08 May 2001
ear Members of the Dartmouth Community, I would like to encourage you to read my opponent’s columns, and then consider the following: A vote for Ted Smith is a vote against the other canidates. Thank you for your time, Ted Smith
08 May 2001
was contacted about writing this article by The Free Press and told that each candidate would be given a forum to discuss “why the opponents they face are not deserving of the position.” A provocative prompt to be sure. But as a voter who is turned off by negative, dirty campaigning whenever I see it [...]
08 May 2001
he Dartmouth Free Press approached all candidates to do a piece critiquing each other’s ideas and qualifications. So here we go: my thoughts about the ideas of my competitors. Michael Sevi does bring some interesting ideas to the debate, and his campaign is good because it forces students to critically examine the Assembly and its role [...]
08 May 2001
ecent campus discussion, including one particularly questionable editorial in The Dartmouth, has disparaged the significance of the Student Assembly and its actions. The editorial, published on April 25, criticized the “pointless” resolutions put forward by the Assembly, and SA’s lack of an institutional voice with respect to the administration. The tone of The Dartmouth’s criticism is [...]
08 April 2001
ast night I went to see the film Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women, playing in Loew as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week. There were only about thirteen people at the film, including my two friends, those who organized the event, and myself. The poor attendance seemed to illustrate the [...]
08 April 2001
hen the opponents of the incitement of hatred and the proponents of unchecked free speech abut in the public sphere, sparks inevitably fly. Those who see free speech as indivisible have over the years transformed the right into the highest altar of worship in the land of democracy. Unadulterated free speech advocates are vociferous and [...]
08 April 2001
Two years ago, when President Wright smugly announced an “end to the Greek system as we know it” over the boos and hisses of much of the student body, I was among the hundreds of concerned students who flooded the lawn in front of the Psi Upsilon house in protest. [...]
08 April 2001
"Trillions of dollars in transfer payments have been made to African-Americans in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences–all under the rationale of redressing historic racial grievances." "If not for the dedication of Americans of all ethnicities and colors to a society based on the principle that all men are created equal, blacks in America [...]
08 April 2001
ou choose. You pay $32,000 a year to attend Dartmouth,including a $156 student activity fee, you’d think that’s enough to cover, say, student activities. But if you want to make a box in the woodshop, you’ll have to pay five bucks for the orientation class before you even pick up a tool. Does a show [...]
08 April 2001
he incessant nitpicking over the constitutionality of gun control misses the larger issue. Rather than arguing over minutia, let us ignore the specific wording of the Second Amendment and examine what the Constitution as a whole means to our country. The Constitution is merely a formal expression of the greater philosophies of our country: democracy, [...]
