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Verbum Ultimum: Demystifying Judicial Affairs

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 14, 2013

With the impending departure of undergraduate judicial affairs director Nathan Miller at the end of this academic year, the College is in a position to make an influential hire.

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Mehring: Preaching Beyond the Choir

By Adam Mehring | February 14, 2013

Tensions are high on Dartmouth's campus. It is a condition that applies very much to our present academic term.

Too many students use the Dartmouth bubble as an excuse to fuel their own willful ignorance of politics and current events, both national and global.

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Coffey: Dear Reader

By Kamiar Coffey | February 13, 2013

Sam Lindsay / The Dartmouth On occasion we all let the gorgeous wilderness surrounding our campus lull us into a false sense of importance.

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Miller: The Online Scourge

By Jon Miller | February 13, 2013

Many Dartmouth courses post homework, reading, general coursework and other material online. However, Dartmouth, which is ranked by U.S.

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Ramesh: The Equal Pay Farce

By Chandrasekar Ramesh | February 12, 2013

Professional French tennis player Gilles Simon was torn apart on the blogosphere last summer after commenting that female players should not receive equal pay, prompting the resurgence of equal pay advocates.

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Boral: The Bigger Sandbox

By Austin Boral | February 12, 2013

Julian MacMillan / The Dartmouth As Theodor Geisel once remarked, "Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." Coming from one of the most influential children's authors of all time, this quote carries a certain amount of gravity in the adult world.

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Decker: Worldly Connections

By Luke Decker | February 11, 2013

I was talking to one of my good friends from the University of California, Berkeley the other day about a term that she decided to take off in the middle of her junior year.

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Chang: Distributing Knowledge

By Lulu Chang | February 11, 2013

Last week, a group of Dartmouth administration and faculty members met to discuss distributives and potential modifications to current course requirements.

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McKay: Flawed Foundations

By Katie McKay | February 10, 2013

On the first day of my Writing 5 class, my professor asked, "Why does the college require that you take Writing 5?" The question seemed so obvious that one student replied, "To learn how to write better?" My professor pressed us further.

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Shaw: A Light Punishment?

By Yesuto Shaw | February 10, 2013

Even though I am away from Dartmouth this term, I have still been following the conversations regarding the hazing-related sanctions recently given to Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

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Verbum Ultimum: Play Safe

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 7, 2013

Winter Carnival is a time when students take a break from the pressures of coursework to come together and celebrate the season.

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Sellers: A Pervasive Problem

By Emily Sellers | February 7, 2013

Correction appended Given the state of the hazing conversation on our campus, it is easy to forget that hazing is neither exclusively a Dartmouth problem nor limited to Greek or alcohol-related episodes.

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Gil: Safety and Insecurity

By Michelle Gil | February 6, 2013

The Newtown, Conn. Board of Education recently voted to post armed security guards in their elementary schools, an initiative that the National Rifle Association has publicly suggested all educational institutions undertake.

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Francfort: A Helping Hand

By Kevin Francfort | February 6, 2013

With college-decision season only a few months away, Dartmouth students are about to be faced with the task of trying to encourage prospective students to come to Hanover.

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Rothfeld: Philosophically Lax

By Becca Rothfeld | February 5, 2013

We all have one: the inescapable reading that surfaces and resurfaces in every class to which it is even remotely relevant.

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Vox Clamantis

By The Dartmouth | February 5, 2013

Never Isolationist As a Dartmouth alum, it was great to see the front page of Friday's issue covering the lecture I gave on Jan.

Alston: MOOCs offer Dartmouth a unique chance to expand its education, reaching out to the world while improving educational opportunities for its students.

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Alston: More MOOCs

By Will Alston | February 5, 2013

Julian MacMillan / The Dartmouth One of the more exciting recent developments in higher education has been the creation of massive online open courses, or MOOCs.

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Beechert: Upholding Our Principles

By Michael Beechert | February 4, 2013

The honor code is an aspect of the experience at Dartmouth that, at least in part, exists abstractly.

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Albrecht: Daily Skepticism

By Emily Albrecht | February 4, 2013

It is easy to passively accept widespread beliefs under the umbrella of "common knowledge." We believe these things because everyone does, so someone, somewhere must have done their research.

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Packer: Is It Really Hazing?

By Karina Packer | February 3, 2013

My name is Karina Packer '15, and last year I was "hazed." I can already see people reading this and rolling their eyes: Another person coming forward with an expos of a Greek house/team/club and how it has harmed them.