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If You Have to Fail, Then Fail Spectacularly

By Tyson Kubota | November 23, 2004

To the Editor: I'm puzzled as to the motivations and intentions behind the recent series of articles "profiling students who at first glance embody various Dartmouth stereotypes." Mainly because of your phrasing, I expected the articles themselves to go beyond the "first glance," but I've had no such luck.

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DDS vs. Common Sense

By Caleb Powers | November 23, 2004

Scanning the breakfast menu at Norma's restaurant in the stylish Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City, you tend to notice a couple of things.

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Unfair Stereotyping

By Jedidiah Sorokin-Altmann | November 22, 2004

To the Editor: In Friday's "Verbum Ultimum," (The Dartmouth, November 19) The Dartmouth Editorial Board wrote of the inevitability of hazing in the Greek system, claiming that "some rules are meant to be broken" and that "hazing ... is an inevitable component of Greek life ..." As president of Phi Tau coeducational fraternity, I was horrified to read this perpetuation of some of the worst stereotypes about the Greek system, and even more disgusted that The Dartmouth staff apparently believes that it is impossible to separate the Greek system from hazing. Phi Tau's official creed is "Unitas in Diversitate" (Unity in Diversity), but we also have an unofficial motto as well.

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Selective Safety?

By Cecilia Schmidt | November 22, 2004

To the Editor: As a parent of a college student at Brown, I was shocked to read the November 19 article about the selective requirement for wearing safety helmets while skiing at Dartmouth. It is outrageous that College spokesman Roland Adams claims that "safety was the major motivation for the rule." If that is indeed the case, why would the College require helmets exclusively for those students participating in skiing to fulfill a requirement?

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Get To Know the Details

By Erika Sogge | November 22, 2004

To the Editor: The description at the beginning of The Dartmouth's recent campus stereotype articles says that the articles profile "students who at first glance embody various Dartmouth stereotypes." The tone of this statement seems to suggest that the articles will tell us things about people that we never would have guessed.

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A Real American Hero

By Dan Knecht | November 22, 2004

All too often we forget the sacrifices that people make to ensure a brighter future for us. We lose touch with the most important issues of our lives while harping on the most trivial.

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It's All a Balancing Act

By Jon Appleton | November 22, 2004

To the Editor: I am sure many faculty appreciated Michael Belinsky's insightful and forceful editorial "Teaching, Research, or Both?" (The Dartmouth, November 18). He suggests that Dartmouth "must evolve to compete or else continue to face the negative effects of stagnation." The reasons that these changes do not occur is complex but three important ones are: (1) the administration fears it will lose its alumni support, (2) we do not have a Dean of Faculty who has the vision or strength to urge change (although we did with Bharucha and Gazzaniga who each lasted only a year), (3) many faculty who do not do their own professional (research in Belinsky's terms) are threatened by an influx of faculty who do so.

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A Draft? No Chance

By Michael Kreicher | November 19, 2004

The other day, I received a blitz that listed detailed instructions about how to register as a conscientious objector -- a common way to avoid the selective service draft because of religious beliefs.

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Verbum Ultimum

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | November 19, 2004

Recent allegations of hazing and sexual harassment involving Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority have resurfaced tensions familiar to anyone acquainted with Dartmouth's Greek system.

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He Swept Her Off Her Feet

By Pherabe Kolb | November 18, 2004

To the Editor: I read The Dartmouth from time to time and was pleased to see your article about Joyce and Ken, the beloved janitors in Topliff/New Hamp ("Topliff love: Gone with the Windex?" November 16). I lived in Topliff from 1993-1994 and remember with great fondness all that Joyce did to make our dorm a great place to live.

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Depression, Dementia and Suicide

By John Mills Talmadge | November 18, 2004

To the Editor: The tragic story of the judge who committed suicide without seeking diagnosis and treatment for his condition merits our serious attention (The Dartmouth, "Judge writes suicide note in Rauner Library," November 16). Many older individuals suffer from clinical depression that is mistaken for dementia (commonly called "senility"). Depression is a very treatable condition. To our misfortune many patients and physicians mistake memory problems for permanent brain damage when, in fact, memory almost always improves when a depressed patient recovers from a bout of the serious blues.

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The Stigma of Mental Illness

By Brennan Mallonee | November 18, 2004

To the Editor: As a Dartmouth student with a mental illness, I can personally assure you that there is stigma surrounding mental illness on campus -- both from students and professors (The Dartmouth, "We wanted to create an event for reducing the stigma about mental health issues on campus," November 12). To deny that is to deny the daily struggles of all the students who silently fight with a mental illness while trying to maintain their studies and relationships.

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Society's Theater of Violence

By Michael Martin | November 17, 2004

On Friday, Nov. 12, 2004, the jury in the Scott Peterson murder trial reached a verdict. After less than eight hours of deliberation, the jury found Scott Peterson guilty of murder in the first degree in the death of his wife, Laci Peterson, and murder in the second degree in the death of his unborn son, Conor.

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Think About the Facts

By Tom Wright | November 16, 2004

To the Editor: During the presidential campaign, there were significant efforts to discredit the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth without addressing the facts themselves.

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The Real Moral Majority

By Daniel Belkin | November 16, 2004

Amid a nation at war, rising healthcare costs and growing child poverty, the American electorate surprisingly cited "moral values" as the most important issue in choosing the president, trumping the economy, the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

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No Need for Rudeness

By Harold A. Maio | November 16, 2004

To the Editor: Regarding Kelley Connolly's comments in Friday's edition of The Dartmouth ("We wanted to create an event for reducing the stigma about mental health issues on campus"): I am always amused by people who want to reduce the "stigma" of some other group, and who assert its existence in the process. Perhaps someone would like to address the "stigma" of Jews, or African Americans, or rape survivors at Dartmouth.

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