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Ecce Homo

By Abiola Lapite | October 28, 1996

It has recently come to my attention that some students at Dartmouth feel that my columns have not been of benefit to the public.

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Magna Come On!

By Marc Yasuda | October 25, 1996

I suppose it is possible one could go through Dartmouth College and spend four years camped out in the stacks only in pursuit of recognition and a cum laude sticker on their diploma.

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Off the Warpath

By Ellen Wight | October 25, 1996

Every ten years or so, Dartmouth students, running out of more important things to worry about, set out to find a new school mascot.

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The Call

By Matt Mcdonald | October 25, 1996

Since I arrived at Dartmouth, I have been asked the question, "What is your major?" more times than I care to remember.

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Comment Cards: What's the Point?

By Julie Sloane | October 25, 1996

While you were munching on your Harold Burgers in Food Court this fall, I'd wager you were unaware that quietly but staunchly, a war was raging under your nose, a food fight of the cleanest kind.

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Trips to the Ladies' Room

By Laura Mannix | October 24, 1996

"Planning your escape?" asked Mikey. We were in a dark club in Cambridge, and I had been standing in one place, eyes fixed on the door, for 15 minutes. "Huh?

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Monday Night Football: Americans Lose

By Robert Lendvai | October 24, 1996

Campaign '96. Presidential elections, fanfare, the year of the American electorate. Once again, Joe Bloe will pick a candidate and then smartly tell his friends that he picked the "lesser of two evils." Dissatisfied with politics, he'll wonder out loud why the choice always seems to between bad and worse.

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Columnist Fails to Qualify For His Own Elitism

By Brian J. Reilly | October 24, 1996

To the Editor: I am writing at the request of many others, but mainly for simple decency. I refuse to accept that The Dartmouth seriously believes the columns by Abiola Lapite '98 to be "fit to print." Understanding, of course, that you need to fill space, I should like to address this letter instead to that author-function.

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Finally, Polls That Really Mean Something

By Jennifer Parkinson | October 24, 1996

President Clinton currently leads Senator Dole by 19 points, according to the New York Times on the World Wide Web (the only way for a busy coed to get news). That alone is enough to cause a diehard bleeding liberal Democrat like me to walk around flashing a big silly grin, even in the face of such recent and festering local adversities as midterms, endless rain, the demise of Collis-as-we-knew-it, etc. But wait, it gets better.

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Current Rush Process is Best Option

By Joanna Whitley | October 24, 1996

As an individual, I cannot defend the rush process. As a sorority president, I know that we must have some form of rush because we have no other way to introduce underclass women to the sorority system.

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'98s Just as Smart

By Aaron Klein | October 23, 1996

Does anyone realize what is going to happen to the Class of 1998 come senior year? Basically, we are going to get screwed as a class in terms of GPA awards like cum laude, magna cum laude, suma cum laude and phi beta kappa. Why?

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Turkey Melt, On A Bagel

By Dan Donahue | October 23, 1996

I spent a fair amount of time at the end of the summer puttering around New England in my Nisaan and visiting old high school buddies at their colleges.

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The Sorority and Fraternity Disparity

By Carolyn Wachsman | October 23, 1996

Sam Bonderoff '97 wrote a column yesterday in which he stated "But Dartmouth, thy sororities are also near to my heart -- Kappa much missed how you call to me, call to me -- and most of all I love thy rush process that sets back feminism 20 years confirming every chauvinistic instinct men have ever had about the shallowness of women." Sets back feminism?

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How Dole Can Win

By Marc Mcdonald | October 23, 1996

The latest polls have Bob Dole down by 18 points. So now he's decided to spend nearly all his time, resources, and money campaigning in California.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Dartmouth

By Sam Bonderoff | October 22, 1996

Oh Dartmouth, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... I love thee for thy early mornings of frigid gusts of wind blowing against my half-closed eyelids, while some form of disgusting precipitation soaks my face and the soggy breakfast sandwich I carry.

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Our Presidential System is Obsolete

By Kenji Hosokawa | October 22, 1996

Columnist Joe Peters '99 confessed recently that he will most likely not vote Nov. 5 because the "stakes are low, the candidates uninspiring, and the issues stale" ["Why Vote?", The Dartmouth, Oct.

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Getting Up

By Matt Mcdonald | October 22, 1996

This past Monday I experienced my first collegiate case of oversleeping. Not that it hadn't happened before, but sleeping habits change in college.

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Dating Frustration? Try Daydreaming

By Kevin Findlan | October 22, 1996

There hasn't yet been a good, trashy column about dating at Dartmouth yet this fall. I have been fascinated with the subject ever since matriculation, and I have been counting the days until I could get my nickel's worth on the topic printed in The Dartmouth.

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