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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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Proposition 187 is Immoral and Fiscally Unwise

By Larry Clifford G | January 4, 1995

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.

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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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