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Rothfeld: The Path Less Traveled
By Becca Rothfeld | February 16, 2014Dartmouth culture should better value intellectualism.
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Rothfeld: Institutions, Not Individuals
By Becca Rothfeld | November 5, 2013When confronting injustice, do not conflate institutions and individuals
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Rothfeld: A Dismissal of Greater Issues
By Becca Rothfeld | October 22, 2013Real Talk might be frustrating, but mainstream Dartmouth is worse
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Rothfeld: No Surprises Here
By Becca Rothfeld | October 14, 2013Did Beta's emails tell us anything we couldn't already have guessed?
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Rothfeld: Cultural Appropriation
By Becca Rothfeld | September 24, 2013The specter haunting America — Miley's VMA performance
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Rothfeld: Dr. Strangelove
By Becca Rothfeld | September 15, 2013Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dartmouth
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Rothfeld: The Dangerous Dynamics of Dating
By Becca Rothfeld | March 24, 2013Although much vitriol has been spewed at the expense of the so-called "hook-up culture," next to nothing has been written about the equally regrettable and pervasive phenomenon of prematurely serious college relationships. When starry-eyed undergraduates are left to their own hormonal and often unbalanced ...
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Rothfeld: Universal Extremism
By Becca Rothfeld | March 4, 2013Last week, admissions announced that the annual Dimensions welcome show will be significantly reworked ("Admissions seeks to boost yield," Feb.
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Rothfeld: An Untenable Paradigm
By Becca Rothfeld | February 17, 2013Last week, the Associated Press released an internal memo advising its journalistic staff to refer to members of same-sex marriages as "partners" or "couples" rather than "husbands" or "wives." Ensuing criticism from LGBTQ rights groups prompted the A.P.'s editorial board to issue a revisionary statement clarifying the publication's stance: the terms "husband" and "wife" may be used to describe same-sex spouses only when "those involved have regularly used those terms," reads the missive. The A.P.'s decree is more than an isolated or publication-specific guideline.
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Rothfeld: Philosophically Lax
By Becca Rothfeld | February 5, 2013We all have one: the inescapable reading that surfaces and resurfaces in every class to which it is even remotely relevant.