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The Dartmouth
July 26, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

The Globe's Folly

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To the Editor: Jim Zien's denunciation of the Boston Globe's irresponsible "reporting" in the letter to the editor that appeared yesterday speaks for all of us who grieve for Half and Susanne Zantop.


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Proper Procedure

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To the Editor: I commend the authorities for sticking to the rules and not disclosing any more information than required to the media, who was pressuring them to tell all they knew, which would eventually tip off the suspects.


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The Elves and the Bio Major

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Dear God, please send the magical elves to set up my PCR reactions! Let me back up. I have been thinking a lot about children's stories lately (I think this is some sort of senior year regression I am suffering). In particular, I keep remembering one that my mom used to read to my sister and me many a happy childhood night, called "The Elves and the Shoemaker." The story is about a kindly old shoemaker who has fallen on hard times, and eventually he only has enough leather left to make one last pair of shoes.




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Dartmouth is Better

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To the Editor: Co-incidentally I was about to write The Dartmouth about a number of admissions related issues when I saw your article about interest in Dartmouth waning, and I wanted to reassure you that the very qualities that you all hold so dear at Dartmouth, are in fact the qualities that make it less acceptable to the overachieving success-driven income-minded high-schoolers who are out there. I'll explain.


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Responses to 'Save the Boys'

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To the Editor: I am appalled by the letter to the editor "Save the Boys." I can't believe that anyone would be afraid of these two boys committing suicide rather than take responsibility for their alleged involvement in this horrendous crime. I have been following this story because my sister and her husband (Jim Zien, his piece was carried by your paper Feb.


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Maligning the Zantops

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To the Editor: Was I reading the Boston Globe on Friday the 16th, or did the carrier mistakenly deposit a National Enquirer on the doorstep, with an anonymous story of sex and death in academe high above the fold? My wife and I have shared a close friendship and close quarters in small sailboats with Susanne and Half Zantop for over 15 years.


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Foreign Policy

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To the Editor: An op-ed piece you ran recently, Sanctions Away, shows a gross misunderstanding of the implications of U.S.


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Capital Punishment

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To the Editor: Congratulations on your last week's supplement on capital punishment. I'm happy to see that many people, especially students, are seriously rethinking the issue -- whatever their conclusions.


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Liberty & Responsibility

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A recently published book asserts that IBM's German subsidiary manufactured and designed the Hollerith punch-cards that assisted the Nazis in persecuting the Jews from 1939 to 1945.


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The Real World

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To the Editor: The Dartmouth community has been embroiled in controversy over how to change the fraternity/sorority system into something that better fits the ideal view of certain parts of that community.



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A Clarification

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To the Editor: I appreciated your interest in reporting on the proposed hazing policy, but I am writing to correct an unfortunate mistake and omission in how your coverage described the policy.


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The Hidden Menace

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I write to applaud Senior Associate Dean of the College Dan Nelson's and his other committee members' new anti-hazing policy. Few on campus treat hazing with the gravity with which it must be met.


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Sanctions Away

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The old white guys are at it again. Last week, American and British aircraft conducted operations against command and control sites in Iraq.


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Don't Blame Victims

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To the Editor: Victim-blaming is a common, predictable way of coming to terms with seemingly senseless violence, so I should not have been surprised to see The Boston Globe, in two articles in Friday's edition, in effect, blaming both Half and Susanne Zantop for their brutal murders.