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April 10, 2026
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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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The Politics of Scarcity

By John Stevenson | August 1, 2002

I will take a pause from my usual philosophic speculations to address a local issue. In the recent weeks, there has been popular discontent with our favorite organization in the milieu of bureaucracy here at the College: the Council on Student Organizations. This body has perhaps one of the hardest jobs on campus: dispersing student funds to a motley group of organizations.

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Princetongate

By Robinson Hall | July 30, 2002

By breaking into Yale's admissions website, Princeton has committed an act that is not only unethical, bone-headed and probably illegal but also a significant blow to how we understand the ethics of the Ivy League colleges we attend. At least one high-ranking Princeton admissions officer broke into Yale's website using confidential information from applications given to them in confidence by the very people who believed in Princeton's moral character at least enough to apply there. Information about who Yale admitted probably did not affect Princeton's admission decisions, which may have already been made.

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The Widow Continues

By Jonathan Eisenman | July 26, 2002

To the Editor: I should like to, at the risk of turning the paper into a sounding board for myself and Mr. Stevenson, reply to his column entitled "Coming Out of the Closet" (Wednesday, July 24). First, however, I would like to upbraid you, editorship of The Dartmouth for altering the title on my submitted work from "The Widow's Peak" to "Rhetoric and Sacrilege." Not only did you ruin my attempt, albeit in poor humor, to retain the word "widow" in my letter, but in your ultimate editorial wisdom, you allowed the "balding author" bit to remain.

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Coming Out of the Closet

By John Stevenson | July 24, 2002

In my piece entitled "The Widow's Challenge, Part I", I critiqued the liberal side of the Christian faith that emphasizes social justice and community service over absolute devotion to a Person.

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Tubestock

By Caryn Karo | July 22, 2002

To the Editor: How irresponsible and ignorant of the entire Editorial Board of the D to write an article bashing Doc Kupiec for urging safety and legality on the part of our classmates? Class Council does not "promote" the event, as the article suggests, but our Class President did choose to stand up and take some responsibility for the members of our class rather than remain silent. Students are aware of what Tubestock is and what it will continue to be.

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Disney and The D

July 22, 2002

To the Editor: Your editorial "Tubestock doomed to mediocrity" not only misses the point of the letter I sent out this week, but also raises an issue much larger than Tubestock: an infantile and cowardly attitude which seems to infect the editorial board.

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Common Humanity and the Core

By Chien Wen Kung | July 18, 2002

This article is meant to be an extended addendum to what John Stevenson '05 said in his piece ("The Critical Examination," June 28). I would like to thank him for citing my previous article; I now return the favor by attempting to add to the multiculturalism debate that he calls for. Proponents of multi-culturalism have called upon liberal education to diversify itself in the face of changes to America's ethnic/racial composition.

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Tubestock doomed to mediocrity

By Robinson Hall | July 18, 2002

When '04 Class Council President John "Doc" Kupiec's sent out his letter encouraging students to "demonstrate that we can be responsible adults" and thus ensure that Tubestock does not go the way of the Winter Carnival keg jump (gone, but far from forgotten), he intended to help save a tradition fighting for its very survival.

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