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July 26, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Our Responsibility

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Last summer, I had a Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPICS) Internship in Boston. My internship gave me first-hand knowledge and unfiltered exposure to the lives of some of Boston's poorest and most destitute citizens.


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Hey '01s!

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Jenica Rosekrans '00 died three weeks ago. Did you get that? Let me repeat it. Jenica Rosekrans '00 died three weeks ago.


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Life in the Kidney League

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My younger sister, Emmy, is starting school next year at Williams, putting Ma and Pa Valet in the somewhat unenviable position of paying for two kids at rather expensive schools.


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Stories of our Lives

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The Croatian countryside was beautiful, fruitful, and fertile, like the land of milk and honey. Green buttercupped fields with clean cows knee deep in clover, and beyond, blossoming orchards busy with bees, and yet further beyond blue forested mountains.



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Where'd Everybody Go?

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Oh wait, they never showed up! All the people who wanted to come up with a vision, who admitted change was necessary and who said they were going to commit to thinking about and really changing Dartmouth ...what happened to all of you?


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Panarachy will Never Associate with the Greek System

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To the Editor: Panarchy is not, nor will it ever again be a part of the legacy of brutality that Dartmouth College calls "The Greek System." For those of you caught off guard, we are referring specifically to resolution number six (or what's left of it) that was passed at Tuesday's meeting of the Student Assembly.


Opinion

A Tribute

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One of the things on everybody's mind lately is tradition. Many people feel that students are powerless to maintain tradition because of the impermanent nature of a student body at a four-year college.


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Better than the Real World

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I'm almost done with my first year here atDartmouth. As I look back on a year that went by unbelievably quickly, I can say one thing with relative certainty: so far, I've had a pretty good time here despite all the administration's proposed "improvements." Maybe this year wasn't really the Dartmouth experience I had hoped for or expected, but it was a worthwhile one nonetheless. And with the future of Dartmouth's social options in question, I'd like to say I envy the graduating seniors because they get to leave before the boom is lowered and Dartmouth is transformed into a failed social-planning experiment; a Harvard-North without the prestige or nearby city. But I don't really envy the graduating students.



Opinion

What About Housing?

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Earlier this year, the Board of Trustees issued an unexpected set of five principles that would "characterize the future residential and social life of students at the College." Most students took this to mean that the precious Greek system was to go, and nearly every major national newspaper concurred.


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Complete Independence

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The signing of a long-term lease with the College for The Dartmouth's current space in Robinson Hall is a historic event in the 200-year history of America's oldest college newspaper. For years, The Dartmouth has been independent from the College - in spirit.


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I'm Disappointed

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This is a response both to the house editorial "But what do you really want?" (May 26th, Op-Ed), and to what I witnessed at the Student Assembly meeting on Tuesday night.


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Past their Bedtime

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Disclaimer: If you haven't seen "The Phantom Menace," you may not want to read this. Last Friday my friends and I went to see "Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace Featuring A Dozen Retarded Little Boys." At least that was the version of it we got.


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But what do you really want?

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The passion and emotion surrounding the Trustees' Initiative hasmanifested itself in a student body split in two opposing directions, and this lack of a clear direction made itself apparent at the Student Assembly meeting last night.


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A Day at the Ballpark

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Written into the script of American history is the game, the institution of baseball. For too long I had forgotten about the great game that is so peculiarly American.


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Classroom Eaters

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Creative eaters, bizarre consumers of food, have made their marks everywhere. Just in my own little corner of the world, for example, I enjoy the habits of my hallmates, who consistently shove repulsive items like icing, marshmallow fluff, honey-mustard pretzels and Balance Bars into their starving little mouths. In recent weeks, however, a hallmate and I have discovered a very rare breed of food consumers, an artistic bunch of hungry animals: the classroom eaters.


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A Mission With a Moral

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The mission of Dartmouth College has evolved through the years, as it should. The needs of our country and society have changed, and the College has sought to meet those needs.



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A Lack of Tact?

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Is it possible that Dartmouth Trustee Susan Dentzer '77 just has no tact? It can't be! After all, she is a well-respected correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, so she has obviously learned to choose her words carefully at some point along the way.