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The Dartmouth
August 31, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion









Opinion

The Leadership Problem

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A couple of weeks ago, the Student Assembly requested a fundamental, democratic right: that students of Dartmouth, particularly seniors, be granted the right to vote for the election of new Trustees to the Board of Dartmouth College.



Opinion

Garmire: Release the Numbers

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The decision by Thayer School of Engineering Dean Elsa Garmire to withhold information from U.S. News and World Report magazine for its graduate school rankings was wrong. Garmire intended to protest the way the magazine ranks engineering schools by withholding Thayer's information.


Opinion

Quitting Smoking

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Like many citizens of the world who, for some odd reason, wish to avoid dying of lung cancer, I have recently quit smoking.


Opinion

Plane Stat

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I read a statistic that left me in a serious state of disturbed contemplation. Enough rumination to spur the writing about something and nothing -- factual entertainment.


Opinion

Hats Off to 'Drunks' Producer

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To the Editor: Over last weekend, John Hart '75 was here showing his film "Drunks," which he produced because it captured "the New England town meeting," a place where anyone could speak and expect the group to listen to their every word, scrutinizing and mulling over what was said. Perhaps, as he suggested, "this [place] never truly existed" in old New England, but Hart's greatest accomplishment is that he managed to foster this community while he was here.


Opinion

Taiwan: The 2-28 Incident

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In honor of one of my ancestral homelands, I'd like to bring your attention to Taiwan. Though a small, little island off the coast of Asia, it is the 14th largest economic power in the world.




Opinion

Mann, the Magician

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It has recently been my opportunity to have undergone a truly sublime experience, an experience so fateful in its implications and so richly productive that I feel myself duty bound to communicate, or at least try to communicate, something of the flavor of this experience to my fellow students; I encountered the genius of Thomas Mann's fiction. I imagine that there are a good many individuals out there, not all of whom are irredeemable bottom-feeders, who might be a bit nonplused as to why they should find my enthusiasm for Thomas Mann's writing of any relevance to themselves.