Letter from the Editorial Board
07 March 2001
etter From The Publisher We realize that it is somewhat unconventional to publish so late in the term. But we have decided to distribute this final issue primarily because we believe there are things that need to be said now before those we hope to speak to have stopped listening. After several focusing events in February [...]
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Common Share – 1.4
07 March 2001
Mother Nature 1-George W. Bush 0 On the same day that a massive earthquake rocked the Seattle, Washington area, Mr. Bush was busy doing his own damage in the other Washington. Among various budget items Bush wants to destroy to reduce spending on programs that help non-millionaires is a $25 million federal program that helps communities [...]
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Scalping Racism
07 March 2001
Racism is a serious problem at Dartmouth, and racially motivated incidents will continue to occur until the Dartmouth community challenges that racism. Usually, those racist attitudes are difficult to see because they occur primarily as an undercurrent beneath our everyday interactions. But when they manifest as concrete incidents, these events are an opportunity for us [...]
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N. Dakota University Debates Sioux Mascot
07 March 2001
Dartmouth isn’t the only college where Native American mascots are a hotly debated subject. Students at the University of North Dakota have begun a recent push to eliminate the "Fighting Sioux" as the school’s mascot. And for a while, the administration appeared cooperative, saying that they intended to change the mascot "eventually." The issue didn’t come [...]
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In Defense of Cultural Sensitivity
07 March 2001
I am not defending political correctness as we commonly see it. I have never met anyone who openly advocates that we should all be "politically correct." Rather, "political correctness" is a derogatory term used to cast doubt upon the idea that we should be sensitive about offending cultural minorities and other oppressed groups in our [...]
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Racial Divisions
07 March 2001
Self-segregation. The term suggests a group of people who willingly choose to separate themselves from the rest of the community. Using the term makes the assumption that those "self-segregationists" have consciously made a choice to remain closed within their own respective communities, that they have chosen to create divisions between people like them and not [...]
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The Factions of Familiarity
07 March 2001
In an era that introduced affirmative action, our country has become increasingly concerned with diversity. Every major institution has moved toward integration. Like most of the nation’s other universities, Dartmouth has also been trying to diversify its campus. So far the administration has been pleased with its work, loudly touting its new diversity. It is [...]
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Not Just Pleasure at the Playboy Mansion
07 March 2001
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: I am not anti-sex. Not only am I not anti-sex, but I whole-heartedly support the frank and open discussion of sex and sexuality. At Dartmouth especially, I believe this to be crucial. I also want make it plain that feminism is not anti-sex. Despite what the propaganda of the [...]
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The Big Green Classist Machine
07 March 2001
Dartmouth is considered one of the finest educational institutions on the planet. But the education it offers is clearly biased and one-sided towards supporting capitalist hegemony and exploitation. Despite its rhetoric about helping working-class students attend the College, its financial aid policy clearly discriminates against poor and working-class students, serving the interests of the institution [...]
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Feeling Racism
07 March 2001
I am beginning to detest political correctness! Maybe I am just from the school of thought that wants to know how people really feel. It’s not that negative opinions don’t hurtÓof course they do. But I would take a cross-burning-hate-spouting-hood-wearing Ku Klux Klan member over a person who thought the same things, but never dared [...]
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