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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Stuart A. Reid | August 22, 2006

Director of Network Services Frank Archambeault announced Friday that students will be able to watch cable TV on their own television sets through the same wiring that carries phone conversations and other data beginning next term.

Sports

Coaching dearth leaves women's swim team high and dry

By CJ Ryan | August 22, 2006

Athletic Director Josie Harper recently announced that the newly appointed women's swimming coach, Jerry Foley, has retracted his decision to take the position and will not join the Big Green staff. "It is with excitement that I look forward to the challenges and growth in the women's swimming and diving program at Dartmouth," Foley said in late June when he was given the position. "Leaving Bucknell was not an easy decision, nor was it taken lightly.

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Alumni debate reaches students

By Rebekah Rombom | August 17, 2006

As the Association of Alumni prepares to vote on a new proposed constitution this fall, heated debate has persisted throughout many sectors of the Dartmouth community.

Students accompanying the Big Green Bus pause in Times Square, one of about 50 stops nationwide, to pose with their vegetable-oil powered vehicle.
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Good Morning for the Big Green Bus

By Amanda Cohen | August 17, 2006

Amanda Cohen / The Dartmouth Staff The recognizable faces of ABC's Good Morning America cast closed Wednesday's episode from the roof of Dartmouth's Big Green Bus, showing off the eco-friendly bus to an estimated 5 million viewers. Anchorman Bill Weir introduced the student project as "a group of Dartmouth students [who] want to make a statement about our dependence on foreign oil, about safety of the environment, clean fuel and all of that." The three minute Good Morning America segment, which aired on Wednesday, showed the bus and 13 student and alumni "bussers" at a stop on the eighth week of their 10 week tour around the country. The bus, which is a run-down '95 International school bus that was converted so that it runs on waste vegetable oil, mystified observers, on and off camera. "I think we're all fascinated by it," Feature Correspondent Mike Barz said to The Dartmouth after the show. "It doesn't surprise me that it's Dartmouth.

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Candidates for council positions run unopposed

By Jennifer Garfinkel | August 17, 2006

Elections for the president and vice president of the 2008 Class Council will finish tonight in Thayer lobby, though only six students attended Tuesday night's election speeches -- two of whom are Class Council members. Ashley Mas '08, who has been involved with the Council since her freshman fall, is running for Class Council president, and Andrew Klein '08, who just started his work with the Council this summer, is running for vice president.

Opinion

Legislative Learning Should Count

By Christopher Tao | August 17, 2006

Last term, a group of 16 Dartmouth students descended on Washington. Many of us had never met before the program and little did we know that spending 10 weeks of a beautiful spring in the District would bring us so close. The first thing that had piqued my interest about the Government Foreign Study Program in Washington, D.C., was the internship component.

Opinion

How to Alienate People

By Sara del Nido | August 17, 2006

In the days following the foiled terrorist plots in airports across England, British Muslims have come under renewed scrutiny as a threat to security.

Sports

Tennis, golf teams receive national academic awards

By David Rothenberg | August 15, 2006

Four Dartmouth sports programs received national academic honors in the past two weeks. Both the men's and women's golf teams placed among the top 25 in Golf Digest's "College Golf Guide" academic rankings, while both the men's and women's tennis teams had several players honored as Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team members. Golf Digest compiled a list of golf teams that exemplified academic prowess, along with providing preseason power rankings for the top programs in the country.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Julia Hecht | August 15, 2006

Despite an overall drop in housing sales in the state, sales remain strong in the Upper Valley area, according to a recent article in the Boston Globe.

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