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Approve Assembly Reform

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | May 18, 1995

TheStudent Assembly should pass the recommendations of the Student Assembly External Review Committee as a vital first step in bringing some legitimacy back to student government at Dartmouth. The committee's well-thought out and well-researched report, released Tuesday, is properly titled "Undergraduate Council: Toward a More Responsible Student Government." The word "Assembly" to students is synonymous with "infighting" and "incompetency." Changing the name would be a symbolic break from the Assembly's troubled past. But the recommendations are about more than just a name change -- they address several fundamental problems that have plagued the Assembly for years.

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Blood and Iron

By Abiola Lapite | May 17, 1995

Thepast few weeks have seen the marking of the end of the Second World War. Thus it seems timely to examine one of the chief causes of this war, as well as of the Great War which preceded it: The creed of militarism. The word "militarism" has acquired in our age quite negative connotations, and its very mention is enough in some circles to bring on uncomfortable silence.

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Boycotting Baseball Games is Foolish

By Andy Schader | May 16, 1995

Abouta week ago I was listening to "A Call to the Bullpen," an all- baseball talk show on WDCR. One of the major issues that the three hosts were discussing was the fact that attendance at major league baseball games this season has been, shall we say, disappointing.

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Parental Paranoia

By Brian Deaner | May 16, 1995

Myparents have a penchant for over-reacting to everyday situations. Whether I come home for fall, winter or spring break, I can always count on Mom accusing the check-out person at the supermarket of taking our family carton of Cheese Whiz or Dad asserting that the bank cashier unconscionably shortchanged him $10. Usually, Mom finds the Cheese Whiz carton half-opened on Dad's lap and Dad locates the missing money in Mom's purse, but their perception of the original situation never changes.

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Gone Before You Know It

By Kevin Walsh | May 15, 1995

Day unto day uttereth speech. The clouds change. The seasons pass over our woods and fields in their slow and regular procession, and time is gone before you were aware of it." --Thomas Merton It seems as if Dartmouth College is a different school each term.

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Playboy photographer's work is art-mediocre art

By Timothy Horrigan | May 15, 1995

To the Editor: I have no affiliation with the College, aside from living here in Hanover, working at an organization which occupies Dartmouth-owned real estate and knowing some people who are affiliated with the College (including some of the individuals who have taken it upon themselves to protect Hanover from the scourge of nude photography.) Therefore, I have no reason to care if Dartmouth's reputation would be besmirched by having a few of its students disrobe for Playboy's cameras. I have been following the controversy in the pages of The Dartmouth for a variety of reasons, the most important of these being that this whole business is a nice break from our community's usual stuffiness.

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Anti-Playboy protest should focus efforts on male consumers

By Cate Avoes | May 15, 1995

To the Editor: I would like to respond to the column in The Dartmouth ("Playboy Models Will Represent Dartmouth," May 11, 1995) which outlined the ignominy that we, as noble Dartmouth students, should feel on behalf of the morally corrupt harlots who pose naked for Playboy. Now, I myself do not find Playboy's pictures appealing.

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Playboy Debate Misses the Point

By John Strayer | May 12, 1995

I'llbe glad when Playboy is long gone from our campus. Not out of any strong moral conviction about the implications of its presence, but because I have grown tired of a debate that misses the fundamental point. For the sake of this argument, let us start by simply granting the anti-Playboy argument.

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A different photo please

By Dr. John H. Turco | May 12, 1995

To the Editor: Give me a break! I know that I am not a Hollywood poster pin-up candidate; however, the picture that was printed in the May 3 issue of The Dartmouth did not do justice to me.

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