Debt Again
My last Visa bill included various charges for books, both from Wheelock Books and the Dartmouth Bookstore.
My last Visa bill included various charges for books, both from Wheelock Books and the Dartmouth Bookstore.
Drowning in Religion," by Brian Reilly '99, [The Dartmouth, Nov. 7] is a disturbingly pessimistic column that encourages the "erasure of all questions and articulations of faith." Reilly argues that contemplating the question "What is God?" is irrelevant and sacrilegious since human minds are incapable of completely understanding the complex and holy nature of God.
Etuqyette. Dartmouth seems to have its own set of behaviors that are deemed socially acceptable. By the time you graduate, you cannot help but to have mastered some of the finer details of these Dartmouth social formalities ... Situation #1: Walking across the Green, you see someone you vaguely know walking towards you and you feel obliged to acknowledge his presence.
The influence that the vagaries of language have over our mental processes is immense, and potentially very dangerous.
I'm writing in response to the many harsh things I have heard said against political correctness, a phrase I believe has been abused for too long on college campuses.
As we have reached yet another Friday, I find myself reexamining the merits of the weekend. Don't get me wrong, I look forward to a couple days off as much as anyone else, but it just seems that the weekend isn't all that it is made up to be.
To the Editor: I've been meaning to write about the ridiculous prices at Dartmouth Dining Services for the past three years now; I guess I just never really knew where to start. Well, the other day I cooked dinner with a group of friends, and I did a little calculation which I thought might be interesting to share.
The scene: any class at Dartmouth. The victim: any random student. The crime: a critical lack of sleep.
At this year's Homecoming football game three freshman were arrested for the "crime" of rushing the field.
Every spring when the birds and the bees make their glorious return to the Hanover plain, the letters of protest concerning tenure decisions make their annual return to the pages of The D.
These traces I must follow indirectly: "Here or there we have discerned writing: a nonsymmetrical division designated on the one hand the closure of the book, and on the other the opening of a text.
To the Editor: In your Nov. 4 article regarding a Presidential election poll taken over the weekend, you stated that "64 percent of [Dartmouth] students support President Clinton." I dispute this statement on a statistical basis. First of all, the poll was conducted over electronic mail and required an active response.
We're only here at Dartmouth for four years ... well, most of us. And it's often easy to take this time for granted.
Continuing with my recent string of discussing grades and grading methods, I want to focus on how the College is graded and how much attention it pays to those grades.
A bridge to the 21st century. Since this year's Democratic National Convention, I've been trying to figure out what this phrase means. I understand President Clinton's strategy.
At least from an off-campus perspective, Dartmouth's mascot seems to be the pressing issue of the term.
To the Editor: As a Delta Gamma alumna ('94, Bucknell University) and adviser for the Delta Gamma chapter at Dartmouth, I feel a strong need to respond to the Nov.
I was pleased with the argument that Brian Dalton '97 was advancing in his column "Behold the Man, and Bewar(y)" [Oct.
To the Editor: I would like to offer a different analysis of the rush statistics than the one offered in "Sororities witness five-year low in fall pledge numbers," (Nov.
Did you hear? The Big Green beat Harvard 6-3 this weekend! Thank merciful Heaven for that! You know, maybe it's the aphasia, but I simply don't remember this so-called "Harvard Weekend" from any other year.