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Trustee selection winds down

By Devin Foxall | January 16, 2003

Three Dartmouth alumni have advanced past a long selection process to become finalists for a soon-to-open alumni seat on the Board of Trustees. At the beginning of March, Dartmouth's 60,000 alumni will decide whether Elyse Allan '79, John J.

Arts

Dashboard is just plain creepy on live CD/DVD

By Lance Kramer | January 16, 2003

On the DVD that accompanies Dashboard Confessional's new live album, "MTV Unplugged v2.0," a small audience sings along with almost every song -- something to be expected by loyal followers at a show like this. But their involvement with the music extends far beyond a casual connection to the music -- they are under its spell. There are times when the camera focuses on audience members who appear to be in a trance.

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Dhand, Herring win int'l Rhodes

By Brian E.J. Martin | January 16, 2003

Two recent College graduates, Amar Dhand '01 of Canada and Fiona Herring '02 of Bermuda, were recently honored as Rhodes Scholars by their respective nations. The Rhodes Scholarships were created 100 years ago and enable students from 18 nations to study for two or three years at Oxford University in Cambridge, England.

Sports

Women's Basketball

By The Dartmouth | January 16, 2003

Angela Soriaga '06's defense and Vermont native Jamie Librizzi '04's offense weren't enough Tuesday night as the Big Green fell to Siena 76-55 at Leede Arena.

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College admits 394 to Class of '07

By Zachary Goldstein | January 15, 2003

The Class of 2007 is now over a third full, with the 394 early admissions acceptance letters mailed in mid-December filling 37 percent of the incoming freshman class. The 32 percent acceptance rate is comparable to last year's figure, but remains much higher than the regular decision rate, which last year stood at only 20 percent. 1,217 students applied, a total up eight percent from last year, and the highest such figure in five years. "The number of students that are admitted remains very consistent from year to year, but the percentage of each class comprised of early admissions acceptances fluctuates," Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said.

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Few sorority systems offer all rushees bids

By Charles Gardner | January 15, 2003

Despite ongoing efforts to make the rush process fair and accessible, sorority systems at Dartmouth and across the country maintain that the practice of guaranteeing bids is an impractical and all but unattainable goal. Instead, leaders argue, a rush process which attempts to reconcile the preferences of both potential new members and organizations produces an inevitable degree of uncertainty, though the percentage of women given acceptances often varies widely among institutions. While a policy of guaranteeing bids to all women who register for sorority rush has never officially existed at Dartmouth, in 1997 and 1998 all women who completed the rush process were matched with a house. Such a result was possible when rush classes were smaller, according to Panhellenic Council President Ann Chang '03, but the number of students who sign up for rush is not the sole determinant of whether bids can be guaranteed. "There are extreme cases we could not anticipate," said Chang. "If a woman is having trouble with academics ... or is bearing stresses, be it emotional, physical or financial, then the woman may be advised to consider recruitment in the spring." Still, Chang said, Dartmouth's Panhellenic Council -- the organization which runs rush -- has "one of the highest" bid-offering rates among national Panhellenic organizations.

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Rush changes along with perceptions of Greeks

By Mark Herman | January 15, 2003

For many years, the College has used rush to regulate Greek organizations, punishing them in times of dissonance with later rush dates and more restrictions. Rush has evolved over the years, surviving world wars and hostile administrations. How rush is conducted throughout Dartmouth history is a product of the general conduct of fraternities, said Jere Daniell '55, a history professor and an expert on Dartmouth history. In the 1920s, 1950s and early 1960s, the relationship between fraternities and the administration was stronger, as fraternities regulated their own actions to a greater extent, Daniell said. Some changes in rush have been sparked less by relationships with the administration and more by world events.

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SA reaffirms teaching initiative

By Jessica Spradling | January 15, 2003

The Student Assembly reaffirmed and expanded the Undergraduate Teaching Initiative and planned a response to the College's new alcohol policy at a busy but brief meeting last night. The Assembly unanimously voted to add a fourth clause to the UTI calling for an extensive campus-wide report examining the current curriculum, and making suggestions on how it could be improved. Student Body Vice-President Julia Hildreth '05 said that the new report would be "a review of what students like about the curriculum," and that she felt the administration was ready to "open it up to students and try to get some curriculum changes." The UTI was a resolution originally passed by the Assembly in the Fall term of 2001 based on study by the Assembly entitled "The Soul of Dartmouth: The Academic Direction of the College" revealed that many Dartmouth students felt that the College was moving too far from its traditional undergraduate focus in favor of becoming a research-driven university. Already in the UTI were the three original resolutions, which include annual undergraduate assessments of each department, non-monetary awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching and innovative teaching grants. Though previous initiative components had been passed individually, Hildreth said the decision to reaffirm the entire initiative had been motivated by a desire to make the UTI a more "permanent and continuous" effort. The Assembly also decided last night that it was, according to Hildreth, "time to respond" to the College's new alcohol policy.

Opinion

The Dartmouth Routine

By Ryan Tan | January 15, 2003

It's the second week of school already, and the memories of the refreshing break have already faded into the distance.

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Profs: Children exposed to 'extremely violent' films

By Jessica Spradling | January 15, 2003

A study conducted recently by Dartmouth scientists found that nearly one-third of young children and teenagers in America have seen movies with "extremely violent" content. Researchers at Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth medical and undergraduate students collaborated to survey 5000 children in the Northern New England area who were enrolled in fifth through eighth grades -- roughly ages 10 to 14. The children were given a list of 50 randomly selected movies chosen from the 600 highest-earning movies released between 1988 and 1999, and asked to select the ones that they had seen. From the body of 600 movies, the researchers determined the films that, in their opinion, had the most violent content. According to the researchers this meant that the movies were R-rated and contained scenes that depicted, among other things, "sadistic rape, sodomy, brutal or ritualistic murders and cannibalism." The study reports that on average, 28 percent of the students surveyed had seen such movies. "Through movies, adolescents are being exposed to brutal and often sexualized violence," the lead author of the paper and Dartmouth Medical School Professor of Pediatrics James Sargent said in a prepared statement. Among fifth grade students, the most popular of these violent movies were "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Scream," which about 40 percent of those surveyed had seen.

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Ski patrol: To serve and protect

By Devin Foxall | January 14, 2003

On a windy day last January, Bret Anderson '05 was in a shack at the top of Holt's Ledge with a few other members of the Dartmouth Ski Patrol when a call came over the radio.

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Prof. study probes music, mind

By Melana Yanos | January 14, 2003

Most people appreciate music without stopping to wonder how the musical structure behind melodies is represented in their brains. But Petr Janata, Research Assistant Professor at Dartmouth's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, has made it his job to know exactly that. Janata's research, published in the Dec.

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