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Testing our Conscience

By Damon Strom | October 5, 2005

To the Editor: Mr. Riner's speech pricked the conscience of a university. Dartmouth is an institution in which ideas should be introduced and examined for their validity. In light of this, it is interesting that so many faculty and students alike would lash out at the notion of holding up Jesus, the most influential man in human history, as an example for people to follow.

Sports

Men's golf takes 2nd

By Evan Meyerson | October 4, 2005

Hanover may not be as synonymous with golf as St. Andrews or Augusta, but Dartmouth's golf reputation just improved in a big way this weekend.

Opinion

Women and Careers

By Jon Wisniewski | October 4, 2005

To the Editor: We find several incorrect assumptions in Ms. Gosse's letter to the editor, in which she laments the "trend towards motherhood among Ivy League Women" ("Women: Leave Home", Oct.

News

Alcohol-related crimes dominate campus offenses

By Zach Swiss | October 4, 2005

Hanover Police made 123 alcohol-related arrests on the Dartmouth campus in 2004, a three-year high, according to a report released last month by Safety and Security that compiled crime statistics for the Dartmouth campus. Burglaries were also up from 2003, while sexual assault reports stayed constant, the report said. The 123 alcohol-related incidents topped the annual list of crimes committed on campus.

Opinion

Tolerance and the Folly of Skeptics

By Bruce Gago | October 4, 2005

The recent controversy over Noah Riner's convocation speech has inspired many Dartmouth students to raise their guard and insist that a speech defending absolute truth and encouraging a change of beliefs is inappropriate. Although we claim openness, we are actually deeply committed to a particular view of reality, which we affirm in others who share it and oppose in those who do not. William Willimon, the chaplain of Duke University, recently spoke to a group of Canadians who questioned his conviction that Christians should attempt to convert unbelievers to Christianity.

News

Steering comm. focuses on drop in grad. apps.

By Elise Waxenberg | October 4, 2005

Graduate programs and computer services topped the agenda Monday at a closed-door meeting of the Steering Committee of the General Faculty, which sets the agenda for the general faculty meeting slated for the end of the month. Among other issues, the committee discussed the decline in applications to the College's graduate programs. Graduate program applications dropped approximately 20 percent in the 2005 recruiting year, Dean of Graduate Studies Charles Barlowe told the Steering Committee, which includes College President James Wright, Provost Barry Scherr, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt and selected deans and professors from throughout the College. A significant drop in the international student pool accounted for much of the decline from the 2003-2004 academic year, when 1,891 students applied for a Dartmouth graduate programs, to 2004-2005, when the number slipped to 1,539. Barlowe said that, since Sept.

Arts

Burton's beautiful 'Bride' explores the outcast experience

By Chip Shaffer | October 4, 2005

Directors Tim Burton and Mike Johnson combine the land of the living with the realm of the dead in order to create the visually striking and musically catchy "The Corpse Bride." Yet "Corpse Bride" is not so much a movie as it is a series of beautifully created images set to music, which is not surprising since Burton and Johnson shot it entirely with digital cameras using stop-motion photography.

News

Seniors wait to hear about possible jobs

By Conlan O'Leary | October 4, 2005

Dartmouth seniors had until 2:59 a.m. Tuesday to apply for jobs at hundreds of corporations through the first resume drop of Fall term. While there will be two more opportunities to submit applications in the fall, the Oct.

Arts

'Yunnan' reveals beauty of culture in danger

By Erin McDonald | October 3, 2005

Last Thursday, students, locals, and those visiting Hanover filled Spaulding Auditorium as a weeklong celebration of arts and culture culminated with "Yunnan Revealed," a show featuring a mix of indigenous instruments and music from a southwestern province in China. The Yunnan province -- an area slightly smaller than the state of Texas -- is a predominantly mountainous area in southwestern China that is comprised of 25 different ethnic groups and is thus widely regarded as one of the most culturally diverse places in the world.

Opinion

The Right Response to Katrina

By Sam Stein | October 3, 2005

The effects of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita will be felt long after New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast are restored to their former conditions. The suffering of victims will surely linger, reconstruction costs will be felt for years and, as is the aftermath of all disasters whether man-made or natural, the government will enact long-term legislation -- and pour in billions of dollar -- aimed at deterring similar catastrophes in the future. In our efforts to improve what has been, by all admissions, an "inexcusable" disaster response capacity, we Americans would be wise to reexamine our foreign policy agenda as well.

Opinion

Disingenuous Behavior

By Andrew Getraer | October 3, 2005

To the Editor: It was with a growing sense of disgust that I read the article "Changing the Rules" in The Dartmouth ("Some female students plan for stay-at-home motherhood, not career," Sept.

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