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Alumni Do Not Care What Happens to Greek Houses

By Catherine Maxson | October 26, 1999

To the Editor: Liam Kuhn is sadly mistaken when he writes that most alums come back to Dartmouth on Homecoming to visit their Greek houses and to celebrate the loyalty and bonds that they developed there.

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Time For a Change

By Joseph LaBracio | October 25, 1999

Over the past few weeks, the United States Congress has reached a stalemate in the policymaking process because of the rhetoric and rancor of partisan fighting.

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Now is the Time

By Dean Krishna | October 22, 1999

The status quo is not acceptable. This we know. This is indisputable. Something's going to change.

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The Countdown Begins

By Kevan Higgins | October 22, 1999

Welcome back alums! In this turbulent period of Dartmouth's history, it is certain that you will want to get all you can of this Dartmouth before the change is made to the new Dartmouth.

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Welcome Home

By Liam Kuhn | October 22, 1999

Homecoming meant a lot to me last year. It was my first "big weekend" at Dartmouth, my first inoculation of the long-standing tradition in which Dartmouth is so famously steeped.

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Really, I Do

By Nancy Lai | October 21, 1999

Why do I want to write for the D? It's because I'm an '03 isn't it? Still got that "go get 'em," "take over the world," "participate in activities 'til I drop dead" attitude.

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Lest the Old Traditions Fail

By Marcia Yablon | October 21, 1999

As most people know, this weekend is Homecoming. I say most people, because I am not so sure about the freshmen.

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Listen to and Trust the Students, For Once

By Adam Sullivan | October 20, 1999

To the Editor: The college's policy concerning the Greek system is contradictory and hypocritical in a number of ways.

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The Personal Touch

By Conor Dugan | October 20, 1999

A paradox of the present day is that technology is drawing us closer and closer together while we seem to be growing further and further apart.

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Column in a Vat

By Eric Del Pozo | October 20, 1999

Since it seems like everyone on Earth, and even other planets, in fact the whole entire universe when it comes right down to it, is extremely concerned with the upcoming Trustees' Social Initiative, I figure it is only my duty to use this valuable space in our campus newspaper to talk about "The Matrix". In case you have been living in a place without movies for the past several months (for example a cave, without movies), "The Matrix" was last season's number one critically acclaimed Hollywood Mega-Blockbuster science fiction hit, narrowly edging out some of last year's other critically acclaimed Hollywood Mega-Blockbuster science fiction hits, such as "Milo And Otis Visit the Swamp". As one of my floormates so eloquently put it last week, "The Matrix" contains "the world's worst actor in the world's greatest cyber-action flick." But we are also quick to point out that this person refers to herself -- this is an actual fact -- as "Critter." (She's nice.) What makes "The Matrix" such a favorite of critics and fans alike is that it has many endearing qualities, the least of which being that most high school students cannot, for the life of them, complete any mathematical functions having to do with it.

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What I Found

By Jonathan Block | October 19, 1999

I am not usually a man of action. I tend to stay away from heated debates and let those who feel impassioned about what is being debated be the ones left to quarrel.

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Fries With That?

By Jourdan Abel | October 19, 1999

Yes, I traveled to an Ivy-League school fifteen hundred and seventy-one point three miles away from home to ask that all-important question.

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Who Needs Greeks?

By Rachel Ciprotti | October 19, 1999

With the Steering Committee actually making decisions, a lot of students are getting nervous again.

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Soft Taxes for Soft Money

By Dan Pollock | October 18, 1999

There has been little publicity about the Fatherhood Act of 1999, a bi-partisan bill that would allow local groups to help non-custodial fathers (and mothers) develop better relationships with their children.

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Image is Everything

By Kevan Higgins | October 18, 1999

The bare truth of the matter is that this problem we're having on campus is one of image. In the words of the immortal Andre Agassi, "Image is everything." Image has dictated to every single person involved with the Student Life Initiative their actions, reactions, thoughts, and ideals.

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Dartmouth Stereotypes and the National Image Count

By Stephanie Lee | October 15, 1999

To The Editor: In response your Thursday, October 14 editorial, "Selling Our For Image": While the structure of social life at Dartmouth should not be formulated to appease national stereotypes, one would be foolish to ignore them.

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Image is Not Everything

By Joseph LaBracio | October 15, 1999

George W. Bush missed his calling. Forget the oil business and owning a baseball team, Bush should have gotten involved with horseracing.

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Those Who Still Believe

By Jorge Miranda | October 15, 1999

Perhaps the '03s are the last chance Dartmouth has. Perhaps with the burden of being the smartest and most diverse class ever, they'll also have to be the class who cared enough to make a difference. I look at my fellow upperclassmen and, almost across the board, I see people who have given up.

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Politics at Dartmouth

By Dan Galemba | October 14, 1999

I'm not evil. Really, I'm not. Ask anyone who knows me. I look like I'm 14 (15 if you're generous), I'm 5'7" when I'm having an honest day, and God knows I couldn't hurt a fly.

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The Night Owl

By Jeff Deck | October 14, 1999

I thought I'd take a moment to let my mind wander, while my printer refuses to print and my brain refuses to think. How, you may ask, (if you actually care, and that is always questionable), did I, Jeff Deck of considerable fame and status, get caught up in glaring at a printer at one in the morning?