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A Community Gone Awry

By Dan Knecht | October 7, 2003

A week ago, I opened up my local newspaper's sports section and stumbled upon an article discussing the cancellation of a local high school's football team.

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Love of the Sox

By Peter Brewitt | October 6, 2003

It happens every year. The winter drags on, snow piles up, the wind whips down from the Arctic, and it seems that February will never end.

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The Last Mile

By Kabir Sehgal | October 3, 2003

Dot com, dot gone. The internet was once the talk of the town, B2B this, and e-commerce that. It was a grand story -- millions of people learning new technologies, "making" money, but there wasn't a fairy tale ending: most left the internet bubble jobless and even hopeless.

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Abusing the System?

By Richard Jay Nussbaum | October 2, 2003

To the Editor: In his Sept. 30 column, "Total Recall," Andrew Hanauer '04 provides the best synopsis that I have seen to date of the charade that is currently occurring here in California. Unfortunately, unlike Mr. Hanauer, I feel that a large portion of Californians are awed by Arnold's celebrity status, and have not taken the time to see that there are roughly 134 more qualified candidates on the recall ballot (there are 135 total as of last count). Arnold has repeatedly declined to debate the issues, with the exception of one debate where the questions were given to the candidates beforehand.

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Exercising a Right

By John S. Leyba, | October 2, 2003

To the Editor: Andrew Hanauer's Sept. 30 column "Total Recall" about the California Recall failed to "clear up" any eastern (or other) misconceptions about the recall.

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Usher in the Fall

By Ryan Tan | October 1, 2003

Every fall, all the upperclassmen on campus are amazed at the boisterous energy of the incoming freshmen.

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A Cure for What's Failed Us

By Ben Taylor | October 1, 2003

It isn't often that I agree with Republicans. Since 2000 at least, as the Republican Party has shifted more and more toward the far right, the opinions of prominent Republicans usually just make me wince and look anxiously forward to 2004, when the chance to change the guard will arrive. That election, in 2004, will carry more significance than any in recent history. The ideological extremism of President Bush, his puppet-master Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld has brought this nation to the brink of an abyss. Under Bush's leadership, we have unjustly invaded a foreign nation with no apparent plan for its reconstruction.

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False Impressions

By J. Lawrence Scholer | September 30, 2003

To the Editor: A recent College press release confirms that "members of the class of 2007 were drawn from the largest applicant pool in Dartmouth history: 11, 855." Furthermore, the regional diversity of the class is remarkable: "17.4 percent are from New England, 33.3 percent are from the Mid-Atlantic region, 11 percent from the Mid-West, 13.4 percent from the South, 17.5 percent from the West, while 7.3 percent are from outside the United States." Now, as if to belie these statistics, the arbiters of "excellence" at BuzzFlood assert that Dartmouth is "New England's and one of the nation's best kept secrets." I'd say that the College is as secret as the Colonel's Original Recipe -- truly a national secret -- is delicious.

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Total Recall

By Andrew Hanauer | September 30, 2003

I am a Californian. Yeah, go ahead and laugh. If I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody say "so what's going on over there in your state?" I'd be rich enough to actually benefit from the Bush tax cuts.

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Phones over Printing?

By Adil Ahmad | September 30, 2003

To the Editor: Two points in articles in the Friday issue of The Dartmouth struck me as inconsistent. In "New plan limits public printing," Michael Herman writes that the College has started charging students for public printing to cut costs "in an era of tightening budgets." Laura Quayle in her article on "Computer phones on the way," writes that the college is offering "innovative internet phones" to students using Voice Over Internet Protocol, a project that cost the College "a little over $1 million." The College is cutting corners with student printing, an essential tool for studying that nearly every Dartmouth student uses frequently, but is spending money lavishly on expanding data lines for free long-distance, a service that very few students are aware of, and few will ever use.

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A New Star in the Series

By Brian Martin | September 30, 2003

A new reality show made its premiere Thursday. The most significant figure is this week's Newsweek coverboy and front-page news in all the national papers.

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A Tale of Two Kashmirs

By Adil Ahmad | September 29, 2003

Last spring in the pages of The Dartmouth, I had a war of words on the issue of Kashmiri independence with a few writers, including an alumnus who had lived in India for several years.

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Summer of our Discontent...

By Robert Butts | September 26, 2003

Tension filled the air when I went home to Michigan for the summer. Students, policy makers and the academic establishment were all strained to the breaking point, waiting for something to pop.

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