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April 6, 2026
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Drawing the Line

By Dan Rothfarb | May 29, 2002

When I first came here, I couldn't see myself writing columns for The D. What did I know? I was just a freshman with very little knowledge about Dartmouth, let alone the world at large.

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Democracy in Action

By Hannah Meyers | May 29, 2002

Gary Weissman's May 22 op-ed, "An Un-democratic Statement,"makes several mistakes. The most glaring are related to the process by which Hillel forms and passes resolutions and the relationship of the campus Hillel to the Hillel International organization. First, the steps taken by Hillel in passing last week's resolution to print "Wherever we stand, we stand with Israel" in The Dartmouth were the very definition of a democratic process.

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Home of the Cheese

By Abbye Meyer | May 28, 2002

It took me two years to find it, hidden away on the corner of West and Maple. It took me two years of aimless searching, dissatisfaction and complaining to walk up the stairs and onto the porch of Dartmouth's best little secret: Foley House.

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When Real Life Enters

By Samantha Miller | May 28, 2002

To the Editor: Brent Kesler's unwillingness to take a walk from his desk to his dorm's front door for a pizza (The Dartmouth, May 15, "New Locks, New Problems") exhibits a laziness and navet that is quite worrisome. As the sister of a Dartmouth student who has been the victim of two thefts since she arrived on campus, I would hope that the entire community has gotten more mindful of public safety issues, particularly since the Zantop tragedy. Kesler bristles at the suggestion that college be anything like the "real world"(gasp!). But why is that such a radical idea? College life shelters students from many harsh realities of the world, which many us were privileged enough to enjoy for four years.

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Lost In The Viscera

By Richard Harvell | May 28, 2002

To the Editor: It seems like Michael Mello (May 22, "What if Dartmouth were in Tel Aviv") was a little too occupied fantasizing about blood and guts in Dartmouth Hall to pay attention to the excellent speech being delivered in front of him by Chris Hedges. Mr. Hedges did not say that "Israelis are racist" (he said that settlers building settlements in violation of the Oslo accords are racist -- a hard claim to disagree with). Mr. Hedges did not say that "Israel should not exist." Instead he claimed that Israel's and Jewish history should not be a blank check for violence and repression -- again, I doubt Mr. Mello would disagree. Lastly, Mr. Mello seemed to miss Mr. Hedges' most powerful point.

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Typical Last Column

By Jeff Deck | May 28, 2002

Okay, it's the last time you'll have your column run in a college paper. This is your exit, man. What do you write about?

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Countering Specious Logic

By Lauren Foley | May 28, 2002

To the Editor: Steven Lulich's May 22 response ("On Homosexual Rights") to Chris Curran's May 20 column "The Right Thing for the Right Wing" is an exercise in misguided rhetoric.

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Criticize What You Know

By Josh Marks | May 28, 2002

To the Editor: In response to Meredith Liu '04's May 22 letter, "Embracing Compromise, I would like to point out two inconsistencies in her arguments. Her assertion that Hillel is "blindly" supporting Israel would be more compelling if she had indicated that she attends Hillel meetings.

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On the Perils of Polarizing Opinion

By Yousuf Haque | May 28, 2002

Not so long ago, Gary Weissman '02, a Jewish friend, voiced his concern to me regarding the camp mentality that tends to prevail in our respective communities when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian situation.

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A Dangerous Strategy

By Paul Gulezian | May 28, 2002

To the Editor: I want to commend Steven Lulich '02 (May 22, "On Homosexual Rights") for his grasp of "common-sense biology" in arguing against homosexual rights by way of analogy to race and ethnicity.

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Questions Waiting to be Asked

By Elise Berman | May 24, 2002

As an active member of Hillel I feel, unfortunately, that I have no choice but to criticize the resolution to print the statement, "Wherever We stand, We Stand With Israel," by Dartmouth Hillel.

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The Week

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 24, 2002

A Divisive Stance Hillel has taken a dangerous stance by adopting the statement, "Wherever we stand, we stand with Israel," for it is irresponsible for a religious organization to support unequivocally a government's actions. Hillel's misguided decision is further complicated by the questionable process leading up to the advertisement's submission to The Dartmouth.

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Thank you, Mr. Powell

By John Stevenson | May 24, 2002

To the Editor: Every since President George Bush uttered the phrase "axis of evil," morally self-righteous commentators, politicians and so-called intellectuals lambasted the President for being too simplistic.

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The Speaker's Role

By Julian Saltman | May 24, 2002

To the Editor: With such political luminaries as Ehud Barak and Desmond Tutu and the brilliant Maya Angelou all descending on Dartmouth during one term, I find it hard to fathom that Anil Antony needs to have another politically or socially renowned figure give the commencement address (The Dartmouth, May 16, "The Fred Rogers Folly"). Regardless of their political or social stature, I highly doubt that Condoleezza Rice, Jim Lehrer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan or President Bush are capable of giving an interesting speech that is not simply recycled from one event to another, and littered with the proverbial 60 quotations from Bartlett's.

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A Troubling New Policy

By Janos Marton | May 23, 2002

The 21st century is off to a pretty bad start already, and the decision by Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman to ban door-to-door delivery of publications has not made things better.

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Putting the Cult in Culture

By Dan Galemba | May 23, 2002

In the interest of social science, I attended "Star Wars Episode II," notepad in hand, to observe the behavior of the masses and try to draw some conclusions about both the movie itself and the status it has achieved as a cultural phenomenon. Now I realize that this isn't the film review page, but for something as representative of popular culture as "Star Wars," it doesn't matter.

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An Undemocratic Statement

By Gary Weissman | May 22, 2002

Only a small fraction of the Jews at Dartmouth (by Jews I mean those of you who checked the little box as a freshman) attended this past Hillel meeting, and it is important that we are very clear on the discussion and the vote that transpired. A resolution was put on the table at the last meeting to take out the ad that appeared on May 17 in The Dartmouth.

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