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April 8, 2026
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Navarro was not the first tenured female professor

By Richardson Fowle | April 7, 1995

To the Editor: The Mar. 3 issue's welcome report on Professor and Chair Marysa Navarro's pioneering service and accomplishments at Dartmouth ("First tenured female professor changed campus culture") unintentionally reinforces a perception that needs to be gently amended.

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Better intergration is needed to truly obtain diversity

By Aaron Klein | April 7, 1995

To the Editor: Many students have been talking about "the need to improve and maintain our diversity."I could not agree more.Student Assembly presidential candidate Phil Ferrera '96 has stated that he supports not only the furthering of affinity housing but the establishment of gender exclusive housing -- for women only. The problem is that Ferrera completely misses the point.He is promoting " diversity"whose practical effect is segregation.Although I hope that this is not what he wishes, the consequence of these poorly thought-out actions is segregation. Having been the senior class president at a high school whose student body was 33 percent black, 30 percent white, 20 percent Latino and 15 percent Asian (mostly Cambodian and Vietnamese), I know first hand the benefits of diversity.But more than that, I know what it means to be integrated.This only occurs when all racial and ethnic groups make conscience efforts to interact, not to live across campus from each other. Diversity without integration is nothing.Unless the different racial and ethnic groups on campus are mixing and interacting, there is no diversity.

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SA candidates should focus on individuals, not groups

By James Horowitz | April 5, 1995

To the Editor: In light of the campaign "scandals" of the last week I am left wondering why politics at Dartmouth College are so political.I don't understand why it is necessary to petition campus organizations for their support, in hopes that the groups' members will blindly vote for the assigned candidate.

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Women's Dorm is Not Needed

By Dan Richman | April 5, 1995

Inmy time here in Hanover, I have found that some strange debates can result from giving academicians too much free time and too little exposure to the outside world. One such debate is that over "women's space," as applied to the recent proposal to create a "women's issues dormitory" that could house the Women's Resource Center.

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Putting the 'Student' Back in SA

By Brandon Del Pozo | April 4, 1995

In the last year on the Student Assembly, I have argued about communist feminists, gay administrators and sexism in the meal plan. I have seen the president resign, members get up and walk out during session to force its premature end and have even had a midnight meeting in a smoke-filled room with leaders from all factions to negotiate the fate of the organization. I've got to admit intrigue and argument make for an amusing SA.

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