By Zak Moore, Staff Columnist
When I read online in The Dartmouth that "Nearly 50 professors sign letter in protest of Commencement speaker," I got worried. I scanned down the article as quickly as possible, trying to catch the name of this ostensibly offensive speaker. The article included labels like "a clear and unprecedented danger to our democracy." Yale apparently admitted a former Taliban spokesman as a student; were we asking an official of al-Qaeda or Saddam's former regime to address our school? Then I saw the speaker called "strange and disappointing," and I thought of people who would fit that bill: Was it Jason Blair or Pee-wee Herman?
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By John H. Mathias Jr., Guest Columnist
On June 10 in Hanover, I had the pleasure of watching my eldest daughter graduate with 1021 of Dartmouth's newest alumni in the Class of 2007. Among all their many accomplishments and accolades, it stood out to me that a record breaking 80 percent of these splendid new alumni had already done something which our most recently elected petitioner trustee has not seen fit to do since his own graduation in 1988. They have made a personal gift to the Dartmouth College Fund. Nor had the petitioner trustee given a minute of his time in service to Dartmouth prior to being seated on its Board. There is not another college or university board in the country that would welcome an alumni trustee with these disabling credentials. But Dartmouth just did.
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By Joseph Asch, Guest Columnist
After last year's defeat of the anti-petition-trustee constitution, it was only a matter of time before another attempt would be made to stop the election of the College's popularly elected petitioners.
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By Mike Diehn, Enfield, N.H.
To the Editor:
I believe Boloco has been anything but dark and deceitful ("Boloco is unhealthy for you," May 30). In fact, because of their being the opposite of that characterization, Boloco is one of the few restaurants at which I can still eat. I'll explain.
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By Elisabeth Barbiero
To the Editor:
Regarding Boloco and Veronica de Zayas' claim that "they sneakily bury their nutrition information in their website" ("Boloco is unhealthy for you," May 30) -- I just went there myself and it took a whopping two clicks of my mouse to bring it up.
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By Robbie Mitchell, Cambridge, Mass.
To the Editor:
"Let this serve as a warning to anyone who is at all cautious about a healthy diet -- the next time you're going to eat a 'healthfood' like a salad, do a little research first."
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By Douglas W. Anderson
To the Editor:
Kevin Garland's article ("Eccentric Anarchy," June 10) gets wrong the central quotation around which it is based in such a way as to almost reverse its meaning. Churchill did not say "Anarchy is the worst form of governance, besides all the others." Rather, Churchill said, "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time," at the House of Commons on Nov. 11, 1947.
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