The Breakdown on J & R
To the Editor: I was very interested to find out that Jerry Rich's business practices are drawing some attention.
To the Editor: I was very interested to find out that Jerry Rich's business practices are drawing some attention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To the Editor: In a demonstration of a shortsighted attempt at comedy, Andrew Grossman '02 said the following on Dartlog.net on Aug 14th.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Breaking news here at CNN. One of the conjoined twin girls recently separated after an almost 24-hour operation has just sneezed.
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.
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.
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.