Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Alumni For Jabberwocky?

By Roger Klorese, Guest Columnist

As with other conservative movements, the take-over faction who has brought suit against the College is attempting to define its issues by changing the language. Their right-wing kin have biased the language in the discussion of abortion (who, after all, is “anti-life”?) and equal rights (because it is easy to get people to oppose “special rights” even if those rights are no more special when applied to those who seek them than to those who would deny them). Now they are co-opting the notions of “parity” and “democracy” — again, because if there were truly issues of parity and democracy at risk here, how could one be opposed? More »

Stop And Smell The Roses

By Lydia Chammas, The Dartmouth Staff

Green Key is over — the ultimate sign that the end of term is near. With finals nearly in sight, I quote Dr. Seuss and ask, “How did it get so late so soon?” As a Dartmouth alum himself, Dr. Seuss would know better than any other writer how time at our College seems to fly by. It seems like only yesterday that I was a freshman learning the meaning of ‘boot and rally’ or nerdily asking the people at the circulation desk how to check out books. More »