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Editorial: Hands Off Student Cash
Scott Southworth is angry. A student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Southworth doesn't seek to limit the activities of political groups he disagrees with on campus, he just thinks he shouldn't have to pay for them. So Southworth is challenging the University in federal court. He makes a simple and resonant point: it's wrong for a college to use its students' dollars to fund ideological activities.

Funding Ideology: Student Fees on Trial
by M. Ryan Clark
Most American colleges, including Dartmouth, finance student organizations through mandatory fees paid by students. Three students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison filed a lawsuit objecting to the mandatory student activities fees, arguing that the university policy forced them to finance political groups with which they did not agree.

Dartmouth Slides Again
by Andrew Grossman
You've probably heard the news. Whether from the newspapers, the television, from the college's spinmeisters, or out of the horse's mouth itself, you've heard that Dartmouth has slipped yet another ranking in the much vaunted, obsessively-watched US News and World Report college rankings.

Letters to the Editor
"Rock the Boat": Dan Quayle on Becoming President by Steven Menashi
A Letter to the Student Assembly by Bradford Stanley
Janet Reno Wants to Read Your E-Mail by Andrew Grossman
The Fake World of MTV by Alexander Nazaryan
Who Are the Trustees?

by Gordon Haff

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt