The recent influx of wannabe voters to Student Assembly in the face of a vote on a polarizing issue demonstrates a fatal flaw in the Assembly’s rules on how to attain voting rights. Currently the majority of voters in the Assembly are either those who attended three consecutive meetings or those who got a vote by being an “organizational representative.” (The Dartmouth Bogglers Union has a vote.) Student Assembly should have infrastructure that at least attempts to promote a representative voting body, but its current constitution makes it easy for a vocal minority to gain a majority in the Assembly.
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I applaud both Bret Vallacher ‘10 and the Dartmouth staff for addressing class issues at Dartmouth (“Work-Study Woes,” Jan. 30), an issue that is so often shoved to the backburner in favor of trendier issues like race, sex and sexual orientation. I was, however, dismayed to read Vallacher’s take on work-study, as I feel it is illustrative of so many of the class problems I witnessed at Dartmouth during my four years there. While there are too many incorrect points and assumptions in the article for me to tackle all of them, I can address a few of the most glaring problems.
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I must admit, I was gleeful to see the initial effort to impeach current Student Assembly President Tim Andreadis. Not that I necessarily want Andreadis impeached, or feel strongly about his job performance (either positively or negatively); I just thought it would be fun to have something to discuss for a couple of weeks. The Andreadis/Shpeen feud has provided The Dartmouth with about two weeks worth of coverage at this point and does not seem to show any evidence of slowing down. But as many have asked over the last two weeks, why should we care?
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To the Editor:
As a College swim/dive parent, I was stunned by The Dartmouth’s last editorial (“If You Want to Dive, Dive Head First,” Jan. 26). The program faces hurdles that no other athletic program at Dartmouth has endured. These include a recent administration attempt to end the program, no college money for the program, arguably the worst facilities that any Dartmouth Division-1 team sport must tolerate and inarguably the worst aquatic facilities in the Ivy League and among the worst in D-1 swimming.
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To the Editor:
If you want to find fault with the College swim team, blame the admissions office. They are the ones denying admission to the top recruits every year, the same recruits who come back and beat us as a member of another Ivy League team a year later. You can also talk to the athletic department about funding and the general attitude toward swimming as a second-class sport.
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