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Vox Clamantis

By Anita Farahany | February 28, 1996

To the Editor: Tonight at 8 p.m. on the Green will be a "Candlelight Vigil for Acceptance and Understanding: An Appeal to the Intellect." Professor Steve Cornish will be speaking and will then lead a candle-lighting ceremony.

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Mired in Manure

By Rachel R. Gilliar | February 28, 1996

So the "moral elite" on campus agrees again -- shit is offensive. Let me be the first to congratulate certain members of the Dartmouth community -- the ones who are willing to blindly condemn the group responsible for delivering manure to Alpha Chi Alpha's and Beta Theta Pi's respective doorsteps, the group purportedly responsible for the flyer, "The Shit You Don't Hear About," that appeared outside many students' doors Monday morning.

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East Wheelock Renovation an Important First Step

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 28, 1996

The Dartmouth Experience plan, recently approved by the College's Board of Trustees, is a watered-down adaptation of the proposals of the Committee on the First-Year Experience, but an important first step in integrating students' intellectual and academic experiences with the College's residential program. The plan's goals -- creating a "marriage of intellectual and social life," increasing faculty-student interaction and enriching the students' residential experiences -- are ambitious but admirable. Under the plan proposed by Dean of the College Lee Pelton, the East Wheelock Cluster will have a faculty associate living near the cluster, a cluster dean, additional programming money and improved academic and social facilities. A cluster dean and resident professor will make advising more accessible for both first-year and upperclass students. The increase in programming funds will allow the cluster to more adequately address the needs of its residents.

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Students Use Methods They Condemn

By Dave Hemmer | February 27, 1996

Apparently hatred, slander and destruction of private property are the newest means of building community at Dartmouth. The distribution of the anonymously written publication "The Shit You Don't Hear About" late Sunday night represents the second hate crime at Dartmouth in less than a week. How dumping manure on fraternity lawns and dumping libelous trash on people's doorsteps can possibly build community is beyond me, but the authors of this trash had the audacity to call their work "An Informative Publication By and For the Dartmouth Community." How dare these anonymous, gutless authors claim to speak for the Dartmouth Community? These two acts of hatred should send shivers down the spine of any student who is serious about building a community on this campus, as they represent a far greater threat to community than racial slurs scrawled on a door or mud slung at a window. Those incidents, while vile, represent the isolated acts of individual bigots.

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A Trip to the Stacks

By Carolyn Wachsman | February 27, 1996

So what's up with Baker? Can I say that trying to find a book in the dungeon commonly referred to as the stacks is like trying to find a Big Mac in Hanover? So I'm sitting at the computer at Baker staring in disbelief at the call number which On-Line Library swears will lead me to the book, "Tribes In Iceland Actively Engaged in the Production and Consumption of Coconut Extract and How it Affects the Economy of Japan" which will guarantee an "A" on my research paper for the class Tribes In Iceland Actively Engaged in the Production and Consumption of Coconut Extract and How it Affects the Economy of Japan 101.

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Racism and Sexism Warrant Intelligent Discussion, Not Pranks

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 27, 1996

The Beta Theta Pi fraternity poem and the Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity pledge script are evidence of serious flaws in Dartmouth's fraternities: students must stop playing games and discuss the grave issues of racism and sexism that the writings raise. While the contents of the Alpha Chi pledge script are deplorable, last night's open discussion about the script organized by the fraternity is encouraging.

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Misrepresented Statements May Have Offended

By William S. Kartalopoulos | February 26, 1996

To the Editor: I write regarding gross misrepresentation of my statements in the forum discussion entitled "Asian-Americans, Affirmative Action and Graduate School Admissions." I was quoted in The Dartmouth as follows: "Affirmative action at Dartmouth 'has worked too well' with African-Americans, Kartalopoulos said.

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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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