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Behaving Badly at Dartmouth

By Marcia Kelly | October 1, 2004

To the Editor: Thank you for drawing your readers' attention to the recently-released annual security report: Safety at Dartmouth in the article entitled "Crime spikes in Dartmouth dorms" in Monday's paper.

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Verbum Ultimum

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | October 1, 2004

A recently released three-year crime report compiled by the College's Department of Safety and Security details a dramatic increase in burglaries that occurred in College residence halls last year.

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Parkhurst: More of the Same

By Janos Marton | September 30, 2004

Your article on September 29, "Registration Policy Shift Worries Greeks," was a dismaying but somewhat unsurprising update on the administration's continued battle to rein in Dartmouth social life to create a duller campus.

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Better Uses for Tax Cuts

By Kapil Kale | September 30, 2004

To the Editor: About half of Dartmouth students receive no financial aid at all. Only 44.1 percent of members of the Class of 2008 receive financial aid (The Dartmouth, September 10) That means that their families pay $40,000 a year to send their children to school.

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Lamenting a General Lack of Substance

By Daniel Linsalata | September 30, 2004

To the Editor: In his editorial, "Stating the Obvious," (The Dartmouth, September 27), Jacques Hebert touched upon a crucial point -- both candidates, and the parties at large, are laying out large, sweeping agendas without fully explaining what they mean.

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Seizing an Opportunity

By Peter M. Fahey | September 29, 2004

To the Editor: I could not agree more with the spirit of the letter of Joe Asch '79 (The Dartmouth, September 27) on continuity of living arrangements at Dartmouth.

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Flip-Flop Fallacy

By Daniel Belkin | September 29, 2004

My name is Daniel and I'm a flip-flopper. When the prospect of war with Iraq arose in 2002, I supported the notion that an Iraq with weapons of mass destruction in a post-Sept.

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A Conscientious Guide to Objecting

By Richard Crocker | September 29, 2004

To the Editor: While there are reasoned and compelling arguments for the value of compulsory national service, those of us who were in college during the Vietnam years have been very thankful that an entire generation of college students has not known the threat of a military draft.

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Diversity According to Wright

By Chris Langevin | September 29, 2004

To the Editor: "Dartmouth needs to be a place where arguments and assumptions and conclusions are tested and, then, tested some more." In his convocation address, President Wright encouraged students to seek out media that challenges our views rather than reinforces them.

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Losing Your V-Card

By Kaelin Goulet | September 28, 2004

No, the first time isn't easy. It's unfamiliar and uncomfortable. But everyone is doing it in 2004 -- in their home states or in New Hampshire; by mail or at Town Hall -- and it's ultimately rewarding to share in an act most people have enjoyed for years. I won't undermine the intellect of Dartmouth students or the legitimacy of the voting process any further by reducing either to jokes or incentives (although, if you register with Vote Clamantis you're entered to win an iPod--okay, enough shameless self-promotion). We at the College, like many young people, already know the most important issues any citizen needs to know: those that matter to us and our community.

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Classes Are a Size Too Large

By Kenan Yount | September 28, 2004

Intrigued by the recent idylls and rants in The Dartmouth concerning our U.S. News ranking (August 24, "Dartmouth ranked ninth -- again"), I decided to peruse a copy of the magazine myself to see what all the fuss was about.

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Stating the Obvious

By Jacques Hebert | September 27, 2004

Maybe it's my idealism faltering after a summer away from the free-thinking Dartmouth environment, or maybe my cynicism has finally gotten the best of me.

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An Old Tradition Failed

By Joseph Asch | September 27, 2004

During my four years at the College, I lived in North Fayerweather. Though I spent plenty of time out of Hanover on the Mainz LSA, on an exchange program with UCSD, working and traveling, I was always able to return to Hanover and move back into North Fayer. The dorm was a fun place: in the fall residents played touch football on the Green in the intramural league; we participated in the Fayerweather Row hockey team in the winter; and in the spring we played soccer and intramural softball.

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Of Politics and Baseball

By Joseph I. Malchow | September 24, 2004

To students, draft is a very frightening word. It implies certain death or injury in a war. A war which, college students that we are, is by default -- and take your pick here -- unjust, immoral, evil, imperialistic, oil-driven, politically-motivated or, to quote Kofi Annan, just plain "illegal." A draft is not to be taken lightly. That is why I was at once saddened and infuriated when about one year ago, some particularly insolent students (or teachers; I wouldn't put it past them) barraged the hallways of my former high school with insipid bills purporting that a vote for George Bush is a vote to be drafted.

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Verbum Ultimum

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | September 24, 2004

President Wright delivered his annual Convocation speech on Tuesday. He used this opportunity to berate a political and media culture that seems to focus on trivial subjects at the cost of intelligent discussion of substantive issues.

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Pretty in Pink

By C. Matthew Staffier | September 23, 2004

To the Editor: How many SAE's does it take to write an article? Two, of course: one to stumble over the words and the other to mix up the martinis.

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Surprised and Saddened

By Joe Rago | September 23, 2004

To the Editor: While I certainly sympathize with the impulse behind Dan Balserak's screed, "Thumbs Up For Collars Down," (The Dartmouth, September 21) I must say I was surprised and saddened to see Phi Delta Alpha listed as a repeat offender.

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