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June 28, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Safe and Appropriate

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To the Editor: While it is important to state that the library unequivocally protects the academic freedom of its users by not monitoring or in any way controlling their Internet viewing, it is equally important to stress the library's responsibility to provide a safe and appropriate environment for all faculty, students and staff in which to work. The activities described in an article in The Dartmouth two weeks ago about the pornographic viewing on the Berry main floor by a library user were certainly not in keeping with maintaining a positive environment for users and staff (The Dartmouth, Aug.


Opinion

Filtering Would Be Foolish

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To the Editor: Dan Kleinman of the Plan2Succeed Citizens Group advocates installing "constitutionally approved Internet filters" in a letter to the editor titled "Masturbation Redux" (The Dartmouth, Aug.



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Letting It All Hang Out

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To the Editor: I was quite taken aback by Abby Tassel's comments regarding sexual harassment at Tubestock in last week's paper (The Dartmouth, Aug.


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Chill Out, or Stay Home

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To the Editor: This Tassel character is absolutely ridiculous (The Dartmouth, Aug. 3). The bottom line is, girls who went to jump off the platform knew full well that they would be chanted at when they were up there.




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Sports, drugs and tragedy

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In 1989, when Major League Baseball announced that all-time hits leader Pete Rose would be banned from the game for life as punishment for gambling on baseball, the phrase "tragedy" got tossed around a lot.



Opinion

An Unecessary, Ignorant Jab

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To the Editor: While John Stevenson makes some interesting points in "In Need of Discrimination" (The Dartmouth, August 3), I found his brief jab at science and engineering departments totally unecessary, and, moreover, reflective of deep ignorance: "(Unfortunately, the sciences and engineering departments often have curricula that are devoid of normative content.


Opinion

H-Po in Excess

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There's nothing that sends a chill into the bones and gets a heart racing on a Friday night like the realization that a Hanover Po cruiser is creeping up behind your back.


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Puzzling Assumptions

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To the Editor: I do not know why Kate Gilbert is ranting and raving about sexual assualt (The Dartmouth, August 3) in response to Alex Tonelli's editorial.


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In Need of Discrimination

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Both Bruce Gago '05 in "Freedom of Hate Speech?" (July 27, The Dartmouth) and College Chaplain Richard Crocker in "Faith Under Fire" (July 13, The Dartmouth) have written to the editor to comment on the debate concerning whether the College should censure Al-Nur for hosting/entertaining, on its website, anti-Semitic interpretations of the Quran.


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An Unavoidable Consequence?

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To the Editor: Alex Tonelli's embarrassingly poorly written editorial (July 29, The Dartmouth) appears to be some sort of attempt at humor regarding alcohol and budget allocation at Dartmouth.



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57 Varieties, All Good

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Don Rumsfeld famously described the distinction between the things we know and the unknown unknowns; these are the things we don't know we don't know.


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A Pro-Alcohol Ministry?

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Apparently 93 percent of Dartmouth students have not missed an academic deadline for alcohol-related reasons, and the typical Dartmouth student on a Friday night is reminiscent of a 12-year-old looking through a microscope.




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Clarifying Kohn

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To the Editor: Professor Meir Kohn (July 22, The Dartmouth) wrongly asserts that the Jewish Studies program organized the talk by the Israeli Air Force pilot Yonatan Shapira.