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Opinion

Big Green Mentality

By Josh Warren | August 1, 1999

I'm in the uncomfortable position of giving you advice. I'm trying to find vague certainties that can connect with a large amount of people.

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Poli-tainment

By Lee Istrail | July 30, 1999

At this time of the year, people tend to think of huge blockbuster movies when they think of entertainment.

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On Being Half-Way Through

By Linda Romano | July 28, 1999

A long time ago, a very wise person told me that I would soon find a way to turn something I do every day, into an occupation. Actually, it wasn't that long ago; it was last Thursday.

Opinion

A BlitzMail Special Report

By Rob Valet | July 26, 1999

Sometimes a news item (ok, in this case, a cheesy forward) will come along that will make us D newshound columnists sit bolt upright and say, "Damn, I haven't written a column in a long time, and I have absolutely nothing to write about!

Opinion

Mourning a Tree

By Seun Peters | July 20, 1999

Once upon a time, for a long time, a tree stood on the corner of College and Wentworth streets, just beside Webster Hall.

Opinion

Dependency Dilemmas

By Christine Percheski | July 16, 1999

Last Friday, I found myself sitting on a Vermont Transit bus headed home to Massachusetts and talking to one of Hanover's summer conference visitors about a lecture given the previous day by a sociologist and economist on the topic of dependency.

Opinion

Summer Assembly?

By Liz Kleinerman | July 16, 1999

I used to walk around this campus and think to myself, "I love this place and there's nothing I want to change..." I reveled in everything here, from the grass on the Green to the comfy chairs in the Tower Room.

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Greater Than or Less Than?

By Chris Schons | July 14, 1999

To the Editor: Craig Colfelt '95 asks the following in a July 12 opinion piece: "To reform the social habits of Dartmouth College, why look to the ideas of career academic administrators who, more likely than not, attended lesser schools than the one they are charged with reinventing?" How does Mr. Colfelt determine which schools are "lesser" or "greater" than Dartmouth?

Opinion

Campus leaders present ideas

By Craig Colfelt | July 12, 1999

I read with interest Sarah Rubenstein's article of July 8, 1999, "Controversial Social Space Ideas Fill Report." Her last paragraph lists the names of those people who submitted Proposal 26 of the Task Force Report, the part discussing single-sex housing.

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Bugs and Pants

By Courtney Henning | July 8, 1999

Sophomore summer has brought to my life a beautiful new pastime - bug bite counting. I'm from Los Angeles and although as a camp counselor I spent most of my past summers outdoors, I've never come close to accumulating the number of bite marks that I have at present count.

Opinion

Summer Days

By Eric Ogden | July 2, 1999

I must admit, I first agreed to write this column with a very specific motive in mind. Finally, I had found a forum to complain about the serious lack of air conditioning here at Dear Old Dartmouth.

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"Not Me"

By Dan Pollock | June 30, 1999

In the well-known cartoon, "The Family Circus," when the children are asked who is to blame for mishaps, they immediately point to "Not Me," an invisible creature who is responsible for every mess, every broken window, and every stray roller skate.

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