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Dartmouth TV makes a comeback

By Chris Mah | January 12, 2005

Got a talent? Journalistic savvy? A pretty face? Or just like to hear yourself talk? Dartmouth Television invites you to flaunt whatever you've got for whoever you know.

Sports

Dartmouth athletes' garner weekend league honors

By Jennifer Yu | January 12, 2005

This past week has been a successful venture for Dartmouth athletes -- for their outstanding performances, Big Green competitors were honored with several prestigious awards. Elise Morrison, the sophomore center of the Women's Basketball team and last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, received her second Ivy League Player of the Week honor after contributing 17 points and 13 rebounds to Dartmouth's 73-70 overtime victory over Harvard on Saturday. Earlier this season, the starting center recorded 29 points and 10 rebounds in a game against Hartford and recorded a double-double against Harvard, Hartford and UIC.

News

Police Blotter

January 12, 2005

Jan. 3, Fayerweather Hill Road, 2:25 a.m. Police responded to a complaint lodged by EBAs claiming that students in the Mid-Fayerweather dorm had attempted to pay for $50 worth of food with multiple faulty credit cards.

Opinion

Hardly Chump Change

By Eben P. Darling | January 12, 2005

To the Editor: To say that "the [charitable] effort presented by TDX really misses the point on several levels" and that his letter "is not meant to criticize the persons at TDX in any way," as Scott Gridley did in his January 11 letter to the editor ("Giving All We Can,") is preposterous. While Mr. Gridley states that the $1200 raised by the house's event is indeed a "respectable sum" and that the "party represent[ed] a good opportunity to ask large numbers of persons to donate to [tsunami aid] effort[s]," he scolds students for not giving more to the relief efforts themselves. Gridley ignores the fact that many Dartmouth students are not "financially privileged" (in 2001-02, nearly 40% of Dartmouth students received some kind of student loan) and he assumes that the alcohol and refreshment tab for the event dwarfed the sum collected in donations. As someone who used to procure party supplies for Senior 'Tails at 11 West Wheelock, I can inform Mr. Gridley that the amounts spent on Beast, Keystones, Popov Vodka, Five O'Clock Gin and red Kool Aid powder were, in all likelihood, dwarfed by the donations given that night.

News

Gronas probes public lit. taste in Amazon reviews

By Gus Lûbin | January 12, 2005

Russian professor Mikhail Gronas is looking beyond academic literary criticism, scouring book reviews and ratings on Amazon.com to discover what they collectively reveal about the reading public beyond the individual opinions they contain. Gronas contends that the patterns of reviews and ratings provide insight into the way the public reads books and the similar ways they react to comparable books. "We are used to seeing books analyzed from above -- from the intellectual perspective -- but most people do not look for things like plot structure and rhetoric when they read," said Gronas.

News

Keg limits mark SEMP discussion

By Elise Waxenberg | January 12, 2005

Despite a dearth of student attendance -- several tables originally intended for small group discussion remained empty and only a single student showed up -- the Social Event Management Procedures committee proceeded with a community hour in Collis Commonground on Tuesday, discussing kegs, parties and pre-gaming. The committee has scheduled a question-and-answer session for Tuesday, Jan.

News

Men's pleasure talk aims to lend a helping hand

By Jennifer Garfinkel | January 11, 2005

Students filled Tindle Lounge Monday night for the Mechanics of Men's Pleasure workshop. Curt Crane, a comical urology resident at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Ken Leslie, a post-doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, spoke about the physical anatomy of men and male brain chemistry. Crane kicked off the seminar by showing slides of different penis types.

Opinion

No Private Matter

By Joseph Asch | January 11, 2005

To the Editor: The most disingenuous aspect of the controversy surrounding Karl Furstenberg's letter to Alfred Bloom, President of Swarthmore College, is Dean Furstenberg's contention that his letter was a "private," "personal letter" to "a friend." Clearly, it was nothing of the kind. The letter, a carefully crafted, closely argued missive on Dartmouth College letterhead paper, was not a confidential message between old friends.

News

Hillel Rabbi helps swear in Governor

By Stuart A. Reid | January 11, 2005

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.

News

Zuckerberg faces off with rival in copyright lawsuits

By Alix Cody | January 11, 2005

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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