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July 18, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Stinson's cools beer for weekend

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As Homecoming crowds flood into Hanover this weekend, local businesses will be focusing their efforts on accommodating the influx of alumni, parents and high-rolling students. Stinson's Convenience Store is already preparing for the likely increase of sales of a few specific products this weekend. "I'm not going to say we sell more beer -- that would sound bad," owner Jack Stinson said. However, Stinson's is definitely taking steps to ensure that it won't run dry over the weekend. "We have this thing built, just for Homecoming, some kid called it 'The Big Green.' It's full of 30 packs of beer.


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Homecoming Revisited

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This year's Homecoming presents the members of the class of 2006 with an inordinate challenge -- what is our role as upperclassmen, if not to run around the bonfire like heathens? Do we beat up the little freshmen who try to escape from running laps around the fire?


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Dick's House ups personnel

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Dick's House is bracing for Homecoming weekend, and the corresponding increase in admissions due to alcohol or bonfire-related injuries. While exact numbers are not available, there is a marked increase in admissions over the weekend, according to Charley Bradley, nursing director at Dick's House.


Opinion

Business Pointers for DDS

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DDS excels at being predictable, like the predictable southern fried chicken on Mondays at Food Court, or the predictable deep-fried bits of seafood on Fridays.


Arts

B&S bounce back on latest LP

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Belle and Sebastian's fifth album, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress," is the band's attempt to emerge from the black hole to which they had been relegated by the most hardcore of indie rock critics after the disappointments of their third and fourth albums, "The Boy with the Arab Strap" and "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant." "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" luckily doesn't have the same inconsistencies and disjointedness that plagued the group's most recent albums, but it is not a return to their "Tigermilk" days either.




News

Critic: Profits trump quality in news

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Well-known media critic Tom Rosenstiel said he was "absolutely" worried about the future of journalism in an interview with The Dartmouth yesterday. In an era of large media conglomerates and cable news, corporate bottom lines have become more important than the quality of journalism put forth. Rosenstiel, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, studies news outlets and has found alarming results since he began in 1996. As all three major broadcast news organizations are now small parts of large corporations, Rosenstiel and his colleagues have found that television news programs, especially morning shows, are no longer focused on journalism. According to Rosenstiel, half of every morning show hour is devoted to advertisements, mostly for items whose sales benefit the show's parent company. "Each network was more than twice as likely to sell their own products," Rosenstiel said, adding that 90 percent of the times they do, they do not inform viewers. The state of cable news is just as dismal, as reporting has been replaced by a televised form of talk radio.


Opinion

More on ISTS

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To The Editor: This is to amplify information in the recent article by Matthew Kelly ("Report ranks college high for pork spending," The Dartmouth, Oct.




News

BG report alleges S&S broke lock

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Bones Gate fraternity filed a police report earlier this month alleging that Safety and Security officers illegally broke into a locked room to find alcohol in the fraternity's physical plant. College security officials denied forcibly entering the room, asserting that they had found the padlock on the door to the room unlocked. The accusations come at a time when College administrators face increasing criticism for their enforcement of Greek policy.



Opinion

Shallow Thinking

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I question both the veracity of the motives and the intelligence of any group that purports to campaign for the wellbeing of non-human animals while actively discouraging its members from supporting the National Wildlife Federation, the National Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society and the World Wildlife Fund.


News

Admissions office confronts conservative stereotype

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When Alexandra Giese, a prospective '08, told a good friend of hers at Brown that she intended to apply to Dartmouth, her friend's immediate response was simple: "Eww, Dartmouth's really conservative." Karl Furstenberg, Dartmouth's dean of admissions, acknowledged that many prospective students, like Giese's friend, do view the school as highly conservative, although he thought that the campus has changed greatly. He maintained, though, that the persistence of this stereotype rarely prevents applicants with more liberal views from applying. Several current students who were concerned about the political climate on campus before applying also saw a clear contrast between Dartmouth's reputation and reality. Furstenberg likewise believes that the conservative stereotype has faded.





News

Long lines a Fall term constant

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With more students enrolled this fall, undergraduate students are feeling the effects of the stress on College resources as they wait in long lines throughout campus. "Fall term is a real crunch," said Director of Dartmouth Dining Services Tucker Rossiter.