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Students practice wide variety of religions at Dartmouth

By Vera Bergengruen | May 28, 2008

ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth. A college campus, with its various temptations, might not seem like an ideal breeding ground for a devout religious lifestyle -- especially a religion outside of the traditional mold.

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Early elections allow SA efficiency

By Susan Matthews | May 28, 2008

The unusually early election of Student Assembly's new leadership this year allowed the organization to implement several new initiatives this term, a departure from past years in which the Assembly made little progress during Spring term. "Outreach has never really been as prevalent as it has this term," Student Body President Molly Bode '09 said, adding that the Assembly has made a new commitment to involve more of the student body in the organization. Bode plans to continue to focus on increasing alternative social spaces over the coming terms, she said.

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Beta alumni reject common student perception of frat

By Victoria Boggiano | May 28, 2008

Dartmouth alumni of Beta Theta Pi fraternity contend that current students hold misconceptions about the fraternity's history at the College, regarding the fraternity as a group of football-playing troublemakers and not the brotherhood committed to charity work and diversity that alumni maintain it once was.

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Venkatesan '90 drops plans for memoir

By Marielle Battistoni | May 28, 2008

Former Dartmouth writing instructor Priya Venkatesan '90 said she no longer plans to publish a memoir in the near future, recanting previous statements that she would write a book that would identify specific Dartmouth students who she claims discriminated against her and in addition to including their anonymous course evaluations.

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Pres. search may look for College affiliations

By Nick Swanson | May 28, 2008

Former and current college presidents, administrators, professors and possibly a member of the current Bush administration could make it onto the Board of Trustees' search committee's list for a successor to College President James Wright, who will step down in June 2009.

The College has named Josh Compton as its new lecturer of speech and rhetoric at Dartmouth's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.
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Compton hired as rhetoric prof

By Casey Hicks | May 28, 2008

COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS Three years after the College ended its speech program, Josh Compton will assume the role of lecturer of speech and rhetoric at the College's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric on July 1, 2008, according to a press release from the Office of Public Affairs.

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Class helps youth stage Shakespeare

May 27, 2008

For two hours each week, the cafeteria and gymnasium at Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt., is transformed into the set for Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," performed by 27 fifth and sixth graders.

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Christianity in classroom stirs debate, mixed views

By Nathan Swire | May 27, 2008

Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth. A desire to spread God's love -- which Alex Mercado '11 said grants "the free gift of eternal life" to those who accept Christ -- drove Mercado to test the rhetorical skills he had learned in his native Texas by "presenting the Gospel" to a fellow student over lunch.

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BADA supports Undying at reunion

By Julie Kim | May 27, 2008

The Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association rallied member support for Dartmouth Undying, an alumni organization that opposes the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College, at its 18th reunion held at the College last weekend. "We are extremely upset and frustrated with this other group of alumni who are wasting so much money and resources that we could spend on tuition for the kids," BADA President Ricki Fairley-Brown '78 said.

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Spaulding resigns in controversy

By Turia Lahlou | May 27, 2008

Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library Steven Spaulding, director of Dartmouth's chapter of the Navigators Christian Fellowship, was accused of misconduct, allegedly involving female student members of the Navigators, and stepped down from his position Thursday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Nathan Swire | May 23, 2008

Amanda Merrill Gr '79 announced her candidacy for the State Senate seat currently held by Sen. Iris Estabrook, D-Durham on Wednesday.

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Al-Nur functions as hub of Muslim life in Upper Valley

By Vera Bergengruen | May 23, 2008

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth. The Upper Valley is not exactly teeming with religious diversity, but the resources available to practicing Muslims are especially low, even for tweedy rural New Hampshire and Vermont.

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Phrygian members take stand in AoA elections

By Nick Swanson | May 23, 2008

The ongoing Association of Alumni elections, which end June 5, have drawn more student involvement than most -- with students circulating letters, authoring editorials and reaching out to alumni in order to affect the vote -- but there are similarities between the student movements in this election and those in recent ones. The most widespread student movement comes from the pro-parity, pro-lawsuit side.

Administrators spoke with students Thursday about the College Review Committee's report on changes for the Committee on Standards.
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Thompson, Burke defend COS

By Susan Matthews | May 23, 2008

ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff At a public forum hosted by Student Assembly, administrators justified the discrepancies between the College Review Committee's report on the Committee on Standards released Monday and the recommendations made in 2006-2007 by an Assembly committee. Senior Associate Dean Katherine Burke, who chaired the administration's Review committee, and April Thompson, director of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs, led Thursday's talk.

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New York Governor David Paterson nominated Galen D. Kirkland '72 to be the state's next commissioner of the Division of Human Rights, according to a press release issued by the Governor's office last week.

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