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Changing Affirmative Action Policies

By Laura Zachman | July 25, 1995

Affirmative action affords qualified minority candidates the opportunity to participate in programs that are well within their ability, but have been denied to them purely on the basis of their skin color.

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Drinking Age Should Be 18

By Russell Dalferes | July 25, 1995

Iwould like to congratulate Lea Kelley '97 on her column proposing to lower the drinking age to 18.While she concentrated mainly on aspects of Dartmouth life that could be altered for the better by changing the drinking age to 18, it is important to expand on a couple of general ideas regarding this change that would affect high school and college campuses all over the country. It is a fact that drinking will happen wherever people our age are left without parental influence, and oftentimes it happens while the underage drinker is still with his parents -- it is just done a bit more clandestinely.

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Lower Drinking Age to 18

By Lea Kelley | July 21, 1995

Whileperusing Monday's issue of The Dartmouth, I was interested and surprised to read the following quote from Director of Health Services Dr. Jack Turco: "18-year-olds should have the right to drink." (The Dartmouth, July 17, 1995). Hardly a rage call on the part of Dr. Turco, this statement does bring up some interesting issues. Why, for one thing, is the drinking age 21?

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Building Forts Teaches Lessons

By Debbie Carbonaro | July 19, 1995

Onceupon a sultry South Carolina summer morning, two 11-year-old girls decided to build a fort. One collected wood from her father's garage, and the two then proudly built what they thought was the biggest and best fort their side of the Mason-Dixon line. But the fort was lacking something.

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'Premed'Label is Misleading

By Eran Bendavid | July 17, 1995

The top ten characteristics of premeds: we suffer low grades, we do not have a social life, we whine way too much; we do not respect humanities and social science majors, we spend all our vacations working in a lab or a hospital, orgo orgo orgo, we enjoy Kresge more than our rooms, we never get to take fun classes, we can't think about an FSP and we stress about MCATs and applications only to be rejected from most schools to which we apply. With such a merry depiction of the life of the premed student, it seems insane that so many take the path of premedical preparation at Dartmouth.

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Breaking the Silence Barrier

By Debbie Carbonaro | July 13, 1995

Webster's Dictionary first defines silence as "the state or fact of keeping silent; a refraining from speech or from making noise." The fifth and final definition of silence, however, leaps out of the newsprint page, screaming to be recognized: "oblivion or obscurity." But what does it actually mean to be trapped in the oblivion and obscurity of silence on this campus?

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Carpe Diem from Midterms to Finals

By Lea Kelley | July 13, 1995

When I agreed to write a column for today's D, I already had a great topic in mind -- ripping into corporate recruiting. The process unofficially began last week with the announcement of internship opportunities at companies such as JP Morgan and Northwestern Mutual, and I was going to make fun of my friends for writing resumes on bond paper and for finding impressive ways to describe their photocopying jobs as "personal assistant to 48 professors." I was then going to wrap it all up by answering the cosmic question: Are we at Dartmouth to learn or to get a high-paying job? But when I sat down to write it I just wasn't in the mood.

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Clinton Will Play Defense in Campaign

By Laura Zachman | July 11, 1995

President Bill Clinton has nowhere to go in 1996. The man who played his saxophone on the now-canceled "Arsenio Hall Show" and romanced Generation X on MTV during his first presidential campaign convinced the majority of voters that he would solve the nation's domestic problems, a task seemingly insurmountable to a haggard-looking George Bush -- and in 1993 he replaced Bush as our nation's chief executive. Victory in 1996 will not be as easy because the promise of domestic reform that worked for Clinton in 1992 no longer has potential.

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Bring Back a United States

By Brandon Miller | July 7, 1995

As we all know, Tuesday was Independence Day and classes here at Dartmouth were canceled to allow students to participate in a plethora of events to celebrate the holiday.

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At the Docks: Beverly Hills 03755

By Debbie Carbonaro | July 5, 1995

Whilecanoeing down the river this past weekend, the hot sun burning my exposed shoulders, I discovered yet another form of resilience exhibited by Dartmouth students. After all, while all of our friends from home are busy relaxing, working interesting jobs in the city, or bumming around at Myrtle Beach, we tenacious Dartmouth students are sitting in hot classrooms trying to figure out which dining hall to eat dinner at tonight, Food Court or Food Court. But Dartmouth students are not to be outdone by our friends at home who are living it up.

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Dancer Strips Women of Repression

By Sarah Johnston | July 5, 1995

Myfriend was arrested last weekend. We were at a surprise birthday party being held in her honor, when a police officer knocked on the door. He told her that she was being arrested, and he handcuffed her.

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Prevent Censorship on the Internet

By Laura Zachman | July 3, 1995

Witha flip of a switch and the flex of a wrist, we can launch ourselves into a world where information flows freely without cards or passwords or even humans to hinder our progress. That world is the Internet, a world were there is a relatively free exchange of information that has allowed for the rapid expansion of communication in the academic and corporate worlds alike. It should come as no surprise that government wants to regulate it. A new Senate bill plans the regulation of the Internet through continuation of the Federal Communications Commission's powers to decide what forms of telecommunication powers are in the "public interest." In other words, the Senate wants to fine people huge sums of money for selling pornography on the Internet, despite the fact that the FCC has been more than lax in its previous attempts to enforce purity -- prostitutes have used phone and radio to solicit clients for years. I believe this bill is less an attempt to save the impressionable youth of America than an attempt to get a federal handle on what is becoming one of the most vital sources of communication and commerce. Thankfully, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, much to the chagrin of some Senate Republicans, objected to the bill on the grounds of free speech.

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