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Huerta lecture discusses migrant workers' rights

By Allyson Bennett | October 19, 2006

Cries of "s se puede" and "viva" rang out in Dartmouth Hall as Dolores Huerta, social activist and co-founder of United Farm Workers of America, spoke about her efforts to promote the rights of agricultural laborers in her lecture Wednesday night. "If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only take one person with you," Huerta said, "who would you take: a farm worker or an attorney?" According to Huerta, farm workers are the most important members of society because they produce the food that allows Americans to survive.

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Yale changes nondiscrimination policy

By Elisabeth McDonnell | October 18, 2006

Yale University voted last month to alter its nondiscrimination policy, making it the final Ivy League institution to add "gender identity and expression" to the list of protected groups previously enumerated in the statement.

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Funding change pinches affinity house budgets

By Astrid Bradley | October 18, 2006

Additional funding from the Office of Residential Life to Affinity Housing Programs has been retracted, resulting in a depreciation of the quality of programs sponsored by smaller or needier departments in contrast to those with well-funded departments backing them. All of the affinity programs were told clearly in writing that the additional funding they received last year was temporary and would be retracted following the 2005-2006 school year, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said. "[The affinity houses] are in no worse shape than they were a year ago," Redman said.

The Student Assembly committee on COS reforms met Tuesday evening.
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Task Force discusses COS reforms

By Allie Lowe | October 18, 2006

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Debate over the recommendations of the Committee on Standards Student Task Force Report resumed Tuesday night during a question and answer session, during which the Task Force invited student feedback regarding changes to COS procedures.

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Assembly sends 'update' to inaccurate campus blitz

By William Schpero | October 18, 2006

Student Assembly issued an "update" early Wednesday morning to correct a campus-wide BlitzMail message it sent over 24 hours earlier, erroneously warning the Dartmouth community that two missing women were abducted in nearby areas and that one of them had also been "raped and murdered." The original Assembly message, titled "FYI," informed the community that a Vermont woman was "abducted, raped and murdered," although the Valley News reported two days earlier that the cause of death of this University of Vermont student was unknown.

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Alumni campaign by phone, mass mail

By Katy O'Donnell | October 17, 2006

Thousands of alumni flocked back to Hanover this weekend for Homecoming, but many don't have to leave their home to feel connected -- for better or for worse -- to what's happening at Dartmouth.

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Kappa investigation to question all members

By Dan Duray | October 17, 2006

Each member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will meet with representatives from the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs as part of a roughly two-week investigation following the alcohol-related arrests of 11 members last Monday, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman told The Dartmouth on Monday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Will Roth | October 17, 2006

Sally McCoy '82 became the CEO and president of CamelBak Products on Monday. In the past 20 years, McCoy worked for similar big names in outdoor equipment such as North Face and Sierra Designs.

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Anand '89 presents work at bookstore

By Nick Swanson | October 17, 2006

Renowned journalist Geeta Anand '89 read excerpts from her new book detailing a father's fight against Pompe's disease to an audience of about 20 at the Dartmouth Bookstore on Saturday afternoon. "The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million -- and Bucked the Medical Establishment -- in a Quest to Save His Children" grew out of two articles Anand wrote in the Wall Street Journal, where Anand is a senior special writer who specializes in investigative stories.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Danny Gobaud | October 16, 2006

After serving as a Democratic representative for the Oregon House District 36 in the southwest Portland area for three terms, Mary Nolan '76 is currently campaigning for a fourth term against her libertarian opponent Frank Dane.

Safety and Security officers along with other football game officials tackle a freshman as he attempts to
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Weekend proceeds with fifteen arrests

By Dane Schlossberg | October 16, 2006

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Fifteen current students and alumni were arrested over Homecoming weekend, many of whom encountered the Hanover Police Department during one of Dartmouth's annual traditions. Nine of the arrests were alcohol -related, while the other six were described as disorderly conduct, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone.

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Dept. Editing Program to end in June

By Marina Agapakis | October 16, 2006

Following months of collaboration with faculty and administrators, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt decided this July to put an end to the Departmental Editing Program by June 2007. The program, which in the last year has surfaced as a contentious topic of debate, provides an in-house writing editor to the art history, religion and mathematics departments. DEP's founder and financier, Joseph Asch '79, informed The Dartmouth of Folt's decision in late September, saying that he had been on a family vacation since receiving the letter with Folt's July 2006 decision.

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Merkel discusses future of sustainability

By Molly Holden | October 16, 2006

Kicking off the Dartmouth Sustainability Update on Thursday with a completely "waste-free" meal, Sustainability Director Jim Merkel enumerated his plans for making the College "greener" in the coming year and reviewed the projects already in progress. "Driving the system towards zero waste is the main goal of sustainability," Merkel said. One of Merkel's most ambitious plans is the installation of solar-thermal panels.

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Alum lectures on work in Nepal

By Alina Gonzalez | October 16, 2006

Don Clark Tu '73, the mission director of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Nepal, discussed his life and work with 36 students to kick off year three of Career Services' "Careers for the Common Good" initiative, last Thursday.

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Per usual, Safety and Security heightens security measures

By Dan Duray | October 13, 2006

Perhaps it's the danger inherent in a thousand people, many of whom will be heavily inebriated, running around a 60-foot inferno, or maybe it's the inconvenience of a handful of them, also heavily inebriated, rushing the football field at halftime; whatever the reason, Safety and Security will be taking extra precautions this Homecoming weekend. A combination of Homecoming's bonfire, football game, influx of alumni and multitude of social gatherings involving alcohol account for the weekend's greater need for Safety and Security, College Proctor Harry Kinne said, whether the officers are needed for alcohol related-instances or a simple medical call. Because of this, Kinne stated that Safety and Security will increase the number of patrols on campus as well as the number of officers working throughout the weekend. "It's clearly one of our busier weekends of the year," Kinne said.

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