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Military Not the Answer

By John Leyba | October 5, 2001

To the Editor: In regard to Troy Blanchard's letter to the editor (Oct. 3) calling for us to become the next "Greatest Generation," it is curious that he still managed to show up for a Fall term that began two weeks after the attacks in NYC and DC, seeing as he is an '05 and had, at the time, little invested in an academic, social life at the College. Secondly, military action of the sort following Pearl Harbor is not what will win this new "war," and any assertion that one's patriotism hinges on enlisting at the drop of a hat (or plane) is, at best, ludicrous.

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Guided by the Future

By Brian Burgess | October 5, 2001

Revenge. It's a word that's been tossed around frequently after the unconscionable acts of terrorism perpetuated against the United States.

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Dating at Dartmouth

By Paul Marino | October 5, 2001

I haven't been on a single date since I got to school," says '04 Leo Twiggs. "I always figured it was because girls find me difficult to approach." I know the feeling.

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The Struggle to Cope

By Nancy Lai | October 5, 2001

Well. Here I am, last in the columnist rotation. For the first time in my Dartmouth career I've read all the Op-Eds of the past two weeks.

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Aggressive Action Needed

By Eamonn Brady | October 4, 2001

To the Editor: Sean Donahue '96, in his letter to the editor (Sept. 25), states, "we should be speaking out for sanity and compassion." Speak all you want, for it is your right.

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I Will Raise No Flag

By Dan Rothfarb | October 4, 2001

I am a little frightened by the rhetoric of certainty that has predominated the discussion of how to respond to the acts of extreme violence and destruction that occurred on Sept.

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Another Modest Proposal

By Hemant Joshi | October 3, 2001

An unfortunate trend is emerging in the United States. At a time when Americans are particularly prone to terrorist attacks at home and abroad, the majority of Americans seem to be possessed with ideas of gallant and fearless revenge rather than ideas of a safe and secure life.

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In Defense of Our Dreams

By Troy Blanchard | October 3, 2001

To the Editor: The day after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, bringing the United States into an already raging World War, thousands of men enlisted in the armed services, prepared to go to war, to defend their nation.

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An Amazing Achievement

By Joshua Marcuse | October 3, 2001

To the Editor: I am writing to praise Randy Lynn '05 for the incisive analysis of Dartmouth's social life that he offered the community in a Letter to the Editor in Monday's issue of The Dartmouth. In his editorial he accomplishes the impressive feat of summing up the entire Student Life Initiative without being hampered by its complexity. He single-handedly uncovers the grand conspiracy of the evil college administration without having to confirm any of the evidence he has yet to gather.

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Fuming

By Roxanne Khamsi | October 3, 2001

To the Editor: I was terrified by Andrew Grossman's unnecessary glorification of cigarettes.

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Truly Stodgy?

By Anna G. Ahrens | October 3, 2001

To the Editor: I must have been stodgy even in 1977 at age 21. At Winter Carnival that year, I happened into a frat house early in the evening, and upon being eyed as a hunk of meat, I left and went to visit friends at Tuck.

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Bumper Sticker Rebellion

By Andy Hanauer | October 3, 2001

To be young is to rebel; this is a truth as powerful as any other. And thus I decided several months ago that instead of flying back to Dartmouth in the fall, I would drive.

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Terrorism in Ireland

By William Gartland | October 2, 2001

To the Editor: When the current concern over Osama bin Laden's terrorist gangsters is satisfied by their destruction, will the Unionist mobs terrorizing Catholic school children merit the same concern of the present crusaders against terrorism in the U.S.

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Subdue Terrorism First

By Sam Osborne | October 2, 2001

To the Editor: I say to good intentioned but mistaken anti-war protestors, best we protest this war by fighting for a better peace. The killing of 6,000 innocent people in New York City and Washington DC was not a one-time act of vandalism.

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Seeing Both Sides

By Brigitta Wagner | October 2, 2001

I was at home in New Jersey when the attacks occurred, and after 11 months in Germany, I encountered a United States so different from the one that I had imagined in occasional bouts of homesickness. The proximity of my parents' home to Manhattan and a year of exposure to New York's international symbolic value (for example, in advertisement slogans such as "Manhattan -- America's Dream of Ice Cream") allowed me to invest in that city whatever nationalistic impulses I possessed.

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Calling All Smokers

By Andrew Grossman | October 2, 2001

I rolled eight cigarettes in my 10 o'clock economics class. As my professor babbled on about bar graphs (and misused "facile" for which I sic'd her in my notes), my attention was lost in a swirl of rich smoke.

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