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College hires 17 new professors

By Albert Satija | October 3, 2002

Dartmouth's search for young and talented professors to bolster its faculty has yielded high results this year, with the recent hiring of 17 assistant professors from around the country and across the globe. The history department gained the most from this year's round of hiring, with three newly hired assistant professors filling in gaps created by attrition.

Sports

Men's racketeers down Ivy foes at Yale Invitational

By Stu Adam | October 3, 2002

The Big Green's men racketeers have proven themselves a force of contention in the ECAC and the Ivy League after a strong performance at the Yale Invitational over the weekend. While Mother Nature demonstrates her omnipotence by dropping temperatures in the New England area and subsequently changing deciduous tree leaves to magnificent autumn reds, oranges and yellows, the thinking man resultantly understands the futility of his struggles against forces greater than himself.

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Steinberg '88 examines the admissions process

By Alison Schmauch | October 3, 2002

Although the college admissions process has frequently been criticized as being unfair or overly subjective, Jacques Steinberg '88 takes a sympathetic view of this difficult rite of passage in his new book, "The Gatekeepers." Steinberg, who is also a member of The Dartmouth's Board of Proprietors, spent the 1999-2000 school year shadowing the work of Ralph Figueroa, an admissions officer at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. He drew on his observations to produce a series of articles for the New York Times, where he is currently an education correspondent. Steinberg said he was surprised by "how human the college admissions process is" and by the extent of the efforts admissions officers made to get to know each applicant. Every application submitted to Wesleyan is read by two different people, and if there is any uncertainty about whether or not to admit someone, the entire admissions committee convenes to discuss the case, he said. Still, Steinberg acknowledged that the admissions process can often be "personal" and "idiosyncratic," even "arbitrary." Steinberg's account of Figueroa's reactions to the applications of Tiffany Wang and Aggie Ramirez nicely demonstrates this idiosyncratic aspect of admissions. Wang scored a 1470 on the SAT I, well above Wesleyan's average, and has taken six Advanced Placement courses to date.

Sports

Women's tennis impressive in season opener

By Mark Sweeney | October 3, 2002

The Dartmouth women's tennis team jumped out to a terrific start in its 2002 fall season by posting numerous outstanding results in last weekend's Quinnipiac Invitational. In the singles A flight, the Big Green simply dominated the rest of the field, placing two Dartmouth players in the finals of that division.

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Many '06 athletes skip trips

By Sowmya Kypa | October 3, 2002

One of the first experiences most students have with Dartmouth is a Dartmouth Outing Club trip. Of the 12 percent of the incoming freshmen this year who did not participate in first year trips, the most frequent reason for opting out was athletics, according to DOC trips leader Emily Lesher '02.

Opinion

The Price of a Discount

By Jonathan Eisenman | October 2, 2002

To the Editor: In response to Ray Hood, Jr.'s letter in September 26th's issue of The Dartmouth, "A Hop Divided" -- specifically the quip "Some could say we should be lucky to live next to an institution that has the means to attract national acts and recording artists, instead of having to travel to Boston or New York to see them, but why pass off the cost to just one segment of the audience?" I should like to point out to other community members of like mind that the "other" segment to which Mr. Hood refers pays over $30,000 a year for the "privilege" of purchasing discounted Hopkins Center tickets.

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New, old meet in fall's first SA mtg.

