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N.H. passes voting bill affecting undergrads

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The New Hampshire State Senate voted Thursday to pass House Bill 1566, an act that would make it more difficult for out-of-state college students to vote in New Hampshire. The bill stipulates that establishing domicile in New Hampshire for voting purposes is the same as declaring residency in New Hampshire for motor vehicle law purposes.




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Undergrads build hybrid race car

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A team of students at the Thayer School of Engineering hosted Formula Hybrid, the first collegiate car race to use only hybrid and electric vehicles, at the New Hampshire International Speedway on Thursday.


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SA's 'town meeting' draws few undergrads

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A group of 15 students, only three of whom were not Student Assembly members, attended the Student Assembly Dartmouth Town Meeting Thursday night in Collis Commonground. The event's attendance was poor, especially when compared with last spring's Town Meeting, which drew over 100 students and positive feedback from administrators. At last spring's meeting, College President James Wright, Provost Barry Scherr, Dean of the College James Larimore, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, College Proctor Harry Kinne and Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt were present to address student concerns.


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Daily Debriefing

The 28th annual Festival of New Music will take place at Dartmouth beginning this Saturday. The festival's inspiration came when students expressed a desire to be exposed to different types of music not necessarily found in the classroom, and will bring students, professors and composers together to celebrate experimental music. "The festival began in part as a reaction to student requests to include more courses devoted to music composition and performance as opposed to music appreciation and analysis," festival co-director Ryan Berger '04 said. This year the festival's theme is "Orchestras of Sameness." The theme was inspired by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, PLOrk, which is a group of 15 Princeton University students who sit on pillows and perform using laptop computers surrounded by hemispherical speakers and control devices.



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A look back at Larimore's tenure: a rocky SLI beginning, a solid finish

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When James Larimore came to the College in 1999, he entered a Dartmouth community in turmoil, intent on preserving its time-honored traditions which, it feared, the administration was trying to change. Larimore, who will become the Swarthmore College's dean of students after this academic year, strove both to improve student life at the College -- largely by increasing diversity, adding residential halls and maturing the Greek system -- and to improve the administration's communication with the entire Dartmouth community. He was announced as the next dean of the College soon after the Board of Trustees released their controversial Student Life Initiative, which many alumni and students interpreted as an attempt to dismantle the Greek system.


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All five SEC marshals step down

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Five of the eight Class of 2006 marshals who were also members of the Senior Executive Committee, which selected the marshals, stepped down Wednesday following criticism that too many of the marshals came from the SEC itself. Replacement marshals, who will lead students at graduation along with the original three, will be selected by write-in voting through the Student Assembly website in the next few days. SEC President Anthony Bramante '06 said that the decision was reached by the SEC as a whole and mentioned a critical editorial in The Dartmouth and discussion with fellow seniors about the selections as reasons for the decision. "Though we do feel that [the five SEC former marshals] represent the class, we felt that we should take the responsibility to unify our class because we'll be the representatives for the next five years," Bramante said. Bramante said that the entire SEC supported the decision but that he did not know how it would affect future class marshal selections. He added that the response to the decision was unforeseen. "Had the reaction been expected by the SEC in general, I don't think we would've made the decision about the process and the decisions that we did," Bramante said. Four of the five marshals who stepped down either could not be reached or refused to comment, referring The Dartmouth to Bramante's statement ("SEC Class Marshals will be replaced," May 4) and a statement written by SEC member and former Marshal Edy Wilson '06. Wilson said in her statement that she recognized the need for more "transparency" in the selection process, and pointed to the write-in elections as a solution. Libby Sherman '06, a marshal candidate who was not selected, said that selecting SEC members for other class leadership positions was redundant because the campus already recognized them as leaders. "I don't think honoring the same people over and over again does anything," Sherman said. Regardless of whether or not write-in elections were the best solution, the original decision and the following resignations have "cheapened" the positions this year, Sherman said. Matthew Schwartz '06, also a marshal candidate who was not selected, agreed that though the five SEC marshals were qualified, more effort should have been made to include other students.