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U.S. Poet Laureate visits DMS

By Ashley Zuzek | October 23, 2006

U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall and Dr. Patrick Clary read works about illness, grief and living life fully at the Medical Grand Rounds at Dartmouth Medical School on Friday.

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Wilson speaks on enviro. legal fight

By JR Santo | October 20, 2006

Diane Wilson lived a quiet life in her town of 15,000 people on Texas' Gulf Coast. But even though she had her boat, her bay and her fishing, she said she knew something sinister lurked in the bay's waters. "I was happiest on the bay and loved that it never changed," said Wilson, an author and environmentalist, during a lecture in the Sanborn House on Thursday. Over time, dead fish floated belly-up on the water, alligators thrashed almost spastically and her lake was clogged with a thick layer of algae floating at the water's surface.

Arson has occurred at Dartmouth more than any other Ivy League school in the past two years.
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Arson rate higher at Dartmouth

By Zach Swiss | October 20, 2006

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth reported more incidents of arson on its campus than any other Ivy League school in the past two years, according to crime statistics mandated for all colleges by the Clery Act.

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Foxall '03 works to aid war-torn Afghanistan

By HANNAH SIMON | October 20, 2006

With the exception of a couple of bars in Montreal, Devin Foxall '03 had never traveled outside the country before graduating from Dartmouth. Three years, 30 countries and hundreds of travel logs later, Foxall has travelled throughout the Middle East to areas ranging from Egypt to Kashmir.

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Diversity of activities marks 2006 interviewers

By Marina Agapakis | October 19, 2006

As high school seniors gear up to submit their college applications, many of them have already made the journey to Hanover to be interviewed by the 11 student interviewers chosen from the Class of 2007. While past groups of senior interviewers have been notable for their racial diversity, this year's crop stands out in the diversity of interests and experiences with which interviewers came to the position. In 2004, eight of the 15 senior interviewer posts were comprised of minority students. Of this year's chosen senior interviewers, seven self-identify as Caucasian, according to Deborah Wassel '07, a senior interviewer herself. "I think there are many more elements of diversity, however, than just being non-white," Wassel said.

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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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