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Montes-Irueste: Bad Bunny’s Performance Made Latinos and Caribbean People Weep — Here’s Why
By Unai Montes-Irueste | February 12, 2026Taking a deeper look into Bad Bunny’s halftime performance.
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Letter to the Editor: No Tolerance for Nazis
By Unai Montes-Irueste | September 19, 2025Re: Swastika drawn on floor outside Jewish student’s dorm room Swastikas, nooses or burning crosses should never be allowed. These symbols are used to inflict harm, not communicate. Yesterday’s hate crime is a reminder to do better. We must champion free speech and denounce hate. I agree with College ...
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Letter to the Editor: The hiring of Matthew Raymer ’03 and Logical Fallacies to Avoid
By Unai Montes-Irueste | April 11, 2025A Dartmouth alumnus responds to an op-ed on the hiring of Matthew Raymeer ’03.
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Claros Benitez, Rosario and Montes-Irueste: Beilock’s Not Like Us
By Yomalis Rosario , Unai Montes-Irueste and Jackelinne Claros Benitez | January 10, 2025Dartmouth alumni from three different decades demand responsible leadership from College President Sian Leah Beilock.
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The Search for a Resource Center
By Unai Montes-Irueste | May 28, 1998The article "College allocates campus space" [The Dartmouth, May 22] frustrated me tremendously. This article discussed the Facilities Advisory Committee, described the plight of the Women's Resource Center to move to a larger more central location, talked about Alpha Xi Delta's recent occupation of the Beta Theta Pi house and even managed to mention newly recognized Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity's desire to one day attain a permanent space for their organization.
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Prejudice Against Whites Comes from Prejudice Originated By Other Whites
By Unai Montes-Irueste | November 10, 1997I am a very prejudiced person. Far be it from me to pretend as if I do not emit racism, sexism, homophobia, ethnocentrism and classism into the Dartmouth environment on a regular basis; and while I blame a society that does not care for its children for most of my acculturated bigotry, I do not absolve myself of the responsibility of perpetuating jingoist attitudes, nor do I deny my greater obligation to attempt to prevent the transmission of my narrow-mindedness to my children. Recently a friend of mine called me a "hypocrite" because she perceived that I had a very harsh attitude towards whites which was incongruous with the highly-tolerant/anti-discriminatory image that I projected as a "campus-activist." To say the least I was very shocked and quite hurt to be accused of the greatest sin in the hierarchy of Dante's inferno (the two obvious hypocrites from the tradition of the Western canon--Judas the two-faced betrayer of Christ and Brutus his counterpart in Caesar's kingdom--are forever being consumed in Dis' mouth in the ninth circle of hell). My immediate reaction was of course to deny the charge as well as to try and contextualize any and all statements I may have made in my Dartmouth career alluding to individuals or groupings of them in which I used the word "white" as a qualifier or an indicative of a behavior, pre-disposition, temperament, et cetera.
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Jack O'Lantern: Neither Paranoia Nor Censorship Can Foster Learning
By Unai Montes-Irueste | November 6, 1997Censhorship has never resolved any problem of human miscommunication or misunderstanding. Language and ideas only truly belong to those who put them upon printed pages, or utter them into the audible air, when both the transmission of the message and the manner in which it is received can be controlled; otherwise, words and concepts are subject to multiple meanings, implications, interpretations and project disparate moral and ethical intentions.
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A Corrolary to Ayn Rand's Philosophy
By Unai Montes-Irueste | October 20, 1997Like many Dartmouth students and Upper Valley residents I recently attended the viewing of Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life and was instantly reminded of the controversy incited by this author's life and works.
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Credit Where Credit is Due
By Unai Montes-Irueste | May 26, 1997My first year at this school I anxiously attended graduation and said good-bye to a few good friends, but knew very well that life would go on without the Class of 1995.
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Executive Board of the Student Assembly Shows Alarming Lack of Diversity
By Unai Montes-Irueste | May 23, 1997To the Editor: I am deeply disturbed by the make-up of the executives selected by president-elect of the Student Assembly Frode Eilertsen '99. The power of the President to essentially pick anyone on this campus to fill the roles of chairs of vital committees such as Administration and Faculty Relations, Academic Affairs and Student Life, is very exiting and yet dangerous. The Student Assembly's executive board ought to be as diverse as the SA itself and the student body.