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A time to refocus

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | January 13, 1995

Students must realize that blind cries of "Save Webster Hall" will fall on deaf ears, and instead should refocus their energy to convince the administration that students want a medium-sized programming venue. Like it or not, the administration is not likely to budge on its plan to convert Webster into a new home for Special Collections.

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'Save Webster Hall' campaign is misguided

By Kathryn Balink | January 13, 1995

To the Editor: The recent SA drive to "save Webster Hall" is misguided. I enjoy events such as the Natalie Merchant concert as much as anyone, but is a shame that a building as beautiful as Webster sits empty so much of the time.

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Brennan is on the campaign trail

By John Strayer | January 13, 1995

While the elections are not until next term, one person already seems to be running for President of the Student Assembly: Jim Brennan '96. After his strong showing in the last election and his subsequent political activity, Brennan has little choice but to be considered an early front runner.

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A question of trust or cynicism

By Jim Brennan | January 13, 1995

Trust is a very important thing. Yet in today's remarkably cynical world, trust is incredibly hard to gain, difficult to keep and almost impossible to build into character.

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Support winter athletes this weekend

By Bob Ceplikas | January 13, 1995

To the Editor: This is a huge weekend for three Big Green teams. Tonight, men's hockey takes on Brown, currently the number 1 team in the ECAC, and the Friends of Dartmouth Hockey have donated 3,000 kazoos for the creative use of Dartmouth fans.

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When science exploits desire

By Rachel R. Gilliar | January 13, 1995

Abortion. Assisted reproduction. Pregnancy reduction. Sperm banks. Today, choices abound, but when my grandmother was having children, a woman either could get pregnant, or she couldn't.

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Leave politics behind

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | January 12, 1995

It's time for the Student Assembly to leave its bickering in the past. With the election of John Honovich '97 as Assembly vice president Tuesday night, the potential for continued conflict in the Assembly looms larger than ever. President Rukmini Sichitiu '95 and Honovich -- who were at each other's throats all Fall term -- should now be mature enough and realistic enough to know they must work together. They should pick non-political, achievable goals for the Assembly to work towards this term, such as the establishment of a Rape Crisis Center, an issue that both leaders say they support. Both Sichitiu and Honovich said all the right things after Honovich's election.

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Plan for the long haul

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | January 11, 1995

The short-term provisions released by the Enrollment Committee on Monday will not solve the campus housing crunch and fall far short of the promises made by the College this summer. In an August letter to students and parents, then-Dean of the Faculty James Wright wrote, "The Enrollment Committee recognizes that we need to look at next year and beyond in order to ensure that this year's situation never occurs again." The Enrollment Committee's provisions, developed after a full term's worth of work, do not represent any significant action to solve a problem that affects the majority of students: not enough beds in residence halls for the amount of students who want to be on campus in any given term. Though the committee thinks its actions will prevent another housing crunch from occurring, the lack of a concrete plan leaves students in limbo because they can not make concrete plans of their own. The Enrollment Committee says the Registrar will "work on a plan" to manage fall-term enrollments and "will discuss" the possibility of changing priorities for classes, the Off-Campus Programs Office "will work on" moving programs to the fall and the Enrollment Committee will "write a letter" to all sophomores alerting them of a possible housing crunch. These are not "action-steps," as the Committee calls them; they are good suggestions.

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When justice isn't blind

By Brandon Del Pozo | January 11, 1995

There are a lot of ways to spend your winter vacation, and most of them involve waiting for your friends to get home from their other colleges so that you can spend about a week together before you leave for Dartmouth again.

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On being a columnist

By Won Joon Choe | January 10, 1995

When a radically liberal friend back home heard that I had quit The Review and was to become a columnist for The Dartmouth, he asked: "Will you continue to spit out your fascist ideology, or will you begin to write intelligent pieces?" There are two easy replies to this question: the pompous reply and the gutless reply.

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Walsh and Sommers are misinformed

By Susan Zieger | January 9, 1995

To the Editor: Since I completely agree with Kevin Walsh's suggestion that "sound policy is based on truth," and that this is a dangerous message when "much of what one has been taught and believes is based on misinformation, false numbers and half-truths," I am compelled to correct some misinformation in his own commentary about gender feminism. I was among the students handing out information sheets at Christina Hoff Sommers's speech and they were not "drawn from FAIR" (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) as Sommers contended and Walsh restated, but rather were composed by students who also found her book "Who Stole Feminism?" riddled with the same sort of inaccuracies for which its author condemns all of gender feminism. As one can clearly see, anyone can misreport facts and statistics, but what is more reprehensible than such errors is a methodology based on anecdotes, which Sommers and Walsh pick up and recite as evidence of gender feminism's excesses.

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The truth about the 'Real World'

By Chris Kelly | January 9, 1995

I spent much of my break enjoying something I sorely missed last term: MTV's "The Real World." I had seen a few episodes of this year's installment over the summer, before I left for my FSP, but certainly not enough to know the characters' names or personality traits.

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The 'Big Green' question

By Claire Unis | January 6, 1995

How about the Lone Pines?" I asked my roommate. "Oh, that would be good. At football games we could do this," she proceeded to raise her arms above her head, clasp her hands and sway silently. "Okay, fine.

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Rethinking gender feminism

By Kevin Walsh | January 6, 1995

According to many of its critics, gender feminism, the latest strain of feminism to emerge on campus, is composed of people who are actually damaging the movement for women's equality.

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A foreign affair

By John Strayer | January 5, 1995

Perhaps it is self-indulgent, but today my column takes the form of a parable; it is a true story that raises important questions about the nature of social life at the College. Fifteen people -- six women and nine men -- set out for a distant country on a Foreign Study Program.

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