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The Dartmouth
June 26, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

SA should focus on solutions

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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'

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Cultural Pursuits: The Importance of Style

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Last week, I watched the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie "Notorious" for one of my classes. It's the one that features Cary Grant as a suave federal police officer who persuades Ingrid Bergman, the daughter of a convicted German spy, to infiltrate a Brazilian man's inner circle and uncover his role as a German agent. Okay, it's a bit of a hokey set-up, but the movie proves marvelous, and for reasons you might not expect.