Opinion

Turning the Lens on the Aggressor

By Debbie Carbonaro | April 24, 1996

Could buy some fruit for today's meeting? No problem. I worked in one of the most chic areas of the city.

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Opinion

Congress Increases Dependency on Oil

By Laura Zachman | April 24, 1996

Gregory Richards, in "It's Time to Kick the Oil Habit," [The Dartmouth, April 22] rightly points out that our dependency on oil imports from the Middle East increases our trade deficit, damages the environment, and also pushes our finite oil reserves to exhaustion.

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Opinion

Moose is not a Suitable Mascot

By Jeff Loeb | April 24, 1996

To the Editor: It has been my impression that many people who are supporting the moose as the new Dartmouth mascot are doing so because they think that the moose would be a "cute" mascot.

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Opinion

It's Time to Kick the Oil Habit

By Gregory Richards | April 23, 1996

In early February the Sea Empress, an oil tanker, ran aground off the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales.

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Opinion

College Misses Forest for Trees in Tenure Decision

By Neal Bailey Rich | April 23, 1996

To the Editor: It seems vaguely ironic that here, amongst the evergreens of College Park and the firs of New Hampshire, the administration cannot see the forest for the trees.

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Opinion

The Nuances of Dating

By Polina Globerman | April 22, 1996

So what's up with dating at Dartmouth? I happen to be friends with two individuals who tried this rare and endangered form of courtship at this college.

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Opinion

A Call to Arms Against DarTalk

By Aaron Klein | April 22, 1996

I wonder if people really think about decisions or just arbitrarily dictate. DarTalk. Enough said.

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Opinion

Dartmouth Will Lose One of Its Finest

By Adam J. Siegel | April 22, 1996

Dartmouth College -- an institution which prides itself on high academic standards, exceptional students and distinguished faculty members, an institution which was recently awarded the number one rating in U.S.

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Opinion

Decline, Part I: The Role of Smoking

By Sam Bonderoff | April 22, 1996

It doesn't take a genius to look around this country and see that something has gone horribly awry.

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Opinion

The Fire in the Mind

By Abiola Lapite | April 19, 1996

I would like to start by describing what I like to call the Intellectual's Youthful Dream. What is this dream?

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Opinion

Don't Chug

By Robert Lendvai | April 19, 1996

One thing I know is that there is plenty of at Dartmouth is beer. None of the Student Assembly president or vice presidential candidates I've come across call for more beer at fraternities or for alcoholic beverages to be served at Full Fare.

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Opinion

Self-Segregation From a Minority's Perspective

By Frank Aum | April 19, 1996

In light of the racial incidents last winter as well as the issue of segregated housing in the past couple issues of the Dartmouth, I'd like to offer some thoughts about race relations from a minority's point of view.

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Opinion

How Private Is BlitzMail?

By Jennifer L. Parkinson | April 19, 1996

Dartmouth College is run by computers. No matter how many times I was told this as a prospective just about a year ago, I never fathomed the role technology plays on this campus until I became a part of it.

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Opinion

Johnson Off-track With Facts About Fraternities

By William Keating | April 18, 1996

To the Editor: Eric Newton '97 wrote a sorely needed and well-written response to Miranda Johnson '97's editorial about affinity housing at Dartmouth ["Dispelling Notions of Segregation ", April 16, 1996]. However, I would like to correct an error in Newton's letter.

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Opinion

China's Inexorable Transformation to a Democracy

By Kenji Hosokawa | April 18, 1996

Since the Clinton administration--arguing that trade most effectively transfers democratic principles abroad--delinked human-rights issues from those of trade, human-rights groups in the United States have denounced the government after every incident of the Chinese authority's abuse of its citizens.

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Opinion

Focus Should Shift From Categorizing By Race

By Jean Saunders | April 18, 1996

To the Editor: This is in reference to Debbie Carbornaro '97's op-ed ["The Shades of Multicultural Crayons," April 17, 1996].. In the same breath, Carbornaro both calls for "[the day when] multiculturalism is no longer a separate category to be found in a campus committee" and bemoans the dismantling of affirmative action, citing the University of California's recent decision.

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Opinion

Listen To The Voice Of Reason

By Fouad El Naggar | April 18, 1996

I pretty much though that I had cornered the market on idiotic columns in The Dartmouth. Today, however, the editorial staff has proven me wrong.

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Opinion

A Class With Attitude

By John Strayer | April 18, 1996

Dartmouth has a lot of ways of keeping one honest. That is, there are several structures that force us to examine our assumptions.

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Opinion

The Shades of Multicultural Crayons

By Debbie Carbonaro | April 17, 1996

Tired of insensitive and uninformed editorials about self-segregation? Instead, let's discuss something we can all understand.

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Opinion

Radio Days

By Cara Abercrombie | April 17, 1996

Imagine working 20-50 hours per week without pay in addition to taking a normal Dartmouth course load while trying to maintain some semblance of a normal student life.

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