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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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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Julia Hecht | August 15, 2006

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

By AJ Fox | August 15, 2006

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

By Phil Salinger | August 15, 2006

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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By Compiled by Matt Beale | August 10, 2006

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

By Elise Waxenberg | August 10, 2006

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

By Julia Hecht | August 10, 2006

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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