Cutting out the Ugly
22 January 2010
Advertisements are meant to attract consumers. Unfortunately, reaching that goal sometimes means employing means that are less-than-ethical. One example comes from the longstanding practice of using the ideal of female perfection as a marketing tool. At some point, in the arms race to fabricate the most “perfect” woman, technology has been recruited to take over where nature left off.
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Socialism is Coming!
22 January 2010
I have always believed in the free markets. And after the recent financial crisis, I still do. But I’ve never believed that free markets could work in lieu of government. Recent events have strengthened this view. We should finally accept the fact that the financial system is by necessity “socialist.” At this point, the question is not so much, “can the free markets work without government regulation?” It is more, “We know the financial system cannot work independent of government. How can we ensure market regulation serves the interests of the American people?”
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Hanging Off of Tip Top Boulder
20 November 2009
12:14, not 12:15, but 12:14. That’s when John Joline, a Dartmouth alumnus and enigmatic mainstay of the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club, suggested we meet to catch the free shuttle to the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. “Does the bus have a bike rack?” I asked in my confirmation blitz, and luckily, it did. So I pack my bag with my climbing shoes and chalk, a water bottle, and some pre-made sandwiches from the Hop—the essentials.
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Creationists On Campus
20 November 2009
On Wednesday, November 18th the DFP blitzed out a news alert about The Origin of Species paperbacks being passed out on campus, and since then we’ve received many varying responses. Almost all thanked us for getting the information out to campus about the disingenuous campaign to subvert the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.
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Coloring a Different World
20 November 2009
If you thought you knew all that’s in the small town of Hanover, I have a surprise. I, too, thought I knew all the nooks and crannies of this small town until a few days ago. I took a shortcut between Eastman’s Pharmacy and The Gap, and I noticed for the first time an inconspicuous underground art gallery. Hasse Gallery, to be exac
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Walls Always Come Down
20 November 2009
In Berlin this November, Germans are partying like it’s 1989. Well, almost. This time there are no sledgehammers, cranes, or bewildered communist soldiers. The only wall falling is a line of a thousand giant Styrofoam dominoes, painted by European school children.
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Dressing Distastefully
20 November 2009
Here at Dartmouth, real trends in fashion, politics, and tectonic plate movement often don’t permeate our bubble. But like any isolated civilization, we have developed our unique visual code to signify status, allegiance, and resistance through our dress. Unfortunately, this coding usually involves sweatshirts. I’ll never forget the time I was sitting with a friend and somebody dressed as a cow in FoCo.
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Grill Guys
20 November 2009
Eating at Dartmouth is unlike eating in at a restaurant or at a dinner table. Most of us don’t think of a late-night trip to FoCo as a chance to enlighten our taste buds, and it is certainly not the kind of place where you wait for your friends to sit down before you dig in.
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Criminal Negligence
20 November 2009
Take a moment to consider these facts, and try to comprehend the gravity of the problem of sexual assault in America: 1 in 6 American women have survived a rape or an attempted rape in their lifetime 1 in 33 American men have survived a rape or an attempted rape in their lifetime Every two minutes, someone in the U.S is sexually assaulted 60 percent of sexual assaults, including rape, are not reported to the police If a rape is reported, there is only a 50.8 percent chance of arrest Factoring in unreported rapes, only 6 percent of rapists ever spend any time in jail
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A Magical Musical Experience
20 November 2009
I grew up listening to the Pat Metheny Group, Thelonious Monk and the Yellowjackets. I am no foreigner to the world of jazz, yet Big Band Now: The Sound of Young New York was a necessary addition to my jazz education. Don Glasgo and Dartmouth College’s Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble put their best foot forward with special guest, Jason Lindner at the Hopkins Center of the Arts. Pianist, composer, arranger and producer Lindner “is a musical universe” according to prolific pianist and composer Chick Corea. The New York Times takes it a step further, describing him as “only partly interested in jazz’s idiomatic customs. What matters to him is groove.”
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