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The snow sculpture committee plans to begin carving early this week.
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Sculpture lags behind schedule

By Ahra Cho | February 4, 2008

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff As Dartmouth students prepare for this year's Winter Carnival "20,000 Leagues Under The Snow," the snow sculpture committee is scrambling to complete this year's sculpture in time for Thursday's opening ceremonies.

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Alpha Kappa Alpha returns to Dartmouth

By Brook Jackling | February 4, 2008

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., an African American sorority, will return to Dartmouth in the Spring or Fall of 2008, according to an e-mail sent by Fouad Saleet, associate director of Coed, Fraternities and Sororities Administration, to various campus organizations on Feb.

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Political Debriefing

By Nathan Swire | February 1, 2008

The South Carolina and Florida primaries this past week led to a winnowing of the Presidential contests for both Democrats and Republicans. In the South Carolina Democratic primary on Jan.

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Recruiting unaffected by economy

By Allyson Bennett | February 1, 2008

With Citigroup and Merrill Lynch reporting losses in billions of dollars in losses and Morgan Stanley reporting its first quarterly loss in the company's history, the sub-prime mortgage crisis has hit many of the largest firms on Wall Street. At Dartmouth, however, students participating in corporate recruiting process seem largely unconcerned. Monica Wilson, assistant director of employer relations at Career Services, said she thought that the level of competition for corporate recruiting intern positions was as high as it has been during her tenure at the College.

The site of the Camera Shop of Hanover will play host to a community dance party featuring live music from local band Gusano on Saturday night.
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Site of former shop to host dance party

By Rigel Cable | February 1, 2008

ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Local band Gusano will bring Latin beats and New Orleans funk music to the former site of the Camera Shop of Hanover on Saturday night during a dance party organized by several local art enthusiasts.

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Wright to earn award for veteran assistance

By Andy Wells | February 1, 2008

College President James Wright will be honored for his efforts to aid injured veterans in securing higher education opportunities when he receives the Semper Fidelis Award from the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation this April.

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Beta alumni address fraternity's past actions

By Allie Lowe | February 1, 2008

Students asked alumni to explain the reasons behind Beta Theta Pi fraternity's 1996 derecognition and to clarify their plans for the organization's future at Dartmouth at the second informational session held by the trustees of Dartmouth's Beta chapter Thursday evening.

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Daily Debriefing

By Drew Joseph | January 31, 2008

A committee of Hanover residents, including members of the Dresden School Board, reviewed a new honor code written by a group of Hanover High School students and teachers, the Valley News reported yesterday.

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Police Blotter

By Ben Nunnery | January 31, 2008

Jan. 20, 1:05 a.m., School Street Hanover Police responded to an ambulance call from the undergraduate society Panarchy where an underage male was reportedly vomiting and semi-conscious.

Peter Burns, a research associate at the Rockefeller Center, introduces speakers at Wednesday's panel on class and racial divisions.
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Panel on class addresses hardships facing poor

By Emily Goodell | January 31, 2008

Kyle Betts / The Dartmouth After Newsday rejected an article by history professor Annelise Orleck on the difficulties facing the nation's poor following Hurricane Katrina, an employee at the newspaper told Orleck, "I'm really sorry, but we've just been too sympathetic to the poor lately," Orleck said in a panel discussion on Wednesday afternoon.

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Students consider non-Greek social spaces

By Michael Coburn | January 31, 2008

Approximately 30 students were asked to consider what they would want in place of Greek organizations if the system that currently dominates Dartmouth's social scene did not exist at a community forum sponsored by the Student Assembly Diversity and Community Affairs Committee and the Intercommunity Council on Wednesday. The forum aimed to provide Dartmouth's new Social Life Committee with ideas for the development of more gender-neutral spaces on campus. The Social Life Committee is the product of a petition submitted two weeks ago by the Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic Council in response to the controversy surrounding Beta Theta Pi fraternity's potential return to campus and the subsequent displacement of Alpha Xi Delta sorority.

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College implements new writing program

By Allyson Bennett | January 31, 2008

The College will require all incoming students to take at least two writing courses, abolishing exemptions from the current writing program, as part of the new Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, according to Wednesday's press release from the Office of Public Affairs.

Maps from Barry MacLean '60's collection are displayed in Thayer School.
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Art scandal implicates alumnus

By William Schpero | January 31, 2008

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Dartmouth benefactor and former trustee Barry MacLean '60 Th'61 has been implicated in an nationwide investigation of the smuggling of Asian art, according to an affidavit filed in Cook County, Ill., last week.

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Professors collaborate on poetry translations

By Erin Jaeger | January 30, 2008

The relationship between an author and a translator is often simply a business partnership. But Dartmouth professors Ana Merino and Elizabeth Polli, friends and colleagues in the Spanish department, have developed a close personal relationship while producing an English translation of Merino's fifth book of poetry, "Cell Mate." Merino's poetry, Polli said, exhibits a dark side of Merino's personality that Polli had not known before. "When you know a person as a person, you know them in a friendship way," she said.

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Workshop tackles social class divide

January 30, 2008

Calling for social unity in the face of a perceived class division in the United States, 14 Dartmouth students participated in an interactive workshop on socioeconomic class on Tuesday afternoon in Cutter Shabazz Hall. The workshop, titled "Divided We Fall," focused primarily on concerns about socioeconomic class divides in America and how these divides are exacerbated by conflict over social issues. Felice Yeskel, the executive director of Class Action, led the discussion and activities.

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Hanover High scandal divides Dresden board

By Mat Grudzien | January 30, 2008

The Dresden School Board, which oversees public schools in the town of Hanover, has seen a number of internal changes in the wake of the recent cheating scandal at Hanover High School, according to Stanton Williams, the board's acting chairman.

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