Monday, January 15, 2001

Colleges' New Abortion Question

For college students, at least, RU-486, mifepristone, is not the easy, uncomplicated, abortion-on-demand pill that its critics feared it would be. It is just another alternative and, like all means of abortion, an unattractive one at that.

The College on the Pill

The dispute isn't the result of deliberate misinformation, of course, but a conflict over definition. While many believe that pregnancy occurs with fertilization, the position of Dartmouth Health Services is that pregnancy begins only at implantation.

'I Want You Guys to Have All the Sex You Want'

A student went to Dick's House and met with Physician Assistant Anne Michaels. The student reported that she had not been taking her birth control pills regularly, but that she had been in a fight with her boyfriend and wasn't having sex, anyway. The night before, however, they reconciled—and had unprotected sex.

The Big Green's Big Greenbacks

The Will to Excel campaign has since become the subject of a class action lawsuit against the College, filed on behalf of all Dartmouth alumni.

Dartmouth Bans Keg Jump

Last term, the demands of one or more insurance companies extinguished the fires that students had burned in their fireplaces for warmth since the founding of the College. This term, Prudential, State Farm, or one of their ilk clamped down on Psi Upsilon's perennially popular keg jump, refusing to insure it.

The Story of Kwaanza

On September 17, 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felonious assault and false imprisonment. The charges stemmed from a May 9, 1970 incident in which Karenga and two others tortured two women who Karenga believed had tried to kill him by placing "crystals" in his food and water.

More Funds for Gay Studies

Wright did not identify the particular principles, though he did remark, "None of us would learn deeply or well if all were heterogeneous."

Why I Rushed the Field

I would rush the field again, just to briefly reclaim my piece of Dartmouth's past.

More Follies at the Daily D

The Week in Review is acutely aware that we mock The Daily Dartmouth entirely too often in these pages. But they make it so easy, it's hard to resist.

The Dartmouth Review: Resisting Change Since 1980

The following email from Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman was written in response to a request for an interview, which was denied by both Dean Redman and, more forcefully, by his secretary.

A Call to Arms

As educators continue to commiserate over a girl crisis, the very real educational need of American boys is neglected and entrenched...These "progressives" see maleness as a defect, a social disease, that needs to be corrected. The provenience of this ludicrous belief is another false notion: namely, that gender is a ductile social construct and thus can be constructed differently.

Running Backwards

Although its author is an African-American, John McWhorter's Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America will, unfortunately, not earn him the attention, much less the admiration, of the black community's leadership. He charges that blacks have done themselves a disservice by entrenching themselves in a cult of victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism.

Who's a Republican?

Though this book is light in tone—Robinson assumes the persona of a naif, a sort of Jimmy Stewart, perhaps Candide—it is anything but naive. It moves into some of the major questions that shape our politics, especially in this election season.

Letters to the Editor

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