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The Dartmouth
December 19, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

New Member Education is no Laughing Matter

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To the Editor: On Monday Posy Evans '99 was quoted as saying she had heard fraternities' New Member Education series was "a joke" ["SAGE focuses on gender interaction," The Dartmouth, July 17, 1997]. She never justified this remark.


Opinion

Invasion of the 'Rents

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On the heel of midterms, just as half the campus is ready to jump off the bridge and the other half is ready to drink itself into oblivion, the College has played a nasty scheduling trick.





Opinion

Initially Speaking

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E says: Cranking out article after article to meet deadlines can be pretty tough, especially on those days when good ideas are as hard to squeeze out as that last bit of toothpaste at the bottom of the tube.



Opinion

Tobacco Wars: Who'll Get Smoked?

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These days in the U.S., it seems like the government has declared open war on tobacco companies. Recent national laws have forbidden tobacco billboards within 1,000 feet of schools, free gifts with tobacco purchases, and at the center of it all ... lawmakers have raised prospects of increased cigarette taxes, and a new tobacco settlement may soon be reached.


Opinion

A Call to the Pen

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This term, in addition to fumbling through columns for this newspaper, I've been working on writing short stories for English 82, the fiction course.




Opinion

On Elitism at Dartmouth

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Close your eyes and pretend that you are someone who is unaffiliated with Dartmouth. And then imagine what would be the first images to come to your mind when the name Dartmouth College was mentioned.




Opinion

Summer Lovin'

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C Says: P, have you noticed that everyone seems to be obsessed with relationships this summer? P Says: Yeah, I don't think The Dartmouth has had an issue yet without some article about love, or lack of it.



Opinion

Rollerblading Professional

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Let's face it -- there's nothing quite like rollerblading. Although many people are frightened by crazy rollerbladers, I think that we should take kindly to this popular sport and its participants.


Opinion

Don't Call Me an Epsilon

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Just a few nights before I returned to sunny Hanover to spend my entire summer entrenched in the quagmire of academia, I was fortunate enough to be privy to something that I found both odd and quite normal at the same time.


Opinion

No Fear

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New and popular recreational sports, such as rollerblading, inevitably bring with them a number of beginners.


Opinion

The Real Asgard

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During Green Key weekend last term, I and some fellow Asgardians had been drumming up publicity for our Green Key Dance (especially me, for I am the Publicity Exec.) when we encountered an unkind response to one of the event blitzes.