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Religion and environment join hands at conference

By Ashley Zuzek | October 2, 2006

Environmentalism and religion joined forces this weekend at the "All Together Now" conference, an event that stressed spirituality and morality as essential elements in dealing with today's environmental issues. The conference, initiated by Lutheran co-pastors Michael and Susan Thomas, bypassed the typical array of scientific details in favor of faith as its focus.

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Alumni networking tool expands its reach at College

By Julia Hecht | October 2, 2006

The inCircle network, a social and business networking tool available to Dartmouth alumni and students, recently announced that its services had expanded to include 56 alumni and student organizations from universities around the country. The network, which was first introduced to Dartmouth in February 2005 by the Office of Alumni Relations, allows members of affiliated institutions to build and maintain personal and professional connections in a secure online community. Among the organizations and universities now affiliated with inCircle are Wharton Graduate Association, University of Michigan, University of Texas, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Delta Delta Delta sorority, Northwestern University and American University. "We wanted to address a need expressed by young alumni to have a way to network with each other on a daily basis on shared interests, common acquaintances, professions and locations," Director of Alumni Information Resources Jan Bent said. Companies using inCircle can either post jobs specifically to Dartmouth or to other inCircle networks. The "relationship-mapping" feature allows Dartmouth job seekers to reach out to their peers who work within a company or who have worked for a com pany for guidance and referrals. The inCircle platform also includes a searchable groups feature that allows students and alumni to communicate to friends within specific organizations, clubs, classes and interest groups.

Safety and Security released their annual security report on Friday, outlining crime statistics for 2005 and a notable increase in sexual assault occurrences.
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Annual security report highlights rise in sexual assault incidents

By JR Santo | October 2, 2006

Samantha Ceppos / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Reported incidents of sexual assault jumped about 75 percent in 2005 to 14 reported offenses, according to a comprehensive crime statistics report released Friday by Safety and Security. Forcible sexual offenses have been rising since 2002, when three incidents of sexual assault were reported.

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Fundraising campaign hits halfway point

By Hillary Wool | September 29, 2006

The Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, a projected seven-year-long comprehensive capital campaign, has reached the halfway point of its $1.3 billion goal, having raised $744.2 million to date. The goals of the Campaign are to "strengthen Dartmouth across academic disciplines, make critically needed improvements in residential and campus life, and preserve Dartmouth's preeminence in providing the finest student experience in the world," according to Campaign publications. The capital campaign is divided into four strategic imperatives aimed at revamping the college: academic enterprise, residential and campus life, financial aid and annual giving. According to Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience co-chair Brad Evans '98 and Vice President of Development Carolyn Pelzel, the campaign is on track and has reached the point where it hoped it would be at this time. "I think we're right on track right where we expected and hoped to be at this stage of the campaign.

New SEMP guidelines ease exemptions for using kegs at outdoor events,
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SEMP committee revises policies

By Matt Beale | September 29, 2006

Chris Takeuchi / The Dartmouth Staff The College has implemented a series of changes to Social Event Management Procedures this fall, allowing groups to register "tails" parties with hard alcohol and standardizing the procedure for exemptions when registering outdoor events with alcohol.

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Fukuyama criticizes Bush policies in Filene

By Linzi Sheldon | September 29, 2006

Internationally renowned foreign policy scholar Francis Fukuyama lectured on America's presence in Iraq and criticized key facets of President George Bush's current policy such as unilateralism, preventative war and Middle East democratization on Thursday night to a large audience in Filene Auditorium. As the first speaker in the Dickey Center for International Understanding's Great Issues series on conflict prevention, Fukuyama, who broke ranks with the Bush administration as late as 2004, commented wryly, "If you want to prevent conflicts, you should probably not start unnecessary wars." While the neo-conservative in Fukuyama still emphasized the moral purpose that hard power could sometimes serve, he stated that the development of democracy overseas could not remain America's foremost goal in the region. "There were false expectations as to the nature of democracy itself," he said. According to Fukuyama, these expectations may have been influenced by the swift collapse of communism in 1989 in Eastern Europe. He speculated that political veterans of the Warsaw Pact collapse, such as Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley, and Paul Wolfowitz may have expected the same immediate change to occur in Iraq. According to Fukuyama, those in favor of the war saw democracy as a kind of default that newly-freed states would revert to. There were American misconceptions that "once the wicked witch was dead," he said, "the munchkins would rise up and start singing joyously about their liberation." While a clear component of American foreign policy has been instituting democracies abroad, its previous policies of ambitious social engineering could not be applied to current international conditions, especially in the Middle East, he said. "The first lesson is, the United States does not bring democracy," he said.

