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July 26, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Opinion
Opinion

Make weight room more accessible

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Physical fitness is becoming less accessible for the average Dartmouth student. A friend and I were recently on our way to the Kresge Fitness Center when we met two people returning from the fitness center.


Opinion

A new social experience

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How many of you Dartmouth men wish that there was more to the social life here than getting drunk with buddies and going to the same old fraternities and meeting the same old 115-pound waifs with trust funds? If you are the least bit like me, there must be quite a few of you who have just about reached your limit with these women.




Opinion

I depledged my sorority

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I depledged my sorority at the end of Summer term 1993. Although there a few other motivational forces, the reason I ended my membership was that as a woman of color I felt very uncomfortable in Dartmouth's mainstream sorority system.



Opinion

Don't rest your future on the name 'Dartmouth'

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When I was in high school one of my more cynical friends told me that a college's name secures your first job, but not much else. However, I matriculated believing that a an Ivy League diploma would guarantee me a prosperous, high profile and meaningful career for the rest of my life.


Opinion

No Greek suicide

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By adding a night of Wednesday rush, the Interfraternity Council has saved itself from doing a regrettable disservice. Until last night, this year's rush regulations only allowed one night of open rush, to be followed by two nights of invitation-only events.


Opinion

An open letter to Jeffrey Hart

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Dear Professor Hart: I would like to correct what I believe are errors of substance in your letter published in The Dartmouth Monday. You state that "[Professor Thomas Luxon's] political correctness is so great that he has the arrogance in a public forum at Dartmouth to speak over a sophomore in the kid's [sic] mid-sentence, shouting his own views." To the best of my recollection, (a) Professor Luxon did not interrupt a student in order to shout his own views; (b) the professor who did interrupt one or more students was myself.


Opinion

Deaf ears

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Last night six senior women participated in a panel discussion on the Greek system, a valuable exercise in improving the sorority system. The women shared their personal experiences with audience members, but those women who would have benefited most from the speakers were, for the most part, not there. The audience was made up mostly of other senior women, who were eager to discuss their own impressions of the system and answer questions they had about the system while participating in it. But on the eve of the first day of sorority rush, the number of '96 women in theaudience was conspicuously low. The number of audience members and their eager questions after the event show the value of students advising each other about the benefits and pitfalls of the sorority system.


Opinion

Peace will bring Israel security

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Over this summer Israel's government demonstrated its commitment to security and peace. The retaliatory strikes that the Israel Defense Forces carried out in southern Lebanon against the Hizbollah terrorists made it clear that when issues of security arise the government would not hesitate to react promptly and with the required force. Less than two months after the events in Lebanon, Israel's government demonstrated that it was also committed to peace as it recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as the representative of the Palestinian population, and cut a deal with it over limited self-rule. I believe Israel's security depends on peace.





Opinion

Homelessness and the Dartmouth connection

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I hoped it was too early in the term to have negative things to say about Dartmouth, but I was wrong. One of the more pressing problems with our academic institution is homelessness. Don't struggle to recall where you saw the last bum on Main Street this morning.


Opinion

Emphasize individualism

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My sophomore year, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion to supply the "white male" perspective on the issue of political correctness.


Opinion

Men of Dartmouth

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When members of the Class of 1997 gathered in Leede Arena for their first class meeting Saturday night, the men and women of Dartmouth were greeted by Dean of Students Lee Pelton.


Opinion

Co-eds should predominate in Greek system

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A year ago Andrew Beebe '93 proposed an entirely co-ed Greek system. While I supported the spirit of his proposal, I disagreed with some of the particulars, and spent last year talking about the issue with as many sorority, fraternity and co-ed house members as possible. As a result of those talks I offer the following proposal: Reorient the present Greek system so that co-ed houses are numerically the majority, the "mainstream" social option.


Opinion

Falling into place

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"Are you an upperclassman?" the young woman asked the man in Thayer Dining Hall. The wisdom in his spectacled eyes must have given him away. "I am a clueless 'shmen," she admitted.


Opinion

Believe it or not, Hart has heart

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Recently, I have heard much talk about Dartmouth Review mentor/National Review Assistant Editor/Cheatmonger/English Professor Jeffrey Hart speaking to the freshman class during Orientation Week.