The "work hard, play hard" formula of living practiced by Dartmouth students leaves little room for hugs. Lunch dates are booked weeks in advance and sleep is a high-priced commodity.
To the Editor: I disagree with Matthew Nolan '07 ("Sex: Not at all Like Steak," Feb. 21) that "sometimes the reason we do not talk about certain issues is that they are not acceptable." As a senior fellow writing a book on sexual expression, I would argue that those professing more "wholesome" brands of sexuality, like Nolan, are the reason others keep their more "perverse" sexual acts and desires to themselves.
Every year, around 1,000 students choose to attend Dartmouth over other schools. For that reason alone, why is it not obvious that they might actually like it here?
To the Editor: Unfortunately, Lambda 10 cannot work to erase homophobia until certain Greek houses admit that homophobia exists within their walls ("Lambda 10 works to erase homophobia," Jan.
To the Editor: Despite an acknowledgement of the "complex dynamics of self-segregation," The Dartmouth Editorial Board ("Self-segregation at Dartmouth," Jan.
Now that I am at Dartmouth, I have begun to learn what being gay actually means. But I had no idea how my sexual identity was inextricably linked to a wider, ineffaceable context of history, culture, society and politics.
To the Editor: In "Where Feminism Went Too Far" (Aug. 4), Iden Sinai ends his interpretation of the widely-documented gender gap in adolescent academic achievement -- females routinely outscoring their male cohorts -- with a preposterous conclusion: "The cadre of extremist feminists that seemingly has hijacked American education from kindergarten through graduate work has created an Orwellian playing field where one gender is just more equal than the other." But Sinai does not disclose the members of this cadre.
I agree with Brent Clayton's assertion that "the men of Dartmouth are gone" ("Why No One Rages Anymore," July 12). Like Clayton, I don't very much care for this "new population of males either." Some of them are just too effeminate for my tastes.
There is a generation gap in the gay rights movement and it is getting wider every day. This is because of the gay rights movement's increasingly single-minded focus on marriage equality. On the anniversary of the first legal same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts, all people, gay and straight, should celebrate the freedom of equality under the law. But for gay youth, the celebration is bittersweet. The elevation of marriage equality as the most important issue in the contemporary gay rights movement has obscured the fact that marriage is, for the most part, not even an issue for gay youth. Historically, the gay rights establishment has never asked gay youth for their opinion on any issue and the question of "gay marriage" is no different. The bottom line: the gay rights movement has never adequately addressed the needs of gay youth. My gay peers and I support equal rights for all. However, the issue of marriage equality has monopolized the gay and straight mainstream media's coverage of gay issues and effectively sidelined other issues in gay culture. As a gay male sophomore at Dartmouth College, I see many gay cultural and political issues that need to be addressed -- issues vital to the entire movement, not just gay youth. What are these issues?