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April 14, 2026
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Brigitta Wagner
The Setonian
Opinion

Seeing Both Sides

By Brigitta Wagner | October 2, 2001

I was at home in New Jersey when the attacks occurred, and after 11 months in Germany, I encountered a United States so different from the one that I had imagined in occasional bouts of homesickness. The proximity of my parents' home to Manhattan and a year of exposure to New York's international symbolic value (for example, in advertisement slogans such as "Manhattan -- America's Dream of Ice Cream") allowed me to invest in that city whatever nationalistic impulses I possessed.

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Opinion

Rise And Fall

By Brigitta Wagner | April 23, 2001

To the Editor: As Kinohi Nishikawa wrote in his April 19th editorial (The Dartmouth, "The Culture of Denial"), "we all know -- more or less -- what goes on in frats even though we hate to admit it." To put it another way, we have never been innocent of "witnessing" and/or experiencing the exploitation of freshman women, the groping of body parts on the dance floor, the "morning after" walk home. I would like to address this silence, this complicity of which we are all -- students, alumni, faculty, and administrators -- guilty.

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