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Jack Stinson, owner of Stinson's Village Store, benefits from increased alcohol sales over Homecoming weekend.
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Stinson's stocks up on beer for big weekend

By Christy O'Keefe | October 22, 2009

EMILY VAN GEMEREN / The Dartmouth Staff Ordering microbrews for alumni and Keystone for students, Jack Stinson, owner of Stinson's Village Store, has been preparing well in advance for the arrival of roughly 5,000 individuals to campus for Homecoming festivities. In preparation for the big weekend, Stinson said he has increased his inventory but made sure not to overstock.

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Editor's Note

By Katie Gonzalez and Madeline Sims | October 22, 2009

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In our attempt to capture the true essence of Homecoming in this issue, we quickly realized that it is impossible to define the "Dartmouth Homecoming experience." Though rooted in tradition, this celebratory weekend evolves with each class and truly means something different for every member of the community. Upperclassmen: don't expect to relive the same Homecoming you loved last year.

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Valuable lessons learned: Homecoming advice from a senior

By Kate Farley | October 22, 2009

So the other day, a '13 who shall remain nameless for his own sake asked me what "the deal" was with Homecoming. "There's like, a lot of big parties, right?" he inquired, the very picture of cherubic innocence. I'd make a worst class ever joke (Hi, sister!) but I can understand where he's coming from.

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DHMC docs named on Eli Lilly list

By Tatiana Cooke | October 22, 2009

SARAH IRVING / The Dartmouth Staff In response to growing pressure to make public its payments to medical faculty, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has released an online registry of doctors who have been compensated for their work on behalf of the company.

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Panelists discuss issues of Internet info privacy

By Linda Chen | October 22, 2009

Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Dartmouth students are among millions of Internet users who tread the fine line between their public and private personas on Facebook, Twitter and, more recently, BoredatBaker.com, several panelists said Thursday in a discussion on "Over-Exposure in the Digital World," held in the Haldeman Center. The event was hosted jointly by the Dartmouth Institute for Security, Technology and Society and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection. "Are we really invisible when we're online?" film and television studies professor Mark Williams asked the audience during the discussion.

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Greek houses to host Homecoming parties

By Eliza Relman | October 22, 2009

Each year as the Dartmouth Night bonfire is reduced to embers and forlorn students give up on touching the fire, much of Dartmouth's student body makes its way to Webster Avenue, where the parties are just beginning.

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The Undercover D-Plan

By Emily Johnson '12 | October 22, 2009

Members of the Class of 2013, your Dartmouth brainwashing is almost over. The carefully designed indoctrination program that you have been undergoing since the first day of DOC Trips will culminate in a pagan-esque ritual involving fire and the chanting of certain ritual recitations on the evening of Friday, Oct.

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Friday courses depend on profs

By Caitlin Kennedy | October 22, 2009

Between the signing of the bonfire in the morning and College President Jim Yong Kim's address at night, students will also have to make time for classes the Friday of Homecoming weekend, as many professors have chosen to continue with classes as usual on Oct.

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Fire-touchers and field-rushers make mark on Homecoming

By Lauren Vespoli | October 22, 2009

Homecoming weekend is known not only for sporting events and visiting alumni, but also for traditional upperclassmen taunts to freshmen of "Touch the fire!" and "Rush the field!" First-year students are goaded each year by upperclassmen to touch the bonfire on Dartmouth Night and rush the field at halftime during the weekend's big football game.

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College works to improve safety of Homecoming bonfire

October 22, 2009

Administrators, Safety and Security officers and bonfire chairs collectively decided to increase the radius of the bonfire's safety zone from 60 to 80 feet this year due to safety concerns, according to Jeremy Brouillet '13, the bonfire build chair. "People get burned just by being exposed [to the fire] during the run," Brouillet said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher | October 22, 2009

Dartmouth College Health Services has received a limited supply of the H1N1 vaccine, which will be made available to students at high risk for complications due to swine flu at two shot clinics next week, according to a campus-wide e-mail from College Health Services director Jack Turco on Thursday.

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Non-Greek programs include performances

By Nate Yeo | October 22, 2009

While fraternity parties provide one of the most visible sources of entertainment after the freshman class finishes circling the bonfire, various concerts and non-Greek events promise to provide other options this Homecoming weekend. Programming Board will cosponsor a concert by hip-hop artist Wiz Khalifa at Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity on Friday night.

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Homecoming 2009: A new College president's first Homecoming

By Ann Baum | October 22, 2009

As the members of the Class of 2013 complete or not their 113 laps around the bonfire tonight, they will share their first Dartmouth Homecoming experience with College President Jim Yong Kim, who was officially inaugurated this September. "Everything I do here is a first, so this is my initiation into the Homecoming tradition for sure," Kim told The Dartmouth this week.

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