Fixing the SAT
Recently, the Educational Testing Service proposed several potential changes to the SAT, which for the past 60 years or so has seen many incarnations.
Recently, the Educational Testing Service proposed several potential changes to the SAT, which for the past 60 years or so has seen many incarnations.
Something Positive, For a Change In the three years since the announcement of the Student Life Initiative, administrative decisions involving alcohol and social life have often met with heated controversy.
Samuel Johnson wrote, "He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty." When I graduate in June and leave Dartmouth to enter the world-at-large, I will be quitting a certainty for an uncertainty.
I particularly enjoy spring. The air is clear and warm -- when not overcast and rainy -- and romance is in the air.
It seems that the farther one gets from the West Bank, the more muted the reaction becomes to the humanitarian offenses against the Palestinian people.
I would begin this piece by condemning "both sides" in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but that accusation would create a moral equivalence that does not exist.
To the Editor: In his April 9 column in The Dartmouth, "A Charge To Keep," Brian Nick questions why Bush doesn't just "come out and [tell]" the American people that the real reason for the reversal of the "Bush Doctrine" of non-engagement is that the United States needs to rally support among allies for an invasion of Iraq.
To the Editor: I read with great interest The Dartmouth's article "U.S. students protest Israeli attacks" (April 10, 2002), which reported on the protests that took place at various U.S.
To the Editor, I am writing to express my support for Janna Berke '02 and Samantha Burdman '02's insightful column, "A Matter of Choice" in the April 15 issue of The Dartmouth.
In a lesser-known portion of his August 28, 1963 speech, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. beseeched civil rights supporters: "In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
Spring is finally upon us, and we can now enjoy long, sunny days, afternoons spent lounging on the Green, good-natured games of touch football and, of course, severe nausea.
Dear Dartmouth Students: The Ad Hoc Working Group on Alcohol Policy chaired by Professor Robert Binswanger completed its work at the end of Winter term and recently submitted their final report and recommendations.
The wise are certainly out this week. They're everywhere, and their genius is emerging, advice is flowing.
I take life for granted. It's easy to lose myself in day-to-day trivialities and forget how truly blessed I am.
I am white. No, let me rephrase that. My skin is white. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that you've heard this story before in a million different ways from a million different angles.
It's that time of year again: the secrecy between friends, the camaraderie among strangers, private conversations and 3 a.m.
Recently, a friend from Cornell emailed me out of the blue to ask, "Were two professors really murdered at Dartmouth?" Yes, I replied, they lost their lives to a random act of violence that nobody could have seen coming.
Cleaning Up Off-Campus Housing Tenants' rights exist to protect renters from unfair landlords, but they are only effective when enforced.
The clone wars are coming, and no, I don't mean to theaters this summer. After lying dormant for several months since the House of Representatives passed a bill that would prevent the use of cloning for both reproductive and therapeutic purposes, the cloning debate is about to heat up again as the Senate prepares to entertain its own version of the bill.
Ana Bonnheim begins a March 4 column about the irreproachable institutions of liberty and democracy with the title "Why Israel is Important." She claims that the future of the "democratic free world" is jeopardized by the anti-democratic nature of Palestinian suicide bombers.