I have critiqued the College and its administration in the past. The constant theme of my critiques has been a resistance to change. This is not to say there aren’t things that should be changed, because there are — reduction of administrative bloat and fully staffing popular departments are two such examples that come to mind. When I first read Dave Glovsky’s column (“In All But Name,” Apr. 4), I strongly disagreed. Having taken some time to reflect I now realize that our point is essentially the same — we differ only on the details.
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Spring’s arrival doesn’t immediately guarantee warm, sunny days here in Hanover, but it does promise the return of a massive number of students who have been off for a term or two, doing everything from trying to save the world to selling out on Wall Street. Such diversity of experience is one of the so-called wonders of the D-Plan.
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The recent column by Jordan Osserman ‘11 (“What’s In A Name?” Apr. 2) touches on material that is both dangerous to society and has been thoroughly discredited by science. I am reminded of one of my clearest memories from college, a time 30 years ago when the greatest scientific hoax of the 20th century was being presented to Dartmouth students in Dartmouth classrooms.
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While many of us arrive as freshmen with an undying passion for community service and nonprofit work, we are quickly brainwashed with the Ivy elite’s capitalist expectations: Our learning experience is limited to the how-to-become-successful indoctrination that takes place within the Dartmouth bubble, protecting us from real life. Regrettably, the Dartmouth environment teaches us to become selfish individualists in a world where true values of life seem to have faded into oblivion.
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