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Quantity or Quality?

By Courtney Henning | May 6, 1998

Occasionally, I find myself sucked into a conversation that needs to be immortalized in a movie. A couple of Saturdays ago, I found myself drawn into one of these conversations, but since I'm not about to stay up nights slaving away on a screenplay, I'll just have to preserve the experience in a D column. My roommate Kelly and I were returning to our dorm, unaware of the crowd of guys gathered on the Morton couches.

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Random Kindness

By Nell Shanahan | May 6, 1998

A couple of years ago, my dad gave me a book about random acts of kindness. It contained numerous stories about people who, for no apparent reason, did good deeds for other human beings -- whether that involved helping a stranger in need or paying the toll cost for a couple of cars on the highway after they passed through the gate. When I received the gift from my Dad, although thankful for the gesture, I soon dismissed the book as just another one of those "feel-good" concepts that he had found to include in another one of his numerous speeches.

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It's Not Easy Being Kiewit

By Dave Gacioch | May 5, 1998

It's not easy being Kiewit ... at least not in the past two weeks. Think about it for a second. Not only do Director Larry Levine and his staff have students beating down their doors about the new policy in public printing (distribution on the half-hour) and the new strict enforcement of the ban against printing multiple copies, but they have, in the past week or so, had to weather the storms of leaving nearly one-fourth of the campus without BlitzMail for extended periods of time and almost losing the student records of the financial aid and admissions offices.

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Bacon is Good

By Mark Shahinian | May 4, 1998

So here's my dilemma: as a student at what will soon be one of the world's great research universities, which of man's two purposes do I try to fulfill?

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Dartmouth Students Should Be Grateful for Kiewit's Free Printing Service

By Ned Holbrook | May 4, 1998

To the Editor: Rarely am I so flabbergasted as I was when I read Amanda Molk's editorial on April 29 about Kiewit's printing policies ["Printing Policies are Inconvenient," The Dartmouth]. "Socio-economic class lines"? "Violate students' rights"? Get real. Free printing is a service that is virtually unique to Dartmouth and yet all I ever hear is complaining.

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A Fixture in Hanover

By Roy Lee | May 1, 1998

These days, whenever you read the front page of any newspaper, you read about some sex scandal, murder or bombing.

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Undiscovered Talent

By Meylysa Tseng | May 1, 1998

I've been trying to get a friend of mine to pick up her violin and play some duets with me. She's very reluctant and very concerned that her playing isn't good enough.

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Changing Influences in Education May Weaken Undergraduate Focus

By Lee Pelton | April 30, 1998

To the Editor: It is probably useful for me to amplify a recent article describing my remarks regarding changing influences in American higher education [The Dartmouth, "Pelton discusses professors' salaries," April 29]. The article's headline might lead the careless reader to conclude that I sought to criticize increases in faculty salaries.

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Too Close to Home

By Ainsley Ryan | April 30, 1998

We all read or watched the Jonesboro tragedy when several little girls and a teacher were gunned down by two young boys acting as snipers in the woods.

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Hosokawa's Column Misrepresented the Role of the Sciences in Education

By Michael Ross | April 30, 1998

To the Editor: As a Computer Science major, I feel the need to take the time to respond to a few points raised in Kenji Hosokawa's most recent column ["The Harvardization of Dartmouth," April 28]. Although I am a student of one of Hosokawa's "master sciences," I completely disagree with his characterization of their role in the educational process.

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The Harvardization of Dartmouth

By Kenji Hosokawa | April 28, 1998

A recent speech by President-elect James Wright, in which he stressed the importance of research at Dartmouth, has become a cause of anxiety for many students indoctrinated in the belief that the College should not waver from its commitment to undergraduate teaching. However, in the end of history when the universal triumph of liberal democracy has finished man's ideological battle, research -- especially in computer science and the natural sciences, along with mathematics as their foundation -- is the raison d'etre of an elite educational institution like Dartmouth.

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Tasty Treats

By Matt Delaney | April 24, 1998

Spring is on its way. Love is in the air; people are dating. Men usually date women younger than them.

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