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The Dartmouth
April 2, 2026
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When irritated by drunk friends some students have exploited the Good Sam policy by sending their friend to Dick's House when no emergency exists.
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Good Sam abused to get rid of annoying friends

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Phil Woram / The Dartmouth Staff Those who tend to wander through their hallways after a night of drinking, preventing other students from sleep, now risk confrontation with the latest method of resolving personal conflicts -- unwarranted Good Samaritan calls -- which seem to be on the rise among Dartmouth students. In one instance, an intoxicated student, who wishes to remain anonymous, decided to annoy his floormate to entertain himself and the floormate, angry and also intoxicated, called Safety and Security in response. "I was already sleeping in my room, and then I hear someone banging on my door," the student said.



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ORL may purchase 5 new houses

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The Office of Residential Life is considering the purchase of five properties from the College's Real Estate Office, two of which could become new physical plants for Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Phi sororities.


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Daily Debriefing

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Oliver Grau, an image science professor at Danube University in Austria, discussed the importance of the digital humanities, a discipline devoted to the study of digital art like computer graphics, animation and nanotechnology, in a lecture held in Kreindler auditorium Tuesday.


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Hong examines Chinese artifacts

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In 1959, a poor farmer in the Shanxi Province of northern China stumbled upon an incredibly elaborate tomb containing the remains of a husband and wife from the early 12th century, intricate bas-relief sculpturing and five mysterious wooden figurines whose brightly painted colors offset the dull gray of the tomb's walls.


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Citizens support police action in cheating cases

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A vote by citizens of Hanover and Norwich, Vt., affirmed on Tuesday that Hanover High School was correct in allowing the police to investigate and criminally prosecute students involved in the cheating scandal last June. According to the Valley News, the vote was 1137 to 875 in favor of the article, with 19 percent of Dresden school district citizens voting. Norwich resident George Fraser filed this question as an advisory article in the Dresden warrant, part of the area's budget, last Thursday.



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House refuses state control over charter

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The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to reject legislation that would have allowed the state control over changes Dartmouth makes to its charter on Wednesday. The bill came before the full House following its Feb.


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Daily Debriefing

When citizens of Brattleboro, Vt., voted in their Democratic primary and school board elections Tuesday, they also voted on a measure calling for the indictment of President George W.


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Epstein sheds new light on cause of HIV crisis in Africa

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While many scholars have pointed to a lack of condom use and impulsive promiscuity in examining the prevalence of HIV in southeast Africa, the practice of men and women having multiple long-term, concurrent sexual relationships may be more to blame, author Helen Epstein said in her lecture, "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Tuesday afternoon in Filene auditorium. Epstein is the author of a book by the same name. According to Epstein's theory, there are high rates of HIV in societies where individuals often have two or more continuous sexual partners.


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ORL's new housing plan stirs SA debate

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In response to recent changes in the College's eligibility standards for on-campus housing, Student Assembly pledged to explore other housing options with the Office of Residential Life and possibly create a database of available off-campus housing at Tuesday's Assembly meeting. ORL announced last week that an additional 100 seniors will have to find off-campus housing beginning next fall.


A new campus organization, Q-Faith, hosts its first discussion forum to examine the implications of sexuality in faith Tuesday evening.
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Students explore intersection of religion, sexuality

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Andy Mai / The Dartmouth Staff Lamenting perceived religious intolerance to homosexuality and debat how to interpret the Bible in a sexual context, Q-Faith, a new student group, hosted its first discussion forum, "Rethinking Faithful Sexuality," on Tuesday night at the Tucker Foundation. Jonathan Coogan '10, a gay student who grew up in an accepting Catholic family, said he has never before been presented with an opportunity to discuss the roles of sexuality in religion with others.



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Bone marrow registry recruits minorities

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There are 6.6 million bone marrow donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program, yet the odds of a minority patient finding a compatible donor is 20,000 to one, according to the Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundation web site.


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The Forum on Education Abroad released a new code of ethics for U.S. colleges and universities and overseas institutions that will coordinate foreign study programs, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday.


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Record N.H. snowfall delays

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In a winter that has been marked by treacherously icy sidewalks and impassable roads, Scully-Fahey Field joins the list of weather-related casualties, as its planned renovations lag nearly three months behind schedule. The renovation began on Nov.


Rick Adams, a member of the Dartmouth's Home Team, discussed possible alterations and updatesto the Dartmouth web site, including updates to online campus maps, at a Web Town Meeting held on Monday.
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Meeting reviews College's web site

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Erin Jaeger / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth HomeTeam, a three-person group responsible for maintaining Dartmouth's home page, laid out plans for the future of the College's web site at Monday's Web Town Meeting in Carson L02.


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Locals vote on school's response to cheating

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Citizens of Hanover and Norwich, Vt., will have the chance to vote today on whether they approve of Hanover High School's decision to turn the investigation of the Hanover High cheating scandal over to the police, as part of the Dresden annual budget. Norwich resident George Fraser filed the advisory question onto the warrant, a part of the Dresden budget, last Thursday.


President James Wright presides over the Winter meeting of the Faculty at which a revised plan for employee healthcare benefits was presented.
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New healthcare plan unveiled

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Andy Mai / The Dartmouth A revised plan for reduced healthcare benefits for retiring faculty and staff was presented at the Winter term meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, held in Alumni Hall on Monday.


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Daily Debriefing

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White house aide Timothy Goeglein resigned on Feb. 29 after admitting to plagiarizing several guest columns he wrote for The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., The New York Times reported on March 1.