Opinion - The Dartmouth

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What's the End Game?

By Conor Dugan | February 16, 1999

Opening up The D last week, I thought I was reading the joke issue. How could something so abrupt and surprising be anything but a sick joke?

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Civil Advocacy, Not Personal Attack

By The Committee on Civil Discourse | February 16, 1999

To the Editor: The Trustee decision to change the nature of Greek life on campus has touched the emotions of students and alumni alike.

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What Are Our Priorities, and Where is Our Perspective?

By Gary Weissman | February 16, 1999

To the Editor: I think it's great how passionate we are. It's wonderful that we can organize, coordinate and inspire each other to rally and protest.

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Coeducation Cannot Be Compared to Greek Change

By George F. Hannett | February 16, 1999

To the Editor: This letter is in response to the letter of Dana Brenner '95 which appeared in The D last Friday.

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To President Wright

By Marc Fenigsten | February 15, 1999

I have to respect you for the firmness of your convictions, and the zeal with which you seek to uphold them.

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A Decision Against Women

By Katie Milligan | February 15, 1999

I, like every other student and alumnus of Dartmouth, was not asked my opinion about the elimination of single-sex social organizations on campus.

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Habitat for Humanity Letter Reflected Individual Opinion

By Megan Hitchner | February 15, 1999

To the Editor: I just want to state that Christopher Taylor's response regarding Thursday's Op-Ed piece does not represent the position of Habitat for Humanity's -- nor my view as the other cochair.

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Congratulations and Good Luck in this Decision

By Christopher C. Schons | February 15, 1999

To the Editor: Current and future Dartmouth students are fortunate. They apparently now have tens of millions of dollars at their disposal to use in the construction of new social institutions.

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Modern Day Liberal Values Have Been Lost in Hanover

By Jesper Johansen | February 15, 1999

To the Editor: Most modern societies are judged by the level to which they allow their citizens to decide their own fate.

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Let me establish my credentials: I am a '68 and the father of an '02. I was a fraternity member and I drank (in fact, on one pledge night I even drank enough to get hospitalized at Dick's House). I have read everything on the administration, The Dartmouth, and Dartmouth Review websites.

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Students Have a Right to Decide

By Ray Carter | February 15, 1999

I write as a distant outsider, from the dank realms of Northwestern Iniquity, that ever-rainy haven of liberalism, Seattle.

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Loyalty is to Dartmouth Spirit, Which is Missing

By D. Kevin McGillicuddy | February 15, 1999

To the Editor: Yes, Mr. Bosworth, my loyalty to Dartmouth rises above my loyalty to its fraternities.

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I Agree With the Trustees

By Rachel Ciprotti | February 15, 1999

I agree with the Trustees. What they have actually stated in writing is not a threat, if that is what they really mean.

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An Illiberal Decision at Liberal Institution

By Joe Bondi Wabash | February 15, 1999

To the Editor: As a graduate of a liberal arts college with historical links to Dartmouth, I was shocked to hear of the proposed initiative at Dartmouth which would, in effect, do away with the entire traditional fraternity/sorority system.

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A Violate of Trust

By Seth Kelly | February 12, 1999

The necessity of the move to end the Greek system at Dartmouth 'as we know it' in order to establish a foreign system of social and residential life is sure to be debated in the weeks to come.

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College Improvement Goals Call for Drastic Measures

By Dana Brenner | February 12, 1999

To the Editor: With all the whining about the "surprise" nature of the Board of Trustees' vote to change Greek life at Dartmouth, it may be wise for current students to consider that in some situations, a dramatic approach is required.

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Administration Has Ignored Current Coed Houses

By Geoff Bronner | February 12, 1999

To the Editor: While reading all the coverage and commentary on President Wright's announcement of the new residential initiative, it would have been easy for someone unfamiliar with Dartmouth to assume that all Greek organizations at Dartmouth are single-sex. But the reality is that the "C" in CFS stands for coed, and there are organizations in the Greek system that have been coed since the 1970s. I am disappointed that the remarks from the President and the Trustees say nothing about the exisiting coed organizations on campus.

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What About the Women?

By Amy Mikolajczyk | February 12, 1999

When I walked back home from the library after studying last night, I found a living room full of women talking about Breast Cancer awareness; women who had come from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to talk to the college women assembled in the living room about how to perform a breast self exam and the importance of mammograms.

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Dartmouth Undying

By John Warren | February 12, 1999

By your very presence here, Dartmouth itself will be changed, as well. This is as it should be." President Wright said this in his inauguration speech. I have wanted to make an impact on Dartmouth.

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Bones Gate Activity with Habitat Exaggerated

By Christopher Taylor | February 12, 1999

To the Editor: In the opinion piece on page five of yesterday's copy of The Dartmouth, it was written, "Bones Gate is also heavily involved with Habitat for Humanity." As cochair of Dartmouth Habitat for Humanity, I would like to clarify Bones Gate's involvement with our project. I think it could be best said this way: for a fraternity, they are heavily involved.