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Seniors remember departed classmates and friends

By Megan Peck | June 13, 2004

While the members of the Class of 2004 prepare to graduate and begin life in the real world, five '04s that will never have that opportunity will be sorely missed. According to senior class dean Lisa Thum, this is the largest number of students to pass away in one class in the 15 years that she has been at Dartmouth.

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WEB UPDATE

By Steven Orbuch | June 8, 2004

A senior infielder became the highest drafted Big Green baseball player in the 15-year tenure of head coach Bob Whalen at this year's Major League Baseball amateur draft held on Monday and Tuesday. Shortstop Edward Lucas '04 was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the eighth round, with the 235th pick overall. "Its nice to go to an organization that puts a premium on developing players through the draft system," Lucas said. In total, approximately 1,500 players were taken over the course of 50 rounds. Lucas was the fourth Ivy League player selected in the draft, following a pair of prospects from perennial Dartmouth rival and 2004 Ivy League baseball champions Princeton University, and a Columbia University centerfielder. Princeton centerfielder Brandon Szymanski, drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round with the 48th pick overall, was the first Ivy League player chosen in the draft. Teammate pitcher Curtis Ohlendorg followed in the fourth round, selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks with the 116th pick overall. With the 195th pick overall and the fourth pick in the seventh round, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays chose Columbia centerfielder Fernandez.

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After months, search for librarian continues

By Dax Tejera | June 2, 2004

Five months after the College's head librarian resigned his post, Dartmouth is still searching for a replacement. The search for a new Dean of Libraries will continue through the summer and into the fall as a committee prepares to meet in Boston this week to conduct preliminary interviews with candidates. The search process began after former Dean Richard Lucier resigned from his three-year post on Jan.

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Buffett group invests in local firm

By Michael Reeves | June 2, 2004

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will acquire a 16 percent stake in the outstanding common shares of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., a Bermuda-based insurance holding company that has its principal executive office in Hanover. White Mountains announced last week that Berkshire Hathaway, a Nebraska-based conglomerate headed by the billionaire financier Buffett, will execute all of its warrants to purchase 1,724,000 common shares of White Mountains stock for approximately $294 million in cash. Berkshire Hathaway obtained the warrants when it financed White Mountains' acquisition of OneBeacon Insurance Group LLC, a group of independent insurance agents in the Northeast, in June 2001. Because Berkshire Hathaway exercised its warrants before they were callable by White Mountains on May 31, 2005, the two companies agreed to discount the exercise price by about two percent.

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Highest-paid campus jobs often stay unfilled

By Anna Parachkevova | June 2, 2004

In the "real world," high-paying jobs are usually among the most sought-after, but Dartmouth student workers don't appear to be lured by the same incentives. While Dartmouth Dining Services offers the best-paid positions on campus, many of these positions remain unfilled. No students currently work at the Courtyard Cafe in the Hop, and only one student is working in the dish room in Food Court.

Opinion

Five Years After the SLI . . .

By James Larimore | June 2, 2004

What a difference a year can make. The dialogue between students and administrators over the past academic year has helped to improve communication, clarify and correct misunderstandings, make adjustments to procedures for managing social events and build trust.

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Police Blotter

June 2, 2004

April 29, Mass Row, 2:21 a.m. Hanover Police accompanied an ambulance run to Mid-Mass dormitory, where a 21-year-old male College student had vomited, defecated on himself and passed out on the floor of his bathroom.

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Dept. evaluations announced

By Lizzie Wise | June 2, 2004

Dartmouth's anthropology and classics departments elicit high student satisfaction ratings, while biology maintains its traditionally low marks, according to a just-published Student Assembly report on departmental performance at the College. Steve Koutsavlis '05 presented a report assessing the performance of the College's academic departments at the final Student Assembly meeting of the term last night. Over 50 pages long, the report provides extensive information on each department, including number of professors, majors and major-to-faculty ratio; number of classes offered within the department, average class size, median class size and ratings on various aspects of the academic experience. "We hope this assessment helps provoke a discussion about the future allocation of resources for teaching at Dartmouth and assists prospective majors in choosing a department that best suits their needs," the report's cover letter said. Koutsavlis, the Assembly's vice president of academic affairs, and Mark Herman '06, vice chair of the academic affairs committee, spent the past year compiling the report based on results from an online survey sent out to majors last spring.

Opinion

Abraham Kerry

By Kabir Sehgal | June 1, 2004

John Kerry reminds me of Abraham Lincoln. Before you choke on your B-Feld, understand that I'm talking about Lincoln the person, not Lincoln the legend.

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In Ala. court race, alum calls on Christian vote

By Mark Henle | June 1, 2004

After a judicial ethics committee removed Chief Justice Roy Moore from the Alabama Supreme Court for his defense of a two-ton Ten Commandments monument in the court's rotunda, the renegade judge's name would seem to hold little clout.

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