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The Dartmouth
May 4, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Russell Dalferes
The Setonian
Opinion

Drinking Age Should Be 18

Iwould like to congratulate Lea Kelley '97 on her column proposing to lower the drinking age to 18.While she concentrated mainly on aspects of Dartmouth life that could be altered for the better by changing the drinking age to 18, it is important to expand on a couple of general ideas regarding this change that would affect high school and college campuses all over the country. It is a fact that drinking will happen wherever people our age are left without parental influence, and oftentimes it happens while the underage drinker is still with his parents -- it is just done a bit more clandestinely.

The Setonian
Opinion

Resignation Inconsistent, Groundless

I don't understand the motive behind Student Assembly President Danielle Moore '95's decision to step down from her leadership position. She was hailed as the great hope to maintain (or regain) liberal leadership of the Assembly, and when the first sign of disagreement with those of the opposite point of view enters under her administration, she steps down, citing inability to work with the Assembly. How did someone like this ever get elected to a power position in the first place?

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