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Confessions of a Psychology Major

By Brian Deaner | January 4, 1995

I have finally achieved the almighty status of being a Dartmouth senior, but with such a prestigious position comes the responsibility of deciding what I am going to do with my life -- i.e.

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Welcome to The D

By House Edit | January 4, 1995

The 1996 Directorate would like to welcome you to a new year of The Dartmouth. Every January, a new team of editors assumes control of America's oldest college newspaper.

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Why Proposition 187 Is Wrong

By Gregory Nicholson | November 23, 1994

I have heard Rebecca Liddicoat'95's explanation for voting for Proposition 187 several times, and it is clear that she did not vote for it for racist reasons. That is to say, she did not vote for it because she desires to see all Mexican-Americans gone from California, she would like to see only illegal immigrants, regardless of their race or ethnicity, gone from California. What she fails to recognize in her column, "Why California Voted for Proposition 187," is that even though her reasons for voting are not racist, the proposition is inherently racist. Liddicoat recognizes that the majority of immigrants in California come from Mexico.

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Moore's Stand on Sexism Right

By Nathan Saunders | November 23, 1994

To the Editor: I am writing in support of Danielle Moore '95's decision to take a stance regarding sexism in the Student Assembly. I admire her courage in acting on her conscience and enduring the backlash that occurs whenever a woman attempts to fight sexism rather than ignore it, naively hoping it will go away on its own. To those who have criticized her decision or rejected her claims of sexism in the Assembly - open your eyes. Pay attention to how women are treated on this campus, and in our society in general, before you rush to condemn a woman who has the sense of self-worth to remove herself from an oppressive environment. Take women's complaints of sexism seriously.

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Croatian Border Worse than Campus Po'

By Justin Cooper | November 23, 1994

To the Editor: After my recent, near-tragic experiences on the loose in Eastern Europe, I would like to express my most sincere support for Dartmouth's alcohol policy. After being arrested and fined for public urination in two former Eastern-bloc states, and then being detained for 26 hours at the Croatian border for vomiting on a passport-control officer, I have realized that young people under 21 do not have the ability to use alcohol maturely or in a controlled manner. I, for one, will obediently wait until my 21st birthday before drinking another drop of alcohol, at which time I will no doubt be immediately imbued with the ability to drink in a controlled, adult-like fashion. Keep up the good work, Mr. Pelton!

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Attitudes Toward Assemby Overlooked

By Jim Godfrey and Jim Godfrey | November 22, 1994

To the Editor: Your headline "Campus divided over resignation" (Tues., Nov. 15) is ironically ambiguous. Most of the article supports your sub-headline "Moore's decision to leave SA presidency praised, attacked." But a paragraph buried deep in the article notes a larger, and perhaps more problematic, division of the campus: "A majority of students interviewed by The Dartmouth either were apathetic toward the resignation or did not know enough about the Assembly to care"

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Thanks for Strong United Way Effort

By Sheba Freedman | November 22, 1994

To the Editor: As the fall term draws to a close, we write to thank the Dartmouth community for its ongoing support of the United Way at Dartmouth College (UWDC). To date the UWDC campaign has raised more than $110,000, which is more than 75 percent of our $146,000 goal.

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Adopt Cooler Parents

By Brian Deaner | November 22, 1994

Many freshman come to Dartmouth with the hope of maintaining a relationship with the Home-Town-Honey, a boyfriend or girlfriend who still resides within the confines of his/her Mom and Dad's home town. Needless to say, SAT stresses, curfew dilemmas and yearbook controversies usually don't preoccupy a college freshman as much as a high school junior and relationships typically end by freshman winter.

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Words of Wisdom Past

By Dan Richman | November 22, 1994

Dateline: April 12, 1994. Election day. In this very paper, a column by none other than yours truly is printed, entitled "Sugahara for President." In it, I stated: "[Danielle] Moore's middle name is politics and she is a walking controversy . . . I guarantee that if she were to be elected, the politics and infighting [in the Student Assembly] would increase exponentially." Funny how things turn out.

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Yes to First Year Plan

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | November 22, 1994

To better the sense of community that is fundamental to Dartmouth's academic setting, the recommendations of the Committee on the First-Year Experience released last May should be approved by the Trustees for implementation. The report recommends that three residential clusters, including the River and the Choates, be dedicated to freshmen; that a senior faculty member reside near the freshmen clusters to "stimulate intellectual exchange;" residence assignment so that students in the same First-Year Seminars and English 2/3 and 5 classes live within the same cluster; that the seminar leader be the faculty adviser for students taking the seminar; and lastly, that 100 additional beds be constructed. Currently, freshmen and sophomores comprise over 70 percent of the dorm population -- interaction between juniors, seniors and freshmen is already minimal.

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Dissolve The Assembly

By Michael "Ranger" Anderson | November 22, 1994

The time has come to dissolve the Student Assembly. The events of the past few days are an appropriate culmination of the chicanery that has plagued SA for the past few years. It is a true pity that it has come to this point.

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Internal Possession an Issue of Law-making

By Matthew Mcgill | November 21, 1994

To the Editor: I am writing in response to your editorial ("A Cause For Outrage?," Oct. 26) which was quoted in the November 4 edition of the Manchester Union-Leader. Since I am in Oxford this term, I have regrettably not been able to obtain a copy of your full editorial and I only received the Union -Leader article.

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Davis Wrong on Issue of Women and Abortion

By Kevin Walsh | November 18, 1994

It is not surprising or at all unusual that Angela Davis said some of the things that she said in her harangue on Saturday, but the reaction to many of the things which she said was unnerving to say the least. Rather than point out the many inflammatory remarks that were made and think about the positive reactions given by the audience, let us examine another issue that is problematic and deserving of attention. This is an issue that is unpopular to discuss, but is increasingly a non-issue on campus and within this country.

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Honovich Deserves Support

By Kially Ruiz | November 18, 1994

To the Editor: I feel that I must let you know what I think of the news that the Student Assembly was trying to eject John Honovich '97. All that he did was tell the students what was going on inside the Assembly.

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