Jokes aside
08 May 2001
ormer Vice President Al Gore had a truly brilliant moment near the end of the 2000 presidential election campaign. It began November 2, when then Governor George W. Bush said the following to a group of supporters: “[Bureaucrats] want the Federal Government controlling Social Security, like it’s some kind of federal program. We understand differently, [...]
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FTAA
08 May 2001
ver the weekend of April’, people across the western hemisphere gathered together, often in violent confrontation with police and military forces, to voice their objections to the specter of free trade. I was one of them. The center of attention was Quebec City, where as many as 60,000 protesters gathered to protest the Summit of [...]
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Aly Rahim
08 May 2001
he Student Assembly has become irrelevant to almost every student on campus. This is a reality the current and past leadership of the SA refuse to acknowledge. Michael Sevi and I acknowledge this reality, and aim to embark on a process of significant and proactive change. Michael and I are not beholden to the status [...]
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Michael Newton
08 May 2001
very year, during Student Assembly elections, dialogue shifts to how students can be best served. Each candidate comes up with his or her own platform, whether it be 7 points or none, on how to accomplish this. Both Vice Presidential candidates, Rahim and Anand, present ideas that are misdirected for accomplishment of this goal. Rahim, along [...]
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Amit Anand
08 May 2001
ou all should run for VP one day. I’m serious $mdash; even if you couldn’t give a damn about the assembly, or institutional voice, or the administration, or even change for that matter. You should run just because of all of the interesting people you’ll get to meet and all of the viewpoints that you’ll [...]
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Ted Smith
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
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Michael Sevi
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 [...]
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Molly Stutzman
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 [...]
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Letter from the Editorial Board
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 [...]
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Letters to the Editorial Board
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 [...]
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