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FBI anti-terror program monitors student data

By JOHN FINE | September 28, 2006

The U.S. Education Department recently disclosed that it has supplied the Federal Bureau of Investigation with sensitive financial information on hundreds of student-aid applicants over the last five years.

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Tuition Tax Credit benefits affluent

By Cathy Wu | September 28, 2006

A recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics revealed that wealthier families are the primary beneficiaries of college tuition tax credits, the latest report of growing difficulties facing low-income students.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by William Schpero | September 28, 2006

New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officials have reported that a stuffed teddy bear is responsible for causing the deaths of 2,500 trout at a hatchery in Milford.

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Suspicious blog posts traced to House aide

By Jennifer Bandy | September 27, 2006

Laura Clawson, a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth, uncovered last Thursday that a House of Representatives staff member had made misleading posts on liberal blogs in an attempt to deter New Hampshire Democrats from working on the campaign of Democratic congressional candidate Paul Hodes '72. Four days later, Tad Furtado, policy director to Rep.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Allyson Bennett | September 27, 2006

Rutgers-Newark University recently appointed Annette Gordon-Reed, class of '81, to its faculty. Gordon-Reed will begin teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in the American History and American Studies departments in the spring of 2007.

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Lack of voters forces SA to postpone resolution

By Allie Lowe | September 27, 2006

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff When Student Assembly met for the first time of the academic year on Tuesday, the organization introduced freshmen to Dartmouth's student government, but was unable to produce any new legislation or policy as a result of time constraints and relatively poor upperclassmen attendance. After members waited outside the meeting room for roughly 10 minutes until Safety and Security arrived to open the door, the Assembly was forced to postpone discussion of the only resolution on the agenda -- the Constitutional Amendment to Rename the Diversity Affairs Committee -- due to a time shortage as well as the fact that not enough voting members were present. Student Assembly President Tim Andreadis '07, who won as a write-in candidate last spring after running a highly vocal campaign, stayed quiet for much of the night, instead allowing the seven committee chairs and Assembly Vice President Jaqueline Loeb '08 the opportunity to explain procedure to the approximately thirty interested freshmen present. Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee Adam Shpeen '07 expressed excitement over the high freshmen turnout. "I've been in SA for three years... as far as first meetings go, there were more individuals there than I've ever seen in the past... individuals who are highly motivated to [work for] SA." Ben Arad '10, who attended the meeting hoping to find out more about student government at the College, remarked that he still needs to see more of the Assembly before deciding on the level of his involvement.

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Company seeks to digitize colleges

By Tom Huzarsky | September 27, 2006

A new web company promises to make receiving updates about classes through Blackboard, staying in touch with friends and even checking for empty washing machines easier for students at some universities. Rave Wireless will soon pair with Sprint's network and its Global Positioning System-based services to offer a host of new cellular phone applications to colleges that will, according to the company's website, "improve communication, build community and enhance campus safety." Though there are currently no plans to bring the technology to Dartmouth, basic services will include the ability to text message large student- or faculty-created groups, call staff directories via cell phone and check school e-mail directly through one's phone.

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Dartmouth hosts summit on stem cell research

By Alina Gonzalez | September 27, 2006

Over 75 students, professors and community members gathered in Dartmouth Medical School's Kellogg Auditorium Tuesday afternoon for an interdisciplinary summit on the controversial topic of stem cell research. Focusing on the set of research titled, "The Convergence of Science, Ethics and Policy," the event featured three experts in the field -- Dr. John Gearhart, Ronald Green and Bernard Siegel -- who discussed the topic from scientific, ethical and policy-making standpoints. Gearhart, a professor of comparative medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins University, and a pioneer of stem cell research, spoke on behalf of the scientific community.

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