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Hillel Rabbi helps swear in Governor

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College Rabbi Edward Boraz led the audience at Gov. John Lynch's Jan. 6 inauguration in a prayer for the Democrat's new administration. Boraz was one of four clergymen chosen to recite prayers during the recent State House ceremony in Concord.



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Zuckerberg faces off with rival in copyright lawsuits

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After close to a year of connecting students across campus and across the country, thefacebook.com is under siege from its chief competitor, ConnectU.com, whose founders filed a lawsuit against thefacebook in September claiming that its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, stole their ideas and information to create a rival website. ConnectU creators Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, all recent Harvard alumni, allege that Zuckerberg stole ideas and programming codes from ConnectU in late 2003, when he was programming the site. According to Tyler, Zuckerberg became a partner with ConnectU in Nov.




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Hankins '05 competes on Jeopardy, bows out early

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When California realtor Nancy Zerg recently brought the era of Ken Jennings' Jeopardy domination to an end, Dartmouth students saw one of their own, David Hankins '05, competing against the longest-running champion in game show history. Hankins, a history major, finished third to Jennings' second.



Opinion

Rinse Thoroughly

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It's winter in Hanover again, and for all of us trapped in the tumultuous midsection of our D-Plans, this means any of our more prudent, fortunate and survival-minded friends are gone.



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Making a Difference Now

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It's difficult to capture the magnitude of the Asian tsunami disaster with words. For that, it takes pictures. Picture the faces of the hungry, the tired, the sad and the desperate -- dirty yet blanched, fixed in masks of pain or resignation. Picture the arms, reaching out, straining to grab food and water as hundreds mob the precious aid stations. Picture overhead satellite photos of huts and homes, green plains and sandy beaches, farms and roads. Picture the strange order and calm of the "before" shots. Then picture the "after" shots, the absence of life, the landscapes and cityscapes reduced to carpets of mud and rubble. Picture the impossible force of the waves: boats thrown miles inland from any place boats ought to be, trains ripped from the tracks and left on top of crushed homes, cars and buses overturned and scattered like so much driftwood on a beach. Then picture the "fortunate" survivors, left to pick through these alien scenes, searching for lost homes, lost livelihoods and lost loved ones. Picture all the hurricanes, tornadoes and floods of recent memory, add them up and then start to multiply. Picture a dozen tiny mushroom clouds. Picture a genocide of nature's own making, the product not of malice but of the capriciousness of chance. Then picture it all as only the iceberg-tip of disaster, with famine and diseases to follow that may eclipse the initial suffering. Picture all that, and slowly the magnitude of the loss comes into focus. The task now facing the international community, if the tide of suffering is to be turned, is of equal size and weight. The world is called by humanitarian imperative, but the crisis at hand is so large as to seem nearly insurmountable.



Opinion

Having Your Football and Winning, Too

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To the Editor: The Dartmouth Editorial Board ("Verbum Ultimum," Jan. 7) poses the question: is a mediocre football team a reasonable trade-off for a stronger academic environment? My answer is "no." We should expect excellence and a competitive effort in both arenas.


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TDX party collects $1,200 for tsunami victims

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Students partied for a good cause Saturday night, raising $1,200 at a tsunami relief fundraising party hosted by Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After its members heard news of the Southeast Asian tragedy, Theta Delt reportedly set out to host an event that would benefit relief agencies.



Opinion

One Step in the Right Direction

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When John Lyons was fired as head football coach and Buddy Teevens was simultaneously let go from Stanford, I was fairly certain of the abilities of the Dartmouth administrative forces to screw things up.


Opinion

Let's Be Fair

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To the Editor: In her Jan. 5 letter, Mary Anna Sullivan '76 was concerned that the College might "revert to the Dartmouth of the '70s." This concern was voiced in a letter supporting Dean Furstenberg's right to voice a personal opinion, whether that opinion ran counter to the philosophies of the Board of Trustees or, for that matter, the majority of the alums.



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Verbum Ultimum

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With many alumni calling for Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg's head after the unearthing of a letter he wrote to Swarthmore President Albert Bloom in 2000, controversy has erupted over the appropriateness of Furstenberg's comments and the impact his expressed views have had on Dartmouth athletics.


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Tsunami carnage brought home in campus aid effort

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Alumni Hall served as the headquarters for Dartmouth's tsunami relief efforts Thursday, as students, staff and community members gathered to mourn the loss of life in Asia and kick off a campuswide fundraising effort. College President James Wright urged students to act to help survivors of the disaster, invoking the words of former President John Sloan Dickey: "The world's troubles are your troubles." The highlight of the gathering came when graduate student Rukman De Silva and Achint Ahuja '05 relayed their personal experiences with the tsunami. Ahuja was on the beaches of Goa, India when the tsunami reached land on the other side of his native country.


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Three '05s settle drug charges

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Three members of the Dartmouth Class of 2005 -- Steven DeMarco, Eric Testan and Sheanon Summers -- reached plea agreements with New Hampshire state attorneys last month, admitting guilt to a variety of drug possession charges. As part of the plea, the state dropped the most serious charges leveled against DeMarco, including selling and possessing cocaine.