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N.H. residents speak on Upper Valley homelessness

By Charles Gardner | August 9, 2002

Several Upper Valley residents who have experienced homelessness spoke on the shortage of affordable housing in the region Wednesday evening in Tindle Lounge, shedding light on a problem that seems remote for many Dartmouth students. Tina Paquin, who lived out of a camping tent before finding housing in Templeton, said the stigma of being homeless was hurtful not only to her, but to her children, who were objects of taunts and abuse at school. While "most people think that to be homeless, you have to be a drug addict or a drunk," she said, many more are the victims of a dearth of low-income housing throughout the Upper Valley. In 2001, Paquin said, over 700 people -- including more than 300 children -- were turned down for low-income housing in the region, with the number continuing to increase each year. Tom Cagle, another speaker, said the current lack of affordable housing can be traced in large part to the phenomenon of "NIMBY," or "not in my backyard," in which residents are reluctant to approve of any form of housing that might depress the property value of their homes. Until the 1970s, speaker Janice Stevenson said, the states of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine built adequate amounts of low-income housing. Since the economy was weak at the time, and there was net emigration from the region, a housing shortage was averted, she said.

Opinion

New Party Politics

By Daniel Kay | August 9, 2002

It's 1:27 a.m. and I just watched a Sports Center showcase on the first day of the Citgo Bassmasters Classic; this country's going to hell in a hand basket.

Sports

Halfway there: Hoopsters hang tough in improving Ivy

By Elliot Olshansky | August 9, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the ninth in a series of articles profiling members of the Class of 2004 on Dartmouth varsity sports teams There are no math majors among the Big Green Men's Basketball Class of 2004, but the rising juniors have learned a great deal about subtraction in their first two seasons in Hanover.

Opinion

The (Postmodern) Art of Babbling

By John Stevenson | August 7, 2002

One can easily drown in the convoluted rhetoric that floods the academic world today. However, I have discovered a life raft in which we can stay afloat on the deluge of unintelligible and meaningless words and phrases called "deprogramming." Deprogramming means dissecting and removing the buzzwords and buzzphrases that are not meant to illuminate but to obscure the truth through clever manipulation and polemical rhetoric.

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Prof. says assault not the answer to Saddam

By Richard Lazarus | August 7, 2002

Containment is a better strategy against Iraq than fighting a direct war, according to Dartmouth Professor Daryl Press, who spoke Monday on "Phase II: Attack on Saddam." Press laid out two points he thought best made the case for an invasion of Iraq -- defense against a possible attack against the United States and the possibility of installing a progressive government in the Arab world. He then presented some reasons not to invade.

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Women share past experiences

By Richard Lazarus | August 7, 2002

A panel of about a dozen women discussed poetry, body image, sexual assault and the difference between men's and women's experiences before an audience of about twenty women last night. At "A Celebration of Womanhood," host Soojung Rhee '04 introduced the event as a way to reaffirm "how important we are to ourselves and to the women around us." Susan Edwards '04 read a prepared statement about sexual assault, talking about both the extensiveness of assault on campus and her own experience of being raped in her senior year of high school. Edwards said the experience had changed her completely.

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Meningitis victim feels 'much better'

By Charles Gardner | August 7, 2002

Kelly Cameron '04 was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis this weekend and taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for treatment, where she was listed in satisfactory condition yesterday. Cameron left intensive care on Monday and is "progressing very well," according to DHMC spokesperson Deborah Kimbell. Friend Lauren Wondolowski '04, who visited Cameron yesterday, said she was "feeling much better" and would likely be able to return to the College on Saturday. Director of Health Services Jack Turco stressed that a single case of the bacterial disease should not serve as cause for alarm. "This is a terrifying illness, but I don't think students are at any higher risk of developing it than last week or two weeks ago," he said. Meningitis, a disease that causes inflammation of the lining of the spinal cord and brain, is "in general not very contagious," Turco said.

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Frats encounter minor vandalism

By Charles Gardner | August 5, 2002

An individual entered Bones Gate and Sigma Nu fraternities and caused minor damage in each early last week, but Hanover Police say no arrest has yet been made in the case. During the early morning hours of July 30, Bones Gate reported to police that an individual had caused "minor damage" there then left the building, according to Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone. The same individual later entered Sigma Nu fraternity and damaged parts of the basement, Giaccone said, including some wall paneling and a wood countertop. Bones Gate reported the individual to police immediately after the vandalism occurred due to concerns "that the person needed help," according to Giaccone. Sigma Nu, however, did not report the incident for an additional 12 hours, only calling police at 9:30 p.m.

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Students encourageN.H. voter registration

By Tara Kyle | August 5, 2002

As candidates and campaigners continue to gear up for fall elections, lawyers and state and local law clerks will hit campus next week to lend support for at a voter registration drive at Dartmouth. Five students currently working or volunteering for New Hampshire Democratic Party candidates -- Ben Correa '04, Josh Marcuse '04, Phil Peisch '04, Rebecca Perkins '04 and Josh Stern '04 -- began planning for the registration push around three weeks ago. Their efforts came about in part as a response to an overburdening of Hanover's local government during "same day registration programs," which for 2000's federal elections brought over 1,000 Dartmouth students to beleagured Hanover town officials on election day. That turnout created what Marcuse, who is working for the New Hampshire Democratic Party's campaign office in Lebanon, called a "logistical and clerical nightmare" for local offices.

Sports

Small talk: The bosses' have spoken ... stupidly

By Adam Small | August 5, 2002

Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, it is now official. Two of baseball's biggest names, and biggest egos, are now suffering from RCI " rectal-cranial immersion. I am, of course, talking about Bud Selig and George Steinbrenner.

News

Pres. apologizes to Yale, applicants

By Alison Schmauch | August 5, 2002

Princeton University has said recently that some of the people who used its computers to gain access to a Yale University admissions Web site were not employees of the university, but in fact students. Four Princeton students entered the Web site, according to Marilyn Marks, media relations director at Princeton. Two of these Princeton students who entered the Web site had siblings who applied to both Princeton and Yale, according to Princeton, in spite of an announcement on the site warning that nobody except applicants themselves was authorized to use it. One other person who accessed the site from Princeton's computers was a student who had applied to both Yale and Princeton and was visiting the Princeton admissions office that day. Shirley Tilghman, Princeton's president, also released her first official statement. "Basic ethical principles of privacy and confidentiality are at stake here," Tilghman said in an E-mail message to the Princeton community. "We teach these principles and we hold our students, faculty and staff to them.

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North campus to grow in 2003

By Richard Lazarus | August 5, 2002

A new dining facility, dormitory and academic building will be constructed over the next several years, replacing older buildings in a bid to improve student life. The most important buildings being constructed as far as student life is concerned is probably a complex consisting of a new dining hall, residence hall and social facilities on the north side of Maynard Street, on the far north end of the campus. Director of Facilities Planning Reed Bergwall said he hopes construction will begin on the Maynard Street buildings by 2003.

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