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COI Proposal Is Too Lenient

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | January 31, 1995

The Committee on Instruction's proposal to allow students to drop courses without a professor's permission up until the last two weeks of a term is unjustified and will not benefit the College. Gary Johnson, the committee's chair, said the proposal "will ease the logistical burden to the Registrar's office." Johnson said Registrar Thomas Bickel receives about 100 petitions every term and the new policy will reduce that number. With more than 3,500 students on campus every term, 100 petitions are not enough to merit a drastic change in the course-drop policy. Johnson's argument that the new proposal "will allow students to initiate course changes themselves and toss decisions back into the student's lap" is more valid. But this does not require the College to take drastic steps.

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SA should focus on solutions

By Editorial Board | January 30, 1995

The Student Assembly needs to refocus its Webster Hall campaign, which has been misguided and ineffective from its beginning in January. Saturday night's "Rally to Replace Webster Hall" was the latest example of the Assembly's lack of focus.

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Lessons to Learn From 'Spanking the Monkey'

By Chris Kelly | January 30, 1995

This past Saturday I went to see "Spanking The Monkey," which as far as I can tell, is the first mainstream (relatively speaking) American film to deal with the subjects of masturbation and incest. The film is about an MIT student who is forced to give up his lucrative summer internship in order to stay home and take care of his bedridden mother.

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CFSC--Leadership by Knowledge

By Jim Brennan | January 27, 1995

It's been good to see--members of Dartmouth's Greek system have taken the lead recently in resolving issues raised by the College pertaining to housing and alcohol policy.

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Informed Discourse on First Year Plan

By John Strayer | January 27, 1995

Dartmouth students, when given the chance, have an ability to come through in a pinch. I'm fresh from Dean of the College Lee Pelton's "town meeting," a discussion between student about the Report on the First Year Experience.

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A Senior's 21st Birthday

By Brian Deaner | January 27, 1995

In speaking with many of my fellow seniors, I came to the logical conclusion that one's 21st birthday should be a jubilant period of unrestrained celebration.

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Kemp Can Save the GOP

By Matt Nisbet | January 26, 1995

On Super Bowl Sunday, not only will the fortunes of the Chargers and Forty-Niners be decided, but so will a large influence on the Republican Party.

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Student Assembly's Obsolescence

By Amit Chibber | January 25, 1995

It is time to ask, in all seriousness, why Dartmouth's Student Assembly needs to exist at all. Nationally, there is a growing sentiment among Americans that technological forces of the modern age shall leave legislative and representative bodies in a state of decay, and that immediate electronic access to the United States Congress shall deliver a great blow to deliberative processes. If that is the case nationally, then at Dartmouth the Student Assembly has long been dead. A representative body in student government exists primarily as a place of discourse and deliberation and as a liaison between students and the college administration.

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The End of Democracy

By Won Joon Choe | January 25, 1995

Back in 1989, when the cold war was not long over and the worldwide democratic euphoria was at its apex, Francis Fukuyama declared in a controversial essay that we may be on the brink of universalization of liberal democracy. It was a pleasant dream. In reality the disappearance of communism has not, as forecast by Fukuyama, brought about a new flowering of liberal democracy in the non-Western world.

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The Benefits of Mixed Dorms

By Andy Schader | January 24, 1995

Since I came to this campus I have spent a lot of time discussing the Committee on the First Year Experience report, most specifically the issue of freshman dorms.

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