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An Underestimate

By Abby Tassel | November 25, 2003

To the Editor: Thanks so much for addressing the issue of sexual assault in the Nov. 21 issue of The Dartmouth.

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Portents of Speech Police?

By Glenn Nofsinger | November 25, 2003

To the Editor: Recently James Larimore released a campus-wide announcement concerning recent bias events on campus.

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Are You Successful?

By Kerri Entin | November 25, 2003

Money. Power. Status. Stability; markers of success, right? "No, no, wow, that's way too shallow," you say.

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To the Editor: In response to Jay Banerjee's letter, I would like to express that I agree with him that intoxication does form a striking link among all of the stories of alleged rape and sexual assault that have recently appeared in campus publications.

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"Some Beer Thing..."

By Alex Tonelli | November 25, 2003

I'd like to express my overwhelming glee about Dartmouth's latest plunge into the national media.

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First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage

By Amie Sugarman | November 24, 2003

This week, Massachusetts became the first state to finally catch up with the changing tides of society when its highest court ruled that same-sex marriages are constitutional.

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Calvin's Epiphany and Student Assembly

By Noah Riner | November 24, 2003

One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes quotes is when Calvin says, "Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon ... everything's different." I believe that Student Assembly's achievements this term parallel Calvin's observation that significant change often goes unnoticed. In their Nov.

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To Whom Are We Speaking?

By Jay Banerjee | November 24, 2003

To the Editor: I don't think there's a single corridor left on campus that doesn't have one of those signs tacked up somewhere along its walls.

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Finding Community

By Daniel Ng | November 24, 2003

This College has a bad habit of overusing the word "community" to give people warm, fuzzy feelings of group solidarity.

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A Women's Issue? A Political Issue? A Human Issue

By Giavanna Munafo, | November 21, 2003

Sometimes things happen that open our eyes to issues we consider only when they touch us individually.

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Protecting Intellectual Property

By Nilanjan Banerjee | November 21, 2003

To the Editor: Our society is founded upon the rule of law, and Kabir Sehgal's Nov. 14 editorial, titled "Record Company Idiocy," appears to miss that point.

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Stalled at the Station ...

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | November 21, 2003

The Student Assembly's primary purpose is to rally the student body behind a cause. They demonstrated this power in working to preserve the College's swim team over interim last December.

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Accepting Our Label

By Sam Stein | November 21, 2003

Since President Bush and Co. recently announced that they were turning over to Iraqis increased security and governing responsibility , there have been several ominous developments that have deepened my anxiety over this Iraq calamity (for lack of a more objective term). To begin with, amid a wave of anti-American attacks the enigmatic Trent Lott dropped this little sound bite: "Honestly, it's a little tougher than I thought it was going to be [in reference to Iraq]." Then he added, "If we have to, we just mow the whole place down and see what happens." Holy crap!

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Remembering DuBois

By Steven Swayne | November 20, 2003

Anniversaries do not always neatly coincide with history, but invocations of the past often have much to say about the realities of the present. These thoughts came to mind as I was reading David Levering Lewis's biography of W.E.B.

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Heritage and Honesty

By Jonathan Eisenman | November 20, 2003

To the Editor: I was not surprised to see the typical defenses of the Confederate battle flag in the Nov.

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What Would Help?

By William Joseph Mode | November 20, 2003

To the Editor: Well, what can a ninth-generation Southerner say? I can say thank you for those who were trying to make a point on your campus that it isn't right to stereotype Southerners.

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Bias at Dartmouth

By James Larimore | November 19, 2003

Dartmouth is a special community marked by a belief that civility and mutual respect enable people to learn from each other.

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"They're Just Meat"

By Adil Ahmad | November 19, 2003

Valery is in his early twenties. He is a commissar or a lieutenant colonel responsible for morale and discipline in a battalion of the Russian Army stationed in Chechnya.

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Ain't Easy Being Green

By Sowmya Kypa | November 18, 2003

What is U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix concerned about more than military problems? The environment.

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A Bold Idea

By Robert Shireman | November 18, 2003

Ten thousand dollars a year for college. It sounds like one of those campaign promises that are good on the stump but too expensive once the candidate is elected.