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Track tackles opponents in Grand Canyon state

By Jennifer Yu | April 4, 2005

Over spring break, the men and women's track and field team traveled to Arizona for their annual spring training trip and swept competition away. The team competed in two meets while training in Arizona: one for multi-eventers and one for the rest of the team. At the Desert meet, Mustafa Abdur-Rahim '04, despite a strained shoulder, managed an NCAA-qualifying performance in the decathlon with 7719-points. "I was pretty satisfied with my performance," Abdur-Rahim said.

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Freshman jumper ends Chi Gam party

By Phil Salinger | April 4, 2005

Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity shut down a dance party early Saturday morning, after an intoxicated freshman, Thaddeus Olchowski '08, allegedly jumped out of a window at the fraternity, leading to his arrest. Brandon Piper '06, Chi Gam president and one of the party's sober monitors, said he was standing near the window as the freshman defenestrated himself on the stairway between Chi Gam's basement and first floor. Olchowski allegedly deliberately walked from the basement, up the stairs and to the window.

Opinion

Breaking Down the Rumor Mill

By Matt Nicholson | April 1, 2005

In light of the series of incidents surrounding Theta Delta Chi fraternity and its members, I would like to finally speak out on behalf of the brotherhood and address the issues at hand. We feel that our names have been misrepresented and dragged through the mud long enough and it is our hope that this editorial dispels some of the rumors that have started to spiral out of control over the past three terms. First, I'd like to address the allegations and incidents concerning three of our brothers and their individual drug use.

Opinion

Verbum Ultimum

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | April 1, 2005

As corporate scandals in the national news increasingly call to mind the business ethics of the Gilded Age, the recent furor over a security breach in admissions at the nation's top business schools is warranted ("Tuck considers apps from accused hackers," March 29). Applicants to the Tuck School of Business who took advantage of a flaw in the programming of an external admissions website to view admissions decisions early clearly violated ethical standards and deserve to face consequences, even if their actions may have been legal. However, the Harvard Business School's choice to deem the offense worthy of automatic rejection is a knee-jerk reaction predicated in image-based politics.

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New state bill would permit casino gambling in N.H.

By Stuart A. Reid | April 1, 2005

While there are no plans to open a Mohegan Sun casino on Maynard Street, risk-taking students may soon be able to legally quench their desires for gambling just over an hour away from campus. The New Hampshire legislature is contemplating Senate Bill 225, which would allow for over 6,000 computer gambling machines across the state and gambling in three hotels located in northern New Hampshire. The bill's sponsor, Senator Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, said the bill is aimed at fixing the state's projected budget deficit of nearly $250 billion. But critics of the bill believe it will lead to an increase in gambling addictions while fueling embezzlement, child abuse, alcoholism and crime. Jim Rubens, who heads the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling, opposes the bill because he thinks it conjures an image of government supported gambling addictions. "This is the same reason we don't legalize crack cocaine parlors," he said, adding that the bill would create an additional 3,000 pathological gamblers. In an e-mail to supporters, he wrote, "Casinos are the only budget fix that would damage our state's reputation as a healthy, family-friendly place to live, work and visit." Bill proponents dismissed Rubens' concerns. "It's not true," D'Allesandro said in reference to social problems from gambling.

Opinion

Where's Carmen Sandiego?

By Daniel Belkin | March 31, 2005

After her first day as an elementary school teacher, Marge Simpson complains that "it took the children 40 minutes to locate Canada on the map," to which Homer responds, "Marge, anyone could miss Canada, all tucked away down there." Unfortunately, this anecdote from "The Simpsons" offers insight into an alarming trend that has developed in the American educational system.

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