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Buntz: Illusions of Grandeur

By Sam Buntz | May 18, 2011

This may be the last column I write for The Dartmouth. A big thanks goes out to everybody editors, students, staff and citizens who lent their attention, in one way or another, to this rather ramshackle venture in amateur opinion writing. During my time here, I've occasionally worried that I wasn't taking advantage of the "Dartmouth Experience." I failed to rush and pledge a frat, failed to join an "A-Side" a cappella group (I can snap my fingers really fast, actually), failed to swim naked across the Connecticut river you know what I mean.

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Buntz: Reading Between the Critics

By Sam Buntz | April 20, 2011

In reading the comments on Peter Blair's recent column on Jane Austen ("Austen's Power," April 19th), I was struck as I continually am by the difference in the way I read books compared to my peers.

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Buntz: Stuck in the Mental DMZ

By Sam Buntz | April 6, 2011

Our generation is largely focused on agreement. We're not a group that defines ourselves through dissent as those who came of age in the '60s did, and with the rise of the internet's ability to create an even more extensively shared mass culture than TV, it has become all the easier to plug into the same matrix of social enthusiasms.

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Buntz: The New Stoicism

By Sam Buntz | February 23, 2011

Increasingly, many politicians have called for and attempted to institute austerity measures. The citizens of the United States seem loathe to put up with this, despite recently electing so many of the people calling for these measures and cutbacks.

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Buntz: Overhearing the Abyss

By Sam Buntz | February 8, 2011

My favorite part of The Dartmouth aside from the opinion page, of course is the overheards. The overheards are ultimately more than just a fun snapshot of collegiate excesses and buffoonery although they are, undoubtedly, that too.

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Buntz: More Than ‘Skin' Deep

By Sam Buntz | January 26, 2011

"Life is a bitchin' party ..." "Life sucks ..." These two contrasting messages are entwined in the new MTV series "Skins." The show adapted from a British program has recently caused something of a fervor because it depicts underage actors and actresses, ranging from ages 15 to 17, getting high and having sex in the super intense nightlife atmosphere for which high schools are universally renowned. Some have gone so far as to accuse the show of being child pornography which, having watched the first two episodes in growing disgust and cranky disapproval, I can say is basically true.

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Buntz: Sufi Solidarity

By Sam Buntz | January 12, 2011

I have previously written that the war in Afghanistan has gone on for far too long. I still feel like that's true but I don't think the reason that Americans are only half-heartedly supporting this war is the absence of a truly evil enemy.

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Committing to Memory

By Sam Buntz | November 28, 2010

I have a considerable amount of nostalgia for the 19th century. This is possibly misplaced after all, we have abolished slavery, discovered penicillin, etc.

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Undeserved Anthem

By Sam Buntz | November 9, 2010

If I were to run for political office and wave around a copy of L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics," it would no doubt ruin me.

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