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Trading deadline pushes big names out of town and into new threads

By CJ Ryan | August 3, 2006

In the aftermath of the first of two 2006 Major League Baseball trade deadlines, some of baseball's big names are changing uniforms as well as leagues. The last time U2's hit "With or Without You" topped the charts was 1987, which happens to be the last time the Detroit Tigers reached the playoffs.

An Arabic language immersion program became all too real when Edward Kim '09 found himself in the middle of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict.
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Kim '09 evacuated from Mid. Eastern war zone

By Kelsey Blodget | August 3, 2006

Courtesy of Edward Kim When Edward Kim '09 decided to participate in an Arabic language immersion program through Lebanon American University this summer, he thought he was headed to one of the few safe countries in the Middle East. In Beirut the women wore western clothing and "there was a Starbucks every few blocks," Kim said. On July 12, several weeks after his June 23 arrival, Kim found himself immersed in a volatile conflict after the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah killed and kidnapped several Israeli soldiers and Israel retaliated by bombing Lebanon. "At first I didn't really worry too much I guess, because people told me not to," Kim said.When Israel bombed the airports Kim realized he might be in serious danger. "I remember I was really tired and I was about to go to bed, and we could hear the bombs going off near the airport, hitting the airport," Kim said. "Sometimes we could see flashes in the sky." Although the students were not in a "Hezbollah part of the city," according to Kim, it was "unnerving to hear and see these things for the first time in your life." With the airports inaccessible, most of the highways bombed and exits blockaded, Kim realized it was time to leave -- if he could. "They said we wouldn't have a chance to get out for a while unless we were evacuated," Kim said.

Opinion

Education isn't just for working women

By Andrea Palmer | August 3, 2006

To the Editor: While I share Deborah Wassel '07's feeling of obligation to "do something great" with my life, and I appreciate her support of gender equality at home and the workplace, I consider part of her argument ("Women at Work," July 18) unfair.

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Organic farm bustles with summer action

By AJ Fox | August 3, 2006

While some Dartmouth students spend their summer days basking in the air-conditioned comfort of the library, others travel a few miles down the road each week to work outdoors at the Dartmouth Organic Farm.

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College drinking is safer than perceived, study says

By Dan Duray | August 3, 2006

A study by the National Social Norms Resource Center published late last month found that college students are drinking more safely than public perceptions would lead many to believe. In a study that surveyed over 28,000 students at 44 colleges, researchers found that while up to 80 percent of students drink, fewer than 13 percent have injured property or themselves after drinking. The study also found that 73 percent of student drinkers take some kind of preventative measure to ensure that they do not become too intoxicated. Pat Delgado '08, Dartmouth's Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors program intern, said he believes the study's results are reflected at Dartmouth. "I do believe Dartmouth students use preventative measures, such as making sure they eat before going out, switching off drinks with water and drinking under four drinks a night, as tactics for smart drinking," Delgado said. "For many studies, the trends we see nationally often fall in line with what's happening at Dartmouth," Dartmouth alcohol counselor Bryant Ford said. "I don't think Dartmouth's too far off from what we see nationally." Ford added, however, that he generally interacts only with those students who have had issues with alcohol and therefore might not have a complete sense of the Dartmouth drinking culture. Michael Haines, director of the National Social Norms Resource Center, said that the study is significant because it reverses the previously existing sense that student drinking is out of control. "Even though studies reveal that a clear majority of college students regularly consume alcohol, serious harm is not a frequent occurrence for the majority," Haines said in a press release.

After a successful season as the men's freshman lightweight coach, Bordeau looks to invigorate the men's heavyweight crew program.
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Bordeau takes over as new men's heavyweight crew coach

By Jennifer Yu | August 1, 2006

Courtesy of USNA.edu Athletics Director Josie Harper announced on Friday that Christopher "Topher" Bordeau, the men's freshman lightweight coach for the 2005-06 season, has been named the men's varsity heavyweight team head coach. Bordeau, a 1998 Princeton University graduate, helped the Tigers to win the national collegiate championships in 1995, 1996 and 1998.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Rebekah Rombom | August 1, 2006

A team of Dartmouth researchers has been selected to share in $2.3 million of NASA funds. The researchers will conduct studies that will facilitate auxiliary missions on a larger mission that will launch in 2012.

If Hanover installs a public fiber-optic cable network, students like Jeannie Valkevich '08 could potentially surf the internet freely from off campus.
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Town mulls public internet service

By Carolyn Kylstra | August 1, 2006

Sarah Shaw / The Dartmouth Staff Hanover has joined seven other New Hampshire towns to discuss the possibility of implementing a publicly-owned fiber-optic cable network that will allow residents access to high-speed Internet, cable television, phone service, and other technological services currently unavailable to many rural New Hampshire residents. According to David Bucciero, director of technological services at the College, fiber-optic cable networks function at much higher speeds than DSL, and when privately installed, fiber can be implemented as a wireless home network. Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin reported that roughly 30 percent of Hanover residents have access to high-speed Internet in the form of either cable Internet through Adelphia or DSL through Verizon. "Once you get outside of the urban downtown area [of Hanover]," Griffin said, "many residents don't even have cable television." Griffin said that residents in all eight towns have expressed a desire for better access to high-speed Internet, if not the other services. "None of the communities involved have even the beginning of predominately high-speed Internet access, and some have no high-speed Internet access at all," Griffin said. The West Central New Hampshire Regional Health and Security Communications Consortium is composed of town representatives from Newbury, New London, Hanover, Sunapee, Springfield, Orford, Lyme and Enfield.

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Fla. schools consult the College on year-long ed.

By Julia Hecht | August 1, 2006

Mark Rosenberg, chancellor for the Florida public university system, is encouraging the state's public universities to offer a full curriculum throughout the entire calendar year, arguing that the switch to year-round education would enable students to graduate faster, increase graduation and retention rates and more efficiently utilize state facilities. Rosenberg has looked to Dartmouth as well as at other schools that have attempted year-round operation in planning the logistics of a year-round curriculum model, but notes that Florida is not looking to adopt a quarter system like Dartmouth's academic calendar. By 2011, Florida's public universities are expected to enroll an additional 65,000 students each year.

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