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Distracted Insomnia

By Abbye Meyer | March 9, 1999

Going to bed these past few weeks has been a nightmare ... except of course, a true nightmare would involve actually sleeping.

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Strip for School Spirit

By Andrew Grossman | March 8, 1999

Avid readers of the Dartmouth may have noticed a pair of letters last week referring to an incident in which our own football team hired a stripper to entice a potential student.

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Don't Tell Me I Don't Matter

By Fouad Einaggar | March 8, 1999

I am writing in response to a letter by William Dowling '66 that appeared in the March 5 edition of The Dartmouth.

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So you come to Dartmouth and what do you know about this place? Do you think of the beautiful mountains, the idyllic hamlet known as Hanover where the college exists or do you think of the movie Animal House or a pervasive drinking culture that has all of the students at the pong table every weekend?

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Coed Houses Exist and Work at Dartmouth

By Geoff Bronner | March 5, 1999

To the Editor: Yesterday's guest column from Jean Hudson argues that Middlebury College is not an example of a successful transition to a coed social system.

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Time for Some Progress...

By Sarah Blanton | March 5, 1999

To instigate discussion about the recent Trustee announcement is to invite the potential for a battle of views, beliefs and goals.

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Rising Reputation and Intellectual Mediocrity

By William C. Dowling | March 5, 1999

To the Editor: Having been at Dartmouth during the countercultural '60s, when fraternities were a negligible presence on campus, I've had no opinion about them one way or the other. In listening to the defenders of frats over the last few weeks, though, I've come to see that the controversy is masking a deeper issue. Dartmouth has always had -- we all know this is true: it's the wince in the night of every Dartmouth graduate -- a tradition of intellectual mediocrity.

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The World as it Ought to Be

By Brian Reilly | March 5, 1999

The world as it ought to be. Which is to say, upside down. "God I love to turn my little blue world upside down" (Tori Amos, "Upside down"). I'd like to tell you about a recent conversation between me and a woman of extraordinary, indeed I said "singular," beauty.

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Potentialities

By Janelle Ruley | March 4, 1999

Would that I were an anthropologist. Or a sociologist. Or even a psychologist. What better way to understand the place our beloved College on the Hill has become of late?

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The Things Dartmouth Does Not Yet Know

By Jean Hudson | March 3, 1999

In 1990, I matriculated at Middlebury College. It was the year when Middlebury's fraternities (there were no sororities, due to a lack of interest) allegedly met their demise. So ... how come I was still going to Middlebury fraternity parties when I was a senior, in 1994? Fraternities at Middlebury did not die, as the college had intended.

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Damn You, Random Number Generator!

By Andrew P. Woodberry | March 3, 1999

To the Editor: On Monday, after I went to my Hinman Box and opened my letter from the Office of Residential Life, I realized one undeniable truth: I am screwed.

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The Day the Greek System Died

By Douglas Fenton | March 2, 1999

Picture this: Four or five guys are living on the same floor in a dorm their freshman year. Some play the same sports, some are interested in the same activities: pretty much, they all get along really well and become close friends.

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The Utopia, Our Dartmouth

By Alfred Valrie Jr. | March 1, 1999

It was an overcast day in the fall of 1996 when Ms. Christine Pina, an associate in the College admissions office, visited my high school in Detroit.

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From a Creative Loner in Support of Fraternities

By Ben Morgan | March 1, 1999

To the Editor: I would like to echo Dan Lukas' well-argued sentiments that appeared in The Dartmouth on Feb.

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On the Origin of Fraternities and Natural Selection

By Scott P. Rupp | March 1, 1999

To the Editor: Dartmouth boasts the most loyal and collegial alumni in the country. Much of this loyalty, and in fact the very experiences that created it, are a function of students freely seeking social and extracurricular options while at Dartmouth.

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Before You Label Me ...

By Kelly Bodio | February 26, 1999

Why did you want to come to Dartmouth? Was it the beautiful campus and sense of community? Was it the prestige associated with an Ivy League school?

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Administrators Are Trying

By Anat Levtov | February 26, 1999

When I graduated last June, I wondered which editorial in the Dartmouth would be the first to cause me grief and anger as an alum.

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Hear us, your highness

By Josh Green | February 25, 1999

Last term, the Student Assembly asked that students be given the right to vote in elections for Trustees.

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Do You Know?

By Jenny Alden | February 25, 1999

I used to cry to my boyfriend that I didn't know any girls on campus. The only females I knew were my roommates, and although they were great people, they were very different than me and went their own ways.

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Give Us a Voice ... and a Say

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 25, 1999

President of the Student Assembly Josh Green is completely right in today's column criticizing the administration for its lack of interest in student opinion.