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The Dartmouth
June 25, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion

Opinion

Taking Initiative

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Student activism. For many, the energy and risk aren't worth it. We're living in an era when there is no need to take big risks to effect change.


Opinion

Amoral Silence

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The recent 4th of July celebrations offer a unique opportunity to reflect upon an ideal our nation was founded upon: freedom from tyrannical rule.


Opinion

Diversity of Thought

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To the Editor: Lest you should accuse me of bias and "entrenched arch-conservatism," let me just state right off that I am not white, Anglo-Saxon or Protestant (I am not even an American). I am not, and do not plan on being, a member of any fraternity.


Opinion

The Sons of Old Dartmouth

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The crowd gathered at the Daniel Webster room in the Hanover Inn one Saturday this past interim was a fairly homogenous group -- elderly men in suits and ties accompanied by nicely attired wives.


Opinion

A Slippery Slope

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To the Editor: The College's recent decision to allow itself into CFS houses without any warning should be worrying to every student.



Opinion

Parking Peeves

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Should a moment of weakness cost a student $50? I am a weak person. Last Wednesday, after a long day of moving my stuff and my friends' stuff from one place to another, I committed a calculated, heinous and selfishly motivated crime that insulted the Dartmouth College community in three malevolent aspects: 1) I parked in a "core area" reserved for college employees only. 2) I was not a visitor or non-permit employee. 3) I was a student. The Dartmouth Trustees, in their infinite forgiving beneficence, decided to only charge the pittance of $50 in order to set me and my Mercury Mountaineer on the narrow and difficult path towards A-lot and salvation.


Opinion

My Features, My Smile, My Eyes

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We climbed the stairs off of the ferry from Italy on our mid-FSP break. It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day wafted from the ship stereo, my stomach knots of this is Corsica, this is where I'm from interspersed with how am I going to get in touch with my family?



Opinion

Environmental Equity

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The word "equity" connotes a balance, fairness and concepts of justice. We in the United States have long considered ourselves a just, equal and fair society.


Opinion

Turnabout

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To the Editor: I was one of a number of alumni who, in the late 1980's, were in the vanguard of contested elections for Alumni Trustees.



Opinion

Live Free or Die

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As a member of the Greek Life Steering Committee, I am deeply disturbed by the new policies announced by the Office of Residential Life last Friday, but I probably should not be.


Opinion

Rantings, Part I

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Since it's sophomore summer (finally!), I believe I'll cultivate a more intimate tone in my column for my fellow '03s and for those random non-'03s out there.


Opinion

Bring on the Clones

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On Feb. 23, 1997, Scottish embryologist Dr. Ian Wilmut announced that he had successfully cloned a sheep from a single cell of an adult sheep, and the debate over the merits and ethics of human cloning shifted into high gear.



Opinion

Letter to the Editor

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To the Editor: In no way, shape or form, did we advise or consent to the recommendation of the ban on outdoor alcohol at Greek houses, as Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman implied in Monday's front-page article in The Dartmouth. As student members on the Greek Life Steering Committee, we did not see a final draft before it was printed, nor was our signature requested on any document to signal our approval of the final draft. In the wake of the recently announced regulations, which many of us strongly oppose, some of us requested that GLSC Chair Cassie Barnhardt remove our names from the document, as we suspected they had been placed there without our permission.


Opinion

DDS

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I refuse to get sucked in. I will not waste time arguing about something I just want to consign to the dark recesses of memory.


Opinion

In Bad Faith

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Administrators handed down a policy last Friday that both undermines the very Student Life Initiative objectives it purports to advance and fosters an atmosphere of distrust between students and College officials.