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October 19, 2026
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Gimme Some Shelter

By Kevin Findlan | May 21, 1997

I've heard the low, echoed, fatuous moans of freshmen blending with the collective tearing of envelopes, punctuated by heavy sighs as their hazed eyes swerve to the words "Hinman" or "McLane" stamped seemingly in blood upon their fall housing assignments.

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No Balm in Gilead

By Matt Lubin | May 21, 1997

Questions of race lie at or near the surface of many of the United States' debates on public policy, and the rancorous divisions they produce have no easily foreseeable end.

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Why Ask Why?

By Amiri Barksdale | May 20, 1997

Since Julian Jaynes' origin of conscious ness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind, the first questions entertained by men -- even before the cave-dwellers of Western Asia, North America, and the European peninsula painted graffiti on their walls--were questions of an unanswerable nature, all beginning with the parentally-dreaded, aspiratory phoneme "Why?" Several millennia later, verb forms introduced the existential "Why is?" You can be sure that there was a class of linguistic innovators, probably burned at the stake, for slotting noun phrases in at the end of this predicate. But it is only in the struggle for knowledge that history progresses.

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Dartmouth (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg)

By Sam Bonderoff | May 20, 1997

Dartmouth I've given you all and now I'm nothing. Dartmouth one hundred twenty thousand dollars June 8, 1997. I can't stand my own dorm. Dartmouth when will we end the DDS war? Go f*ck yourself with your DA$H account. I don't feel good don't bother me. I won't write my thesis till I'm in my right mind. Dartmouth when will you be affordable? When will you get rid of your fines? When will you look at yourself through your students' eyes? When will you be worthy of your 50 Classics majors? Dartmouth why are your libraries full of stress? Dartmouth when will you send your recruiters to Hell? I'm sick of your expensive demands. When can I go into Topside and buy what I need with my good looks? Dartmouth after all it is you and I who are perfect not grad school. Your BlitzMail is too much for me. You made me want to be motivated. There must be some other way to settle this overdue book notice. Pelton is in Norwich I don't think he'll come back it's sinister. Are you being sinister or is this another fine? I'm trying to come to the point. I refuse to give up my halogen lamp. Dartmouth stop fining I know what I'm doing. Dartmouth the weather should be warm every day. I haven't read the campus publications for months, everyday someone goes on trial for plagiarism. Dartmouth I feel sentimental about Beta. Dartmouth I joined a Greek house when I was a sophomore I'm not sorry. I smoke marijuana every chance I get. I sit in my dorm for days on end and stare at the Snood screen. When I go to Amarna I get drunk and never get laid. My mind is made up there's going to be trouble. You should have seen me reading Leslie Silko. My Dick's House counselor thinks I'm perfectly right. I have purple sunglasses and hair on my back. Dartmouth I still haven't told you what you did to M.D.

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Forget the Immigrants, Save the Owls

By Adam J. Siegel | May 19, 1997

What do you get when you cross Pat Buchanan with a radical left-wing environmentalist? No, not a long-haired, Birkenstock-wearing hippie who fires semi-automatic weapons at women and children who attempt to cross over the Mexican-American border, but a petite, soft-spoken woman named Virginia Abernethy, Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At first sight it is hard to imagine that this Harvard-educated anthropologist with an M.B.A.

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Coverage of Assembly Meeting Focused on Minor Controversy, Not Real Issues

By Jon Heavey | May 12, 1997

To the Editor: While I realize you're under considerable time constraints, it is entertaining to see that your fine 35-cent production is the only publication in the world which would label debate about a resolution which passed UNANIMOUSLY as "marr[ed by] ... personal barbs and infighting." Yes, there was another impromptu resolution which caused more heated debate; but by eagerly drooling and searching for any form of "controversy" you can find, you do little more than highlight why you and I, as students, are rarely trusted to handle major decisions affecting the institution. I'm embarrassed to be responding at all.

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