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'Phone Booth' answers the call

By Hanna Putnam | April 8, 2003

In Joel Schumacher's latest film, cell phones in Manhattan are like BlitzMail accounts at Dartmouth -- a requirement, a habit and a means of communication that hides our voices behind a faceless wall of technology. The film takes place entirely in midtown Manhattan, land of the cell phone-gripping consumer, the raucous prostitute, the wide-eyed tourist and the last standing phone booth in all of New York City. Doomed to be torn down in T minus 24 hours, the Bell Atlantic booth must first deliver to the chosen citizen a call from hell -- or at least a call from a voice that needs to stay in nightmares and out of reality: "If you hang up, I will kill you." And we're off on a tense, rapid, and tightly fastened ride through the trials, tests, wits, confessions and redemption of one man.

Opinion

Encouraging Words

By Stan Horowitz | April 8, 2003

To the Editor: Great column by Joe Asch '76. He hit it right on the nose in his April 7 piece "Wright Policies." This story should be the basis for extensive reporting by The Dartmouth.

News

April weather woes form familiar refrain

By Kim McKee | April 8, 2003

Though warm temperatures over the first few days of the new term brought frisbees, sandals and idlers back onto the Green, students were soon dismayed to wake up to an all-too-familiar Hanover tradition -- the springtime snowstorm. Temperatures dropped ten degrees below the seasonal average last week, and disappointed Dartmouth students were quick to once again pile on several layers of jackets and clothing to cope with the cold conditions. Average temperatures in the Upper Valley for the first week of April are between 50 to 52 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Numbers rise for spring rush

By Valerie Silverman | April 8, 2003

The second year of spring rush wrapped up with sororities offering an increased number of bids and Gamma Delta Chi again attracting a significantly larger spring pledge class than any other fraternity. Completing an over week-long process for sororities and a shorter stint for fraternities, participants in spring rush have recently received and accepted their bids for membership. Between nine and 12 bids were given out by each of the six sororities, while the number of bids for fraternities ranged from one to 18.

Arts

Kronos continues to push the classical music envelope

By Carl Burnett | April 7, 2003

David Harrington may be a 53-year-old classical violinist, but before he leads the Kronos Quartet onstage he's likely to admonish the group in the following way: "Let's kick ass." "We always kick ass," nodded cellist Jennifer Culp, seated in the lobby of the Hanover Inn last week.

Opinion

My 'Anthem'

By Jon Schroeder | April 7, 2003

I would just like to chart how one song, "The Anthem," by the totally inept neo-punk band, Good Charlotte, has been manufactured into a hit.

Opinion

Wright Priorities

By Joe Asch | April 7, 2003

The debate over the College's budget difficulties has been off-target: the College community has focused on the details of recent cost cuts and entirely lost sight of the Wright administration's true priorities. Jim Freedman began, and Jim Wright continues, an effort radically to transform Dartmouth from an excellent undergraduate-centered college, coexisting with a small town, into a research university dominating its surroundings. The pursuit of this goal is the true reason for the ongoing demise of independent little libraries, the cutbacks in the number of courses being taught and the attempted eradication of entire sports teams.

Arts

Ku Na'uka tells a complex tale

By Holly Shaffer | April 4, 2003

"To meet others is to be astonished at the differences and then to try to search for the similarity," Japanese theatre director Satoshi Miyagi claims, "and then at the end to be astonished at the similarity." Miyagi leads Ku Na'uka, the Japanese contemporary theater company that staged a production of the innovative Kyoka Izumi's play "Tensho Monogatari" ("The Castle Tower") in Moore Theater last night and Wednesday. The company's productions are based on bunraku, a type of Japanese traditional puppet theater where the lines are delivered by a narrator and the actions by a puppet, separating movement from language.

News

'Likely letters' bring admit. news early

By Zachary Goldstein | April 4, 2003

As the 10,636 students in the regular admissions pool wait anxiously for their decision letters this week, nearly 500 of them won't be surprised by the news. Each year the College sends out three waves of letters to exceptional students who are "absolutely clear- cut" acceptances, according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg.

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Speaker advocates intervention in Africa

By Robert Kimmitt | April 4, 2003

A lack of international attention to the people of sub-Saharan Africa has been responsible for the absence of effective intervention by nations during the Rwandan massacres and other human rights violations in the region, said General Romeo Dallaire, former commander of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Rwanda. In his speech, entitled "The War-Affected Children of Rwanda," Dallaire posed the question, "Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?" He said there is a "value" placed on human life that favors residents of strategically important and economically bountiful areas. He cited Yugoslavia as an example, saying that more people died in 100 days in Rwanda than in 8 or 9 years of fighting in Yugoslavia, yet Yugoslavia received far more financial, political, media, and military attention. He commented on the growing tendency of nations to violate the rules of the Geneva Convention, in particular noting the use of children as combatants. "Children have become weapons," he said.

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