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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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Don't Run From the Past

By Craig Parker | January 21, 2004

To the Editor, I applaud the Student Assembly's decision to uncover the stained glass windows in Rollins Chapel. As a campus minister who has been at Dartmouth for 14 years, I have always thought it odd that the windows were panelled over during a 1980's face lift.

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The Meaning of Diversity

By Neha Kulkarni | January 20, 2004

Diversity talks, diversity initiatives, diversity community dinners, retreats, conferences, diversity, diversity, diversity! We hear it all the time, it's the new buzzword at Dartmouth.

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Doctor: Out, General: In

By Amanda Dobbins | January 19, 2004

I'm not sure how many of you drive down Route 10 on a regular basis -- I myself am only lucky enough to make a Wal-Mart run on the occasions when I can successfully bribe a car owner to drive me there and back, so my familiarity with the sights in between here and West Lebanon is limited, at best.

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Reveal and Remove

By Vassilia Binensztok | January 19, 2004

Let us not be ignorant. This is a statement, not meant to discriminate against any religious group, but a statement calling for a logical assessment of the issue at hand. Many recent debates over the uncovering of religious stained-glass windows in Rollins Chapel have led to calls for the boards to be taken off these windows so that they be restored for all to see. While no one is completely sure what these windows depict, we do know that they are religious images.

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One Small Step for Bush

By Robert Butts | January 19, 2004

When President Bush unveiled his major space initiative last week -- including plans for NASA to return to the moon by 2020 and construct a lunar base that could function as a launchpad for future manned exploration of Mars and the solar system -- he invoked the words of astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon: "We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return." In addition to proposing a literal return to the moon, Bush no doubt hopes for a more political return to the success of the Apollo program and the political dividends that the United States' first lunar landings paid for NASA and the presidency. But Bush's new vision also bears an uncanny resemblance to other, less glorious chapters of the space program's history.

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Space Race

By Julia Bernstein | January 16, 2004

Move over Mr. Skywalker, there's a new hero in town. In the wake of the success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it seems as if the defining trilogy du jour is not George Lucas's tale of galactic rebellion, but Peter Jackson's careful recreation of a beloved fantasy world.

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Just Cover the Curtains

By Alex Jordan | January 15, 2004

To the Editors: In regard to the issue of the Rollins stained glass (The Dartmouth, Jan. 13), I think that we are ignoring the most obvious solution: remove the boards, restore the stained glass and put up some nice heavy curtains that can be closed to cover the windows.

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The Trials of Pete Rose

By Sam Stein | January 15, 2004

In a peculiar twist of fate, Pete Rose, famed baseball star and gambling aficionado, admitted to a decade of sequential lies about his propensity for deleterious betting binges and actually lost the adoration of the baseball hierarchy.

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Let Students In

By Judge Quentin L. Kopp | January 15, 2004

Dear Editor: Barring undergraduates from attending the Dec. 6, 2003, meeting of the Association of Alumni constitutes one of the more saddening and discouraging acts of administration authorities.

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Enough About Trains

By Janos Marton | January 14, 2004

To the Editors: Trevor Burgess' patronizing letter to the editor on Jan. 12 highlights the fundamental contradiction of the proposed changes to the Alumni Constitution.

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Atrocities in Chechnya

By Ilya Feoktistov | January 14, 2004

The video showed a young man pleading in Russian as a Chechen kidnapper cut off his ear and repeatedly kicked at the stump. "I beg you to give them money, please.

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A Muddled, Mixed Message

By Amie Sugarman | January 13, 2004

Upon consideration of President Bush's incredible track record in international relations, one might find it difficult to conceive that his new stance toward foreigners is muddled.

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Check the Facts

By Sean Mann | January 12, 2004

To the Editors: Facts surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are almost universally contentious, with misleading and inaccurate information often used to present one side or the other in a favorable light.

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It's Not Over for Kerry Yet

By Janos Marton | January 12, 2004

What is the point of holding the first-in-the-nation primary if the media and rabid Deaniacs are telling us that the election is already over? The media's relentless attacks on the John Kerry campaign as "flailing" or "failing" are very misleading.

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