Opinion - The Dartmouth

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Best and Brightest

By Welton Chang | October 6, 2004

As certain as the leaves will change colors this fall, the march of students through Dartmouth's halls continues.

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Terrorism On The Payroll

By Jordana Beeber | October 6, 2004

How surprised would you be to know that voluntary American donations to the United Nations are being used to support terrorists in the Middle East?

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Mission Accomplished?

By Morgan Cohen | October 5, 2004

Hubris always has a price. The heavy burden of the Bush administration's quest for hegemony in the Middle East has taken its toll.

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Dan Gets Duped

By Robert Butts | October 5, 2004

It has become obvious that Dan Rather and his cabal at CBS News were participants in one of the greatest journalistic dupes in recent years.

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Animal House, Not Zoos

By Tom West | October 4, 2004

To the Editor: In "An Old Tradition Failed" (September 27, The Dartmouth), Joseph Asch '79 laments the existence of some dorms dedicated to freshmen and sophomores.

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Kerry: A Great Communicator

By Tim Mosso | October 4, 2004

As a hard-charging John Kerry finished his closing statements, George Bush knew he had been beat.

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For the Record...

By Steven J. Koutsavlis | October 4, 2004

To the Editor: First, Mr. Langevin's statement ("Diversity According to Wright," The Dartmouth, September 29) that copies of The New York Times and The Boston Globe are the only newspapers available to students through the newspaper program is simply erroneous.

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No Flip-Flop After This Debate

By Joe Malchow | October 4, 2004

I viewed Thursday night's presidential debate in fine quarters: Dartmouth's Filene Auditorium. Stewarding the evening was Professor Andrew Samwick, director of the Rockefeller Center, and in attendance was noted blogger Andrew Sullivan.

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'Foolish Consistency'

By Dan Olson | October 4, 2004

To the Editor: Last Thursday night in front of 40 million Americans, President Bush boldly proclaimed, "I just know how this world works, and that in the councils of government, there must be certainty from the U.S.

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Scare Tactics, Part One

By Jeff Davidson | October 1, 2004

To the Editor: Janos Marton '04's observation ("Parkhurst: More of the Same," The Dartmouth, September 30) regarding the College springing social policy on the student body during the summer months, when enrollments (and thus reactions) are at their smallest and Greek leadership is least experienced, reminded me of the summer of 1999.

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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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Scare Tactics, Part Two

By Vaughn A. Carney | October 1, 2004

To the Editor: George Bush mulishly refuses to reassess the worsening situation in Iraq, meaning that we will have troops there for the foreseeable future.

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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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Al-Qaida Remains More of a Threat than Iran

By Adil Ahmad | September 30, 2004

Reading Tuesday's editorial pages, I was jarred out of my semi-conscious state of late-night procrastination.

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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.