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Hanover acquires a 'Second Life' online

By Emily Weisburst | November 15, 2006

Hanover has recently found itself in the limelight -- of the computer screen -- due to a virtual replica of the town in the increasingly popular 3-D virtual online world Second Life. "It's funny because I've had a lot of Dartmouth alums visiting the [virtual] town and telling me about it," said Christopher Carella, the creator of the replica and an employee of The Electric Sheep Company, which oversees and manages Second Life. Second Life is an open-ended virtual space that is designed to be an extension of real life and boasts 1.3 million users. Users can interact with each other, engage in a free market economy with Second Life's currency, known as Linden dollars, and add any new features they feel are lacking by writing new software. Linden dollars are exchangeable for real U.S.

Some members of Greek organizations have said they see an increased effort on the part of Safety and Security to monitor SEMP policy.
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Greeks question new SEMP policy

By Grace Wyler | November 15, 2006

Phil Bracikowski / The Dartmouth Staff As Fall term comes to a close and the many Greek houses previously on probation begin to re-open their doors, many organizations are questioning how effective the College's Social Event Management Procedures are at keeping Dartmouth students safe. Executives and members in the Coed, Fraternity and Sorority system expressed frustration with the College's "keg policy" as it is outlined in the SEMP guidelines, a set of policies that were revised last spring and implemented in late September.

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Mark T. Hegel, Ph.D. of the psychiatry department and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Medical School recently conducted a study showing that almost half of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients are afflicted by significant emotional distress or symptoms of psychiatric disorders before treatment.

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SA supports day off for Yom Kippur holiday

By Allie Lowe | November 15, 2006

Student Assembly overwhelmingly voted to back a "Statement in Support of Reviewing Yom Kippur Class Scheduling" at Tuesday night's General Assembly meeting after the contested addition of an amendment that encouraged other groups with similar scheduling concerns to step forward. The Statement, which has sponsored by Adam Halpern-Leistner '10, Adam Shpeen '07 and the Academic Affairs Committee, recommends that Dartmouth consider moving classes that fall on Yom Kippur to x-hours.

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Dartmouth competes in Fed Challenge

By JR Santo | November 14, 2006

Stunned by its soaring columns, Chelsea Jia '08 walked into the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston last Thursday to argue before Federal Reserve officials and macroeconomists that leaving interest rates unchanged would best suit the economy.

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Nat'l student protests call Title IX cuts into question

By Molly Holden | November 14, 2006

Dozens of James Madison University students recently protested Title IX regulations outside the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., after the university said these laws caused it to eliminate seven men's sports teams and three women's teams. Some, however, question the validity of this explanation. "[The cuts don't] have so much to do with money being poured into women's programs -- it has to do with the amount of money being spent on football and bigger programs," Dartmouth Director of Athletics Josie Harper said. Title IX, which was implemented in 1972, states, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." Dartmouth has never been forced to make cuts in its athletic programs, according to Harper. The College attempted to cut the men's and women's swimming and diving teams in 2002, but said it needed to do so because of overall budget reductions, not the impacts of Title IX. Many universities with larger athletic programs, unlike Dartmouth, tend to focus on one or two prime revenue sports like football, which leads universities to channel funds to those teams, Harper said. "The Ivy League offers more programs than the majority of other Division I programs in the country and runs the smallest budgets.

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By Compiled by William Schpero | November 13, 2006

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann apologized for a Halloween photograph showing her standing next to a student dressed as a suicide bomber in an open letter to the university community last Sunday.

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Lecturers examine class inequalities in military

By Linzi Sheldon | November 13, 2006

In a lecture challenging upper-class concepts of good citizenship, military wife Kathy Roth-Douquet and Marine Corps father Frank Schaeffer urged an audience in Rockefeller Center on Friday afternoon to think about the class inequalities in military service. According to their book AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country, less than one-third of one percent of Ivy League graduates enroll in the military each year. Roth-Douquet and Schaeffer emphasized the loss of a sense of national duty among the upper class, which they defined as a highly-educated group of people who have a myriad of lifestyle choices. "Increasingly, the military feels alienated by its upper classes.

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Week-long event to conclude with mascot discussion

By Will Roth | November 10, 2006

Danny Gobaud First Nations Week -- an effort to promote awareness of Native American issues at Dartmouth -- will culminate Saturday with a discussion on the history of the controversial Dartmouth Indian mascot. The student group Native Americans at Dartmouth scheduled a week of several cultural events, lectures and discussion as part of this first annual week-long event. First Nations Week kicked off on Tuesday with lectures on linguistics in American Indian education and native health professionals.

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