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A Slippery Slope

By Conor Dugan | November 18, 1999

What are the ends of a liberal arts education? This is a good question. The term is bandied around by Dartmouth and other schools of like character.

Opinion

A Do or Die Thing?

By Jeannine Murray-Roman | November 18, 1999

Since last February, people who care about Darmouth and its future have been voicing their opinions in order to defend their viewpoint as well as convince others of it.

News

Magazine: Dartmouth one of worst schools for gays

By Wendy Yu | November 18, 1999

Dartmouth College was printed in a list of ten "Questionable Schools for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Students" in the Fall issue of Metrosource magazine, to mixed reactions among the College's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Metrosource, a New York based national magazine with a growing circulation of 85,000, promotes itself as "A Celebration and Exploration of Urban Gay Life." This issue was the first one to be distributed nationally. "To be on that list, doesn't mean that Dartmouth is a bad place to go to school, it means there are better choices for GLBT youth," said Evan Forster, New York freelance journalist and specialist in the field of college gay youth, who compiled the list. The unranked list appears alongside an article called "Out on Campus" that was not authored by Forster and does not mention Dartmouth College. The other nine schools that accompany the College on the list are Baylor University, Emporia State University, the entire Florida State University system, Hope College, United States Naval Academy, University of Missouri, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Vanderbilt University and Yeshiva University. Two other lists -- Gay-positive Private Colleges/Universities and Gay-positive State Schools -- also written by Forster are printed in the issue.

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Effect of CFS meetings on class attendance unclear

By Omer Ismail | November 17, 1999

In the months following the Social and Residential Life Initiative, some faculty members, as well as steering committee co-chair Trustee Susan Dentzer '77, have vocally blamed Greek house meetings for damaging attendance and attention levels at Thursday morning classes. At the same time, an alcohol perceptions survey conducted by Dartmouth's Office of Evaluation and Research this year found that the majority of Dartmouth students are responsible around alcohol and do not let their drinking habits interfere with their work. Similarly, according to Dean of the Faculty Edward Berger, there is no clear faculty consensus on how responsible students are about drinking or whether their habits actually contribute to their classroom performance. "The early morning class problem is a common buzz among faculty," Berger said, while noting that the seriousness of the problem with Thursday mornings is difficult to assess because it is largely "anecdotal." Despite what this "anecdotal" evidence and the alcohol perceptions survey findings that show most Dartmouth students to value their work over drinking, during a trustee forum held this Fall in Alumni Hall Dentzer raised a concern that irresponsible drinking has led to lower class attendance on Thursdays. "You can't get people to get up on Thursday morning to go to class for the reason they're ostensibly here in the first place," she said at the forum.

Opinion

Students Beware of Music Exchange Liability

By Punch Taylor | November 17, 1999

To the Editor: The Dartmouth is running a half-page ad this week from myplace.com inviting students to "share your MP3 music collection online" by uploading MP3's to myplay's site to be shared with other myplay subscribers.

News

Controversy over MP3s hits colleges

By Ithan Peltan | November 17, 1999

After officials at Carnegie Mellon University disconnected 71 students from the school's intranet for distributing copyright-protected material, including MP3 files, over the school network, College officials said that no such action is planned at Dartmouth. The Carnegie Mellon students were disciplined after an October 18 random search of public files on 250 students' computers discovered illegal MP3 music files available for access over the school's intranet. Although the distribution of MP3 files or other copyright-protected material is illegal under federal law, Kiewit officials indicated that they have no plans to execute a similar search. "One approach is to go looking for violators, but that's not usually what we do.

Sports

Student luxury box returns to Green hoops

By From staff and wire reports | November 17, 1999

Students can once again cheer on the Big Green basketball teams from the student luxury box as the Athletic Department announced that it will make the promotion available for all men's and women's home games this season. The opportunity is free to any and all groups on campus as the box will hold up to 30 people, with the first 20 receiving free t-shirts.

Opinion

Our Piece of the Pie

By Dan Pollock | November 17, 1999

At last, negotiations over next year's federal budget are winding down, and Congressmen everywhere are eagerly preparing to get home in time for Thanksgiving.

Opinion

What I Do Know

By David Morse | November 17, 1999

I am, as I am so often forced to tell the ubiquitous brother or sister at the door, a three. This makes me inherently dumb, insecure and prone to social faux pas.

Opinion

Men are From Mars

By Eric Del Pozo | November 17, 1999

The vast differences that exist between the sexes have always been well documented. Unfortunately, most of these documents have been lost, because they have been left under the care of men.

Opinion

A Community of People

By Anne Sosin | November 16, 1999

Since the announcement of the Trustee Initiative last February, the dialogue and events at Dartmouth surrounding its discussion have been pervaded by a malignant attitude of "Us vs.

News

Freshman searches for cancer cure

By Daniel C. Chang | November 16, 1999

What began as a simple summer assignment for Kapua Medeiros '03 soon became a potential cure for one of the most deadliest diseases of mankind -- cancer. This past May, Medeiros -- who lives in Hawaii -- won the Grand Medal in the Medicine and Health category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Ft.

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