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September 1, 2026
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Trust No One

By Dan Rothfarb | May 9, 2002

They called the Gulf War the first war fought on TV, but they never dreamed that war would be fought through TV.

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On Offensive Expression

By Matthew Tokson | May 9, 2002

To the Editor: In his letter to the editor on May 3, "A Misunderstanding," Jon Hollander '03 compares a "Dartmouth Indian" T-shirt with a T-shirt reading "World Trade Center victims got what they deserved" to show that wearing either of the shirts "victimizes those who have suffered." Thus, he says, the debate is not about speech, because wearing either of these T-shirts is, though legal, morally abhorrent.

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Coeducating ORL

By Chris Curran | May 8, 2002

The decision for Dartmouth to become coeducational was a good one for the College. On that point, students, administrators and faculty would agree almost unanimously.

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Star Wars!

By Brian Nick | May 7, 2002

Week after week I try to write about issues of national or even global importance. Today I will attempt to outdo myself and write a column of intergalactic proportions A not-so-long time ago, in a town not so far away, a "Star Wars" fan was born.

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Defending Our Rights

By Susan DuBois | May 7, 2002

As a young idealistic student, I've heard and been told not only that activism is useless and in vain and that true civics is a concept from the past, but that today's students are also apathetic.

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A Battle of Extremists

By Brian Johnston | May 6, 2002

To the Editor: Jon Schroeder, in his May 1 column, "Barak's Mixed Metaphors," quoted Amos Oz to the effect that the Palestinians are "fighting two wars" -- one to gain their freedom, and the second, (by the extremists), to eliminate Israel.

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Fixing Ivy Athletics

By Zachary Podolsky | May 6, 2002

To the Editor: In response to the May 2 article in The Dartmouth "Ivy League Reconsiders Role of Athletics in Admissions," it is often forgotten, in the ongoing debate on Ivy League campuses about athletics in admissions, that athletics are the only pursuits in which the Ivy League schools are flat-out mediocre.

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Stop the Madness

By Robin Catmur | May 6, 2002

To the Editor: As Advisors to International Students and Scholars for Dartmouth College, my colleagues and I are vehemently opposed to any potential limitations to international students' choice of field of study, and fully concur with Ryan Tan '05's statements in The Dartmouth ("International Madness," April 24). While the trends in United States regulations and pending legislation since Sept.

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The Rites of Spring

By Matt Soriano | May 6, 2002

It seems that this year, God is on the side of the admissions office. He gave them two or three weeks of sultry weather right at the time when admitted students were investigating whether, in Hanover, wet hair really would freeze on your head on the way to class.

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Loads of Fun

By Abby Horowitz | May 3, 2002

I had a few apprehensions about starting college: leaving my friends and family, taking hard classes, sharing a room, doing my own wash. Laundry was one of my biggest fears about college life.

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A Misunderstanding

By Jon Hollander | May 3, 2002

To the Editor: In his letter to the editor on April 30, "A Misrepresentation," Nilanjan Banerjee '01 claims that he chooses free speech over political correctness when he wears one of his four "Dartmouth Indian" T-shirts.

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Barak's Mixed Metaphors

By Jon Schroeder | May 2, 2002

Though Ehud Barak did not give a speech worthy of a classical orator, he made his point emphatically clear: this is the "world war on terror," and it is our duty (read: the West and Israel) as the defenders of all that is good and democratic to stamp out Palestinian terrorism.

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Internship Blues

By Cal Newport | May 1, 2002

I guess it's unavoidable, for most sophomores it's time to start thinking about internships. Many of us have off-terms coming up next year, which means we should begin our hunt for the perfect "professional growth experience" as soon as possible. Never one to procrastinate, I recently resolved that I would write out all my qualifications, cross-reference these with the industries in which I am most interested and order the results according to the desirability of geographic location.

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Crossing Borders

By Abbye Meyer | April 30, 2002

When some friends came to visit Hanover a few weeks ago, one of them said that Dartmouth seemed so much bigger than she expected.

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The Real Opposition

By Claire Unis | April 30, 2002

To the Editor: I appreciate very much the interview of me written by Katie Bell '05 and run on Thursday, April 25 ("Unis '95 reflects on founding of Amarna"), but I feel I have been misrepresented in a few very important ways. While I did tell Ms. Bell that we did not intend Amarna to have any kind of political agenda against the Greek system, I did not tell her I "never considered myself an opponent of the Greek system," nor that I "disapproved of the 'engineered social programming' that Dartmouth has instituted." In fact, my experience within a sorority was deeply dissatisfying, and I felt that the Greek system engineered social interactions to be artificial and forced.

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The Camp David Myth

By The Dartmouth | April 30, 2002

By Mohamad Bydon '01 In American media circles and across Israel, last summer's Camp David peace summit between Israel and the Palestinians is seen through a narrow lens, one which contends that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Palestinians the moon (or 97 percent of the moon) and they rejected it because of their unwillingness to compromise. This narrative has been pushed most vigorously by Mr. Barak and his negotiating team as well as American officials like Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk (both of whom had previously been lobbyists for Israel in Washington, DC). Nearly a year later, we now know enough about the Camp David negotiations to realize that the story is not so simple. Mr. Barak made a significant and worthwhile offer at Camp David.

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