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April 7, 2026
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The Right to Life at Any Age

By Kevin Walsh | February 6, 1995

During the elections of this past Novem ber, many deep changes took place, not only in who is in office and who is not, but also in the area of what is accepted and rejected by a majority of our society. Particularly in the pro-life arena, both positive and negative changes came to light. One of the most remarkable stories of the elections in November which has been deliberately ignored and played down is the overwhelming evidence they provided to demonstrate that the United States is turning against abortion.

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Getting Your Money's Worth

By Brian Deaner | February 3, 1995

It was Tuesday night and I was up late tooling for a Psychology 26 multiple-choice mid-term, mindlessly memorizing the potentially disastrous effects of sleep deprivation on a student's retention of rote facts.

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COI Proposal Benefits All

By Brian Sung | February 3, 1995

The Committee on Instruction's new course-drop proposal is a step in the right direction towards greater academic freedom for Dartmouth students. The proposal, to allow students to drop courses without professors' permission until two weeks before the end of each term, gives students greater freedom to judge for themselves whether or not they want to stay in a course.

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New Dining Plan is unfair

By Seth Goldman | February 3, 1995

To the Editor: After three plus years of casually watching as campus policy makers repeatedly ignored the voices of the students and more importantly, the voice of reason, I cannot let your story about the new meal plan ("New Dining Plan is finalized," Jan.

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Further Inquiry into the SA

By Amit Chibber | February 2, 1995

I am grateful for the opportunity to reach the college through Dartmouth's print media. It is through this forum that I had wished not to offend the Student Assembly, but to study it in a serious manner. Legislative and representative bodies are important entities, and they consume a great deal of their members' time.

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Chimera of an Administrative Solution

By Hosea Harvey | February 1, 1995

Charles Dickens wrote in the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." His first paragraph rings true for the status of race relations at the majority of Ivy League schools. Since the early 1990s, steps have been taken to further develop the quality of resources available to increase the overall satisfaction of students affected by issues pertaining to diversity.

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A Closer Look at Changes in WDCR

By Justin Ruben | February 1, 1995

In the face of events which deny our understanding, we often fall back on our paradigmatic beliefs in order to contextualize them, to explain the inexplicable. So when I read about Dartmouth Broadcasting's incomprehensible intention to replace the College's AM free-form radio station, 1340 WDCR, with a 24-hour news station, I turned to the paradigms which we at Dartmouth use to understand our world.

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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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