Shooting For Perspective
I stared wistfully at the yellowish-brown mush. With a heavy heart, I picked up the wooden spoon and attempted to prod it back to life.
I stared wistfully at the yellowish-brown mush. With a heavy heart, I picked up the wooden spoon and attempted to prod it back to life.
Well, here it is -- August, the third part of the term. We have been taking classes for nearly two months, and have only 17 days until final exams begin (17 DAYS!!!). Of course, I'm sure that all of you out there have been keeping up with work, so there is no need to panic.
With all of the recent talk about love or the lack thereof at Dartmouth, I would like to focus on a different type of love or passion that exists on this campus.
To the Editor: In a Monday, July 21, article in The Dartmouth ["SAGE Focuses on Gender Interactions"], SAGE co-Chairs Greg Neichin and Posy Evans announced their plans to organize a kickball tournament to encourage healthy gender relations and expand Greek interaction to venues beyond the basements and pong tables.
Theme music.Voice-overdisclaimer: Names have been changed to protect the innocent. The situations and people portrayed in them are real.
To the Editor: I would hope that Brian Reilly recognizes that a reasonable and open discussion of the morality of abortion deserves more than the loosely reasoned "spiel" he presented in his column this past Wednesday ["A Brave New World: No Fetus Can Beat Us," July 23, 1997]. As someone who disagrees with his conclusions and holds to different opinions, I would at least like to respect his arguments, but I cannot.
"Hey, did you bring your disc?" Sean asks. Of course I did. He knows this, and that is why he inquires.
If I take four classes every term for the rest of my time here, I should be able to fulfill the distributive requirements in only five years.
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.
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.
To the Editor: Your article in The Dartmouth [Camper drowns in tragic accident; July 9, 1997] contained inaccurate information in the first two and the last paragraphs of your article.
Here'sthe scene: A man of typical college years impregnates a woman the same age. He wants her to have an abortion, his being of sound mind.
To the Editor: As a bewildered parent of a non-communicative member of the great Class of 2000, I wish to thank The Dartmouth staff for enlightening me on many issues during the past year.
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.
The College should proceed with providing cable televi-sion installation to all residence hall rooms.
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.
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.
To the Editor: Last Wednesday, thirty Dartmouth students attended a unique event sponsored by the Tucker Foundation.
To the Editor: I should no longer be shocked by The Dartmouth's lack of editorial standards, but as I progressed through Aaron Klein '98's atrocious column, "No More Lies About Dating at Dartmouth" [July 11, 1997] (which I read via the World Wide Web), my jaw slowly dropped.