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The Dartmouth
April 7, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Dumbing Down Politics

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Congratulations, Dartmouth students, you got in to college. That probably means that you also graduated sixth grade, along with the vast majority of adults in the United States.


Opinion

One Thousand Frosh

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In reading The Dartmouth over the past years, it is clear that the College is bursting at the seams: There is insufficient dorm space for all of the students who want to live on campus. Class sizes are too large, limiting interaction with faculty.




Opinion

An Alternate Look At Politics

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Few indeed are the occasions when an op-ed that fills the pages of The Dartmouth proceeds to inculcate its readers with truly shortsighted logic, inaccurate facts and unfounded politicized shots.


Opinion

Construction Woes

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As I slept in my bed in Maxwell early one morning, my room began to vibrate. At first, I incorporated these vibrations into my dream as an earthquake.



Opinion

Remember Freedom?

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America seems to have befriended the former Soviet Union since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With its fall, Americans applauded the lifting of the Iron Curtain and the normalization of relations with the Soviets.




Opinion

Carney's Blarney

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In a recent letter to The Dartmouth, Vaughn Carney ("Scare Tactics, Part Two," October 1) launched into a painfully uninformed diatribe against the Bush Administration and its alleged attempts to reinstate the military draft.



Opinion

Verbum Ultimum

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The formation of a Social Event Management Procedure Review Committee this week presents the College with an opportunity to reevaluate its disingenuous alcohol policies and actually take student input -- and perhaps reality -- into account.


Opinion

Assaulting Common Sense

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Weapons of mass destruction don't kill people. People kill people. Individuals are the ones that decide to use weapons of mass destruction and kill people.


Opinion

Eating Right

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Take a moment to travel back in time with me, to a time when fad diets, weight-loss drugs and gastric bypass surgery were the headlines.





Opinion

Dan Gets Duped

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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.


Opinion

Animal House, Not Zoos

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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.