Monday, October 01, 2007

Activism for the Next Generation

By Tom Atwood, The Dartmouth Staff

Unless something unprecedented happens in the next three years, the first decade of the 21st century will likely be remembered as a lost decade: a decade punctuated by an aimless and divisive war, spattered with terrorist attacks, and one during which people were fleetingly but admirably brought together by catastrophic natural disasters. All in all, it will be remembered as our decade, and we will be remembered as the generation that sat back while the world unraveled and succeeded in doing nothing about anything. More »

The Cholera Report

By Claire Murray, The Dartmouth Staff

The only person I’ve ever known to contract cholera was “my brother” Henry. That was in 1851, as we traveled the Oregon Trail in our covered wagon. (Yes, I am referring to that computer game that was popular when I was in third grade.) Suddenly, in the middle of a successful hunting day, ominous music announced the illness and subsequent death of a member of my wagon party, and I was left feeling bereft but comforted by the fact that, since I had never heard of it, cholera was a disease that did not actually exist anymore. More »