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Jewish sound archive to go online this term

By Lizzie Wise | October 14, 2002

The Jewish Sound Archive, a website created by Thayer Professor Alex Hartov and co-organized by Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Professor Lewis Glinert, will make its online debut this term, serving as a resource of Jewish music, history and culture. On this website, Dartmouth students will have access to a wide variety of programming including Yiddish radio jingles predating World War II, a radio broadcast of the United Nations' vote for the creation of the state of Israel and contemporary Israeli folk music. "As far as I know, we are the first university in the world to create an online streaming database of Jewish sounds," Glinert said. Hartov developed the archive in 1992 after stumbling upon old records belonging to Eddie Gilman, his wife's uncle. Gilman had used the records while hosting a Yiddish radio show in Boston called "The Yiddish Hour," and Hartov later inherited Gilman's collection of recordings and transcripts. Hartov worked hard to restore the records, due to their condition after storage in a basement.

Opinion

The Other America

By Chris Curran | October 14, 2002

Corporate recruiting season is upon us. Many seniors are participating in the process in the hopes of landing a job in finance or consulting in New York or another major city.

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Hopkins study finds little to love in ecstasy

By Judith Phillips | October 11, 2002

X -- It rhymes with sex. And In 2000, 9.1 percent of college students took the former in order to increase the intensity of the latter. Yet a recent study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins has found that ecstasy -- a recreational drug known scientifically as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA -- has more negative than positive effects on sexual pleasure. The study found that "doses similar to those that young adults typically take during all-night dance parties" has the potential to damage 60 percent to 80 percent of the brain's dopamine nerve endings. Dopamine is integral to movement, emotional and cognitive response and the ability to feel pleasure. The study, funded by the U.S.

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Fernald proposes income tax

By Megh Duwadi | October 11, 2002

Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles chronicling the campaigns of New Hampshire politicians running in the 2002 elections. New Hampshire's tax system, Mark Fernald says, has forced his retired grandmother to pay more taxes than are required of a multimillionaire. The Democratic candidate in Nov.

Sports

Potent Big Green aerial attack looks to overwhelm Yale

By Elliot Olshansky | October 11, 2002

Call them the Big Green Party Crashers. Last October, with a winless Big Green team coming into the Yale Bowl to take on an undefeated Bulldog squad, the contest capping off Yale's Tercentennial Weekend looked to be a celebration on the field to match the celebration off of it. That notion was, in time, put to rest, as Dartmouth quarterback Greg Smith '02 threw for 407 yards and tied a Yale Bowl record with five touchdown passes to lead the Big Green to a 32-27 victory, raining on the Bulldogs' Tercentennial parade in the process. The Bulldogs never quite recovered from the loss, and finished the 2001 season with a 3-6 record, tying Dartmouth for last in the Ivy League with a 1-6 conference mark. One year later, Dartmouth (0-3, 0-1 Ivy) is in a similar position, as the Green will once again take on an undefeated Yale squad (3-0, 1-0 Ivy). This time, however, the men in Green will be playing within the friendly confines of Memorial Field, as they look once again to end Yale's undefeated streak, and put the first notch in their own win column. For their part, the Bulldogs are likely still fuming from last year's loss, and will be looking for revenge as they roll into Hanover, fresh off of a 28-19 win over Holy Cross last Saturday at the Yale Bowl, their 11th consecutive non-conference win since 1998. Despite their early season success, the Bulldogs come into Saturday's game with a glaring weakness: their passing game.

Opinion

A Sincere Apology

By Katherine Rue | October 11, 2002

To the Editor: Rumors abound on college campuses. BlitzMail is an easy way for rumors to be forwarded and go from being merely opinion to something people accept as true without verifying their sources.

Opinion

The Week

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | October 11, 2002

Asset Management "As administrators, if we do our job well, fluctuations in the budget will be invisible to students," Provost Barry Scherr said after April's meeting of the Board of Trustees, when the prospect of budget cuts was first made public.

