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November 1, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Opinion


Opinion

The Dangers of Caffeine

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Obviously, people around here have not seen enough "Saved by the Bell." Lack of exposure to this quality television program has become apparent this week with an irreverent attitude towards a serious issue: the use of caffeine pills. When Jessie Spano, still just a student at Bayside High School, found herself too stressed out over studying for geometry, acting as president of the student council and singing in her music group, she turned to caffeine pills for help. Completely freaking out when Zack told her it was time to perform, Jessie cried on her friend's shoulder.



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Soda Wars

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I don't really like soda or pop or soda pop or fizz or whatever it's called. I prefer my carbonated beverages to have a little more hop in them (and barley, and yeast). But some people are passionate about their Pepsi and choleric about their Coke, and I respect that. A friend of mine from high school narrowed his college search down to two schools, Michigan and Emory.



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A Misguided Gift

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At its meeting on Tuesday night, the Student Assembly voted to return $5,000 of its $30,000 yearly allocation to the Undergraduate Finance Committee in a resolution urging the College to increase funding for student organizations. The Assembly's commendable but misguided move highlights several disturbing aspects of the current system for funding student groups. While the Assembly portrayed its gesture as a symbolic and altruistic donation, its ability to return one-sixth of its yearly budget is somewhat disquieting.



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Take Your Vitamins

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Last night on the phone, my mom asked me whether I was taking my vitamins and I hastily answered, "Yes, yes, of course," even though the vitamin bottles have not been opened since last March.


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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

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It is quite evident that Dartmouth has plenty of activities to offer its students. On a given night, a student can catch a movie at the Hop, listen to a speaker at Rocky or even go swing dancing at Collis.




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What Would Martha Stewart Do?

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"There's a leaf on the floor ... how did it get there? I wonder who left a leaf on my floor!" -- someone's crazed roommate You are a bright-eyed, intelligent young person with the world in your hands.


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How Horrible Am I?

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It is with great pride and pleasure and a crystal awareness of the irony involved that I accept the distinction of being the first student who suffers a personal attack from the Dartmouth Review for the 1998-99 academic year.


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Let Them Eat Cake

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You have to admire someone who can decry the oversimplification of his views on the one hand, and then write something like, "The conservative requires you to have faith in God, the liberal replaces "God" with "the state" or "society" [The Dartmouth, "A Few Good (Straw) Men: Part II," Oct.


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One Dartmouth

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Last winter when a Star of David with the message "Death to You" was scrawled on the door of one of the River apartments, the response was a forum in the Roth Center with a huge panel of students from all walks of Dartmouth life, followed by a break-out session in smaller groups, after which we returned to the larger group to present our ideas about ending hate at Dartmouth.



Opinion

Let's Start a Revolution

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Lately it seems we have a lot of freshmen punks around here bent on taking over the world. Well, at least that one kid with his rise of capitalism or whatever.


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Doogie at Dartmouth

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If, for some inexplicable reason, I was held at gunpoint and ordered to name the one person from late 1980s network television that I admired most, I would say Doogie Howser.


Opinion

Fulfilling Our Responsibility

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On Thursday, October 15, many members of the Dartmouth community participated in a vigil in memory of victims of hate crimes throughout the country, particularly Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, both of whom were killed because someone decided that their lives as a gay and black man, respectively, were not valuable.