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The Dartmouth
August 30, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion



Opinion

Family Ties

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Alex: Gee Mallory, I see you've been putting in your quality time at the mall. Mallory: Yeah?


Opinion

Learn to Listen

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I have a plea for my fellow students. It is a result of a lesson I learned this week from a helpful professor, Paul Gaffney, who is the new chair of the drama department.



Opinion

Locals and Nationals Work Together to Create Fair Sorority Rush Process

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To the Editor: In response to both Tuesday's editorial and the letter to the editor from Alison Hodges which suggested a local sorority rush lottery, I would like to set the record straight on the debate over local and national rush rules and the logistics of a rush lottery. First and foremost let it be established that the 28 Coed Fraternity Sorority Council organizations, and perhaps to an even greater degree the six Panhellenic sororities, work together in as many different contexts as are feasible at Dartmouth.


Opinion

The Look

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What look, you say? I mean THE look. You all know what I'm taking about. It's that moment when you and that certain someone are face to face; you're in close proximity in a dimly lit room or some similarly amorous environment.




Opinion

Keeping An Open Mind

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After a frantic dinner at Home Plate one night last week my friends and I ran down the steps of Thayer to the women's rest room at the bottom level.


Opinion

The Age of Subtle Directness

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In "The Age of the Obvious," [The Dartmouth, Oct. 10] Abiola Lapite '98, an esteemed columnist, raises some very valid points, the kind of which may go fairly unnoticed from now on, since the preoccupation of these pages will decidedly lean towards the impending presidential elections. Let me point out from the outset that I neither agree nor disagree with the main thesis of his column, namely, that society has become inexorably mundane in its perceptions of love, specifically, romantic love.


Opinion

Local Sororities Should Convert To Rush Lottery

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To the Editor: As a member of a local sorority, I was pleased to read Tuesday's editorial by The Dartmouth editorial board [Sororities Dedicated to Women's Strength Should Eliminate Rush Contradiction]. All last week during rush I thought about its inherent paradox.


Opinion

Rushing Around

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It has been the topic of dinner conversations at every table at Home Plate for the past week. It's been plaguing the minds of sophomore women from East Wheelock to the River Cluster.


Opinion

A British Lesson

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Although the British might appear to be snooty, tea-drinking, crumpet-eating royalists, they do occasionally get something right. There was the defeat of the Spanish Armada, for example.



Opinion

Different Is Not Wrong

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To the Editor: For the past three and a half years I have kept quiet while many different people, students, administrators, and college staff alike, have told me variations of the following: "You must be from another country because you write the date the wrong way.