A Step Towards Effective Change
I love Dartmouth, especially the people here. However, the infighting and recent suicides have left a cloud hanging over our campus.
I love Dartmouth, especially the people here. However, the infighting and recent suicides have left a cloud hanging over our campus.
To the Editor: On the asymmetry of Robert Lendvai's '99 satirical article ["Limit Free Speech," The Dartmouth, April 3], I entirely concur.
It should come as no surprise that behavior which usually brings nothing but misfortune isn't likely to be carried out often.
Next week the Class of 2000 will visit en-masse, descending on the College with innocent faces and maps in hand.
The first issue I would like to talk about is race relations at Dartmouth. Because of the racial incidents of last summer and last term, there is a growing concern among the Dartmouth community about how we interact with one another as students who come from an incredibly diverse ethnic background.
To the Editor: I am writing in response and with a certain amount of rage to Tuesday's column in The Dartmouth by Adam J.
To the Editor: I am a UGA on the first floor of Mid-Fayerweather. Last night at 4:10 a.m., I finished doing a lab write-up for my Geography class.
I stood nervously at the plate. This was to be my last at bat ever and I knew it. I had reached the end of the Little League line.
Joan Baez, an alumna from my alma mater, Redlands High School, once said, "As long as one keeps searching, the answers come." These words seem obvious in minor everyday applications of them, but the answers don't come as easily when the questions concern larger, societal dilemmas such as prejudice and intolerance.
The rotten thing about living in a democratic, capitalist society is that we control our own fate.
Staring wholly uninspired at a blank Microsoft Word screen is a writer's most dreaded nightmare. After spending seven months away from Planet Dartmouth, how could I have absolutely nothing to say? What happened to the amazing world perspective I took away from Rome?
To The Editor: We were very pleased to see front-page coverage of the discussion about sorority rush at Theta on Monday, April 8.
Think back to that late summer day just before you plunged into freshman fall, when you staggered into the Ravine Lodge at Moosilauke with leftover cucumbers rotting in your backpack and a week-old enviromug encrusted with oatmeal and cocoa.
To the Editor: The Easter season recalls the ancient story of a public official who permitted capital punishment of a man he knew to be innocent.
All right, sure, I really don't know anything about the following subject. But what does that really matter?
You know, when my younger brother first came into my four-year old world, I didn't care what Mom and Dad said about loving him.
Has anyone else been wondering who the graduation speaker is going to be this June? Isn't it about time we found out?
Have you ever noticed that all words are defined by other words? There is not a single word in any language whose meaning can be expressed without the deployment of other words that are subject to the very same linguistic limitation.
Once again, the radical and anti-intellectual movement here at the College has reared its ugly head in the form of a new faction of the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance that ironically labels itself with a self-demeaning title, the "Political Queers." This group's agenda is not only in direct contradiction with their most fundamental goals of integrating the Dartmouth Community and promoting campus-wide tolerance of the gay/lesbian community, but their proposal to obtain affinity housing for gay/lesbian students is both socially and intellectually destructive to the well being of our campus. The beauty of Dartmouth's current housing policy is that from the start, an attempt is made to integrate first-year students with as diverse a group of upper-class students as possible.
Dartmouth is changing. The student body as a whole is recognizing the undercurrents tugging at the community and we are facing up to the challenge of pulling together on individual and group levels.