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Full Support for AAS

By Aly Rahim | February 22, 2002

To the Editor: Daniel Ng '04's arguments about Asian American Studies miss important distinctions about Dartmouth's academic structure (The Dartmouth, Feb.

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Kline details Chechnya horrors

By Katie Martin | February 22, 2002

"Chechnya is quickly becoming a nation of invalids and fresh graves," Chris Kline, the last Western journalist to leave the war-torn state, told an audience at the Rockefeller Center yesterday as he recounted his clandestine journey to the front lines of the conflict. The freelance war correspondent risked death, torture and imprisonment to enter the region just months after Grozny fell to the Russian military.

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Norwich eliminates secret soc.

By Valerie Silverman | February 22, 2002

Secret societies at Dartmouth take a back seat to Greek life and remain a mystery to most. At nearby Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., however, where no fraternities or sororities exist, the recent discovery by administrators of an unauthorized secret society, Left Out Society, caused a stir on campus. While Norwich strongly condemns and prohibits secret societies, six of the organizations exist at Dartmouth and are acknowledged by the school.

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Durham store sues student for using fake ID

By Matt Lewis | February 22, 2002

A recent settlement between a University of New Hampshire student and a Durham store owner has armed New Hampshire alcohol purveyors with the power to file suit against underage patrons using false identification to purchase alcoholic beverages. The student, Jeremy Reny, was caught using his older brother's valid driver's license.

Opinion

After the Fall

By Liam Kuhn | February 22, 2002

Add to the increasingly daunting laundry list of my personal shortcomings and character flaws a horrible sense of timing.

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Tulloch's defense options narrow

By Tara Kyle | February 22, 2002

New details released Tuesday in a grand jury indictment of Robert Tulloch will shape arguments at the April trial, but the precise effect of these revelations remains unclear, according to legal experts contacted by The Dartmouth. Whether or not the latest information -- which states that Tulloch and James Parker visited four houses before targeting the Zantops -- will endanger Tulloch's insanity plea depends largely on the medical conditions that defense attorneys use to build their arguments, Boston University School of Law professor Wendy Kaplan said. Even Tulloch's defense team may not yet realize how large or small an impact the revelations will create because lawyers are likely still in the process of gathering and analyzing information from medical experts, Vermont Law School professor Michael Mello said.

Opinion

Oh, Olympics

By Abby Horowitz | February 21, 2002

My parents and I had a lovely dinner at Molly's this weekend when they came up for a visit. After dinner, our server tried to tempt us with delicious sounding desserts and warm beverages, but the Horowitz clan had something more important on the agenda -- the Olympics. When my parents asked me what I wanted to do when they came to visit, watching the Olympics was my number one choice.

Arts

Dartmouth theater department tackles 'La Celestina'

By Pheobe Katz | February 21, 2002

The Dartmouth theater department will begin a multi-day run of "La Celestina" tonight at the Moore Theater, performing a new version of the tragicomedy adapted by Pamela Howard and Robert Potter from the University of California-Santa Barbara.

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Stinson's may can beer kegs

By Sarah Betts | February 21, 2002

Stinson's of Hanover may discontinue beer kegs sales after receiving a citation for violating a keg registration law that will likely leave the store facing a 5-10 day suspension of its liquor license and a $500 fine. Stinson's is presently one of the only stores in the area that sells kegs, and is the number one keg seller in New Hampshire. The violation comes in the wake of a new law, adopted in Jan.

Sports

Big Green ski with an Olympic mindset

By Adam Cohen | February 21, 2002

Inspired by the recent events at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Dartmouth ski team staged an impressive comeback to overtake Middlebury for second place at the Williams Carnival.

Opinion

Zeta Psi

By Jim Larimore | February 21, 2002

To the Editor: The Dartmouth has recently published two articles containing information about activities allegedly taking place at 8 Webster Avenue, a facility owned by the Zeta Psi alumni corporation.

Opinion

Is This Apathy?

By Karsten Barde | February 21, 2002

In his recent column (The Dartmouth, Feb. 14, 2002, "Adherence to Activism in the Face of Apathy"), Sam Stein finds the Dartmouth Young Democrats' flagging numbers indicative of a trend toward student complacency.

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Prof.: science classroom isn't site for creationism

By Nathaniel Ward | February 21, 2002

Arguing that creationism should never be taught in schools in a science setting, law professor Kent Greenawalt said yesteday that the Supreme Court's got it right in previous decisions on religion in education. Greenawalt, a member of the faculty at Columbia Law School, spoke in the Rockefeller Center just hours after the Supreme Court debated the future of publicly-funded vouchers for students attending private or religious schools. Previous Supreme Court decisions -- including the landmark 1968 Eperson v.

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Schools have new cost analysis tool

By Katie Martin | February 21, 2002

A new cost-assessment methodology unveiled last week offers colleges across the country a uniform way to explain their costs in per-student terms. The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) unveiled the results of their "Cost of College" project after three years of development. The Cost of College project resulted from a call that the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education made in 1998 to increase the public accountability of colleges and universities. Damon Manetta, Assistant Manager of Public Relations at NACUBO, explained that the new methodology is not designed to create industry benchmarks. "The NACUBO methodology is a paradigm for schools to simply and clearly summarize their financial information.

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Pink eye spreads after misdiagnoses

By Sarah Betts | February 21, 2002

Though it was initially determined to be a viral outbreak, Dick's House doctors now consider the conjunctivitis epidemic, affecting nearly 250 students so far, to be bacterial in form, and therefore treatable with antibiotics. Dartmouth Health Services staff previously told those diagnosed with "pink eye" that they had a viral type of the ailment that is less severe.

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