News

Mid East lecture heats up

By Jessica Spradling | October 11, 2002

A lecture on village relations between Jews and Arabs in an Israeli village turned into a heated debate yesterday as audience members offended by the content and presentation of the lecture verbally sparred with both the speaker and fellow audience members. Susan Slyomovics, an anthropology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an editor of the Middle East Report, presented her research on Palestinian artistic response to the killings of 50 Palestinian Israelis in the village Kafr Kassem in 1956. Although Slyomovics said that, "Poetry alone has never stopped any war, ever," she said she hoped that her work would be a "small increment" of a long-term goal of peace in the Middle East. While she lectured for nearly 30 minutes to the audience of more than 50, Slyomovics used slides of artwork and photos of Kafr Kassem she had taken herself and read memorial verse written by Palestinians that she had translated from Arabic.

Opinion

On Corporate Recruiting

By Dan Galemba | October 11, 2002

Adam Kuhlmann's letter to the editor entitled "Step Right Up, Boys" in the Oct. 10 issue of The Dartmouth began as a satire on the homogeneity of the clothing donned by Dartmouth seniors as they attempt to brownnose their way to the top, but it quickly degenerated into a not-so-subtle attack on the process of corporate recruiting itself. For want of space, I'm not going to reprint the particulars of the letter that are provoking this response, considering doing so would entail rewriting the whole thing.

Sports

Freshman star leads golfers

By Jason Edgar | October 11, 2002

One-hit wonder? Think again. Chaki Kobayashi '06 continued his inspired play of recent weeks, posting a 73-76 -- 149 to lead the Dartmouth men's golf team to a seventh-place finish at the Army Invitational. Kobayashi once again rode his exceptional touch around the greens to success, placing 10th individually. "I really hit the ball terribly [this weekend] but got up and down from everywhere," the freshman said on Monday. Kobayashi hinted that his best is yet to come, responding wishfully, "I just can't wait until my ball-striking comes around, because then I know I will go really low." The Big Green men will certainly settle for the brilliance he has displayed on the course thus far.

News

Lappe blames hunger on livestock

October 11, 2002

Frances Moore Lappe has been advocating the benefits of vegetarianism for 30 years, but her speech yesterday in Filene Auditorium focused more on individual materialism and the political systems she claimed feed their populace the best. Lappe, an activist and author of "Diet for a Small Planet" and the recently-released "Hope's Edge," said the current food production system has "turned livestock into protein disposal systems," with half of the world's grain going to livestock. Lappe argued that world hunger stems from the disproportionate amount of resources going to livestock, citing that it takes up to 12,000 gallons of water for every pound of steak. Poorly-directed distribution, rather than actual food shortages, are responsible for world hunger, she said, noting that in India -- a country known for the large proportion of citizens living with hunger -- a surplus of grain exists for the livestock. When asked if the world is better or worse than 30 years ago, Lappe replied "both." Most of her speech, entitled "The Power of Food Choice," referenced "Hope's Edge," for which she traveled to five different continents studying hunger and food production. Lappe encouraged people to think of the environmental implications of what they eat, saying "We are all looking for ways for our individual choices to have global influence." Questioning Lappe's praise of a town in Brazil which passed an ordinance to legally require that all of its residents receive sufficient food, some present suggested that the town's approach bordered on Communism. Audience members expressed mixed feelings about the lecture. Oliver Bernstein '03 -- who coordinated the lecture for the Environmental Conservation Organization -- said, "It was great to have these issues represented at Dartmouth." But Sasha Earnheart-Gold '04 said that Lappe "talked down" to the audience and "didn't realize the level of students coming." He said he expected more facts and figures in the speech.

News

Profs. question U.S. war on Iraq

By Jessica Spradling | October 10, 2002

Retired Dartmouth government professor and former executive director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System Gene Lyons argued in a lecture Wednesday that at this stage in international history, it is unwise for the United States to use unilateral military force against Saddam Hussein. Lyons spoke with a serious demeanor to a group of 40 mostly Upper Value residents in the Rockefeller Center for nearly an hour, explaining the history of the United Nations to give historical context to the current situation with Iraq. "Despite the role the U.S.

Opinion

Just the Facts, Please

By Ronald Edsforth | October 10, 2002

To the Editor: Reporters have an obligation to check factual statements before publication, especially when their stories may prompt strong reactions among readers.

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