The 'Big Green' question
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.
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.
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.
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.
Over the past few years, several independent groups have explored ways to make Dartmouth more environmentally sustainable.
To the Editor: Rebecca Liddicoat's column supporting California's Proposition 187 (Nov. 21), which deprives noncitizens of prenatal care, education and other benefits was wrong on all counts. Liddicoat claimed that "anywhere from a threefold to fivefold difference in cost and contribution" results from the presence of illegal immigrants in California. Does her unnamed source calculate the immigrants' value as consumers who spend money on California goods and, incidentally, pay sales taxes thereon, contrary to her statement that noncitizen residents "don't pay taxes"? Does it attempt to reckon the future cost to the U.S.
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.
Before I left to drive home to New Jersey for winter break, I ran into Collis to pick up a copy of the Report on the First-Year Experience.
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.
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.
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.
To the Editor: Based on the Student Assembly minutes of Nov. 15, the Assembly has 47 active members, of which one half are needed to make quorum.
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!
To the Editor: Thank you for publishing the recent story on the appointment of Nelson Armstrong '71 as the new director of alumni relations at Dartmouth.
College President James Freedman has now completed a six-month series of chemotherapy treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, diagnosed last April.
A year and a term ago, the sidewalk in front of Massachussetts Row was torn up and the road turned into a pedestrian walkway.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.