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I've Got Issues With Commitment

By Janelle A. Ruley | February 19, 1998

I've got issues with commitment. As do, I think, many other Dartmouth students. I'm not talking about relationship-type commitment.

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Religion Has Been Used To Justify Both Good Deeds and Heinous Crimes

By Dan Mielcarz | February 19, 1998

To the Editor: Aaron Russo's editorial, "A Search for True Religion," [The Dartmouth, Feb.

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Less Talk, More Action

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 18, 1998

Student Assembly Vice President Nahoko Kawakyu's resignation last night has brought the Assembly into the campus spotlight for the first time this year.

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Column Contained Several Misconception s Concerning International Affairs

By Nathaniel C. Fick | February 18, 1998

To the Editor: I would like to clear up a few of Kenji Hosokawa's errors and misconceptions ("Clinton's Foreign Policy Blunders," The Dartmouth, Feb.

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Two years ago on a boat bound for Dublin, my friend and I were debating John Lennon. I thought the song "Imagine" was idealism of the worst kind: founded on humanistic fallacies that attribute more innate goodness to people than they actually possess.

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'Why I Love Guns' Failed to Explain Hill's Reason for Killing Animals

By Sydney Stowe | February 18, 1998

To the Editor: After reading Mark Hill's valentine to firearms ("Why I Love Guns," The Dartmouth, Feb.

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A Message to Conservatives

By Seth Abramson | February 18, 1998

Over the years, Dartmouth has developed a reputation for patently self-serving conservatism. Here we cherish our time-worn institutions, even though the behavior they often engender runs contrary to the basic tenants of social conservatism.

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A Time for Procrastination

By Margie DeWard | February 17, 1998

I'm warning you: this is kind of random. I usually like to write columns that have either a point, a purpose or some semblance of organization, but it is sort of hard to achieve these things during Carnival weekend.

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Alumni Fund Supports Students

By Christopher Boffoli | February 17, 1998

An editorial recently appeared in The Dartmouth regarding the subject of giving to Dartmouth ["My 98 Cents Worth," Jan.

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Clinton's Foreign Policy Blunders

By Kenji Hosokawa | February 16, 1998

As the possibility of U.S. air strikes against Iraq looms, it is becoming clear that Bill Clinton's foreign policy -- often derided as "photo-op" foreign policy -- is falling apart.

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Rock Me Amadeus

By Julie Sloane | February 16, 1998

Ooh, rock me Amadeus." Every time the wispy female voice croons those four words to the tinny synthesizer backbeat, I scramble like Pavlov's dog.

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Stop Sending Food

By Kyle Teamey | February 12, 1998

Last winter I was in Kenya on the Environmental Studies FSP. The focus of the term was supposed to be community-based conservation projects.

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Birthday Reflections

By Roy Lee | February 12, 1998

I am now 20 years old, and it scares the crap out of me. I've been kind of dreading this moment for awhile. The meaning of a birthday has changed for me over the years.

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On the Importance of Money

By Abiola Lapite | February 11, 1998

I never cease to be amazed by the naivete that so many students on this campus display when it comes to the topic of money.

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Why I Love Guns

By Mark Hill | February 11, 1998

I love guns. I love the way they look, the way they feel, the way they blow up things. I especially love the way the blow up things.

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Laundry Trauma

By Marella Kim | February 10, 1998

Can I offer you some stress? Try doing laundry when everyone and their fifth cousin are finding their way into the various basements of their respective dorms.

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The All-Important ID

By Jaime Bedrin | February 10, 1998

Imagine yourself late at night craving a spoonful or two of the fabulous fat-free Carvel ice cream from Food Court.

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Well, I Was Drunk

By Melysa Tseng | February 10, 1998

I was sitting at home one Saturday night reading my e-mail when lo and behold, I heard a very loud crash.

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Safety and Security: Stop the Madness

By Kevan Higgins | February 10, 1998

With this past week's report of a student being assaulted by Safety and Security and the Hanover Police, the student body has been handed yet another message about how irresponsible and dangerous some people at this college are.

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Let Me Make This Clear

By Dave Gacioch | February 9, 1998

Lest some on campus continue to vilify me as a crusader for temperance and an enemy of the Greek system, I want to clarify the remarks I made two weeks ago about alcohol and its role on campus.