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College 'Net security gets $1.5M

By N.F.S. Knight | February 1, 2002

The Mellon Foundation recently awarded Dartmouth's Public Key Infrastructure team a $1.5 million grant to for research that looks to revolutionize Internet security at academic institutions across the country. Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI, refers to a digital technology that utilizes an infrastructure of private and public keys to encrypt and decrypt information in order to send it securely over the Internet. The purpose of the Mellon grant and the goal of the PKI team at Dartmouth will be to create and deploy such an infrastructure on a large scale to be used across America. "Within a year we should have some good prototypes running.

Sports

Anatomy of a Rivalry

By Sammy Kardon | February 1, 2002

Rivalries in pro and college sports are conceived and born in many different ways. Some are geographic (Mets-Yankees), some are based on a long history (Harvard-Yale) and some come about because both teams happen to very good at the same time (Celtics-Lakers). Rivalries are at their most intense when both teams are at the top of their sport.

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Summers: Offer tenure to younger professors

By Fred Yarger | February 1, 2002

Tenure programs at some colleges across the country are being reexamined after Harvard President Lawrence Summers suggested that Harvard should tenure more young professors rather than the older, more established faculty already famous in their fields it usually hires. Dartmouth already has a firmly rooted policy of hiring younger professors, however, and there are no plans to reconsider the College's emphasis on long-term faculty development. According to Dean of the Faculty Jamshed Bharucha, while some new faculty do begin work as tenured professors, Dartmouth hires most often at the assistant professor level. "When we hire an assistant professor, we hope that the person will succeed in the tenure review and we seek to provide support and mentoring," he said. Earning tenure means that a professor's position is permanent and does not require periodic contract renewals.

Opinion

Assuming the Responsibility

By Maxine Goldstein | February 1, 2002

As the vice president of the Panhellenic Council until as recently as last week, I hold myself personally accountable for everything (the good and the bad) that occurred during this year's Panhellenic winter recruitment.

Opinion

The Week

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 1, 2002

The Right to be a Prisoner Following intense criticism, the Bush administration announced this week that it would reconsider its previous decision that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba not be covered by the Third Geneva Convention.

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Dining Serv. may deliver to dorms

By Matt Lewis | February 1, 2002

As early as the start of Spring term, students will be able to pay for food delivered to their door on their Declining Balance Accounts when Dartmouth Dining Services restarts campus-wide dormitory delivery. Plans are still very tentative, with no firm proposal yet that lays out precisely how the delivery service will work. "I support that we should attempt to do it and see how successful it is," Director of Dining Services Tucker Rossiter said, "but I think we have to find out how strong student support is first." The Student Assembly hopes to survey random students within the upcoming week to gauge interest in DDS deliveries.

Arts

Musicians Manze and Egarr team up for concert

By Sam Lederer | February 1, 2002

It is a special treat to have an internationally renowned musician come to Dartmouth. To have two on the same stage is nothing short of amazing. This is exactly what the Dartmouth community will experience this evening, when Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr perform in Rollins Chapel at 8 p.m. The two are in the middle of a tour that has already brought them through Australia, France and the Netherlands. The duo will be playing selections from Correlli, Fontana, Uccellini and Pandolfi, all composers of the "Fantastic Style" of 17th-century Italy. Manze is a Baroque violinist who has been recognized for his skill and versatility as a soloist, accompanist and conductor.

Opinion

Thoughts on Ethnic Studies

By Chien Wen Kung | January 31, 2002

So, some Asian-American students at Dartmouth are clamoring for Asian American Studies (AAS). The College already has several ethnic studies departments, but no AAS.

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College revises military policy

By Kay Fukunaga | January 31, 2002

The summons to active duty received in the wake of Sept. 11 by some military reservists and National Guardsmen working at Dartmouth was one of the factors that precipitated a recent revision of the College's military leave policy. The policy provides for giving leave and eventual reinstatement in their position to employees who are called up for military duty. The new policy, which is retroactive to Sept.

Opinion

Sept. 11, 2001: Picturing Time

By Marianne Hirsch | January 31, 2002

The first eyewitness I heard interviewed on television on the morning of the 11th, a tourist with a heavy German accent, described seeing a plane fly into World Trade Center Tower One and exclaimed, "And would you believe it?

Arts

DMB inspires ice cream flavor

By Kelly Swartz | January 31, 2002

Imagine my surprise when I learned that, come April, my chance to contribute to the fight against global warming would be sitting in the nearest grocer's freezer. Ben and Jerry's, the popular ice cream franchise started right across the border in Waterbury, Vt., unleashed its newest scoop of heaven in their "scoop shops", or franchise stores, this month.

Opinion

A Rebuttal From Outside

By Melissa Dolan | January 31, 2002

To the Editor: Katie Greenwood's column on sororities (The Dartmouth, Jan. 30, 2002, "System Failure"), while criticizing a system that certainly is imperfect, contains a few generalizations, stereotypes and hypocrisies that must be addressed. First of all, she states that, "if you're in [a sorority], then like it or not, you're responsible for it" ("it" meaning jealousy, cattiness and exclusivity). Could it be possible that many of the people in sororities are constantly working to improve them?

News

Judge denies two Tulloch motions

By Nathaniel Ward | January 31, 2002

Grafton Superior Court Judge Peter Smith has denied two pretrial motions by lawyers for Robert Tulloch, accused of murdering Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop last January. In a written order released earlier this week, Smith ruled that the defense will not be allowed to hear recordings of prosecution interviews with Tulloch's alleged accomplice, James Parker.

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UMass RAs may form first undergrad union

By Jenn Coffey | January 31, 2002

A recent decision by the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission granted residential advisors at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst an unprecedented right to unionize, but it appears unlikely that the push for unionization of undergraduate students will spread to Dartmouth anytime soon. UMass-Amherst RAs are pushing to unionize in response to low wages, a problem not significant for Dartmouth's undergraduate advisors. Jeff DeWitt, Dartmouth's Assistant Director of Residential Education, described the push for undergraduate unions as a limited phenomenon dealing with "a very specific situation." There has been no talk of unionization among the UGAs at Dartmouth, according to UGA Virginia King '04. "My experience has been that the pay is very sufficient, and they definitely provide us with enough support," King said. Unlike residential advisors at other colleges, Dartmouth's UGAs do not have the primary responsibility of dealing with disciplinary issues in their residence halls. Instead, their main roles are as "resources and advisors to their residents," DeWitt said. "They are responsible for taking a leadership role in taking care of any community issues that arise," DeWitt said.

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