The Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. came back to the political spotlight this week -- with a vengeance. Wright, Senator Barack Obama's former and longtime pastor, delivered a barrage of what The Daily Show's Jon Stewart called "mild, medium and spicy" remarks.
One major item has been left out of the recent discussion of possible improvements at Dartmouth College: technological upgrades.
During my four years here, I have developed a love-hate relationship with Dartmouth. I love the outdoors, the professors and the students.
Why don't we protest as much as previous generations used to? This is the question posed by Dr. Rita Colwell to a dozen Dartmouth students at a dinner last Tuesday.
If you are a typical Dartmouth student, you have probably fallen behind on class work since the first day of this term.
To the Editor: I disagree with Daniel Belkin's plea for the College to observe more federal holidays ("Give Me a Break," Jan.
I was very surprised to read on this page that Zachary Hyatt '09 thinks the United States and Russia share similar national interests ("The Rumbling Bear: A Dying Art," May 15). I believe that Russia's recent actions, policies and rhetoric indicate the contrary. For the past seven years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has eradicated the vestiges of democracy and civil society that his predecessor, the late Boris Yeltsin, had struggled to build.
Last year, the Darfur Action Group at Dartmouth participated in a noble, successful and ultimately ineffectual effort to divest from companies that do business with Sudan.
It happens every year, on every college campus: Students gather to protest some worldly injustice or call on some faceless organization (usually the U.S.
The elusive cure for AIDS is one of the most important humanitarian quests of the 21st century. Over 40 million people in the world live with AIDS; almost 3 million die from it each year.