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August 31, 2026
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Main Point of Sears Talk Was to Share Experience in Bosnia and Women's Efforts for Peace

By Priscilla Sears | November 12, 1997

To the Editor: Your article about talk at the Women's Resource Center about my experience at The International Women's Peace Initiative in Bosnia and my meditation on the role of women in peacekeeping and peacemaking contains several errors, reducing my remarks to simplistic distortions. I did not characterize the war in Bosnia as a civil war, nor did I say that the genocide in Bosnia was prompted only by a desire for a "pure" Serbian race.

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Prejudice Against Whites Comes from Prejudice Originated By Other Whites

By Unai Montes-Irueste | November 10, 1997

I am a very prejudiced person. Far be it from me to pretend as if I do not emit racism, sexism, homophobia, ethnocentrism and classism into the Dartmouth environment on a regular basis; and while I blame a society that does not care for its children for most of my acculturated bigotry, I do not absolve myself of the responsibility of perpetuating jingoist attitudes, nor do I deny my greater obligation to attempt to prevent the transmission of my narrow-mindedness to my children. Recently a friend of mine called me a "hypocrite" because she perceived that I had a very harsh attitude towards whites which was incongruous with the highly-tolerant/anti-discriminatory image that I projected as a "campus-activist." To say the least I was very shocked and quite hurt to be accused of the greatest sin in the hierarchy of Dante's inferno (the two obvious hypocrites from the tradition of the Western canon--Judas the two-faced betrayer of Christ and Brutus his counterpart in Caesar's kingdom--are forever being consumed in Dis' mouth in the ninth circle of hell). My immediate reaction was of course to deny the charge as well as to try and contextualize any and all statements I may have made in my Dartmouth career alluding to individuals or groupings of them in which I used the word "white" as a qualifier or an indicative of a behavior, pre-disposition, temperament, et cetera.

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Jack-O's Letter Was Malicious to The Dartmouth Review

By Benjamin Patch | November 7, 1997

To the Editor: In their Nov. 5 letter to The Dartmouth, the editors of our campus "humor" magazine revealed the same penchant for malicious defamation that has lately delivered their publication into common disrepute. Panicked by the implications of their own actions, these editors have since attempted to pass the charges of racism from themselves and onto us.

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Jack O'Lantern: Neither Paranoia Nor Censorship Can Foster Learning

By Unai Montes-Irueste | November 6, 1997

Censhorship has never resolved any problem of human miscommunication or misunderstanding. Language and ideas only truly belong to those who put them upon printed pages, or utter them into the audible air, when both the transmission of the message and the manner in which it is received can be controlled; otherwise, words and concepts are subject to multiple meanings, implications, interpretations and project disparate moral and ethical intentions.

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U2 Slammed Unfairly

By Ryan Molde | November 6, 1997

With the incredible "Grand Conjunction" of Halloween, Homecoming, Harvard game and a U2 concert in Montreal, it seemed I had to go, if possible, to complete an epic weekend, despite the gloomy concert forecast. "According to the thesis that the PopMart tour is built on, rock concerts are just another multimedia spectacle competing with films and theme parks for our entertainment dollars, but from the way Monday night's audience clung to and cheered old favorites, that thesis may require some fine tuning," says Tom Maurstad of the Dallas Morning News. When I searched the internet for PopMart, instead of PopMart, this is the first quote I encountered.

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A Dartmouth Nightmare

By Marcia Yablon | November 6, 1997

Last year was my first experience with Homecoming. I vividly remember the excitement of the freshman sweep and the anticipation of the bonfire.

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