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At Least They Didn't Go to Harvard

By Troy Blanchard | January 27, 2004

To the Editor: In your whole-hearted endorsement of John Edwards (The Dartmouth, Jan. 26), your editorial staff made the comment, "What a refreshing contrast to Bush and his three fellow Yalie opponents." I did not know the editorial staff of an Ivy League college newspaper felt that going to an Ivy League school was a bad thing or made one more desirable in a presidential election.

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Every Person Counts

By Ana Catalano | January 27, 2004

The recent debate on campus, Every Woman Counts, gave the Democratic candidates an opportunity to address "women's issues." Although it was a worthwhile endeavor, the debate failed to acknowledge the end goal we should all have in mind when discussing women and politics in the United States today: the gender equity that would render debates like this wholly unnecessary.

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Edwards, Litterer-in-Chief

By Debra Fisk | January 23, 2004

To the Editors: We all value and are willing to die to protect our freedoms of speech and the press -- especially in an election year -- and speaking your mind and handing out pamphlets are traditional methods of political participation.

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Not Another MBA...

By Frank Gado | January 23, 2004

To the Editors: I wish I had the time and energy to write more expansively in response to Mr. Bronner's letter (The Dartmouth, Jan.

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Do We Need Another Apartheid?

By Jennifer Carlson | January 22, 2004

Shanty-towns, vigorous demonstrations, demands for accountability -- this wasn't only the condition of South Africa in the 1980s, but the image of many college campuses across the United States as students rallied their respective administrations to not only make university investments public knowledge, but also divest any and all funds benefiting from the system of apartheid in South Africa.

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Optimism Over Rage

By Sam Stein | January 21, 2004

As Howard Dean approached the podium two nights ago to address his political foot soldiers, a sense of perverse anxiety and curiosity must have resonated throughout the crowd -- anxiety over a distant third-place finish Dean suffered at the Iowa caucuses and curiosity over what steps the good doctor would take to revitalize his once promising, now plummeting, campaign. Meanwhile, somewhere else in this state of (as pre-caucus political analysts were more than willing to label) "independent people," John Edwards, a candidate whom filmmaker Michael Moore described as having "not much there, there," addressed a crowd of different psychological standing.

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Surprised and Saddened

By The Dartmouth | January 21, 2004

By Mohamad Bydon '01 To the Editor: I was surprised and saddened to hear that the history department may not be renewing Professor Ronald Edsforth's contract (The Dartmouth, Jan.

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An Open Letter to Edsforth

By Miles Harrigan | January 21, 2004

Professor Edsforth, My friend and former roommate Jeff Kemnitz '03 left me a message yesterday telling me to look at The Dartmouth website to see that you will not be teaching at Dartmouth this coming year (The Dartmouth, Jan.

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