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SA presents plan for purchase of communal bicycles

By Elise Waxenberg | February 16, 2005

Student Assembly leaders presented a plan to resurrect its Big Green Bike program at the Assembly's Tuesday night meeting. Between 75 and 100 Iron Horse bicycles would be purchased for communal student use at a total cost of approximately $130 per bicycle, each of which normally retails for $255.

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Marketing panel stresses passion in hiring decisions

By John Mitchell | February 16, 2005

Over 60 students searching for insight into the mysteries of corporate job hunting found a valuable source of advice Tuesday at a marketing, advertising and public relations panel held in Carson Hall. A trio of representatives from those industries outlined the entry process into their respective fields as well as some of their own experiences before taking questions from a captivated audience. The discussion largely focused not on life in the given industries but on the qualities and characteristics that firms look for in potential employees. "Research skills are very important," said Andy Plesser, founder of Plesser Holland Public Relations, a boutique public relations firm Plesser said part of his job is to try to manipulate public opinion.

Opinion

Sins of Omission

By James R. Crandell | February 16, 2005

To the Editor: I could not help but notice the omission of Alpha Phi Alpha, Lambda Upsilon Lambda and Alpha Pi Omega from the front page chart of CFS GPA rankings ("Greek GPAs fall just short of College average," Feb.

Opinion

Basement Aesthetics

By Peter Gray | February 16, 2005

At 2:30 a.m. last Saturday night I was on the first floor of a fraternity, working my neck muscles in time with the music of, to quote one enthusiast, this "totally sweet band that just played in this sweet club in New York which is kind of a big deal." As said muscles trudged their way to their present lactic-acid-induced paralysis, I decided to take a breather and head downstairs.

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Altria exec defends corporate ethics

By Hannah Plotkin | February 16, 2005

Altria Group executive David Greenberg visited the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration Tuesday night to address corporate responsibility and ethics as part of Tuck's business fireside chat series.

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Author recalls horror of Khmer Rouge

By Alex Belser | February 16, 2005

Policymakers should look beyond simplistic solutions and examine the root causes of threats like terrorism, former British Broadcasting Corporation reporter Philip Short argued in a speech sponsored by the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday. Short, who worked as a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years and recently wrote a book about Pol Pot, was at Dartmouth to talk about the late Cambodian dictator and his reign of terror in Southeast Asia during the late 1970s. Estimates are that starvation, illness and execution during Pol Pot's communist rule killed some 1.5 million people -- one-fifth of Cambodia's population -- though the real numbers may never be known. According to Short, however, foreign intervention in the area during Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime was misguided. "What was going on in Cambodia was dreadfully complicated and every response was simple," Short said. One important lesson, Short told a small crowd, is to realize how perceived threats -- then communism and now terrorism -- come to be.

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Philosophy professor wins NEH grant for new book

By Rebekah Rombom | February 15, 2005

The National Endowment for the Humanities granted philosophy professor Roy Sorensen a prestigious 12-month, $40,000 fellowship that will allow him to work on his new book, tentatively titled "Seeing Dark Things." Sorensen was one of 195 scholars in the United States who received fellowships from the endowment, which are given out annually and announced last week.

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Cuban sophomore agitates against Castro regime

By Kelsey Blodget | February 15, 2005

Frustrated by Fidel Castro's continued rule in Cuba, Cuban-American Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego '07 recently attempted to rally the Cuban community on campus through a BlitzMail call to arms. "I want the Cuban community here to train itself, to bear arms and to send every able-bodied man and woman between the ages of 18 and up over to the island," Dinnella-Borrego wrote in the BlitzMail message.

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India Queen proprietor spices up town, campus life

By Kelsey Blodget | February 15, 2005

India Queen owner Bhavnesh Kaushik, a fixture in the local community and well-known friend of many students, hosted his third annual Valentine's Day Charity Auction Saturday evening. Over 200 students and Hanover residents swarmed the restaurant to bid on seven bachelors and bachelorettes as Valentine's Day dates, raising over $4,000 for the tsuanmi relief efforts and 10 Bricks Homeless Shelter. The highest bid was over $600, according to graduate student Ken Leslie, who emceed the event. "People were pretty liquored up by that point in the evening," Leslie said. According to Leslie, Kaushik's willingness to donate his space for charity and social events when approached by students is emblematic of his open and flexible personality.

Arts

'Brutus' production nears curtain

By Meredith Fraser | February 15, 2005

Have you ever wanted to switch your boyfriend or girlfriend for someone else's? Ever wanted to see what life would be like if you had made a different choice about going to college or getting a job? Ever wanted a second chance at anything at all -- the chance to rewind your life and see if a certain change would make it all different? Playwright J.M.

Sports

Big Green track breaks hearts at Valentine's Invite

By Ben Zimmerman | February 15, 2005

As the men and women of Big Green track and field rolled into the Boston University Valentine's Invitational on Friday, uncertainty hovered ominously over their heads. Though both Dartmouth squads submitted impressive performances against rivals Columbia, Yale, Vermont and New Hampshire, the level of competition in these early match-ups paled in comparison to what they were sure to face over the weekend.

Opinion

The Anti-Pledge of Allegiance

By N. Alex Tonelli | February 15, 2005

An article in The D titled "At Six Year Mark, SLI Impacts Less Drastic Than Expected" (Feb. 14) stated that "current student opinion is far from the outcry that resulted when the [Student Life] Initiative was announced in 1999." This column seeks to refute that point, and make very clear that the SLI is indeed despised on campus today, and to beg every person who has at one time been associated with Dartmouth not to give money to the College until a radical redirection has occurred.

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