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Unexpected housing delays displace freshmen during Trips

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | September 20, 2006

All freshmen have now moved into their residence halls after a five-day delay in obtaining occupancy permits for three of the six buildings in the McLaughlin residence hall cluster forced many students returning from their Dartmouth Outing Club Trips to temporarily move into other residence halls. "Our first concern is that we don't want to put students in a building that isn't safe," Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said of the delay, which was for safety inspections. Students on trip sections H and I who were assigned to Thomas, Goldstein and Byrne residence halls -- a total of 16 students -- were moved into the Lodge for one or two nights while their dorms were inspected according to Director of Undergraduate Housing Rachael Class-Giguere.

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Interest groups arise for constitution

By Hillary Wool | September 20, 2006

In the ongoing turmoil over the passage of the proposed Association of Alumni constitution, two major conflicting groups with vastly different structures and campaign tactics have emerged -- Supporters for a Democratic Dartmouth, which opposes the constitution and Dartmouth Alumni for Common Sense, which supports it. DACS, which formed last month and is registered as a volunteer corporation in the state of New Hampshire, has been conducting a telephone survey to gauge whether alumni believe that Dartmouth is headed in the right direction and ask if and how they plan to vote.

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Alumni constitution voting begins

By Phil Salinger | September 16, 2006

WEB UPDATE, September 16, 3:00 p.m. Editor's note: As part of The Dartmouth's ongoing coverage of the proposed Association of Alumni constitution, this article outlines the major changes to alumni governance that will take place if the proposed constitution passes and the key arguments of its most vocal advocates and opponents.

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Trustees vote 14-3 to endorse alumni constitution

By Phil Salinger | September 11, 2006

SECOND WEB UPDATE, September 11, 12:35 p.m. The Dartmouth Board of Trustees voted Saturday to endorse the newest revision to the controversial proposed Alumni Association constitution by a margin of 14 to three. The endorsement, which was reported to alumni in an e-mail Sunday, represents the first official departure from the College's previously neutral stance on the constitution. Three of the Board's current members, T.J.

Sam Means '03 (back, center) takes the stage with Jon Stewart to accept an Emmy award for his comedic writing contributions to the popular TV program,
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Means '03 wins Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Writing

By Meredith Fraser | August 31, 2006

Associated Press WEB UPDATE, August 31, 2:40 p.m. Sam Means '03 won his first Emmy award for comedy writing Sunday night as part of the writing team of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Means leapt onto the Shrine Auditorium stage in Los Angeles with Stewart and fellow writers to take the top prize for outstanding writing in a variety, music or comedy program in front of 16.1 million television viewers.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Stuart A. Reid | August 22, 2006

Director of Network Services Frank Archambeault announced Friday that students will be able to watch cable TV on their own television sets through the same wiring that carries phone conversations and other data beginning next term.

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Seniors to honor K-12 teachers in new program

By Dan Duray | August 22, 2006

Next year's graduating seniors will have the chance to honor a kindergarten through 12th grade teacher during their final year at Dartmouth, thanks to a program the College implemented recently. The program gives students the opportunity to submit an essay explaining why the nominated teacher was significant to their academic careers.

The Office of Residential Life expects the McLaughlin cluster to be ready for occupancy before Fall term classes begin in September.
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Occupancy permits may slow move-ins

By Emily Weisburst | August 22, 2006

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Dartmouth's campus is still spotted with construction sites and unfinished buildings, but Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said he is confident that the new residential buildings will be ready for the transition into Fall term. The sites slated to be up and running by this fall include the Tuck Mall residence halls and the McLaughlin residence cluster. "All along the goal has been to have the facilities ready for the start of this academic year," Redman said.

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Alumni debate reaches students

By Rebekah Rombom | August 17, 2006

As the Association of Alumni prepares to vote on a new proposed constitution this fall, heated debate has persisted throughout many sectors of the Dartmouth community.

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Candidates for council positions run unopposed

By Jennifer Garfinkel | August 17, 2006

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

By Amanda Cohen | August 17, 2006

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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