First Falls
15 September 2001
irst year fall is a time for learning about yourself and the world. It’s also the prime time for shock and burnout. There are no constraints on doing things, and there are a million things to do. For the first time since you were an infant, you are allowed to get into trouble [...]
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The Dartmouth You Never Dreamed Of
15 September 2001
elcome to Dartmouth. You’ll hear that phrase repeated many times throughout Orientation week. Your UGAs will welcome you, your professors and class deans will welcome you; even the president will shake your hand and welcome you to our beloved college. As you walk around campus during your first weeks here, take a moment to reflect [...]
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Letter from an Assistant Dean of Student Life
15 September 2001
y name is Pam Misener and I am an Assistant Dean of Student Life whose full-time responsiblity is to serve as Dartmouth’s Advisor to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Ally (LGBTQA) students. My office is located in the Collis Center, Room 220C. I’ve enjoyed hearing from a number of you already, [...]
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A First-Year Guide to Queer Dartmouth
15 September 2001
his is a collection of opinions, resources, advice, and thoughts about the various aspects of student life for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, queers and their friends and allies (GLBTQA). Though this collection is broad, it is by no means comprehensive. The descriptions and personal stories are only small parts of a much larger picture. [...]
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Questioning the Unearned Privileges of the Greek System
15 September 2001
reek houses, in many ways succeed in establishing networks of internally supportive relationships between their members. Participation in community service, house projects, and campus wide parties and programs are rituals that create these networks. The system perpetuates healthy traditions and values, while simultaneously perpetuating harmful and destructive ones. Many fraternity and sorority members [...]
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Under Lock and Key
15 September 2001
or some, the sense of safety we have taken for granted as part of our lives at Dartmouth has recently been shattered. The off-campus murders of two professors and the invasion of privacy brought on by one or more local peeping Toms have given the necessary impetus for Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman [...]
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Investing Our Values
15 September 2001
artmouth College holds an endowment valued at approximately 2.5 billion dollars. Much of this endowment is invested in corporations that earn a return that pays for the Dartmouth life we enjoy. With the power to give money to a corporation and wish its success comes the responsibility of choosing to invest in corporations whose business [...]
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The Tucker Foundation and the Bigotry it Swept Aside
15 September 2001
his summer, I was the victim of religious intolerance at the hands of a College-recognized organization. Appallingly, the Tucker Foundation, the relevant overseeing body, chose not to act, but instead released a series of public statements that do not acknowledge the bigotry that transpired, but self-servingly protect its image on campus. Though I had contacted [...]
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Letters to the Editorial Board
15 September 2001
o the Editor: I am writing to inform the voting public of the State of New Hampshire about the wonderful services being performed for them by their own Senator Bob Smith and his remarkable staff. You see, a few weeks ago several classmates of mine and I were preparing a documentary film on land management. [...]
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Letter from the Editorial Board
15 September 2001
Message to the Class of 2005: Set a Watch Two lines of Dartmouth’s alma mater read: “Dear Old Dartmouth, set a watch, Lest the old traditions fail.” In the years following Dartmouth’s transition to co-education, male students expressed their disapproval of that change by shouting the second line. More recently, supporters of the Greek [...]
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