Opinion
Sickened by Ahmad
By Jonathan Eisenman | July 6, 2004To the Editor: I have never seen drivel of the equivalent of Adil Ahmad's "Cliches" letter (The Dartmouth, July 1) ever printed in this paper.
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Opinion
A Marriage of Logic and Reason
By Jonathan Eisenman | March 3, 2004In Monday's paper, Torivio Fodder '05 and Bruce Gago '05 bemoan The D's "intolerance for socially conservative positions." I believe I will be making an obvious editorial correction by amending their statement to read "[The Dartmouth's] intolerance for morally and logically indefensible positions." The guilelessness exuded by the remark "these conclusions seem so strangely intolerant" is a good preface to the willful naivete of the arguments to follow. Fodder and Gago first argue that marriage between one man and one woman is one of the "fundamentals of human society, found, since times long past, in societies from ancient Mongolia to West Africa.
Opinion
Heritage and Honesty
By Jonathan Eisenman | November 20, 2003To the Editor: I was not surprised to see the typical defenses of the Confederate battle flag in the Nov.
Opinion
No Defense, No Excuse
By Jonathan Eisenman | May 5, 2003Kathleen Reeder '03 wrote in May 2 column "Sex, Lies and Feminism" that "the failed feminist movement is feeding [young women] grossly inflated statistics and half-truths one in four college women has not been raped." A very good friend of mine once defaced his statistics book such that it was entitled "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics." Whether or not the one-in-four statistic or Reeder's refuting statistic (I assume she has one, although it was not in her opinion piece) are good examples of any of those three subsets of numbers, I am not qualified to say.
Opinion
The Price of a Discount
By Jonathan Eisenman | October 2, 2002To the Editor: In response to Ray Hood, Jr.'s letter in September 26th's issue of The Dartmouth, "A Hop Divided" -- specifically the quip "Some could say we should be lucky to live next to an institution that has the means to attract national acts and recording artists, instead of having to travel to Boston or New York to see them, but why pass off the cost to just one segment of the audience?" I should like to point out to other community members of like mind that the "other" segment to which Mr. Hood refers pays over $30,000 a year for the "privilege" of purchasing discounted Hopkins Center tickets.
Opinion
The Widow Continues
By Jonathan Eisenman | July 26, 2002To the Editor: I should like to, at the risk of turning the paper into a sounding board for myself and Mr. Stevenson, reply to his column entitled "Coming Out of the Closet" (Wednesday, July 24). First, however, I would like to upbraid you, editorship of The Dartmouth for altering the title on my submitted work from "The Widow's Peak" to "Rhetoric and Sacrilege." Not only did you ruin my attempt, albeit in poor humor, to retain the word "widow" in my letter, but in your ultimate editorial wisdom, you allowed the "balding author" bit to remain.
Opinion
Rhetoric and Sacrilege
By Jonathan Eisenman | July 22, 2002To the Editor: This balding author couldn't believe his eyes upon reading "The Widow's Answer" on July 18.
Opinion
A plea for logic
By Jonathan Eisenman | July 19, 2001To the Editor: I am writing to address Matt Soriano's bit of idiocy in the June 17th issue of The Dartmouth.
Opinion
Talk, Not Chalk
By Jonathan Eisenman | May 1, 2001To the Editor: Coronary heart disease is listed as a contributing cause of death in America on about 1,400,000 of 2,000,000 death certificates.
Arts
'Bitter' leaves a sour aftertaste
By Jonathan Eisenman | September 22, 1999Meshell Ndegéocello's third release is an ambitious, earnest snore snore