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Candidates for council positions run unopposed

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Elections for the president and vice president of the 2008 Class Council will finish tonight in Thayer lobby, though only six students attended Tuesday night's election speeches -- two of whom are Class Council members. Ashley Mas '08, who has been involved with the Council since her freshman fall, is running for Class Council president, and Andrew Klein '08, who just started his work with the Council this summer, is running for vice president.


Students accompanying the Big Green Bus pause in Times Square, one of about 50 stops nationwide, to pose with their vegetable-oil powered vehicle.
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Good Morning for the Big Green Bus

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Amanda Cohen / The Dartmouth Staff The recognizable faces of ABC's Good Morning America cast closed Wednesday's episode from the roof of Dartmouth's Big Green Bus, showing off the eco-friendly bus to an estimated 5 million viewers. Anchorman Bill Weir introduced the student project as "a group of Dartmouth students [who] want to make a statement about our dependence on foreign oil, about safety of the environment, clean fuel and all of that." The three minute Good Morning America segment, which aired on Wednesday, showed the bus and 13 student and alumni "bussers" at a stop on the eighth week of their 10 week tour around the country. The bus, which is a run-down '95 International school bus that was converted so that it runs on waste vegetable oil, mystified observers, on and off camera. "I think we're all fascinated by it," Feature Correspondent Mike Barz said to The Dartmouth after the show. "It doesn't surprise me that it's Dartmouth.



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Daily Debriefing

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Despite an overall drop in housing sales in the state, sales remain strong in the Upper Valley area, according to a recent article in the Boston Globe.



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DOC rebuilds historic Harris cabin

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Out on the wooded slopes of Moose Mountain, far beyond the confines of civilization, seven Dartmouth student have elected to spend their summer rebuilding a piece of Dartmouth history, Harris Cabin. The cabin, once one of the most popular shelters owned by the Dartmouth Outing Club, fell into disrepair and eventually collapsed in the early 1990s.



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Secrecy, rumors muddy Alpha Delta investigation

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More than a week after the investigation resulting in a Hanover Police raid of Alpha Delta fraternity was suspended indefinitely, students remain in the dark about the reasons behind the search, causing information and misinformation to circulate campus. On the day of the search, Hanover Police Captain Frank Moran reportedly told AD alumni adviser John Engelman '68 that they were searching for a sex tape and gave the names of both the accuser and the accused.



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Daily Debriefing

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The College and the University of New Hampshire received a $100,000 grant to support a cooperative college and university network which would help them meet environmental health and safety requirements at local, state and federal levels.


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College ranks in top 100 gay-friendly universities

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A college guidebook that came out last week and targets lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students named Dartmouth one of the top 100 gay-friendly universities in the country. The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, endorsed by gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate, compiled the list of LGBT-friendly campuses based on a "gay point average" -- a number calculated from surveys of current LGBT students, faculty and staff at 680 universities nominated by students.


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'Greek' chariots return after 20 years

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Taking a cue from Ben-Hur, Saturday's Fieldstock event will revive chariot races, a College tradition begun in 1966 that was eliminated in 1984 due to safety concerns. The chariot races began as a replacement for the Wetdown Ceremonies, in which the newly elected members of student government were pelted with various food items and beverages as they ran across the Green.




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'Consent Day' attracts over 500 for shirts, games, food

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Students flocked to Webster Avenue on Saturday, Aug. 5 to celebrate the College's fourth annual "Consent Day," a day aimed at encouraging victims of sexual violence to speak out and educating students about what constitutes sexual violence. The day of games, food and music drew over 500 undergraduates, high school debate campers and graduate students to the front lawns of Alpha Xi Delta sorority and Chi Gamma Epsilon, Phi Delta Alpha, Sigma Nu and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities. There the houses were hosting an array of activities, from a scavenger hunt to "consensual Twister," which differed from the original game in that each color was associated with a phrase related to consensual sex.





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Grads return for Career Services anniversary

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Dartmouth Career Services celebrated 30 years of service to students Thursday with an anniversary party that showcased the stories of alumni who have followed nontraditional or unexpected career paths after graduation. "All dreams are welcome here," Career Services Director Skip Sturman said as he addressed more than 40 students, professors and alumni who gathered at Collis to toast the organization's three-decade effort to assist undergraduates with their professional endeavors. The recognition of alumni was made possible by the Alumni Stories Project, a Career Services' effort funded by John Kovis '63's Career Discovery Program.


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Lawley '04 seeking publisher for novel

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Strip clubs, meth labs and teenage life in rural Oklahoma are all topics central to the senior thesis of Mark Lawley '04: a novel titled "Strip Club of God." After a year-and-a-half of revisions, he finished his work on March 13, 2006 and has sent the manuscript to his agent, who Lawley hopes will agree to shop the book to publishers. "I was expecting some big relief, but that wasn't the case.