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A Little Bit of Everything

By Jon Schroeder | May 16, 2003

More equivocating than Donald Rumsfeld at a press conference, more confusing than Michael Jackson naming his baby "Blanket," just a bit longer-lived than the average mayfly, Green Key is here again.

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To the Editor: A couple of points on your May 12 off-campus housing piece, "Tues. vote reflects strain in town-gown relations." Perverse '70s Federal tax policy had as much to do with town-gown friction as demand did.

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Thanks for the Support

By Rick Sowell | May 15, 2003

To the Editor: It has been an amazing year for the Men's Lacrosse program. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Dartmouth community for its support during our Ivy Championship season.

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Road Maps and Road Blocks

By Andrew Hanauer | May 15, 2003

In another chapter in what may be one of the sadder stories of human history, it appears that the latest attempt at peace in the Middle East is doomed to failure.

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A Clear Paradox

By Alexander Talcott | May 15, 2003

To the Editor: I find these three items incongruous; I wonder if anyone else would: 1) From The Dartmouth, May 14: "[Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Karl] Furstenberg said that as 'we are approaching 40 percent non-whites on campus' it 'represents real progress.'" 2) From the U.S.

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Journos Gone Bad

By Robert Butts | May 14, 2003

In retrospect, all the news wasn't fit to print -- but at least The New York Times admits that.

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An Unclear Bias...

By Sebastian Andersen | May 14, 2003

To the Editor: Having read Mr. Curran's comments on French foreign policy in his column "A Gap in the Generations," on May 12, 2003, and being myself a French citizen, I would like to provide your readers with the following remarks: When Germany invaded Poland in Sept.

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Overlooked Events

By Neha Kulkarni | May 14, 2003

To the Editor: I'm sorry, but did I miss another pullout section that wasn't all about Dartmouth sports in last week's issue?

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Cutting the Spam

By Justin B. Latham | May 14, 2003

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.

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Moving Forward in Kashmir

By Tom Carter | May 14, 2003

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.

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Earth-Friendly Cleaning

By Kelly Grogan | May 14, 2003

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.

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Reevaluating Our Rubrics

By Sue DuBois | May 14, 2003

To the Editor: I echo sentiments concerning the cut of the Human Biology Program at Dartmouth.

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End the Occupation, India

By Adil Ahmad | May 13, 2003

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.

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Left Behind

By Brian Nick | May 13, 2003

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.

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A Gap in the Generations

By Chris Curran | May 12, 2003

The war in Iraq is effectively over, but the question of whether it was justified still provokes divisions in our society.

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So Much Ado ...

By Nathaniel Paull | May 12, 2003

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.

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The Loss of a Program

By Stephanie Long | May 12, 2003

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.

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Mother's Day at Los Padrinos

By Alison Kelley | May 9, 2003

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.

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Joys of Room Draw

By Erik Dambach | May 9, 2003

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.

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Wagoner on Wheels

By Kabir Sehgal | May 9, 2003

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.