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April 3, 2026
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A Brief Case for Invading Iraq

By Henry Shi | September 25, 2002

Amidst the current national debate over the proper United States policy toward Iraq, the pro-invasion argument is based almost exclusively on Iraq's putative weapons of mass destruction programs and the Iraqi government's ties to terrorist organizations. The claim that Iraq is carrying out a renewed weapons program, whether or not it's true, does not provide a new or unique reason for invasion.

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The Summer So Far

By Brian Nick | September 25, 2002

Welcome back. It is always a treat to be able to write a column in the first issue of the term before there is a precedent to follow.

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Suspended in Mid-Air

By Joshua Marcuse | September 16, 2002

Perched 40 feet in the air, my hands frozen and my arms burning, I repeatedly swung the serrated point of my ice tool at the face of the cliff.

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Going the Distance, Taking My Time

By Christopher Ryan | September 16, 2002

As I'm sure many of you will discover in the months ahead, Dartmouth can be a busy place. With the multitude of academic, extracurricular, social, and other avenues for chasing your dreams, sharing your talents, and expressing your identities, time often rushes by faster than an Olympic sprinter, leaving you to scramble to fit everything in, and still turn in that 10-page paper on schedule.

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To the Regular Decision Folk

By Caryn Karo | September 16, 2002

This is a piece specifically for the members of the Class of 2006 who made the humble decision to attend Dartmouth College by the May 1 Regular Decision deadline.

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The Meaning of Student Government at Dartmouth

By Janos Marton | September 16, 2002

Karl Marx once wrote, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is the change it." While the social revolution of the 1960s is gone from most college campuses today, the amount of activism that still takes place is staggering, even overwhelming.

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Apathy is Acquiescence

By Chris Curran | September 16, 2002

To the Dartmouth Class of 2006: you will soon understand what makes this place so special. Sometime between now and Thanksgiving break you will likely discover the Dartmouth spirit.

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Defining the Dartmyth

By Katie Greenwood | September 16, 2002

So it's the third week of freshman fall and all the kids on your floor are once again going to frat row, and you're tagging along because you like to get your dance on or you want to roll with the nightlife or maybe you just really like warm cheap beer with a mysterious bouquet of bodily fluids, and you're trying to forget about the paper that's due next week and the fact that you're paying over $10 per waking hour to be at this college.

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So Blue

By Alli Giordano | September 16, 2002

I'm walking home with Gillian and Margie, my roommates. We've just eaten a yummy dinner at one of the fine Dartmouth Dining Services establishments (Food Court, I think), and we're headed back to East Wheelock in the gathering dusk.

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Call for Concern

By Sam Stein | August 21, 2002

To the Editor: In a demonstration of a shortsighted attempt at comedy, Andrew Grossman '02 said the following on Dartlog.net on Aug 14th.

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Overfunded, Underattended

By Robinson Hall | August 21, 2002

Many of this summer's planned social events have failed to live up to their promises. The much-touted Secret Garden dance drew relatively few students, despite omnipresent advertising and expenditures of nearly $15,000 from Class Council and other groups.

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Things to Know About Me

By Alli Giordano | August 19, 2002

1)I was rejected from a Greek House. Last year, during Winter term, I did in fact rush. It sounded fun, and it was only about five bucks, so I went for it.

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Get Out and Register

By Robinson Hall | August 15, 2002

Today could be the day that decides the direction of our country. It could be the day that you register to vote. Five student volunteers for candidates in this year's New Hampshire elections have planned a voter registration drive today in Tindle Lounge.

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A Matter of Proportion

By Alli Giordano | August 13, 2002

When I got back to school this term, I was convinced that I had almost no friends. I counted in my head, and could come up with only maybe half a dozen girls I was really close to. I went over to the frat I hung out at, where I feel comfortable and safe, to sit watching TV, talking for hours and lamenting my unpopular status. I came home and kvetched to the guy who lives upstairs and always stops by, asked the boy who lives down by the River to go get consolatory ice cream with me, and blitzed my male alter-ego in Boston to tell him exactly what I thought of my miserable state of affairs. And then, from somewhere in the depths of my isolation, I realized: this isn't high school.

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On Ethnicities

By John Stevenson | August 13, 2002

Mr. Frank Webb '03, in his recent letter to the editor on Monday, Aug. 6, entitled "Remarks of the South Offensive", wrote, "John Stevenson delivered a slight to all of the people south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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New Party Politics

By Daniel Kay | August 9, 2002

It's 1:27 a.m. and I just watched a Sports Center showcase on the first day of the Citgo Bassmasters Classic; this country's going to hell in a hand basket.

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The (Postmodern) Art of Babbling

By John Stevenson | August 7, 2002

One can easily drown in the convoluted rhetoric that floods the academic world today. However, I have discovered a life raft in which we can stay afloat on the deluge of unintelligible and meaningless words and phrases called "deprogramming." Deprogramming means dissecting and removing the buzzwords and buzzphrases that are not meant to illuminate but to obscure the truth through clever manipulation and polemical rhetoric.

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Spirit for the South

By Jennifer Lyon | August 5, 2002

To the Editor: I found your article about bringing the South north very interesting ("Society Celebrates Southern Culture."July 30). As a teenager, I moved from my Indiana home to Charleston, South Carolina.

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Remarks on South Offensive

By Frank Webb | August 5, 2002

To the Editor, In his recent article on COSO, John Stevenson delivered a slight to all of the good people living in the United States south of the Mason-Dixon line and East of the Mississippi when he stated the Southern Society aimed to pull off the "greatest feat of all; finding Southern culture." This sort of statement would have produced an uproar, had it been levelled at the Afro-American Society, La Allianza Latina, or the Native Americans at Dartmouth. Though he might have simply been insulting his perception of Southern art, music, and food as a sarcastic reflex action or for some humor, Stevenson illustrates the occasional double-standard involved with cultural-identity groups (WE are entitled to one, THEY are not) and the common assumption that "the majority" is somehow one big bland mass indestinct from one area of the country to another. Whether or not the Southern Society sincerely feels perpetual "otherness" at Dartmouth or not, perhaps the bigger picture is that these groups focus on the differences between various subsets of our student body, instead of beinng centered on the common characteristics that make us the great College that we are. My fear is that despite their aim to foster and direct the interest of students, to their betterment and education, in all of the multitude of cultures here at Dartmouth, these groups decay into de facto exclusionary membership based on culture or race and worse, Balkanize our campus--those not historically or commonly accepted to be "othered" or different need not apply. In any event, as a person who considers himself mostly a New Englander, the few times I have been to the American South, I daresay their culture was recognizably variant from mine and an even greater contrast to Hanover.

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