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Questioning the Status Quo

By Debbie Carbonaro | May 8, 1996

What is tradition? Webster's dictionary defines tradition in part as "a long-established custom or practice that has the effect of an unwritten law." Apparently, Dartmouth defines the same term as "an aversion to change." This unfortunate reluctance to disrupt the accepted order of the world has recently manifested itself in the decision not to allow the Pow-Wow to be held on the Green.

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Honoring Out Obligations

By Andrew Garrod | May 7, 1996

"...Teachers superintend our intellectual and moral development and extend our capacity to lead humane and fruitful lives. Because the function of teachers is so fundamentally important, one of the great unfinished items on the agenda of this nation is the strengthening of the quality of teaching at all levels of education, and most especially in elementary and secondary schools.

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The Green is Common Social Space

By Kel | May 7, 1996

Last year's annual Pow-Wow, sponsored by Native Americans at Dartmouth successfully enriched the Dartmouth community as well as the Upper Valley community by increasing cultural diversity, heritage and education. As opposed to past Pow-Wows, the Pow-Wow was particularly successful in achieving its two goals: sharing Native culture, and providing an accurate depiction of Native American life.

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Being Pro-Life and Pro-Woman

By Jonathan R. Hurst | May 6, 1996

I am writing in response to Ellen Wight '97's column in The Dartmouth "Being Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion" (May 3 ). She brings up a number of insightful observations, and it is only necessary to clarify a few of her underlying assumptions to better unravel the quandary of abortion. The first problem centers on the condition of viability.

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To Sleep or Not to Sleep

By Sam Bonderoff | May 6, 1996

Friends, there is nothing quite like the experience of staying up all night, is there? We all have our reasons for the all-nighters, and sure, sometimes it's all about homework and sometimes it's all about midterms.

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Confronting Reverse Racism

By Adam J. Siegel | May 6, 1996

In California's race to become the first state in the nation to abolish all state-sponsored affirmative action programs which give preferential treatment to minorities and women in areas of education, contracting, and hiring, a single man is leading the crusade against these unjust practices.

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A Question of Purpose

By Abiola Lapite | May 3, 1996

The problem with Dartmouth College today is that the administration has not clearly and forcefully laid out exactly where it wishes the College to go.

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The Priveledged Position of Business

By Mattew Nisbet | May 3, 1996

Money in politics is not new. After John F. Kennedy won his first congressional election, Joseph Kennedy bragged that he could have elected a laborer off the street for the amount of money he had spent on his son's campaign.

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Being Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion

By Ellen Wight | May 3, 1996

I'm about to do the unthinkable. I'm about to write a pro-choice column ... against abortion. A few weeks ago, I went to see the pro-life documentary, "The Silent Scream." As I expected, I left the film horrified at the brutality it represented.

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The Roots of Faulty Reasoning

By John Strayer | May 2, 1996

There are two common mistakes that we Dartmouth pundits make in our various arguments. These two elements are so pervasive in the bad reasoning that goes on at this place that someone really must do something. First of all, if I hear one more argument that starts with the following phrase I am going to scream in violent pain: "Well we are all smart enough to get into Dartmouth, so ..." This goes wrong in a bunch of directions, including the fact that among Dartmouth students, intelligence is not universal.

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SAGE's Role on Campus

By Janet Lieberman | May 2, 1996

Last week Jeffrey Botelho '96 wrote a very enlightening column ["Addressing Sexual Assault," The Dartmouth, April 25]. Botelho wrote, "I think group education to combat against this type of behavior is in order, requiring the full attendance of fraternity members, not just the new members ... with the cooperation of rape educators and survivors, the administration, and fraternity members, I think we can start fighting a winning battle against sexual assault." Sexual Awareness through Greek Education (SAGE) believes that his column has captured the essence of how sexual assault and the Greek system should be addressed at Dartmouth. SAGE is an organization made up of active members of Dartmouth's Greek system.

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Welander Portrays Assembly Inaccurately

By J. Brooks Weaver | May 2, 1996

To the Editor: I am responding to Matt Welander '97's column titled "The True Identity of the SA" [The Dartmouth, April 24]. Mr Welander: and I use the term loosely, I am indeed touched by the amount of thought and time you invested in utterly failing to grasp the point of my original article.

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Real Problems Can't be Glossed Over

By Sean Donahue | May 1, 1996

To the Editor: Garrett Gil De Rubio '96 and Kimberly Koontz '96 seem to think that if we all just stop arguing about institutional racism and institutional sexism Dartmouth will somehow become a real community.

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Community at Dartmouth

By P. K. Tengan | May 1, 1996

Community at Dartmouth sounds like a nice concept, but somewhere along the way, between forgotten charters and intractable bureaucracies, the spirit of community appears to have been neglected. My first impressions of Dartmouth led me to believe that this sense of "community" was all-inclusive.

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The Perfect Body

By Katie Shutzer | April 30, 1996

Returning from a job interview in New York City, I swung by the Hinman Boxes to get my mail and opened up last Friday's The Dartmouth.

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