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Journalist: Israel victory is elusive

By Nathaniel Ward | April 17, 2002

Israel has been in a continuous war since its independence in 1948, and has yet to gain decisive victory over the Arabs, former Israeli soldier and journalist Yehuda Yev said yesterday. "We are still fighting a war that began at four-o'clock in the afternoon on the 14th of May, 1948, in a converted Museum in Tel Aviv," Yev said in a speech in the Roth Center for Jewish Life.

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Inspired to service, Cogut '02 leads SEAD

By Kristina Mendicino | April 16, 2002

Sitting in her Education 20 class, Pam Cogut '02 listened as the day's guest speaker, Tucker Foundation Dean Stuart Lord, urged students to involve themselves in community service. Inspired, Cogut decided to take action. Soon, she found herself directing a pilot summer program bringing disadvantaged high school students to Dartmouth. The program, Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth, was the brainchild of Lord and was designed to assemble students of various racial and economic backgrounds in a supportive, structured environment at Dartmouth. Cogut -- with help from education professors and the Tucker Foundation -- included classes in English, mathematics and computer science, along with recreational trips to outdoor locales such as Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in the two-week program. And in her work, Cogut explained, she not only found great satisfaction in helping the 29 SEAD participants, but found the experience one of personal growth. "I am not always the most spontaneous person," she explained.

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Honor society faces national criticism

By Megh Duwadi | April 16, 2002

Entangled in accusations of scandal, corruption and rampant over-commercialization, Golden Key International Honour Society's presence at Dartmouth continues to grow despite the society's alienation from its peers in the academic community. Golden Key, established nationally in 1977 to recognize college juniors and seniors in the top 15 percent of their respective classes, boasts an annual inductee count of over 120,000.

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None want responsibility to address rental fraud

By Kaitlin Bell | April 16, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the final article in a series about local landlords who have escaped legal scrutiny of their questionable tactics. With fresh revelations about Hanover's poor and sometimes illegal rental housing conditions, neither town officials, students who rent those properties nor the College which controls most of the local housing market can agree on what if any action to take against fraudulent landlords. The problem boils down to one of legal responsibility.

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Carson Hall approaches completion

By Nathaniel Ward | April 16, 2002

Final touches are now being applied to Baker-Berry Library and Carson Hall, the future home of the history department and Computing Services, with full occupancy expected by the start of Fall term. The History Department will move in during August, and Computing Services will transition some of its offices -- most significantly the Computer Sales and Services department -- from the basement of Bradley and Gerry Halls over the summer. When finished in July, Carson will be connected directly with Berry, though access will only be allowed between Novack Caf in Berry and the ground floor of Carson. The top three stories of Carson -- the second through fourth floors -- will be occupied by history department offices and seminar rooms. In Carson, "we have seminar rooms, larger offices, more facilities for computers and printers," history department chair Mary Kelley said. The second and third floors both have seminar rooms with space for 24 students on the North Main Street side of the building.

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Alcohol rules set for revision

By Matt Lewis | April 16, 2002

A "working group" charged with recommending changes to the College's alcohol policy will emphasize educational and preventive measures to remedy problems allegedly caused by student alcohol consumption when their report is released today. According to a memo sent to Dean of the College James Larimore by the working group and obtained by the Dartmouth, tonight's recommendations will include revising alcohol-related adjudication penalties, adding a policy regarding the role of trained student and other bartenders and making registration of parties simpler. The group, chaired by Special Assistant to the Dean of the College Robert Binswanger '52, also targeted the purportedly inadequate level of communication between the student body and the administration on alcohol issues. "The main idea of the alcohol policy shouldn't be something that pits the administration against the students," Binswanger working group member Frank Yoshida '02 said.

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Reading between the lines at the University Press of New England

By Davey Archwamety | April 16, 2002

Located in downtown Hanover, next to the Dartmouth Co-op and at the top of the stairs, is the prolific University Press of New England. Founded 31 years ago as a publisher of academic books, the UPNE is a university publishing consortium based at Dartmouth that also serves Brandeis, Middlebury, Tufts, Wesleyan and the University of New Hampshire.

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Out of My Skin

By Leyla Kamalick | April 15, 2002

I am white. No, let me rephrase that. My skin is white. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that you've heard this story before in a million different ways from a million different angles.

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'Digital library' to debut in Fall term

By Nathaniel Ward | April 15, 2002

Dartmouth students will soon have access to a world of information beyond the dusty stacks of Baker Library thanks to a "digital library" which will add a variety of digital multimedia and electronic publications to the over two million printed volumes. According to College Librarian Richard Lucier, the new resource -- set to debut this fall -- will combine scholarly resources with the Internet's ease of use. "Dartmouth has been a leader in technology and the application of technology to scholarship and education," according to Lucier, a tradition he hopes to continue with the digital library. Project coordinators compared the digital library to "an academic Google," referring to the popular Internet search engine. Associate College Librarian John James explained that the digital library, by working from a defined content base, would "help to narrow things somewhat more than Google does" with its thorough searches. Dartmouth is working with several other institutions and the Fretwell Downing Company to develop the digital library.

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A Matter of Choice

By Janna Berke | April 15, 2002

It's that time of year again: the secrecy between friends, the camaraderie among strangers, private conversations and 3 a.m.

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Festivities reflect on Tucker Foundation's 1st half-century

By Katie Lieberg | April 15, 2002

The Tucker Foundation celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a broad array of speeches and festivities with the theme "Leadership for Social Change and Responsibility." It was 50 years ago that the College's trustees and then-President John Sloan Dickey established the Foundation to encourage and organize community service, religious life and students' decisions of conscience.

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Sororities gain 40 from second term of rush

By Valerie Silverman | April 15, 2002

The first second-term spring rush wrapped up last week, increasing the size of the 2004 pledge classes in sororities by about 40 new members total. Most fraternities saw a similar turnout in the second-round process as in previous years, except for Chi Gamma Epsilon and Gamma Delta Chi fraternities, who added 11 and 17 new members to their houses, respectively. Each of the 53 girls who attended preference-night parties received a bid, according to Christine Sebourn, vice president of the Panhellenic Council. While 36 participated in the second-term rush during Winter term 2001, 62 girls started in this spring's rush, with nine dropping out in the process. "This is an entirely new thing for us," said Sebourn.

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In Dartmouth We Trust

By Ryan Tan | April 15, 2002

Recently, a friend from Cornell emailed me out of the blue to ask, "Were two professors really murdered at Dartmouth?" Yes, I replied, they lost their lives to a random act of violence that nobody could have seen coming.

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