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No to Petition Candidates

By The Dartmouth | April 11, 2005

By Mohamad Bydon '01 After the successful campaign of T.J. Rogers, many alumni feel emboldened to stand against the increasing emphasis on scholarly research at Dartmouth.

Sports

60 teams enter spring dodgeball tournament

By Matthew Mackey | April 11, 2005

Dartmouth students came out in force both Friday and Saturday to play in and watch the first annual spring dodgeball championships, which raised $1,500 for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. The tournament saw tremendous turnout, with 60 separate six-person teams registering to play in the men's/co-ed and women's divisions.

News

College Bowl team finishes 19th

By Alex Lentz | April 11, 2005

In 1996 "The Simpsons" became TV's longest running prime-time cartoon show. For ten points -- whose record run of six years did the Simpsons break? Answer: "The Flinstones." Members of Dartmouth's college bowl team traveled to New Orleans this weekend to answer questions like this one and many others in the National College Quiz Tournament Division II National Championship. Dartmouth finished 6-7, good for 19th place overall in the competition.

News

Expert lectures on dangers of hazing

By Samantha Ackah | April 8, 2005

Greeks packed into Cook Auditorium Thursday night for a talk on the societal problems of hazing. Hank Nuwer, an author of four books on hazing and a nationally recognized expert in the field gave the hour-long talk as part of his three-day visit to the College. Nuwer who also teaches journalism at Franklin College began writing about hazing following a death at the University of Nevada, Reno where he was a graduate student in 1975. During the talk he encouraged students to intercede when they witness incidents of hazing. "If you could have saved a human being's life and you didn't... its hard to get out of your mind," Nuwer said. Nuwer recounted hazing incidents going as far back as the 1800s and discussed several tragedies resulting from hazing, including sexual assault and deaths from alcohol intoxication. In the years since 1975 there has been a death every year in the national Greek system and Nuwer was pessimistic about the chances of averting further tragedies unless students worked harder to avoid it. "I don't believe in my lifetime that we will be able to end the deaths," he said Although the talk was targeted toward members of fraternities and sororities, Nuwer emphasized that hazing was not unique to the Greek system and discussed athletic hazing as well as incidents in high schools. "I argue with administrations [about] the idea of hazing being a Greek problem.

Sports

The clear, the cream, anything to juice up the nation

By Dave Raines | April 8, 2005

Would you still watch the NBA if the players could jump 15 feet in the air? Of course you would, because let's face it, the only reason we watch the NBA now is because the players jump higher and move faster than people like us ever could. So what's wrong with a substance that allows athletes to recover faster, jump higher, lift more, and hit more home runs.

Opinion

Where to Draw the Line

By Sara del Nido | April 8, 2005

By the time I attended the Dimensions weekend at Dartmouth as a senior in high school, I was already aware that Dartmouth social life was defined by alcohol.

News

College-funded 'party packs' provide non-alcoholic alternative

By Alix Cody | April 8, 2005

College-sponsored pizza and nonalcoholic drinks found their way to several fraternity parties last weekend as part of a new Student Activities Office effort to highlight options besides beer at evening events. The so-called "party packs" consist of 20 pizzas and 100 drinks delivered at midnight from Everything But Anchovies.

News

Student candidates prep for start of campaigning

By Elise Waxenberg | April 8, 2005

Sidewalk chalk, mass BlitzMail messages and fluorescent posters will blanket the campus this weekend, when official campaigning for student elections kicks off on Saturday at midnight. Voting will take place April 19 and 20, but for Student Body Presidential hopefuls, campaign managers have been signed on and maneuvering has been in full swing for months. "They're probably all getting really nervous first of all, mainly about the increasing time commitment that they're going to have to dedicate to prepare their campaigns," current Student Body President Julia Hildreth '05 said. Hildreth said that the candidates are probably strategizing with their teams, deciding how to spend their money and networking with potential supporters. "Forming a good campaign team and talking to people is one of the main strategies at this point because actual public campaigning hasn't started," candidate Ben Waters '06 said. Pre-campaigning has included "just going around, introducing yourself to as many people as possible, being places, being out," Waters said.

Sports

Baseball opens Ivy League season with .500 record

By Katherine Mulley | April 7, 2005

After its first four games of Ivy League play, Dartmouth has two Ivy-honored baseball players and a 2-2 record in the league. The Big Green had mixed results on the diamond after rain and poor conditions postponed its weekend games against Penn and Columbia on Monday and Tuesday.

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