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October 16, 2026
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Shannon Faulkner Is Not a Failure

By Nora Freeman | August 22, 1995

South Carolinians are happy tonight.Frommy room here on East. Wheelock, if I'm really quiet, I can almost hear the rebel yells from my hometown. They won, you see. After more than two years, their Shannon Faulkner problem is over.The Citadel cadets did in five days what millions of dollars of legal fees and two years of court appeals could not.

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Women did not 'back down'

By Reem Tarazi | August 18, 1995

To the Editors: As a woman highly involved with the recent "Beta Poem" issue, I would like to comment on the course of events of the last couple of days.

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Editorial not constructive

By Bill Drehkoff | August 18, 1995

To the Editors: Your editorial in Wednesday's issue exemplifies what is wrong with this college community when it comes to dealing with problematic issues.Perhaps one reason why we haven't found any solutions is precisely attitudes such as yours. You first attack the women who found the now-infamous 'Beta poem.' You write that they were 'too intimidated' and that they 'weakened' their support system for women.

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Poem Debate Should Be Made Public

By Debbie Carbonaro | August 18, 1995

Mouth agape and stomach churning, my ears were assaulted with the racism and sexism that unfolded in the tale of Beta Theta Pi "Brother X." I listened to a brother follow a Native American woman down the Trail of Tears, pausing only to wonder about the consumption of his three beers.

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Poem Could Foster Change

By 32 Robinson Hall | August 16, 1995

Sundaynight's discussion about the offensive poem read aloud at Beta Theta Pi fraternity's Wednesday meetings prematurely ended a discussion that should be opened up to the entire campus.

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Homosexual marriages are not illogical

By Erin E. Murphy | August 16, 1995

To the Editor: I find that I must respond to J. Mulei Nthenge's Monday editorial entitled "Gay Marriage is Illogical." Aside from the erroneous and fallacious "logic" employed by Nthenge, the sophomoric tone of the article was offensive, given the seriousness of its conclusions. As for the logic: for someone who feels "the idea of recognizing a gay marriage is myopic," Nthenge's assumption that legal recognition of marriage is necessary only "because it has the potential for children" seems stunningly limited. Gay marriages often do include children; heterosexual marriages often do not.

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Gay Marriage is Illogical

By J. Mulei Nthenge | August 14, 1995

Weherd goats. Very many of them. So many it would blow your mind.Big goats, small goats, roan goats, brown goats, white goats, black goats, horned-goats, 'beef' goats, 'dairy' goats, old goats, young goats-- VERY many goats!

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Analyze the Evidence

By Alejandro Soto | August 10, 1995

At this time 50 years ago a dire situation was addressed and a difficult decision was made. The result of that decision launched one bomber crew on a mission that took their specially modified B-29 Flying Fortress straight into the heart of Japan where the an intensive scientific experiment reached a climax.

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A Dartmouth Community

By Eran Bendavid | August 8, 1995

Whenthe news about Sarah Devens sent shock waves through the campus a couple of weeks ago, I was paralyzed, and for more than just a brief moment. Although the flag was lowered to half-mast the next day, students went to their classes and met at Collis and saw movies just like any other day.

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Fund the NEA

By Lea Kelley | August 8, 1995

I took a poll of Dartmouth students on Wednesday in order to discover what was on their mind. "Write about something interesting," they said. Suggestions on what I should write about ranged from an attack on Dick's House to a questioning of Rukmini Sichitiu's '95 ability to write an objective review of the Greek system to a refutation of anything written by Sarah Johnston '97. Okay, so that was a lie.

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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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