Kerry: A Great Communicator
As a hard-charging John Kerry finished his closing statements, George Bush knew he had been beat.
As a hard-charging John Kerry finished his closing statements, George Bush knew he had been beat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reading Tuesday's editorial pages, I was jarred out of my semi-conscious state of late-night procrastination.
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.
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.
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.
To the Editor: "Dartmouth needs to be a place where arguments and assumptions and conclusions are tested and, then, tested some more." In his convocation address, President Wright encouraged students to seek out media that challenges our views rather than reinforces them.
No, the first time isn't easy. It's unfamiliar and uncomfortable. But everyone is doing it in 2004 -- in their home states or in New Hampshire; by mail or at Town Hall -- and it's ultimately rewarding to share in an act most people have enjoyed for years. I won't undermine the intellect of Dartmouth students or the legitimacy of the voting process any further by reducing either to jokes or incentives (although, if you register with Vote Clamantis you're entered to win an iPod--okay, enough shameless self-promotion). We at the College, like many young people, already know the most important issues any citizen needs to know: those that matter to us and our community.
Within a few months, America will have lost the "War on Terror." There will be no Waterloo, no skirmish, no shot fired.
Intrigued by the recent idylls and rants in The Dartmouth concerning our U.S. News ranking (August 24, "Dartmouth ranked ninth -- again"), I decided to peruse a copy of the magazine myself to see what all the fuss was about.
Maybe it's my idealism faltering after a summer away from the free-thinking Dartmouth environment, or maybe my cynicism has finally gotten the best of me.