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April 14, 2026
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Politics as Unusual

By Brian Nick | October 22, 2001

Sometimes when people find themselves disagreeing with each other constantly about virtually every detail of every potential solution to every problem they face, a clarifying moment comes along and lays everything out for them.

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Nothing But Feelings

By Jeff Deck | October 22, 2001

So we Dartmouth students, like any other community or society, have our own lingo. There are some words in this lexicon that are commonly used at college campuses across the nation, like "pong," "dude" and "damn-is-it-freakin-time-to-get-up-already?" Other terms are peculiar to this campus alone, such as "BlitzMail" and "Parkhurst" as a verb.

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The Martial Plan

By Dan Rothfarb | October 18, 2001

Pretty much no one on the global stage likes the Taliban. They're cruel to women, they imprison men whose beards are too short and Christians who proselytize, and they blow up big statues of the Buddha.

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Lacking in Logic

By John C. Buckholz | October 18, 2001

To the Editor: There is a difference between empty rhetoric and persuasive logic. It is incumbent on the Dartmouth student body that it distinguish between the two when dealing with the type of propaganda that Jon Sussman pushed on us in his letter to the editor in "The D," Oct.

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Anthrax Isn't Funny

By Kevin Reavey | October 18, 2001

To the Editor: On page four of "The D," Oct. 17, there was a comic strip entitled "Anthrax Living" that pokes fun at what is looking like a second attack on the United States.

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A History of Freedom

By Amy Hooper | October 18, 2001

To the Editor: In "Counter-Protests Insulting" (Letter to the Editor, Oct. 11), the members of the "Minus Green" write the following: "There is a fundamental difference between a protest for peace and a counter-protest for war -- the latter being a gratuitous display of callousness which flagrantly disrespects the sanctity of human life." Their assertion that a protest for a peaceful strategy and a counter-protest against such a strategy are necessarily qualitatively different is absurd and propagandist. You cannot deny the fact that we are where we are today, living in a free and democratic country, in some part because of those individuals laying down their lives -- because of war. You are doing yourself an intellectual disservice if you unilaterally condemn war (and any group of individuals mobilized in support of war) and simultaneously benefit every day from what war has brought this country.

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A Space to Connect

By Hillary Miller | October 18, 2001

It is likely that we are all feeling a collective relief to call Hanover, N.H. our current home. There is a wide enough geographic and emotional distance from the daily impact of the war to allow the Dartmouth environment to feel quite safe and padded.

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There is Consistency

By Brian Maloney | October 17, 2001

To the Editor: I write in response to Jon Sussman's Letter to the Editor, Oct. 16, claiming that Greeks are inconsistent when asking the community to recognize good things about the "System" when there are such pains made by Greek houses to distance themselves from incidents involving particular houses or individuals. In fact, there is no inconsistency in the above position.

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The Geek Awards

By Abbye Meyer | October 17, 2001

My favorite Bingo number is I-21. It's the only number that, when I call it, is a complete and completely truthful sentence.

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Come Together?

By Hemant Joshi | October 17, 2001

I'm not what you might call a passionate supporter of George W. Bush. In fact, I really don't like him at all.

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A Vermont State of Mind

By Abigail Drachman-Jones | October 17, 2001

I gave up my Ethernet connection. I had to buy my own toilet paper (until I realized that "borrowing" it from various places worked just as well). I lived in a room that had just a few too many bugs and spiders for my liking.

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Avoiding Stereotypes

By Antonio Valla | October 16, 2001

To the Editor: In an Oct. 15 column in The Dartmouth, Chris Curran wrote, "I imagine some left-leaning extremists might fly the hammer and sickle of the former Soviet Union.

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Greeks Inconsistent

By Jon Sussman | October 16, 2001

To the Editor: When a Greek organization comes under fire, leaders of other houses typically try to disown any connection or similarity to the beleaguered one.

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Fair Play

By Matt Soriano | October 16, 2001

In my ceaseless quest to avoid my internship debacle of last spring, I recently attended the Employer Information Fair hosted by our helpful Career Services office. I mean no offense to those well-intentioned souls, but unfortunately the place was like a meat market.

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True to Identities

By Pam Misener | October 16, 2001

To the Editor: Thomas N. Wise '65, M.D., recently wrote, "Transgender individuals are not bad people but often have serious conflicts and issues that are not a result of society but due to internal psychological conflicts." If we remove the word "transgender" and replace it with "homosexual," we will hear the same refrain previously used to keep homosexuality listed as a psychiatric disorder for far too many hurtful and harmful years. I have a vision of a near future where gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder is similarly abandoned as a damaging, stigmatizing psychiatric diagnosis, and people are allowed (if not encouraged) to honor their internal gender identity and not be made to force themselves into socially constructed gender boxes and roles.

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In Defense of Maine

By Nick Crofoot | October 16, 2001

To the Editor: Despite the fact that Paul Marino's recent derogatory comments regarding the state of Maine were made in jest ("Treehouses A Flop?", Oct.

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