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The Dartmouth
July 27, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Chuckle with Conan

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Do you like to laugh? I like to laugh. I think everyone likes to laugh. The problem is that the last few weeks I have not laughed much, and I suspect the whole world has not laughed much.


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Regarding the Veterans of Wars in the Gulf

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I have been thinking heavily for many years about the effects of war on soldiers and what we must do to help. I knew a guy at Dartmouth who was a Gulf War veteran, an African American, a Native American, a very large, imposing young Republican.



Opinion

Post-Hussein Iraq

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As we get closer now to the end of hostilities following the fall of Baghdad, we have to decide what the fate of post-Hussein Iraq will be.


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A Little-known Distinction

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To the Editor: I'd like to draw your readership's attention to a significant distinction between The Native American Studies Program and the Native American Program at Dartmouth.


Opinion

Sex, Lies and T-Shirts

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In case you missed all the posters and the T-shirts and the auto-replies, April is Sexual Abuse Awareness Month; an entire month devoted to raising awareness about sexual abuse in all its scope and ugliness.


Opinion

Acceptance for All

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To the Editor: With respect to the April 3 column "Tacit Intolerance" by Steve Swayne, dealing with tolerance of homosexuals, I would add that tolerance should also extend to ex-gays.


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All Things Change ...

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To the Editor: The April 7 column "Wright Priorities" by Joe Asch '79 deals with our fundamental identity question, but in black and white simplistic terms. What is the " old Dartmouth ?" Mine was all male.


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Breaking News From Iraq

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An Iraqi spokesman announced today that millions of Iraqi troops had surrounded Washington, D.C., and that the invasion of the American capital was to begin within the next couple hours.


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Just Let Tiger Play

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When Tiger Woods tees it up tomorrow at Augusta National, he can add another line to his already remarkable list of accomplishments.


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Encouraging Words

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To the Editor: Great column by Joe Asch '76. He hit it right on the nose in his April 7 piece "Wright Policies." This story should be the basis for extensive reporting by The Dartmouth.



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A Technical Clarification

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To the Editor: I'm writing in regards to the April 3 article by Nathaniel Ward, "Network upgrade in final stages," in order to clear up some common misconceptions in the article. Because everything stored in the computer is represented by zeros and ones (also called bits), the system of numbering for data storage is based on powers of two, and not the more human-readable decimal system.



Opinion

Wright Priorities

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The debate over the College's budget difficulties has been off-target: the College community has focused on the details of recent cost cuts and entirely lost sight of the Wright administration's true priorities. Jim Freedman began, and Jim Wright continues, an effort radically to transform Dartmouth from an excellent undergraduate-centered college, coexisting with a small town, into a research university dominating its surroundings. The pursuit of this goal is the true reason for the ongoing demise of independent little libraries, the cutbacks in the number of courses being taught and the attempted eradication of entire sports teams.


Opinion

My 'Anthem'

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I would just like to chart how one song, "The Anthem," by the totally inept neo-punk band, Good Charlotte, has been manufactured into a hit.


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My Body, My Self

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I have used this column to share many things about me: my mishaps and adventures, my friends and family, my interests and issues. But there is something significant in my life that I haven't shared. I am five foot six inches tall, and throughout my four years at Dartmouth, my weight has gone up and down and up again, on a range of 113 to 139 pounds (and you better believe I know those numbers by heart). The fluctuation in numbers is indicative of something more than the freshman fifteen.


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The Media Prerogative

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Welcome to the new genre of reality television. A masterpiece production of Shakespearian tragedy, a war we can watch at any time of the day.


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Tacit Intolerance

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Recently InterVarsity Press, a conservative Christian publisher, issued a book that has stirred up quite a bit of controversy.


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The Last Days of Winter...

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It is a California winter, March 17, warm and green, and in the Berkeley Hills in the late afternoon, the wind pushes gently over the rooftops, lightly touching off the sound of chimes, faintly, as if from a distant bell tower.