Balancing the Scales
Like many people, I have only experienced the disaster of Sept. 11 vicariously, through the electronic and paper media.
Like many people, I have only experienced the disaster of Sept. 11 vicariously, through the electronic and paper media.
I've listened to friends decide to go to medical school because they want to help humanity and make their lives worthwhile.
To the Editor: In his Oct. 1 column, Randy Lynn '05 presented what he believes to be the administration's harmful involvement in the discussion about the Greek system: "We got these little [Student Life Initiative] booklets in our Hinman boxes during Orientation, full of firsthand frat horror stories and articles against frats.
To the Editor: This letter was prompted by a desire to express my thoughts about the Sept.
To the Editor: As a freshman from a metropolitan area of California, small-town New England life has been a refreshing change.
To the Editor: I read "An End to Terrorism" (Letter to the Editor, Sept. 27) by Robert Allgyer '00 and felt disturbed by two gaps in logic.
To the Editor: In an ideal world we should respond to violence with patience, sympathy and peace -- the expectation being that the perpetrators of the hostility will react in kind by changing their violent ways.
To the Dartmouth Class of 2005: you will soon understand what makes this place so special. Sometime between now and Thanksgiving break you will likely discover the Dartmouth spirit.
It's nice to feel wanted. There're about forty thousand people in the Class of 2005, and we all feel very important.
To the Editor: It is hazardous to criticize cartoons ("where's your sense of humor, professor?"), but Fred Ware's "Kicker" cartoon in Thursday's D has goaded me to take the risk.
Afriend of ours was listening to a radio station in Texas and a Muslim woman called in to talk about feeling trapped within her home and scared of going outside.
To the Editor: Apart from the many letters and columns in The Dartmouth recently on the merits of the U.S.
I don't really know what to say about what happened on Sept. 11. I still can't even begin to allow myself to comprehend the magnitude of everything that happened; the magnitude of everything that was taken away from us.
To the Editor: I'm dismayed to see that Sean Donahue '96 is so misguided (Letter to the Editor, Sept.
Steaming chicken rice, fresh from the rice cooker. That was my last (and most vivid, admittedly) image of Singapore as I left that sunny island in South East Asia for the small town of Hanover in New England.
On Thursday, Sept. 13, I cried. I cried in front of my parents, my sister, and 15 other complete strangers dining at the same restaurant as us.
Life hasn't changed for the lizards. Not for the Cuban Anoles or the iguanas or the geckos.
Dartmouth College takes pride in the variety of backgrounds represented by its student body and staff.
To The Editor: For the past couple of weeks, I, like many other New Yorkers, have lived in shock, horror and fear that something so heinous could happen to my city and country.