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Near, Far, Wherever You Are

By Carolyn Wachsman | April 21, 1998

C Says: So, P, I saw "Titanic" for the ninth time last night. It was so good, definitely better than the first eight times I saw it. P Says: Whatever, C, let me tell you from experience that you can only truly appreciate the film after the tenth time.

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Student Assembly Sends Represenative to the College Committee on Cable

By Matthew D. Benedetto | April 20, 1998

To the Editor: As the Student Assembly representative to the College Committee on Cable, I am writing in response to The Dartmouth's consistent misrepresentation of the relationship of the Assembly to the cable issue.

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Big Green Spring

By Roy Lee | April 17, 1998

Whenever the sun is up, the sky is clear, and the weather is warm enough, we, the Dartmouth students, congregate on the Green.

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A Different Perspective

By Matt Mcdonald | April 17, 1998

I briefly attended the talk that Senator Wellstone gave in Silsby last week. While I was there he was speaking about the problems that many Americans face today.

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Rethinking Proposition 209

By Chris Warren | April 17, 1998

In the fiery debate that took place over Proposition 209 in the months leading up to November 5, 1996, the sides were clearly drawn: the pro-affirmative action camp vociferously opposed the conservative-championed measure, while the bill's proponents shouted its praises equally loudly. A year and a half after the measure's passage, some of Prop 209's strongest supporters are wondering if eliminating racial preferences was the right thing to do.

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United Way Thanks Dartmouth Students for Fund-raising Support

By Sue Shaw | April 17, 1998

To the Editor: Dartmouth students have exploded over the top of the green thermometer in front of Collis by achieving 126 percent of their fund-raising goal for United Way of the Upper Valley!

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Primary Values

By Jaime Bedrin | April 17, 1998

Kudos to James Wright for recognizing Dartmouth's value as a research institution. What a way to credit the students and faculty here at Dartmouth who are currently spending their time in excellent research: medicine, science, drama, history, gay and lesbian studies, history, psychology etc.

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A Moderate Mandate

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 17, 1998

The discouragingly low voter turnout in this year's Student Assembly elections reveals the degree to which the Assembly has failed in its purpose of representing Dartmouth students. Only 1,259 students, the lowest turnout since 1989, took the time to vote -- a number too low to be attributed to sheer laziness. When the majority of students on campus demonstrate such unmistakable apathy toward the Assembly's actions and its elections, it is obvious that the Assembly is not doing enough to attract the attention of the students it claims to represent. This voter indifference is a reflection of both the Assembly's failure to produce substantial results in the past year and the Election Advisory Committee's ill-conceived decision to speed up the election process. This year's shortened campaign period led to an election almost without voters.

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Men Should Show Support for Events During Sexual Assault Awareness Week

By Marisa Howe | April 16, 1998

To the Editor: To kick off this year's Sexual Assault Awareness Week (SAAW), Larry Nadeau, National Director of the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) self defense program for women, called for the "good men" of Dartmouth to challenge violence against women on our campus.

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SPARC's Purpose

By Kyle Teamey | April 16, 1998

This spring, a new energy conservation program called SPARC (Save Power and Reduce Costs) was implemented at Dartmouth.

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Admissions Tour Guides Welcome Prospectives to Dartmouth Every Day

By Simone Swink | April 16, 1998

To the Editor: I am writing in response to Monday's article "Admissions tours are prospectives' window on College" [The Dartmouth, April 13]. The basis for the article seemed slight -- the reporter observed a couple of tours on Thursday and Saturday and skimmed through the manual before writing the piece on admissions tours.

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Vote for Service

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 15, 1998

Although Student Assembly elections begin today, students' apparent ignorance of and apathy toward the election process demonstrate the hazards of an inadequate campaign period. At the end of a campaign week characterized by a lack of debate and a small number of poorly publicized candidates, voter turnout will fall short of previous years.

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A Rite of Passage

By Jaime Bedrin | April 15, 1998

When my father turned 13, he celebrated his Bar-Mitzvah. It was just days after the assassination of President Kennedy.

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Think Before You Vote

By Amanda Molk | April 14, 1998

It's been pretty tough to walk anywhere on this campus recently and not notice the campaign posters plastered on walls in just about every building.

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Medical school prof. to board NASA shuttle

By Scott Brown | April 14, 1998

Buckey will perform experiements in space

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If You Choose to Walk

By Susan Marine | April 13, 1998

Please Don't Walk Alone

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My Message to Liberals

By Kenji Hosokawa | April 13, 1998

I do not doubt that Dean of the Tucker Foundation Scott Brown is a compassionate man with noble intentions.

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Publishing the Student Arrest Story Did Not Serve The Dartmouth's Purpose

By Eric Andersen | April 13, 1998

To the Editor: The decision of The Dartmouth to publish the photo and name of James McMahon '01 was both unjustified and harmful ["Freshman Faces Child Pornography Charge," April 6]. Presuming that the purpose of The Dartmouth is to serve and inform the students of Dartmouth College, the publishing of this article and photo was out of line.

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Bit O'Honey

By Matthew B. J. Delaney | April 10, 1998

I just read about another hick getting abducted by aliens from his trailer in backwoods Kentucky.

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Shortening the Election Campaign Period Was a Necessary Move by the EAC

By Scott E. Jacobs | April 10, 1998

To the Editor: I would like to address the House Editorial printed on April 9 criticizing the Election Advisory Committee for shortening the Student Assembly campaign period [The Dartmouth, "Election Without Debate?" April 9]. First, let me say that the EAC is not responsible for the lack of candidates in an election.