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June 25, 2026
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Make the Best out of Rushing the Field

By Matt Cooperber | October 4, 1994

To the Editor: A "hollow and spurious tradition?" "Hazing?" "Hitler Youth?!" I'd like to clarify a few facts about the much-maligned "rush" at football games. I went to a number of Dartmouth football games with my father in the mid '80s.

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Disillusionment Over Haiti

By Rebecca Liddicoat | October 4, 1994

In Sunday's New York Times, the lead paragraph on Haiti read "Confusion over exactly what it is that American soldiers are supposed to be doing on Haiti's streets is growing almost as fast as the number of troops pouring in by air and sea." Reading about the floundering of our foreign policy in Haiti over the last months, my mood regarding it has gone from surprise to disappointment, to disillusionment, and finally to outright revulsion. That we would attempt to "restore democracy" to a nation that has never experienced it was ridiculous enough.

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Insensitive Headlines

By Dana Brenner | October 4, 1994

To the Editor: Two recent headlines appearing on the front page of The Dartmouth warrant criticism for their insensitivity and inappropriateness. The first headline, from Tuesday, Sept.

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Panarchy Free of Political Advocacy

By Sean Donahue | October 4, 1994

To the Editor: In your article, "Some flock to rush while others oppose," (Sept. 29), you wrote "Sean Donahue '96 and other members of Panarchy, an undergraduate society, began distributing pamphlets asking women and men interested in rush to reconsider their position." This is misleading -- not all of the people involved in making and distributing the flyers were members of Panarchy -- in fact, at least half of the people involved were not Panarchists.

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A Conversation on Campus Community

By David Boldt | October 3, 1994

The warm ovation for Donna Shalala had just subsided, and all that remained of Dartmouth College's convocation program was the address by the student assembly president, a segment often noted mainly for its rich trove of treasured cliches. But today's speech was to be something different, something more along the lines of, well, a conversion experience. "Before I begin my speech," Danielle Moore told the audience of students and faculty, "I think it's important you know the changes that have taken place in my opinions and attitudes." She then sketched her student career.

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Support and Judgement

By Claire Unis | September 29, 1994

I saw a swarm of '97 women leaving one sorority and heading for another a few nights ago. There was nothing particularly striking about them, except perhaps that they all looked so similar to me.

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Return Rush to Freshman Spring

By Dan Richman | September 28, 1994

This week, members of the sophomore class will adorn themselves in semi-formalwear and do that dance we call Formal Rush. It is important to realize, however, that sophomore fall Rush is a relatively new process.

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lncitement to Rush Harmful to Team and College, Deans say

By Peter Goldsmith | September 28, 1994

To the Editor: Dan Richman has done a disservice to first-year students in his column of September 20 ("A Senior's Advice") by recommending that freshmen "rush the field" at the homecoming football game without having sufficiently revealed to them the possible consequences. This so-called "tradition" has cast Dartmouth in an embarrassingly negative light in the eyes of our Ivy League peers, whose fans and band members have been injured in recent years by first-year students rushing the field.

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A Grandmother's Advice

By Monica Oberkofler | September 26, 1994

A couple of weeks ago, over break between summer and fall terms, I was getting ready to leave my aunt and uncle's home in Bryan, Texas when my grandmother suddenly asked me to stop by.

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The Rude of the Ivy League?

By Max Culpepper | September 26, 1994

To the Editor: As the director of the Dartmouth College Marching Band, I feel compelled to write to the student body in order to attempt to insert some sanity and balance into the "rushing the field" situation, which is once again becoming a problem.

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Democracy, in Haiti and at Home

By Jim Brennan | September 22, 1994

As I watched the American soldiers leaping onto the tarmac at the international airport in Port-Au-Prince this past Monday, a realization slowly crept into my mind. Most of these soldiers, sent by President Clinton to oversee the peaceable transition of power from the military junta in Haiti to the elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide, were about my age. I suppose that I've actually always known that.

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