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The Dartmouth
April 6, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Where are all the Conservatives?

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Original quote: "He [Adil] is a raging racist who just rants and knows nothing of substance." Now adjusted for liberal talk: "He is a conservative who voices his strongly right-leaning, realist opinions in public without fear of retribution." The fellow who made this comment was one of those "nice -- meaning liberal" students who blatantly discriminated against conservatives.



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Upgrading Kresge

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Recently, the Student Assembly called a meeting to discuss the possible expansion of Kresge, in light of the administration's recent shelving of plans to build a new gym to replace the almost 100-year-old Alumni Gym.


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Alternative Medicine

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Who does Howard Dean think he is? No disrespect to our idyllic neighbor across the river, but his state is small, uneventful and not terribly representative of American demographics.



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More on ISTS

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To The Editor: This is to amplify information in the recent article by Matthew Kelly ("Report ranks college high for pork spending," The Dartmouth, Oct.


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Business Pointers for DDS

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DDS excels at being predictable, like the predictable southern fried chicken on Mondays at Food Court, or the predictable deep-fried bits of seafood on Fridays.


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The Prospie Paradox

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Thursday the 16th was a momentous day for the class of 2007. It signified the one-month anniversary of move-in day, though, like most other anniversaries, it seems to have been forgotten.


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Shallow Thinking

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I question both the veracity of the motives and the intelligence of any group that purports to campaign for the wellbeing of non-human animals while actively discouraging its members from supporting the National Wildlife Federation, the National Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society and the World Wildlife Fund.



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Disturbing Recapitulation

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The comments made last week by Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's Prime Minister, had striking resemblance to those made in Nuremberg during the '30s.


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College Rule

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Before you come to college, everyone tells you that the next four years will the best four years of your life.



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Remember Fuzzy Math?

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When George W. Bush ran for president as a compassionate conservative, many of us who didn't know any better thought that silly comments were as bad as it could get.




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Hiding in Space

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Clocks in Hanover read nine p.m. when it happened this Tuesday night, but halfway across the world in China's Gobi Desert it was nine a.m.



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Clarifying Free Speech

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To the Editor: N. Alex Tonelli, in his Oct. 13 column "Social Engineering at its Worst," writes: "It is blatantly unconstitutional to deem speech inappropriate simply based on the offensive nature it might contain" [sic]. Setting aside the question of whether speech can possibly contain some innate "nature," one notices immediately two things wrong with the quoted statement. First, the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government (Congress, and later by extension the states as well) from passing laws abridging freedom of speech.


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Tech vs. Terror vs. Freedom

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Remember the days when one could check email without being bombarded by spam that offered "Spy cams to watch your spouse" and "Automatic email trackers?" Well, this blissful existence of yesteryear (literally) has been punctured by the advancement of technology. Technological progress is typically viewed as a positive thing, as it eases countless aspects of daily life.