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April 8, 2026
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Evaluating the Evangelist Vote

By Peter Gray | January 19, 2005

While shopping for classes at the beginning of this term, I found myself sitting in on the first meeting of Professor Clarence Hardy's Religion and Society in America class.

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Missing the Message

By Kate Gilbert | January 18, 2005

To the Editor: I was deeply upset by the comments made by some students regarding the choice of Dorothy Allison as the MLK Jr.

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East Wheelock Has Fun, Too

By Robert Taintor | January 18, 2005

To the Editor: I'm getting tired of the derogatory language I hear about East Wheelock in everything from slam poetry, to comments by friends, to even a quote in an article in The D ("Administrators insist CFS to remain wet," Jan.

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A King Among Men

By Michael Kreicher | January 18, 2005

With Martin Luther King Jr. Day only a day past, I think that it is important to take a moment to appreciate his legacy when it seems like the weekend is remembered more for its convenience as a skiing weekend than for the man behind it.

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Curb Your Optimism

By Ilya Feoktistov | January 14, 2005

Magic spells, miracle cures and enchanted amulets have throughout time proven effective at deluding the gullible and blindly optimistic into denying reality and trusting illusion.

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Verbum Ultimum

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | January 14, 2005

With the recent departure of Scholarship Adviser Marilyn Grundy and the hiring of Kristin O'Rourke to replace her, the College has an opportunity to take a long-overdue look at how effectively the scholarship advising office works.

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Fear Lies Within

By Echo Brown | January 13, 2005

Three years ago during my freshman year at Dartmouth I wrote an op-ed for this very publication called "The End of White Male Superiority." The piece argued for the continued necessity of affirmative action in American society. As indicated by the title, the article was accusatory, targeting one group of individuals -- white males -- as being responsible for social ills related to race. Not only did the editorial reveal the closed mindedness and arrogance of the author, but it also illuminated her personal biases and misunderstandings. Reinforced by family, friends and society, these biases were so ingrained in me that they seemed more like unquestionable truths. We all harbor such "truths." After attending a three-day workshop last winter called Deep Community, I began to dismantle some of the biases that had been imbedded in me since childhood. The workshop explores the personal, institutional and social dynamics of identity construction and community, examining some of the many social identities that human beings acquire and how such identities are often used divisively. In addition to exploring identity, Deep Community offers several community-building tools for diverse environments such as college campuses. Dartmouth offers a lot of diversity programming that intends to promote inclusiveness by developing a community of students attuned to and accepting of difference. Deep Community differs from this kind of appraoch by encouraging one to examine carefully their personal social identities.

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Hardly Chump Change

By Eben P. Darling | January 12, 2005

To the Editor: To say that "the [charitable] effort presented by TDX really misses the point on several levels" and that his letter "is not meant to criticize the persons at TDX in any way," as Scott Gridley did in his January 11 letter to the editor ("Giving All We Can,") is preposterous. While Mr. Gridley states that the $1200 raised by the house's event is indeed a "respectable sum" and that the "party represent[ed] a good opportunity to ask large numbers of persons to donate to [tsunami aid] effort[s]," he scolds students for not giving more to the relief efforts themselves. Gridley ignores the fact that many Dartmouth students are not "financially privileged" (in 2001-02, nearly 40% of Dartmouth students received some kind of student loan) and he assumes that the alcohol and refreshment tab for the event dwarfed the sum collected in donations. As someone who used to procure party supplies for Senior 'Tails at 11 West Wheelock, I can inform Mr. Gridley that the amounts spent on Beast, Keystones, Popov Vodka, Five O'Clock Gin and red Kool Aid powder were, in all likelihood, dwarfed by the donations given that night.

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No Private Matter

By Joseph Asch | January 11, 2005

To the Editor: The most disingenuous aspect of the controversy surrounding Karl Furstenberg's letter to Alfred Bloom, President of Swarthmore College, is Dean Furstenberg's contention that his letter was a "private," "personal letter" to "a friend." Clearly, it was nothing of the kind. The letter, a carefully crafted, closely argued missive on Dartmouth College letterhead paper, was not a confidential message between old friends.

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Having Your Football and Winning, Too

By Geoffrey V. Bronner | January 10, 2005

To the Editor: The Dartmouth Editorial Board ("Verbum Ultimum," Jan. 7) poses the question: is a mediocre football team a reasonable trade-off for a stronger academic environment? My answer is "no." We should expect excellence and a competitive effort in both arenas.

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