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The Dartmouth
August 30, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion



Opinion

DDS, Help Us Help You

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Students criticizing the changes Dartmouth Dining Services implemented for the Summer term must realize that cutbacks both in hours and services are a necessary and yearly response to decreased summer business. Also, during last term's referendum, students overwhelmingly indicated their preference for DDS cutbacks over increased mandatory spending.


Opinion

Is Anyone Watching?

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Actions speak louder than words. That is one philosophical idea that I have come to believe in. However, when one applies this criterion, one is usually disappointed.



Opinion

Cyberpet Torture

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In 1984, I had a Cabbage Patch doll named Frederika Joanie. I also owned nine My Little Ponies and the Dream Stable.


Opinion

Meeting Mr. Gephardt

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I was to meet U.S. House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt one Saturday last term in Durham, N.H., at a brief little Young Dems function ("join us for coffee and danish," the flyer said.


Opinion

The Best and the Brightest

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Maybe, after all, it's not so bad going to Dartmouth. For four years (or as many as eight years for some of us) we are pampered, patted on our respective backs, told zillions of time that we are "the best and brightest." Time passes, and many of us begin to believe the ego-stroking.





Opinion

A Wayward Glance

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Hale-Bopp comet is just an insignificant white speck in the sky, someone was quoted as saying in the Dartmouth.





Opinion

Executive Board of the Student Assembly Shows Alarming Lack of Diversity

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To the Editor: I am deeply disturbed by the make-up of the executives selected by president-elect of the Student Assembly Frode Eilertsen '99. The power of the President to essentially pick anyone on this campus to fill the roles of chairs of vital committees such as Administration and Faculty Relations, Academic Affairs and Student Life, is very exiting and yet dangerous. The Student Assembly's executive board ought to be as diverse as the SA itself and the student body.