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'Fluff' Columns Published

By David Weinberg | February 23, 1996

To the Editor: Dan Hogin's column, "The D: An 'Anything Goes' Publication?" [Feb. 21] was an fantastic essay pointing out your columnists' well-demonstrated ability to write endless amounts of fluff pieces that somehow always manage to get published. After reading it, I felt it was necessary to get something else off of my chest.

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On The Beauty of Formality

By Matthew Lubin | February 23, 1996

A fortnight or so ago (at least at the time these words were penned), a piece by my esteemed colleague Mr. Strayer in these pages referred to his communications misadventures with "some guy named Muhammad," and then went on to refer to a professor here as "Tom." So flabbergasted at these liberties was the present columnist that upon reading them he very nearly dropped and broke his monocle, which he was in the process of dabbing at with a Wet-Nap.

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Look Who's Greenwashing

By Nina Perlroth | February 22, 1996

Dartmouth Dining Service representatives take every opportunity to congratulate themselves on the College's growing recycling programs and environmental consciousness.

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Liberal Elite Control Campus With Arrogance and Disregard for the Truth

By Dave Hemmer | February 22, 1996

In his newest book, "The Vision of the Anointed, Self-Congratulation as a Basis For Social Policy," Thomas Sowell discusses American liberals and their beliefs, which he claims share a "moral exaltation of the anointed above others." What struck me most about the book is how accurately it describes the reality at Dartmouth, where a small group of students who consider themselves more "educated," "sensitive" or "enlightened" than their peers attempt to control the campus with an arrogance and disregard for the truth that is despicable. While the arrogance of Dartmouth's liberal elite is impossible to measure, some anecdotes will illustrate several incidents where the liberals' behavior clearly reflects a belief in their own moral superiority. The first anecdote was relayed to me by an undergraduate advisor, who asked to remain anonymous.

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Love is a Battlefield

By Katie Shutzer | February 21, 1996

Most people would agree that there are two types of relationships at Dartmouth, and neither of them can be labeled as "dating." Dating is a word that is fast becoming obsolete, along with other love-related terms like "necking," "petting" and "mixer." Now we live in a world of hookups (random ones, of course), and the mixer has been replaced by basement games like pong, ship and tree. Now do you really think people like your parents could have formed their long-lasting relationships around a ping pong table?

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In Search of the Perfect Mate...

By Rachel R. Gilliar | February 21, 1996

Just as governments are subject to the wishes of their citizens, and companies are subject to the whims of their stockholders, columnists must occasionally make themselves subject to pressures from their readership.

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Alexander versus Clinton in '96

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 20, 1996

After two terms of primary activity, two candidates, Bill Clinton and Lamar Alexander, have proven they deserve their parties' nomination for the presidency. Clinton, who is essentially running unopposed, has proven his leadership on both the international and domestic fronts over the past four years. Alexander served as Governor of Tennessee and Secretary of Education and has the political experience necessary to run the country.

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Brave New World

By Abiola Lapite | February 20, 1996

Last Sunday saw the conclusion of the historic Chess match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue computer, in which for the first time the world chess champion lost to a machine under normal competition game rules.

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What's Up with the Frat Scene?

By Caroyn Wachsman | February 19, 1996

So what's up with frats at Dartmouth? Every Sunday when I wake up I say to myself, "Self, you will not go to a frat next weekend ..." So it's Friday night and I'm heading down frat row reciting Randall's update in my head, making a mental note to take Introductory Greek next term.

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