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Our Presidential System is Obsolete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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The Next 'Project For Dartmouth'

By Anat Levtov | October 21, 1996

Like most of us, I go through stages when I seriously doubt my decision to attend Dartmouth. We are lacking in so many respects up here in rural New England -- not enough social outlets, not enough people, not enough culture, and really not enough snow.

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Maintaining the Public Trust

By Laura Zachman | October 21, 1996

In Wednesday night's second presidential debate, President Bill Clinton responded to several of Senator Bob Dole's policy challenges by saying "I don't have time in thirty seconds to fix all that." But Clinton could not explain the discrepancies in his own record if he had 30 minutes.

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Voting Green in the '96 Election

By Jim Hourdequin | October 17, 1996

Today when you walk past the Environmental Studies Division of the Outing Club's voter registration drive in the Hopkins Center, consider that in 1994 a member of Congress won his seat by only 21 votes.

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Come to the Game, But Don't Boo the Band

By Rusty Young | October 17, 1996

To the Editor: In light of the recent opinion piece dealing with the atmosphere and "mystique" at football games, I would like to make a few things known to the Dartmouth community about one of the groups mentioned that tries its best to make the football games fun and successful: the Dartmouth College Marching Band. As the columnist suggested, it is important to support fellow students in their efforts to contribute to the school and to represent it well while off campus.

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Good Reasons to Vote

By Jennifer Parkinson | October 17, 1996

The idealistic blood boiled in my veins when I read "Why Vote" by Joe Peters '99. Imagine a classmate of mine devoting an entire column to urging the Dartmouth Community not to vote! As it is, young people vote far less than any other group in this country.

Opinion

The Know-Everythings

By Matthew Lubin | October 16, 1996

This is an analysis of that class of people called the "Know-Everythings." We all recognize this sort; these are the people who would rather die than admit that they are ever ignorant in any way. They take a particular delight in referring to the neuroethnomusicology of New Guinean tribes, to Nigerian poets with whose names the four corners of the globe would ring had their brilliant careers not been cut short in Biafra and to obscure European film journals. (Here we at Dartmouth can really one-up the competition: "But of course you know Wenders' comments in the April '73 Cahiers du Cinema?" "Oh come now, darling, don't you know he recanted all that in the Spring '95 Cahiers du Dartma?") But mere accumulation of knowledge for superficial purposes is not the Know-Everythings only distinguishing feature.

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