the offense worthy of automatic rejection is a knee-jerk reaction predicated in image-based politics.

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Breaking Down the Rumor Mill

By Matt Nicholson | April 1, 2005

In light of the series of incidents surrounding Theta Delta Chi fraternity and its members, I would like to finally speak out on behalf of the brotherhood and address the issues at hand. We feel that our names have been misrepresented and dragged through the mud long enough and it is our hope that this editorial dispels some of the rumors that have started to spiral out of control over the past three terms. First, I'd like to address the allegations and incidents concerning three of our brothers and their individual drug use.

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Blame the NHL, not Canada

By Robert Butts | March 31, 2005

Back at the beginning of last month, I wrote that the NHL's owners and players seemed committed to a murder-suicide that meant the death of hockey in America.

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Where's Carmen Sandiego?

By Daniel Belkin | March 31, 2005

After her first day as an elementary school teacher, Marge Simpson complains that "it took the children 40 minutes to locate Canada on the map," to which Homer responds, "Marge, anyone could miss Canada, all tucked away down there." Unfortunately, this anecdote from "The Simpsons" offers insight into an alarming trend that has developed in the American educational system.

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P.R. Excellence

By Joseph Asch | March 30, 2005

Alex Tonnelli's piece ("Step Two: Electing the Petition Candidates," March 9) perceptively describes the Wright Administration's "all is well'"public relations campaign.

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Social Studies = War on Terror

By Susan M. Frost MALS | March 30, 2005

To the Editor: There is a crisis in education that equals the threat of terrorism. We've lost the second generation of young Americans who don't know a lot about our country, our economic system, our history or how our democracy works. Instead of reinvesting in teaching young people about their nation's unique formation, our government is forcing educators to marginalize a subject once considered part of any school's core curriculum -- on the same level as English, math and science.

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Harper Drops the Ball

By Adam Staffaroni | March 30, 2005

To the Editor: I just wanted to applaud Josie Harper's column which so nobly defended our athletic facilities ("Looking Ahead for the Big Green," March 8). All the plans for new facilities sound great!

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Tuck Makes Wrong Choice

By Jim Krawczyk Tu | March 29, 2005

I cannot express in strong enough terms my outrage over Tuck Dean Paul Danos' decision on the ApplyYourself scandal ("Danos: Tuck may admit early viewers in online admissions scandal," Mar.

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Rekindling the Arms Race

By Tim Mosso | March 29, 2005

The Bush Administration's decision to sell modern fighter jets to Pakistan demonstrates total contempt for history and dark designs for the future.

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Translation Please?

By Jon Appleton | March 9, 2005

To the Editor: Dean of Faculty Carol Folt's apologia for the narrow vision of her administration is so filled with cliches that perhaps she should consider a public relations position with Haliburton ("The Fact of the Matter," March 3). Where are the specifics?

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Con Law 101

By Scott Meacham | March 9, 2005

To the Editor: Why would Trustee Rodgers state that "Dartmouth currently has imbedded in its own website a speech code that is clearly illegal under the First Amendment" when he admits in the same column that the First Amendment does not apply directly to a private college ("Encouraged But Not Convinced," March 7)? Congress is forbidden from doing dozens of things that a private corporation is not, so why the obsession with trying to apply this particular ban to Dartmouth?

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Isn't It Ironic?

By Caleb Powers | March 9, 2005

Upon seeing a recent episode of "The O.C." -- a show about unrealistically beautiful high school students living unrealistically predictable and convenient life stories -- was the lead-in for the new Fox show "Stars Without Makeup" -- a show "exposing" the unrealistic beauty portrayed in the entertainment industry -- I began to ponder the many ironies of our times, particularly those that have faced us as a community recently. It should come as a shock to no one when I say that irony abounds in this tiny New Hampshire town.

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Continuing to Bring in the Best

By Barry Scherr, | March 9, 2005

Once again, Joseph Asch has shown a casual disregard for factual accuracy in describing what is happening at Dartmouth ("Be Specific, Please," March 8). To the extent that he has misrepresented important issues, I feel the need to respond. Asch asks for specifics on course enrollments.

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One Parent's Perspective

By Kate Stith-Cabranes | March 9, 2005

A column appeared in The Dartmouth by Joseph Asch '79 ("Dear Old Dartmouth?" Feb. 28) that shocked me as the parent of an '08 and as a long-time close observer of the Dartmouth community. Citing anonymous sources, Asch claimed that Dartmouth students can't write, Dartmouth teachers don't teach and Dartmouth's academic leaders are indifferent to both.

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