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The Dartmouth
May 19, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion

Opinion

Hopkins Institute should back off

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Recently, an organization of 2,000 Dartmouth alumni has been complaining about what they perceive to be an excessive number of administrators at the College. The group, called the Hopkins Institute, charges that the College is wasting money on these unnecessary employees and that the resulting bureaucracy is cluttering the administration.


Opinion

On the job education

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The passing of Green Key is a symbol that summer is just around the corner. Students of the College spend their summers in a variety of ways.




Opinion

Abortion debate part II -- is the fetus a human?

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In celebration of the end of this weekend's alcohol-consecrating festival, which I have personally found to be vastly superior to winter's pseudo-carnival, I will return to a suitably serious topic in order to get your brains moving past the hangovers from which you are undoubtedly suffering: abortion. In last week's column I set my goal at trying to refute that abortion was justified on the grounds that a person has sole control over her body and what she can do with it, although abortion is perhaps defensible on other grounds.




Opinion

Drivin' cross country

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Several students of mine have talked about driving across the country, but have been put off by fears for their safety or budgetary constraints. Do it, I say.






Opinion

No honor in cheating

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After a year of service on the Committee on Standards, I have witnessed an appalling number of academic dishonesty cases and an even larger number of excuses. Perhaps what is most upsetting is the lack of respect some students have towards the quality of their scholarship and the integrity of their classmates.







Opinion

Job woes

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When I was accepted at Dartmouth, I thought I was set for life. I made it to the top. All I needed to do was graduate in four years and people would knock down my door to give me an interesting, challenging, personally fulfilling and bank-account-enriching job.