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The Dartmouth
July 4, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Cutting the Spam

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To the Editor: Although I enjoyed Robert Butts' May 7 editorial "Say No to Spam," he neglects to mention what we can do to ease the problem.


Opinion

Moving Forward in Kashmir

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To the Editor: As an alumnus who has spent more than a quarter-century in India, I was dismayed to read Adil Ahmad's May 13 column "End the Occupation." My purpose in writing is not to answer the inaccuracies in Mr. Ahmad's column.


Opinion

Earth-Friendly Cleaning

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As the end of the term approaches quickly, many students around campus will soon be looking around their rooms and marveling at the large quantities of "stuff" they have accumulated over the course of the term or year.



Opinion

End the Occupation, India

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India and Pakistan recently agreed to renew diplomatic ties and to discuss the Kashmir issue. Of course, with the Hindu nationalists in power in India, these discussions will break down even before they have begun, and we will be back to square one. It is, however, high time that India gives up its illegitimate claim on the disputed territory.


Opinion

Left Behind

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The Naderites who claim that there are no significant differences between the two major political parties need to pull their heads out from under the sand every now and then and take a look at what is actually going on.



Opinion

So Much Ado ...

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There's been a lot of dialogue lately about gender, about behavior and innate dispositions and, in essence, the consequences of human biology and evolution on modern-day gender issues.


Opinion

The Loss of a Program

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In his 1998 Inauguration Address, Dartmouth President James Wright noted that "interdisciplinary work is strong here, and, in part because of our size, we can make it stronger." In earlier remarks to the Dartmouth community, President Wright expressed similar sentiments, noting that Dart-mouth "is a place that is marked by flexibility, by a sense of community and by full opportunities for interdisciplinary work bridging not only arts and sciences departments but also including the strong programs we have developed in the professional schools." Students and faculty at Dartmouth may be familiar with Humanitates Vitae, an interdisciplinary program in human biology directed by Dr. Lee Witters of the Biology Department and the Dartmouth Medical School, which blended natural science, social science and the humanities.


Opinion

Mother's Day at Los Padrinos

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Inside the walls of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, Mother's Day is every day. In Los Padrinos, writing about mothers is a way for the incarcerated minors to remember that they are sons, daughters and most importantly, children. I have been attending writing classes in Los Padrinos on a Tucker Fellowship.


Opinion

Joys of Room Draw

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It is that time in the spring again -- time to "choose" where we will live next year. That's right -- it's time for the frustration that is room draw.


Opinion

Wagoner on Wheels

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Sniff, sniff. Something stinks. America's skies are more polluted than Chi Gam's basement. Driving accounts for 30 percent of the total air pollution in America.




Opinion

Talk and Awe

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What is particularly galling about the peccadillo caused by Kathleen Reeder's May 2 column in The Dartmouth, "Sex, Lies and Feminism," is that she has not been held accountable for her flawed conception of feminism.


Opinion

Confirming an Argument

To the Editor: Regarding the "notable lack of heated discussion" during the Sommers lecture mentioned in the May 2 article "Sommers: Gender feminism 'destructive,'" this lack was due to the choice by the Women's Resource Center and professors in the women's and gender studies department to be absent from the lecture.


Opinion

An Improper Comparison

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To the Editor: Mr. Sehgal's remarks in his April 28 column "Three Lessons from a Profile in Courage," concerning Governors Roy Barnes of Georgia and David Beasley of South Carolina and Representative Dan Ponder, Jr.


Opinion

Say No to Spam

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The year: 1978. The place: Digital Equipment Corporation. Digital, one of the largest computer manufacturers of the industry's infancy, has just created its latest computer and is looking for buyers.


Opinion

A More Important Point

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To the Editor: As the state climatologist for Wyoming, I couldn't help but offer my perspective pertaining to your May 5 article, "Profs stress interdisciplinary approach to global warming," in which Eileen Claussen, the president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, outlined five keys strategies to confronting climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.


Opinion

All the Free Newspapers

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The admissions office is playing something new this year. Their fresh crop of high school seniors are walking around campus with big hopes, wide eyes and white envelopes with 2007 printed on them (the envelopes, that is). And even though our average SAT math score was only 715, the current seniors can subtract and know that they won't be around to lead this class away from the administration's glorious vision of a Dartmouth that resembles Princeton in every possible way. So it behooves us to impart on those who follow us some of our cherished memories of rope swings, in-room food delivery and no smoothie bar in the waning days of our seniority.