Common Share 1.7
30 May 2001
addy’s little girl? If you were the daughter of the most powerful person in the free world, would you want to change your identity? Apparently, if you’re one President Bush’s daughters, the answer is “yes.” Nineteen-year-old Jenna Bush, a first-year student at the University of Texas at Austin, was recently caught attempting to buy alcohol at [...]
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The Mirage of Bipartisanship
30 May 2001
George W. Bush campaigned for the Presidency on two central themes: tax-cuts and bipartisanship. Of course, he had other ideas, but most of them were unpopular, so strategist Karl Rove made sure that Dubya didn’t talk about those. As it turns out, Bush is delivering on his promises of tax-cuts and bipartisanship, except without any [...]
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A Humbled Nation
30 May 2001
n May 3, the United States was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commission for the first time since U.S. leadership founded the panel in ’47. The Commission is responsible for setting standards, appointing inspectors and passing resolutions to define and defend global human rights. Although it does not have the power to enforce [...]
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Community Through Student Reform
30 May 2001
Dartmouth’s fraternity and sorority system is an anachronistic, elitist, and corrupt institution that provides a convenient haven for the College’s worst elements and allows the perpetuation of distorted gender, race, and class interactions. But, to pervert the words of Daniel Webster, “there are those who love it.” The men and women affiliated with the Greek system at [...]
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When Selectivity Is Justified
30 May 2001
hould students be able to create exclusive clubs? Does the process of admission into these clubs become similar to college admissions officers selecting excellent students to be admitted to Dartmouth? Or is it like the coolest kids in a high school selecting who should belong to the “in” clique? These questions frame debate about the [...]
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Coeducation
30 May 2001
n current brouhaha about the future of the Greek system, none of the factions seems to have taken into account something that Dean Larimore and President Wright clearly spelled out in their letters last month after the College’s derecognition of Zeta Psi fraternity: the Principle of Community. The College does not exist to ensure that each [...]
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In Defense of Exclusion
30 May 2001
have not in the past been a staunch defender of single-sex Greek houses. So it shouldn’t come as a shock that I do not wish to defend them now. Yet I would like to point out that single-sex organizations are not evil by virtue of their exclusivity alone; if they are evil it is a [...]
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Privilege and Exclusion
30 May 2001
want to speak this afternoon in support of the claim in the motion before us that exclusionary single-sex social organizations are opposed to Dartmouth’s mission to foster a diverse, egalitarian, co-educational student culture. Let me begin by pointing out that these organizations themselves are not as diverse as we want our community to be. The Committee [...]
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In Support of Derecognition
30 May 2001
his afternoon I would like to express my support for the motion under consideration on the basis that indeed single-sex exclusionary student social organizations at Dartmouth are fundamentally antithetical to the educational and intellectual mission of this College and opposed to the very principle of community by which we all should abide. I would [...]
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Letter from the Editorial Board
30 May 2001
s I sign my last editorial in The Dartmouth Free Press, I have a few last sentiments I would like to express. So many senior men here do not yet have jobs next year, so I would propose an alternative: this place is swimming with high powered women, who need a good man with which [...]
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