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Inferior athletic facilities frustrate Dartmouth students

By Charles Gardner | February 14, 2002

Aging, undersized and overcrowded, Dartmouth's non-varsity athletic facilities lag behind those of most comparable institutions, but administrators say there is little prospect for significant improvement in the near future. The College's Kresge Fitness Center, popular among students, faculty, staff and town residents alike, regularly meets or exceeds its intended capacity on weekday afternoons, while general space limitations and the recent loss of several tennis courts have created difficulties in scheduling many of the College's physical education programs. "I've been to several other colleges, and they generally have much bigger gyms," one gym user, Vivek Menon '02, said.

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In the shadows: quiet ACT avoids controversy

By David N. Archwamety | February 13, 2002

Just about every Dartmouth student has heard the criticisms of the SAT: that the aptitude test favors those who can afford expensive preparation; that minorities are unfairly disadvantaged; that it is an inaccurate predictor of college performance. But another widely used test in the college admissions process has escaped public scrutiny -- the American College Test, or ACT. A roughly equal number of students take the ACT and SAT each year.

Opinion

The Mysteries Within

By Tanisha Keshava | February 13, 2002

Life held very few mysteries for me. I have never been an intellectual pondering great philosophical questions about the existence of the universe or the purpose of life.

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Faculty ponder new distrib.

By Alison Schmauch | February 13, 2002

Dartmouth's faculty will discuss and possibly vote on a proposed new World Cultures distributive requirement entitled "Race, Ethnicity and Migration" at the Winter term faculty meeting this Monday. Under the current system, Dartmouth students must complete one course in European culture, one in North American culture and one in non-Western culture.

Arts

The Academy is on target with Oscar nominations

By Kelly Swartz | February 13, 2002

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday nominees for the 74th annual Academy Awards, which will air on ABC March 24, at 5 p.m. Everyone remembers shocking moments in Oscar history: appeals to ease world-hunger, one-arm pushups, violent emotional outbursts (Roberto Benigni in 1998) and everything else entirely non-cinematic. While this year very well may shrink to a forgettable smudge in the dawn of next year's 75th anniversary, at least the well-chosen nominees have the potential to redeem last year's disappointments. Popular commercial releases like "Pearl Harbor" and "A.I." take a backseat to the more original and artistic releases "Amlie," "In the Bedroom" and "A Beautiful Mind." The first film up for Best Picture is "A Beautiful Mind," starring Russell Crowe (nominated for Best Actor) as John Nash, the schizophrenic, Pulitzer Prize-winning mathematician. Jennifer Connelly, playing Nash's wife Alicia, is a great candidate for winner of the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category.

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Persico speaks on Roosevelt and WWII

By N.F.S. Knight | February 13, 2002

According to Joseph Persico, author and former chief speech writer for Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have had -- but was unable to act upon -- intelligence of an impending Japanese attack upon America prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Dec.

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Growing number of states require exit exams

By Bente Shoen | February 13, 2002

In response to a series of reports in the 1980s that found America's schools substandard, five states now require students to pass standardized tests, known as exit exams, in order to graduate high school.

Opinion

Sorority Super Bowl

By Matt Soriano | February 13, 2002

So how about those Patriots? New Englandwins its first championship game in God knows how long and nobody comments on any aspect of our singular triumph.

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SA tables proposal for diversity amendment

By Matt Lewis | February 13, 2002

Concerned by insufficient support for a new constitutional amendment that would create a vice president and committee of diversity affairs, Student Assembly last night postponed voting on the amendment until next week's meeting. While no members spoke against the Assembly efforts to resolve diversity issues on campus, some viewed the amendment as excessively vague and opposed creating a new committee. The amendment, sponsored by Jonathan Lazarow '05 and Vice President of Academic Affairs Aly Rahim '02, proposes creating a diversity affairs committee to address general social issues including race, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic status. According to its supporters, the new committee would tackle these issues, currently under other committee's auspices, more effectively and sufficiently than the Assembly is currently capable of doing.

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Koop '37 discusses the way things are, were

By Rebecca Leffler | February 13, 2002

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop '37 met with students in an informal "fireside chat" last night to address concerns and uncertainties about entering the medical profession. Koop talked about the ways in which medicine has changed both positively and negatively in recent years, emphasizing the differences between the field he entered in 1941 and what medicine has evolved into today. Most doctors were family practitioners when Koop entered medicine.

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Hostages released at Conn. university

By Ithan Peltan | February 13, 2002

A former Fairfield University student claiming to have a bomb took 22 students and an associate professor hostage yesterday at the Connecticut school before releasing them late yesterday evening. The suspect, identified only as a recent graduate of the university, gave himself up peacefully about one hour after releasing the last hostage from the classroom where the students had been attending a religious studies class. WCBS-TV in New York City -- Roman Catholic Fairfield is 20 miles from the New York border -- reported that the suspect forced one of the hostages to call the station and demand that a statement be broadcast. The television station chose not to broadcast the statement, which spokesperson Karen Mateo described as "rambling and anti-Semitic." Five of the original 23 hostages were released shortly after the suspect took over the religious studies class.

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Prep schools question, and eliminate, the AP

By Alison Schmauch | February 13, 2002

Despite the growing popularity of the College Board's Advanced Placement program, which allows high school students to earn college credit for advanced work done in high school if they perform well on national exams, some elite high schools are becoming increasingly critical of the program. New York City's prestigious Ethical Culture Fieldston School took the widely publicized step last year to drop AP courses from its curriculum, setting off a debate at many similar high schools about the value of the AP curriculum. APs have escaped much of the controversy surrounding the College Board's other tests, such as the SAT, because they are based on a set curriculum and, watchdogs of the standardized testing industry say, contain fewer biases.

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Bush budget is mixed for colleges

By Sarah Betts | February 13, 2002

President Bush's budget for the next fiscal year offers good and bad news for college communities, proposing increases in some types of aid but cutting funds for other programs and failing to offer increases in student grants. Significant increases were given to funds for educational research, and aid to historically black and Hispanic-serving institutions was raised by three percent. The Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) funds -- which matches state scholarship funds with federal money -- were completely eliminated in Bush's budget plan, however, and no move was made to raise the maximum Pell Grant available to students. Pell Grants are federal funds available to students who qualify as financially needy.

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Local food addict group garners controversy

By Kaitlin Bell | February 12, 2002

Local members of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, a participant"run 12-step program for treating eating disorders, swear that it has changed their lives, but many mental health professionals are skeptical that a self-help program could work better than therapy. Two members of the local group, who must remain anonymous as part of their participation in FA, spoke glowingly about the program. One woman alternately struggled with anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating from the age of 11.

Arts

Chemical Bros. have right mix

By Sam Lederer | February 12, 2002

Surely the Chemical Brothers must have felt slighted until, after spinning discs in some of England's hottest clubs for seven years, they were hailed by critics and recognized by a mainstream audience with 1997's "Dig Your Own Hole." But the sensational British duo, Tom Rolands and Ed Simons, have put all that behind them and playfully ask fans on their fourth studio release to, "Come With Us." Rolands and Simons met each other at the University of Manchester while taking a history class.

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