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Ivy League 'Set Asides'

By William C. Dowling | October 4, 2002

Last August, alumni went to their mailboxesto find an issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine featuring an interview with Richard "Dick" Jaeger '59, retiring after 13 years as athletic director. To anyone aware of the controversy about Ivy athletics since the release of James L.

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Two Ivies violate early admit rules

By Zachary Goldstein | October 4, 2002

In violation of a national policy set forth by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, Princeton and Brown are refusing to alter their early admissions policies. At last year's annual convention, NACAC decided to change its policy to uniformly allow students who apply early decision to one school to also submit non-binding "early action" applications to other schools.

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Ricciardone: Iraq needs democracy

By Griffin Gordon | October 4, 2002

Advocating a change to democracy for Iraq, current U.S. Ambassador to the Phillipines Francis Ricciardone '73 delivered a lecture last night about the current situation in the Middle East, entitled "Influencing the Morning After in Iraq." Although refraining from giving specific recommendation for military and political actions with regards to the Middle Eastern nation, Riccardone said he strongly supports the current U.S.

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Sports Illustrated ranks College 108th

By Jong Lee | October 4, 2002

Although Dartmouth's athletic program is currently ranked among the top-20 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, this week's edition of Sports Illustrated places Dartmouth athletics in the middle of the heap -- 108th in the nation among the 324 Division I athletic programs and seventh in the Ivy League. Sports Illustrated based their rankings on factors such as the school's performance in the "big five" sports (baseball, football, hockey and men's and women's basketball); the number of varsity, club and intramural sports; range of recreational facilities; position in the 2001-'02 Sears Cup NCAA all-sports standings; and whether or not spirit boosting events were held. Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper, however, defended the College's athletic program. "It depends on how and what you're measuring," she argued, pointing to the disparity between the Sports Illustrated and U.S.

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Romera Doubles Up Northeastern While Terriers Can't Crack Carr

By Dan Weinberg | October 4, 2002

Juan Romera '03 knocked in a pair of goals, including the game winner in double overtime to give the Dartmouth men's soccer team a 2-1 victory over Northeastern on Wednesday at Parsons Field in Boston, Mass. Dartmouth improves to (2-4-0, 1-0-0 Ivy), while the Huskies now stand at 3-5-2 overall and have yet to a play a conference game in the America East. The Big Green has won two-straight overtime matches after losing two in a row of the sort to begin the 2002 season. With just two minutes and 17 seconds left to avoid the unsatisfying prospect of a tie, Zach Schwartz '02 sent a cross to Romera at the far post, who headed it past Northeastern keeper Sergio Saccoccio. The clincher marked Dartmouth's third goal in five games. "I suppose as far as offensive spark goes, we've had a lot of them in all of our games, we just haven't had a flame yet," Romera said. "Today the team worked hard to put it all together and get that flame." Behind one-nil at the half, the Big Green came out with a vengeance, scoring before five minutes had expired in the second half. Romera scored on a sliding shot off a feed from Princeton's worst nightmare, Rob Daly '04, to even the score at one apiece. "The first goal I scored was almost entirely Rob Daly's doing," Romera said. "He beat his defender and lured the goalie out and unselfishly slid it across the goal for an easy tap in for me." Northeastern scored the game's first goal, the only ball to beat goalkeeper Doug Carr '03 all day.

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Event combats eating disorders with humor

By Anna Cates | October 4, 2002

Using sketches about their own battles with eating disorders in an aim to entertain while giving information about this serious topic, Dani Klein '84 and comedian Marcy Ettlinger displayed energy and passion during a funny, informative and personal presentation last night. The two spoke to an audience of about 40 people, mostly female students, starting with a series of diverse statements detailing the symptoms of eating disorders.

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Sox Disappoint in AL, A's Look Golden

By Keil Hur | October 4, 2002

Following a truly exciting World Series and a tumultuous off-season that threatened to contract two teams, it was more of the same in the American League East marked by absolute mediocrity of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, absolute disappointment of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees splurging on overpaid talents to win another division title. In all fairness to the Yankees, their high-price acquisitions, such as Raul Mondesi, Rondell White and John Vander Wal, were far less than scintillating.

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Big Green Needs Perfection for Penn

By Elliot Olshansky | October 4, 2002

To the casual observer, it would seem that this season's incarnation of the Big Green football team (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) is very similar to last season's, as the Dartmouth men have lost each of their first two games in the closing minutes. However, according to several members of head coach John Lyons' squad, such an observer would be wrong on two counts, as this year's squad is hardly similar to last year's, and neither game, according to preseason All-American tight end Casey Cramer '04, was lost in the final minutes. "I don't think that the first two games were lost in the last few minutes," Cramer said.

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OT Pays

By Brad Limpert | October 4, 2002

A lot has changed since the last time the Dartmouth men's soccer team stepped on to Chase Field. Two weeks ago, the Big Green was left with the bittersweet satisfaction of playing well against No.

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A Sense of History

By Paul Cathcart | October 3, 2002

Today at 5 p.m., Professor Jere Daniell will be giving a Palaeopitus-sponsored lecture in 28 Silsby on the history of the College.

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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.

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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.

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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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