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April 8, 2026
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Culture of Entitlement Must End

By Laura Zachman | August 4, 1995

"Write about what a bunch of whiners you all are," one of my professors advised me. "Your generation needs a good kick in the pants." What this professor was telling me was certainly not something I hadn't heard before.

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Stop taking innacurate and cheap pot-shots at Marijuana

By Richard Cowan | August 4, 1995

To the Editor: Although the myths surrounding marijuana generally make for flashier headlines than do the facts, the article "Today's marijuana puts users in greater danger" in the July 27 issue of The Dartmouth stooped to a new low in faulty journalism. Had the reporter or Dr. Jack Turco attended the National Institute on Drug Abuse's first-ever conference on marijuana last month, both may have been able to separate fact from fiction. Fact 1: Marijuana today is no stronger thanin the past.

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Pause for Peace Day

By Debbie Carbonaro | August 2, 1995

Ineighth grade, I had a pen-pal. Her name was Tatjana and she lived in Zagreb, Croatia. Although she was a couple of years older than me, we wrote fairly regularly for a year or so.

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A Russia Diary

By Carter Williams | August 2, 1995

31 May, 1995: Iam writing for the last time in St. Petersburg. I can't believe how quickly my time here has run out. There are so many things I still want to do.

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Designated drivers make sense

By John H Turco | July 31, 1995

To the Editor: I am writing to make a correction in the article "Turco will work with MADD on council" in the Monday, July 17, issue of The Dartmouth. I was quoted as saying "[Designated driving] is unrealistic.

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A Russia Diary

By Carter Williams | July 31, 1995

7 April, 1995: Ihad the thought the other day while standing on the shore of the Gulf of Finland that the circular motion of every wave upon the sand could be a metaphor for the pattern of human life.

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Humanities 1 and 2 should not be a seminar

By 32 Robinson Hall | July 31, 1995

Bytaking away the Humanities 1 and 2 sequence's status as a freshman seminar, the Committee on Instruction made an important move toward maintaining the integrity of academics at Dartmouth. In all its recruiting efforts -- from brochures to prospective tours -- the College advertises the unique qualities of freshman seminars.

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Your Parents Are Coming to Town

By Lea Kelley | July 27, 1995

Theparents are coming! The parents are coming! It is with mixed feelings that most college students approach an upcoming visit from their parents.On the one hand, students are excited to show their parents the campus, introduce them to college friends and generally show off how independent and mature college students can be. From a purely selfish point of view, poor starving college students are happy at the prospect of free meals, a trip to the grocery store and the opportunity to show mom how much laundry you have in the hopes that she will do it for you, or at least buy you a roll of quarters. But there are drawbacks to a visit from one's parents.

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Make it Invites Only, Please

By Sarah Johnson | July 27, 1995

Thereare problems with the Greek system."I hear that sentence, or some variation of it, with a fair amount of frequency at Dartmouth.Staunch anti-Greek students insist it, administrators and faculty assert it, even members of Coed Fraternity Sorority organizations are willing to concede it.Nonetheless, we all know that the frats, sororities, and coeds thrive here -- even without freshman, about half of the student population has joined a one. So, why aren't these perceived problems being resolved?Maybe it is because the anti-Greek side approaches the issue impractically, i.e.

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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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