By Emily Johnson, The Dartmouth Staff
When presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain met for their town-hall style second debate, they fielded a predictable lineup of questions on the economy, health care and foreign policy. One question submitted by a self-described 78-year-old child of the Depression, however, stood out from the standard debate fare. "Since World War II, we have never been asked to sacrifice anything to help our country, except the blood of our heroic men and women," Fiora from Chicago said. "As president, what sacrifices will you ask every American to make to help restore the American dream and to get out of the economic morass that we're now in?"
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By Chris Talamo, Staff Columnist
Good lord, I am just sick and tired of all of these articles and columns bemoaning the wastefulness of frat parties littered with the aluminum remnants of pong games. Everyone, whether they consider themselves "green" or not, seems to have their own solution for the problem. In fact, students sometimes turn this complaining into a grade in the ENGS 21 classroom, usually involving powerful magnets or other complicated collection systems. Oh, and the cups! Those rage-colored plastic cups infesting our trashcans and floors! Where is the end to it all? How can we keep our brains sufficiently dulled and our environmental consciences quiet?
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