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The Dartmouth
September 1, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

System Failure

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Late Wednesday night, I was talking with a friend in her room; she and three friends had just been through the rush process together.


Opinion

Has the World Gone Tofu Mad?

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And with the flickering of wrists and a sharp crack, disturbing the early morning silence, the chicken's neck was snapped in half." So begins the overly dramatized tale of my sister's experience in Africa.


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The Importance of Being White

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The best thing about being white is that you don't have to think about it. Before last week, not only was I all too happy not to think about it, but I was even fond of not considering myself white at all.


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Food Rage and Rush

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There has been a lot of activity here at Dartmouth the last couple of weeks, most notably of course being the Greek system's rush process.


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Almost News Roundup

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The pretzel that lodged in President Bush's throat and left him unconscious for several seconds has not escaped close scrutiny by the nation's top law enforcement officials.



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The Comedic Inquisition

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To the Editor: I have a brief word concerning the Jan. 23 column in The Dartmouth, "The Death of Laughter," by Assistant Professor Steve Swayne: I am quite pleased that most of our society can appreciate the wonderful works of Mel Brooks, including his script for the musical and film "The Producers." However, Mr. Swayne's viewpoint that the musical makes light of the situation of the Jews during the Holocaust is untrue and not a reason to find the performance objectionable.


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Carpe Diem

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I knew this would happen. Story of my life. Man, I used to hate it here. Or at least act like I did.



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The Week

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Need-Blind Matriculation A study published this month by the Lumina Foundation for Education called Dartmouth's tuition "unaffordable" for low to median income students while asserting that a vast majority of U.S.



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An American Abroad

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Immediately following Sept. 11, like so many others, I was filled with a kind of patriotic urge. I wanted to hang an American flag outside the house, but my dad said he still felt uneasy with such displays after the hollow patriotism of the Vietnam era.


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In Defense of Civil Liberty

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The editorial "In Defense of Profiling," by Sam Stein (The Dartmouth, Jan. 22) is a clear indication that the United States still has notions of who is an American and who is not.







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Results Matter

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Here are some media-sponsored tidbits to ponder: The 19 al-Qaida hijackers who killed 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard United Flight 93 were evil, despicable people as well.


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In Defense of Profiling

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No less than a year ago, if a shoe had come onto the market and been referred to as "the bomb," Nike executives would have claimed to have found the second coming of Air Jordans.