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April 8, 2026
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A Huge, Huge Tool

By Chris Barth | November 4, 2004

To the Editor: Everyone said that the bonfire was going to be amazing. That it was going to sum up the Dartmouth spirit in one night of crazy fun.

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Student Voters: Grow Up

By Linda Swenberg | November 4, 2004

To the Editor: I just got done reading the article about a Republican pamphlet that attempted to dissuade students from voting (The Dartmouth, "Pamphleteers dissuade students from voting," November 2). From the article, it appears that the pamphlet simply made it clear to students that the changing of a legal residence should not be taken lightly. I have another take on it.

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A Similar Sort of War

By Steven Swayne | November 4, 2004

Our ongoing culture war over marriage for gays and lesbians bears striking resemblances to America's culture war over interracial marriage (also known as miscegenation, or the mixing of races). Like all analogies, there are differences as well as similarities, but perhaps we have not pressed the analogy far enough.

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We Like to Rock the Vote

By Aaron Coles | November 2, 2004

To the Editor: I am writing to correct a mistake in your article ("Rock the Vote slams draft at rally," The Dartmouth, October 25) about Jehmu Greene's appearance at Dartmouth this past Saturday.

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Use Your Diction Faithfully

By Elana Bannerman | November 2, 2004

To the Editor: I think it is unfair for the anonymously quoted freshman in your article profiling Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray to assert that students choose to attend Chabad over Hillel because of its more "religious" environment ("Hasidic rabbi brings Jews closer to faith," The Dartmouth, October 22). "Religious," as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, connotes an entity pertaining to or connected with religion.

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Verbum Ultimum

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | November 2, 2004

It's Nov. 2 -- Get Up and Vote A last-minute effort to suppress the student vote at Dartmouth has left many people confused about their right to vote in today's historic election.

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Don't Ignore the Governor's Race

By Sarah Ayres | November 1, 2004

Republicans often argue that Dartmouth students should not be allowed to vote in New Hampshire because they have little knowledge about local issues and are not really New Hampshire residents.

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Chaos at Home, Chaos Abroad

By Caleb Powers | November 1, 2004

Not to be an alarmist, but the day of reckoning might finally be upon us. And I'm not just saying this because the Red Sox won the World Series, though that's definitely part of it.

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Everything They Say is True

By Amie Sugarman | October 29, 2004

The temperature actually drops into the 30-degree range at night, hordes of old people flock to watch dying leaves fall and more than two students can be seen studying in Novack on Saturday nights.

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Rivalries Are Fun

By Andrew Dahl | October 28, 2004

Anyone who had a childhood knows that rivalries are fun. Whether it's a rivalry with that fat kid down the street that really isn't a rivalry at all because you can easily outrun him and pelt him with rocks, or whether it's a "rivalry" with that girl in first grade who you really want to kiss, rivalries are exciting and healthy. That is why it's really disheartening to see such a ripe opportunity for rivalry (an anti-Dartmouth article by Kwame Spearman in the Columbia student paper) get so bungled by us here at Dartmouth.

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Misplaying the Race Card

By Matthew Carrigan | October 28, 2004

During my time at Dartmouth, I have encountered a disturbing trend among many students -- especially hardcore Democrats -- to resort to name-calling when trying to make some political point.

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Misleading on the Draft

By Alexander Wilson | October 27, 2004

To the Editor: It is certainly understandable that The Dartmouth Editorial Board chose to endorse John Kerry for President ("Verbum Ultimum," The Dartmouth, October 22). What is less understandable is that they chose to continue spreading the absurd idea that a draft is in the offing.

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Patriarchal Head Games

By Chris Langevin | October 27, 2004

While I agree with Liza Williams' main point regarding the externality of binary service-based relationships as a hindrance to the overarching objective of equi-personal concomitant sexual relationships ("Sex, Solicitation and Sororities," The Dartmouth, October 26), I believe it is incumbent upon us to delve further into her conception of the nurturance of masculinist gratification rituals cast in the sorority "framework." Clearly it is not a point of anisotropic indifference that feminine "performance" from the fellatory perspective as judged by an omnipartial male "audience" (as it were) is a hampering factor toward the concomitance of relationships; indeed it has been instrumental in bringing untold numbers of otherwise flourishing partnerships to their knees. The "objective disorder" in Williams' thinking, however, is the fallacious notion that relationships constructed on a quid pro quo oral paradigm are therefore paradigmatically unsound -- or, to put it more succinctly, that they fail to pass a "global test" of paradigmatic functionality while instead perpetuating the trope of vicissitudinal subservience in the more female of the two partners.

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Dartmouth vs. Columbia

By Ryan Tan | October 27, 2004

To the Editor: I couldn't agree more with Zachary Pfeiffer's column, "Vox Clamantis in Harlem" (The Dartmouth, October 22). Having experienced both Dartmouth and Columbia (Dartmouth as an undergraduate, and Columbia as a graduate student), I can't help but say that I would choose Dartmouth over Columbia in a flash. Rest easy, students at Dartmouth -- you have a good life in Hanover.

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Racism, the Redux

By Kenan Yount | October 27, 2004

To the Editor: This Marks character ("A Racist School," The Dartmouth, October 26) is absolutely ridiculous to call Dartmouth a racist institution on account of an op-ed article ("Vox Clamantis in Harlem," The Dartmouth, October 22). The offending joke was apparently some reference to Columbia students falling "asleep to the sound of gunshots and sirens." There is no racist tone in this comment or any mention of Harlem's predominantly black population. Once again, political correctness has the panties of excitable nitpickers all in a bunch, causing them to misconstrue insults about their college as racist jokes.

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