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December 7, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Keep It Burning

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Traditions were made to be broken. Wait a second, that's not right. What was it that's made to be broken again? Every time any Dartmouth event of consequence comes around, we're always faced with the same hysterics from the College; threats loom over everything.


Opinion

Headline Correction

To the Editor: We would like to correct the headline of your 24 October front page article which states "Jerusalem LSA not threatened." If this new LSA Plus program had been scheduled for our 2001 Winter term, those involved with our overseas programs in Wentworth Hall would be, right now, very seriously considering to cancel the offering.



Opinion

The Bubba Factor

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Well, it is now less than two weeks until Election Day, and Al Gore and George W. Bush are making their last second pushes to mobilize their base to get out the vote and appeal to those few coveted independent voters who are still undecided.


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Not Fade Away

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The nights grow colder on the hilltop in Etna. The leaves departed from here many days ago. The nascent, tightly bound buds of spring emerged behind them, patiently waiting their departure, perhaps even hastening their fall to the forest floor. Frost stills the grass each morning now.


Opinion

In Committee

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My days at Dartmouth have been colored by a pseudo-political activism, a desire to engender real change in the Dartmouth "community." (One of these days, I'm going to write an editorial on quotation marks.) Operating on the "Student Assembly Model" of effectuality in change, I've conceived throughout my student career a number of committees that have elicited great hope and excitement yet done nothing.


Opinion

Don't Let the Fire Go Out

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Do not go gentle into that good night," wrote Dylan Thomas. "... Rage, rage against the dying of the light." While the poem certainly has nothing whatsoever to do with the future of the Homecoming bonfire, I think it nicely frames the question I have been asking myself: why are students so quiet about the fate of what is arguably one of our oldest, most universally beloved traditions? After some 120 years, this year's bonfire, the College has announced, may well be the last.




Opinion

A Kookie Old Bat

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I walk into a partially constructed pumpkin patch of green tissue paper and pipe cleaners. The pumpkins have yet to be made.


Opinion

Dartmouth's Assets

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During day after day of freshman orientation events, not only was I physically exhausted, but believe it or not, left thinking about a few things.


Opinion

Vouchers and Values

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Certain commentators in The Dartmouth seem to believe that vouchers for religiously based schools would introduce students to a reality that hadn't existed previously.


Opinion

Tolerance Issues

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To the Editor: I read Latasha Boyd's column several times and the only opinion I could find was that atheists are intolerant folk.


Opinion

Deck's in the City

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Dear Reader: As I am residing in New York City for the term, and many Dartmouth students will experience an internship in a big city at some point, and/or work in the big city after graduation, I thought it appropriate and beneficial to offer a few pointers about city life.


Opinion

McCain's Camelot

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As I stood in a packed room precariously balanced on a chair at nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning, listening to Senator John McCain speak, I had only one question: Why is this man not on the presidential ballot next month?




Opinion

The Next Step

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What happened to the Student Life Initiative? What happened to greater student involvement in how decisions are made at this college? What happened is what always happens.


Opinion

The Debate

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Me: Hello, and welcome to the first of the Hemant Joshi Debates. Our guests today are presidential candidates Governor George W.


Opinion

Rush Speculation

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To the Editor: Bones Gate Fraternity has a long-standing policy of not releasing rush numbers to The Dartmouth, or in fact to any other publication other than our own Alumni Newsletter.


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