Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism.
The Dartmouth
April 7, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

A Marriage of Logic and Reason

|

In Monday's paper, Torivio Fodder '05 and Bruce Gago '05 bemoan The D's "intolerance for socially conservative positions." I believe I will be making an obvious editorial correction by amending their statement to read "[The Dartmouth's] intolerance for morally and logically indefensible positions." The guilelessness exuded by the remark "these conclusions seem so strangely intolerant" is a good preface to the willful naivete of the arguments to follow. Fodder and Gago first argue that marriage between one man and one woman is one of the "fundamentals of human society, found, since times long past, in societies from ancient Mongolia to West Africa.


Opinion

The Oscars -- Enjoy or Shut Up

|

Every year, I see the Oscars as one big experiment for psychological observation. When the awards ceremony comes to a close, I take note on how people respond, and then I look back on the season and learn some new things about how our silly little minds work.



Opinion

English Professor by Day -- Computer Whiz by Night

|

To the Editors: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Having grown into somewhat of a skeptic after my years in Hanover, it humors me to no end that the College has chosen to take an issue that is very clear in its needs and resolutions and politicize/bureaucratize it.


Opinion

A Barrier to Peace

|

Over the past week, the world has been captivated by a novel legal controversy: the challenge to Israel's proposed security wall in the chambers of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.



Opinion

Read Us Our Rights

|

To the Editors: It's great that a student institution on campus took the lead and created a program where students could get their questions about Dartmouth and the town's alcohol policies answered by the police and Safety and Security.


Opinion

It's Not All About Race

|

To the Editors: Echo Brown '06 writes that minorities "who feel that their rights are being systematically undermined by discrimination are less likely to respect and obey the laws of the criminal justice system." Does that explain why on October 16, 2002, a then-21-year-old African American man murdered an African American couple and their five children by setting fire to their rowhouse in Baltimore, a city where many of the principals in the criminal justice system are African American? Of course it doesn't.




Opinion

In Defense of Marriage

|

In reading the Dartmouth Editorial Board's Verbum Ultimum (The Dartmouth, Feb. 20), we were disturbed to see an overt display of intolerance for socially conservative positions -- specifically, the issue of gay marriage.



Opinion

Verbum Ultimum

|

In a promising step away from the slippery slope of government-funded religious education, a decisive seven Supreme Court justices have voted to allow states to withhold scholarship money from students enrolled in religious training.


Opinion

Save Blitz

|

As a former undergraduate and current Ph.D candidate in the computer science department here at Dartmouth, I have a long and happy relationship with BlitzMail.


Opinion

A Perspective on Haiti

|

As I stepped outside of the moldy airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a proverbial deluge of poverty-stricken children mobbed me and my family.


Opinion

Recycling is Not a Waste

|

This past Friday marked the end of the first two weeks of Recycle Mania -- a friendly competition between 17 top American universities' recycling programs -- that challenges each school to see who can collect the largest amount of recyclables from residence halls, on-campus apartments and dining halls in 10 weeks.


Opinion

Don't Hesitate to Ask

|

To the Editors: We love working with students! In Grace Chua's great article, "Despite internet's rise, librarians still occupied" (The Dartmouth, Feb.



Opinion

BlitzMail Should Not Go

|

To the Editor, I have a few comments to make about Tuesday's article about the future of BlitzMail (The Dartmouth, Feb 24). Dr. Luxon says that lack of HTML mail is a key shortcoming in BlitzMail and a reason to abandon it.


Opinion

Another Sort of Myth

|

To the Editors: Amie Sugarman's valiant attempt at debunking what she refers to as the "safety myth" (The Dartmouth, Feb.