College President James Wright’s announcement earlier this week of his plans to step down in June 2009 has aroused discussion of his legacy — a legacy that began at his inauguration in the fall of 1998. After reminding the crowd of his background as a historian, Wright took a moment to examine two different sources of tension at Dartmouth: tension between continuity and change in Dartmouth’s history and future, and tension between the individual and the community on our campus. “This implicit tension between self and community is inherent within the academy,” he said. “It is a tension that results in tremendous fragility, on the one hand, and tremendous strength, on the other.”
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The College’s decision to permit Alpha Kappa Alpha — a historically African American sorority — to return to campus is a wise one, but not for the reasons that were predictably emphasized in Tuesday’s article about the reaction to our latest Greek addition (“Students Weigh Social Impact of AKA’s Return,” Feb. 5).
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Beware, what follows is an unadulterated piece of Eli snobbery straight from the Yale Daily News. Read only after taking the necessary precautions:
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Lucy Stonehill ‘10’s recent column (“See You In Hell,” Feb. 5), which simultaneously condemns diversity, tolerance and relativism, would have been comical were it not so depressing. If Miss Stonehill read the works of anthropologist Clifford Geertz, linguist Ferdinand de Saussure or — God forbid — theologian St. Augustine, she would realize that her vaunted objectivity is both hypocritical and intellectually dishonest.
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