By Kaitlin Bell | October 2, 2002

The first Student Assembly meeting of the term was marked by a combination of freshness and experience -- with a bevy of new leaders and student representatives introducing themselves and outlining their plans for the term, many emphasizing their newness to student government while others highlighted their past involvement with the Assembly. The 45-minute meeting was brief but to the point, including introductions of student representatives, elections of two committee chairs, sign-ups for the Assembly's seven committees and descriptions of the committees' past achievements and future goals by their respective chairs. The meeting marked the official commencement of the Assembly's new leadership, which includes not only Student Body President Janos Marton '04 and Vice President Julia Hildreth '05, but also seven committee chairs appointed by Marton and the newly-elected '06 Cluster Representatives. Although Marton served as chair of the Student Assembly over the summer, the start of Fall term has brought a considerable changeover in leadership as committee heads and Membership and Internal Affairs Committee members -- many of them '03s and '05s who were off during the summer -- assume their positions. Some students in attendance made reference to the changed mood and composition of the Assembly, remarking that there were "a lot of new faces out there" and joking about "the high concentration of Chi Gams and rugby players." The overall tone of the meeting was light and energetic, with Marton and Hildreth managing to move swiftly through a packed agenda without having to quell the laughter that erupted after the frequent jokes and asides. Emerging as one of the meeting's overarching themes was a goal of forging relationships between disparate elements of the Dartmouth community. Diversity Affairs Committee head James Joun '03 explained his goal of coordinating programming between different campus groups to encourage collaboration while eliminating unintentional overlap. Operating in a similar vein, the Student Organizations Committee will seek to coordinate various efforts toward environmental sustainability at the College.

Opinion

The Inertia of Life

By Ryan Tan | October 2, 2002

The synonyms for inertia are numerous in the dictionary -- inertness, indisposition to motion, exertion, or action, want of energy and sluggishness.

News

Campus cell phone use rises

By Zachary Goldstein | October 2, 2002

They ring, annoy and embarrass at the most inopportune times. But even on the remote Dartmouth campus, cell phones are rapidly becoming more prevalent. A recent trend nationwide has shown that students are now more frequently using their cellular companions as their primary telephone, leaving campus telephone services searching for new ways to draw in student customers. At Dartmouth these trends are present but slightly mitigated, in part due to the lack of solid cell phone reception around campus.

Sports

Women's rugby shuts out foe again

By Anne Snider | October 2, 2002

This past Saturday, the Dartmouth Women''s Rugby Club defeated the Brown Bears in Providence by a score of 34-0 to preserve its perfect record in league play. Dartmouth came out strong and the majority of the first 15 minutes saw the DWRC on the attack.

Arts

'Kindred Spirits' same old line

By Eric Lindley | October 2, 2002

The tribute album is a tricky musical beast. Ideally, the newer versions of the songs should highlight melodic, lyric or timbral elements of the original that have inspired contemporary artists to pursue their own work.

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College set to unite neuroscience efforts

By Vassilia Binensztok | October 2, 2002

In an effort to strengthen Dartmouth's neuroscience program, Nov. 21 will mark the official inauguration of the new Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth. The center will coalesce the areas of cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience and molecular/cellular/systems neuroscience.

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Students fight for the spotlight

By Jessica Spradling | October 2, 2002

They rock Collis, they shake The Hop, but before they find their place in the spotlight, the superstars of Dartmouth's many performing groups go through a rigorous audition process that few of the less artistically inclined members of campus know about. During the first week of classes while most students were settling in, over 100 Dartmouth students auditioned for a few extremely competitive spots in student-run performing groups. Always a campus favorite, the six a cappella groups had over 90 students vying for membership, but most of the groups were only seeking between two and four new members. The same was true for the campus sketch-comedy troupes, Casual Thursday and The Dog Day Players, who each chose three or four recruits out of over 40 total applicants. Each group was looking for different talents during the 16 hours of a capella auditions, but Decibelles president Meredith McGowan '04 said that most groups looked for performers in certain vocal ranges, voices they believed were teachable and voices that would blend well with their group. Despite a decrease in the quantity of male auditions -- about 40 this year compared to 60 in 2001 -- Paul "Bub" Cathcart '03 of The Aires claimed that the decisions were not any easier, as the quality of the men was unusually high. Casual Thursday chose members who fit well with their fast-paced shorter skits and games, and who blended with their existing members to create a group that could act well with each other on stage. Colin Murray '04, business manager of The Dog Day Players, said that his troupe looked for talented actors who could rise to the challenge of their longer skits.

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