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Mock trial teams qualify for national tourney

By Kelsey Blodget | March 29, 2005

Strong cross-examinations and convincing testimony qualified three Dartmouth mock trial teams for the American Mock Trial Association national championship this month. After placing second out of 30 teams at the New England Mock Trial Tournament in February, Dartmouth's top team led by senior attorneys David Rhinesmith, Victoria Corder and Sean Miller will qualify for the country's most prestigious national competition to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, in April. A second Dartmouth team that placed fourth at a different regional tournament held at Manchester Community College attended a national competition in St.

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Danos: Tuck may admit early viewers in online admissions scandal

By AnnMary Mathew | March 21, 2005

WEB UPDATE, March 21, 10:06 a.m. Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business will not follow Harvard Business School's lead in automatically denying admission to applicants accused of hacking into an admissions processing website to learn the decision on their applications early, Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a press release. "The involvement in this incident was deemed a very important, negative factor, but only one of many factors in our admissions decisions," Danos said. Dartmouth is one of over ten business schools that used an online application system build by ApplyYourself.com.

Sports

Women's basketball shoots for NCAA win

By Jennifer Yu | March 18, 2005

WEB UPDATE, March 18, 9:51 p.m. The Dartmouth women's basketball team will look to break new ground on Sunday in its fifth NCAA tournament effort under head coach Chris Wielgus. Advancing to the second round will not be easy, though -- the Big Green drew a first round match-up against the defending national champions.

Opinion

Isn't It Ironic?

By Caleb Powers | March 9, 2005

Upon seeing a recent episode of "The O.C." -- a show about unrealistically beautiful high school students living unrealistically predictable and convenient life stories -- was the lead-in for the new Fox show "Stars Without Makeup" -- a show "exposing" the unrealistic beauty portrayed in the entertainment industry -- I began to ponder the many ironies of our times, particularly those that have faced us as a community recently. It should come as a shock to no one when I say that irony abounds in this tiny New Hampshire town.

Opinion

Translation Please?

By Jon Appleton | March 9, 2005

To the Editor: Dean of Faculty Carol Folt's apologia for the narrow vision of her administration is so filled with cliches that perhaps she should consider a public relations position with Haliburton ("The Fact of the Matter," March 3). Where are the specifics?

Opinion

Con Law 101

By Scott Meacham | March 9, 2005

To the Editor: Why would Trustee Rodgers state that "Dartmouth currently has imbedded in its own website a speech code that is clearly illegal under the First Amendment" when he admits in the same column that the First Amendment does not apply directly to a private college ("Encouraged But Not Convinced," March 7)? Congress is forbidden from doing dozens of things that a private corporation is not, so why the obsession with trying to apply this particular ban to Dartmouth?

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SA votes to fund contentious community bike program

By Elise Waxenberg | March 9, 2005

Intense debate raged over the Big Green Bike program Tuesday night at the Student Assembly's last meeting of Winter term, which garnered attendance by over 85 percent of the Assembly's membership. The proposal earmarking $2,000 of Assembly funds for BGB passed by seven votes after extended debate that frequently reached a fevered pitch. Last night's move allows BGB sponsors, including Student Body Vice President Todd Rabkin Golden '06, to implement the program, which aims to provide between 50 and 100 communal bicycles to students, who would rent keys opening all the bicycle locks for $10 per year. Earlier on Tuesday, Student Body President Julia Hildreth '05 admonished Rabkin Golden for setting up a table in the Collis Center to solicit student support for BGB and sign up students for the program. "I have already told [Rabkin Golden] that I consider this to be disrespectful to SA and dishonest to campus," Hildreth wrote to the Assembly executives yesterday in a BlitzMail message obtained by The Dartmouth. Hildreth described Rabkin Golden's actions as an "error in judgment," but noted the problem had been solved. "If there's a program that Student Assembly hasn't officially endorsed, you can't be taking money in that program's name," Hildreth said at the Assembly meeting. Rabkin Golden said his efforts were aimed at engaging student interest and talking about the program with students.

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TDX pleads not guilty to felony alcohol charges

By Phil Salinger | March 9, 2005

Theta Delta Chi fraternity will forego an arraignment, originally scheduled for Wednesday morning at 9 a.m., by pleading not guilty to five felony counts of serving alcohol to minors in a formal waiver recently submitted to the Grafton County Superior Court, according to George Ostler '77, Theta Delt's attorney. The indictments stem from events that occurred Wednesday, Jan.

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Kennedy named new Hood director

By Matthew Beale | March 9, 2005

The College's Hood Museum of Art, which will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year, is welcoming a new director to lead the museum into the next decade. Brian P.

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Proposed Vt. law would lower drinking age to 18

By Stuart A. Reid | March 9, 2005

Dartmouth students between the ages of 18 and 21 might soon be able to legally buy 30-packs of Keystone Light in Vermont and smuggle them across the Connecticut River if the Vermont legislature passes a new bill to lower the state's drinking age.

Opinion

One Parent's Perspective

By Kate Stith-Cabranes | March 9, 2005

A column appeared in The Dartmouth by Joseph Asch '79 ("Dear Old Dartmouth?" Feb. 28) that shocked me as the parent of an '08 and as a long-time close observer of the Dartmouth community. Citing anonymous sources, Asch claimed that Dartmouth students can't write, Dartmouth teachers don't teach and Dartmouth's academic leaders are indifferent to both.

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Police Blotter

March 9, 2005

March 1, Tuck Mall, 12:04 p.m. A Tuck student reported that his gold 1997 Saab had been victim to a hit-and-run accident while parked and unattended in the River parking lot.

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Annual fall room crunch drives a few to housing 'black market'

By Alix Cody | March 9, 2005

Two freshman females, who had planned to live together next year, are scrambling to avoid the dreaded housing waitlist after receiving priority numbers within the last 50 assigned. One option they are considering is to pay a student with a better number to get them a room and drop out before the start of next year. "We are thinking about doing something with a person who is not planning on using their number and paying the fee," one girl said.

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