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Irrational Dialogue

By Frank Webb | May 25, 2000

To the Editor: I would like to congratulate Voces Clamantium's courage in bringing such a controversial speaker and in dealing with yesterday's crowd.

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Love's Labor Lost

By Brett Quimby | May 25, 2000

I am very disturbed. I just watched what could have been a great night of discussion about views, opinions, and hurt be destroyed by closed-mindedness and unrestrained emotion. I attended the Yvette Schneider talk Tuesday night, and I was discouraged by what she said.

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The Multiplicity of the Bible

By Susan Ackerman | May 25, 2000

In his editorial of May 23, 2000, Professor Thomas Luxon quotes virulent rhetoric published by the Family Research Council, whose employee, Yvette Schneider, was recently brought by Voces Clamantium to speak on our campus.

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Moms for Guns

By Tim Waligore | May 25, 2000

Last Sunday, as I walked past the Washington monument, I saw signs that read: "Gun control is racist, sexist, and classist," "fascist go home," "Rapists hate gun owners," and (my favorite) "A good grip: my idea of gun control." As you may have guessed, I was not at the Million Mom March, which was full of mothers fearful of recent school shootings, but at a nearby counter-demonstration, put on by a newly formed anti-gun control group calling themselves the Second Amendment Sisters. The whole point of the Sisters' demonstration, to my mind, was to try to show the softer side to the NRA.

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Failed Promise

By Ezekiel Webber | May 25, 2000

To the Editor: Voces Clamantium's posters said "Come and Question". In preparation for Yvette Schneider's visit the group repeatedly assured the Dartmouth Community her presence would create dialogue.

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No Trust

By Framji Minwalla | May 24, 2000

To the Editor: In his Op-Ed piece, Zachary Keane writes, "Do you not trust us to identify and discuss hatred when we see it?" Unfortunately, given Dartmouth's sad history on this issue, given all-too-recent incidents on campus and given the many, many unthoughtful, even if unconsciously expressed, heterosexist, racist and homophobic statements made every day in Hanover, no, I don't.

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China's Cloak

By Dan Pollock | May 24, 2000

In an old Aesop's fable the wind and the sun test their strength by trying to cause a traveler to remove his heavy cloak.

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Not Part of Israel

By Gamal Abouali | May 24, 2000

To the Editor: As the teaching assistant of the first Arabic class ever taught at Dartmouth, I was happy to hear that the College is planning to offer an LSA program in Arabic and Hebrew in Jerusalem ("College plans new summer Israel LSA," May 18). However, your characterization of the program as an "Israel LSA" is gravely incorrect, for Jerusalem is simply not part of Israel. While many states have recognized Israel, practically none have recognized its sovereignty in Jerusalem.

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The Complexities of Ignorance

By Jerry Ling | May 24, 2000

It would be an over-simplification of an increasingly complicated situation to believe that all the recent controversy surrounding Yvette Schneider and her personal testimony is actually about "freedom of speech" or "sparking intellectual discourse." It is clear that the most fervent supporters and critics from both sides are not concerned nearly as much with First Amendment rights or the right to disagree, as they are with the fact that the opposing side's rhetoric is somehow offensive to them.

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Our Deepest Thanks

By Sharon Brown | May 23, 2000

To the Editor: On behalf of the children, families and staff at CHaD, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, I would like to extend our deepest thanks to the many individuals who participated in and supported the First Annual Wishing Well Dance Marathon to benefit CHaD.

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Why All the Fuss?

By Thomas Luxon | May 23, 2000

Tonight, the 23rd of May, Voces Clamantium, a campus Christian group, will sponsor a presentation by Yvette Cantu Schneider, an outspoken condemner of homosexuals and lesbians, and a policy analyst for the Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington DC.

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Commending Voces

By Lauren Day G | May 23, 2000

To the Editor: I would like to commend Voces Clamantium for bringing to campus a speaker whose position is (perhaps thankfully) in the minority at Dartmouth College.

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Moving Beyond Communism

By Andreas Bentz | May 22, 2000

To the Editor: All hail to Conor Dugan for his dismantling of communism, both as an idea and as a practice ("The Problem With Communism", The Dartmouth, May 18). Dugan however overlooks the most fundamental reason why communism, even in theory, cannot work: the power of incentives, and the decentralization that a market economy (insert "capitalist" if you like) affords.

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