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The Dartmouth
June 25, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
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.





Opinion

A Warning to the Ignorant Voter

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I was appalled to read "Can Clinton Bring Us to the Table?" by Aaron Klein '98 [Oct. 7]. It clearly illustrated an example of inane thinking that often plagues today's political debates.


Opinion

Choose and Lose

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I'll be honest -- I wasn't going to write about the Presidential campaign. No, I figured I had far too many trivial complaint columns still needing to be voiced: the lack of sandwiches at the Collis Cafe, the fascistic parking policy of the College, the inherent weirdness of Tai Chi ... well, you get the point. But a funny thing happened on the way to the rant.


Opinion

The Age of the Obvious

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Ours is an age of the obvious. Ours is an age in which men confuse raging lust with high affection, an age in which subtlety is mistaken for cowardice.




Opinion

Who Do You Trust?

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To borrow a phrase from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), do you count yourself among "[President Bill Clinton's] high taxing, free-spending, promise-breaking, Social Security-taxing, health care-socializing, drug-coddling, power-grabbing, business-busting, lawsuit-loving, U.N.






Opinion

A Free Lunch

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Free bagel brunch in Collis Common Ground." Your pulse quickens. You're there. This campus has an amazing capacity to pounce on free stuff.




Opinion

Greek System Isn't for Everyone

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Last Spring, Stephen Schmidt'97 wrote a column titled, "A Voice for the Greek System" [May 17, 1996] in which he urged every member of the Class of 1999 to rush a Greek house, no matter what their personal opinions may be.


Opinion

Sophomoric Reflections

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It's not so easy being a sophomore. First of all, no Dartmouth student ever fully recovers from the shock of no longer being a freshman. Like a rude awakening from a pleasant dream by the shriek of a fire alarm at 4 a.m.; like a rockin' dorm party disseminated by the ominous knock of Safety and Security at the door (oh yeah -- but that was last year too) sophomore year hits hard. Sophomores live in the River (except for a few enviable ORL staffers, or those who have finagled the system.