Outside Looking In
It's not everyday that you see large numbers of Dartmouth students milling around Parkhurst like so many lemmings.
It's not everyday that you see large numbers of Dartmouth students milling around Parkhurst like so many lemmings.
To the Editor: Friday's protest brought forth some great ideas. Especially heartfelt were the requests that limits be placed on the number of hours student-employees work and the inhibiting price of off-campus programs and certain P.E.
Friday's protest/rally/speak-in/speak-out culminated in Collis Commonground with administrators and Trustees assuring us that we had their support.
To the Editor: I was at the "protest" on Friday outside Parkhurst Hall ... for all of 5 or 10 minutes.
"... This [is] a moment when we can transform our own best hopes into reality ... this is not a time for timidity.
To the Editor: As we stood outside the Hanover Inn, I stole one last minute of Chairman of the Board of Trustees, William H.
This past Friday, there was an opportunity for members of the Dartmouth community to come to the steps of Parkhurst to share their voices in an open dialogue about change at Dartmouth College.
When I first glanced at the mass email sent out late last week about the gathering at Parkhurst to protest the administration's impotence when it comes to listening to the students, I was excited, thinking that more people felt the way I do.
To the Editor: I am writing in response to Ben Mishkin '00's highly delusional "Reality Check" printed in the April 2nd issue of The Dartmouth.
To the Editor: The new policy is surprisingly disappointing on the point of excluding current financial aid recipients and giving aid only to incoming students.
The controversy over lawsuits demanding reparations for descendants of black slaves in America is growing every day, but it seems that the subject is currently too hot to touch, at least in print.
The Dartmouth chose recently to be among the many US college newspapers not to run David Horowitz's full page ad entitled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea -- and Racist Too." They ran instead, on March 28th, Rachel Osterman's article, "Ad Sparks Campus Controversy." Although the article described some of the reasons why "Ten Reasons" has caused such an uproar, it presented the ad in anything but an objective light.
The driver's beard gleamed a deep henna-red in the morning Karachi sun. I sat in the backseat in uneasy comfort as we traversed the crisscross of dusty roads.
As I sat here during my off term trying to decide which lucky topic would provide the focus of this scintillating op-ed, I came to a sobering conclusion: I don't have any opinions.
Our new President is incredibly adept at making self-fulfilling prophecies. First, there were his negative comments about the economy for over a year during the presidential campaign, which may have actually helped to slow down the economy.
To the Editor: Your decision not to run David Horowitz's ad based upon your view that it is both inflammatory and offensive is a smack in the face of the first amendment that smarts lovers of free speech everywhere.
I've composed many a thoughtful letter, random essay or heated rant in my head while trying to drift off to sleep, but I tend to be too lazy to get up and actually jot down my perfected thoughts.
I made sure to stick my lucky pennies into my backpack before walking to my only final exam last term.
Today's column is comprised of a series of unrelated, or at most, tenuously related topics. (By acknowledging the lack of coherence in this article, I render your -- the reader's -- observation that "this article is merely comprised of a series of unrelated, or at most, tenuously related topics" irrelevant, redundant, and downright obnoxious.) Why?
As an international student I am often asked: "Why are you here in the U.S.?" This is a natural question, and usually it takes me some head scratching and a minute to figure out why I am 12 time zones away from home.