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Two-thirds of campus blacks out for hour

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | November 17, 2005

The College lost power for more than an hour Wednesday evening, leaving students running through the rain clutching cellular phones and frantically searching for lighted buildings. The power outage was caused by a large tree branch that fell on a primary power line off Route 20 at 5:30 p.m., affecting 79 customers who went without power for an hour and six minutes, a spokesperson for local utility National Grid said. The College's 35 emergency generators and numerous battery-powered lights kicked in across campus immediately after the power went out.

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Assembly gives French prof. teaching award

By Hannah Plotkin | November 17, 2005

The Student Assembly presented Lawrence Kritzman, professor of French and Italian and comparative literature, with the fall 2005 Profiles in Excellence Teaching Award at a dinner Wednesday evening. Kritzman spoke during the dinner, criticizing what he called the College administration's inability to evaluate scholarly work.

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Edmonds presents views on child labor

By Sam Rendall | November 17, 2005

Economics professor Eric Edmonds continued to deliver his economic analysis of the causes of child labor Wednesday evening when the power shut down across campus, not disappointing the audience of about 40 students and community members who gathered in the Rockefeller Center. Drawing on his experience as an economic adviser to Vietnam in the 1990s, Edmonds divided his lecture, entitled "Child Labor in the Global Economy," into four basic categories starting with a definition of "child labor," a term, he said, that carries both political and practical meanings. Edmonds warned the audience about believing media portrayals of child labor, too many of which focus on sensational stories about shackled children forced to work in factories while ignoring the more common issue of rural child labor, where poor families need children to work on family farms. "The newspaper images that we see of kids chained in factories are urban images," he said.

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Panel discusses religious diversity

By Elliot Mattingly | November 16, 2005

A multifaith panel of Dartmouth students discussed their religious experiences at the College in front of a packed audience Tuesday night in Collis Commonground. The event, entitled "Voices of Faith," was organized by the Student Multifaith Council and sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, the Tucker Foundation and the College. The organizers said they hoped to spark discussion about perceptions of faith and the evolution of students' personal faiths at Dartmouth. Panelist Adam Sigelman '05 opened the discussion by talking about how he found faith at Dartmouth in Zen Buddhism.

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Police Blotter

November 16, 2005

Nov. 9, Mass Row, 11:48 p.m. Safety and Security spotted a group of juveniles walking through the cemetery carrying a lit flare.

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Credit, debit cards cited for termination of BbOne

By Matt Beale | November 16, 2005

Starting Dec. 8, the College will shut down the BbOne program, a debit account allowing students to use their Dartmouth Cards at town vendors, BbOne Senior Operations Director Dan Gretz announced in a BlitzMail message to students Tuesday.

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College may retain stake in two Sudanese telecom firms

By Zach Swiss | November 16, 2005

Although the College's Board of Trustees voted last weekend to avoid investing in six oil companies that operate in Sudan, Dartmouth has not announced plans to divest from two telecommunications firms with interests in the country, which has been accused of staging a genocidal campaign in its Darfur region. As of May 2005, Dartmouth invested in Siemens and Alcatel, both of which have business ventures in Sudan.

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Panel attempts to refocus attention on quake relief

By Matt Beale | November 15, 2005

With the tsunami last December and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Oct. 6 earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir threatens to be lost in the shuffle, despite having killed at least 87,000 people. Members of the Asia Relief committee, led by education committee co-chair Anjali Vithayathil '06, worked to combat that with Monday's panel discussion, Earthquake in Kashmir, which featured geography professor Jennifer Fluri and history professor Douglas Haynes.

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Blitz quotas increase 25 fold

By Ashley Zuzek | November 15, 2005

With so many Dartmouth students conducting the majority of their correspondences over BlitzMail, inboxes have been filling to the 20 megabyte capacity quickly.

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Jacoby analyzes latent anti-Semitism

By Astrid Bradley | November 15, 2005

Jeff Jacoby, a conservative op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe, spoke on the present state of anti-Semitism in the eastern and western world Monday at an event sponsored by Chabad, the Jewish Studies Program and the Rockefeller Center. The speech, enitled "The Universal Menace of the 'New' Anti-Semitic Onslaught; A Modern Incarnation of the Timeless Curse," was given on the 100th anniversary of the publication of the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," a document that blames Jews for Russia's problems at the end of the 19th century.

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Dartmouth ends hunger pre-Thanksgiving

By Madhavi Menon | November 15, 2005

The Tucker Foundation kicked off its Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week Sunday. Although this campaign is held the week before Thanksgiving on hundreds of college campuses, Dartmouth's involvement has a unique twist this year. Dartmouth Ends Hunger, a Tucker Foundation-sponsored group, initiated a student-led project in which participants will eat only rice and beans, a common diet in developing countries, from Sunday to Saturday this week.

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Trustees vote to divest from Sudan-related companies

By Stuart A. Reid | November 14, 2005

Dartmouth's Board of Trustees acted on divestment, launched new construction projects, expressed support for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps on campus and discussed faculty recruitment at its quarterly meeting this weekend. In an interview with The Dartmouth on Saturday, College President James Wright and Chair of the Board of Trustees William Neukom '64 outlined the agenda of the meeting and explained its results. Based on recommendations from the College's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility and the Board's investment committee, the trustees voted to avoid investment in six companies identified as involved with genocide in Sudan.

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Alum praises important role of sorority in business world

By Conlan O'Leary | November 14, 2005

In the first speech of the Dartmouth's Distinguished lecture series, College trustee and advertising executive Karen Francis '84 explained how her membership in Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Dartmouth has been crucial to her professional success. Francis, the chairman and chief executive officer of Publicis and Hal Riney, spoke to a mostly female audience at Alpha Xi Delta sorority Friday evening. In 1982, Francis joined with 10 girls to push for the formation of a new sorority on campus.

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Fick '99 aims to spark discussion

By Elliot Mattingly | November 14, 2005

Former U.S. Marine Captain Nathaniel Fick '99 addressed a packed house in Filene Auditorium Friday night about his experiences leading a combat unit in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fick, a classics major, fondly recalled his days at Dartmouth before telling the audience that his main point was to start informed discussions about current military issues. "Too often, we retreat to our own camps and throw grenades at one another.

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Prof presents drug ad research to FDA

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | November 14, 2005

Dartmouth professor Lewis Glinert testified before a Federal Drug Administration panel in Washington, D.C., this month about his research on direct-to-consumer drug advertising. Glinert, a professor in the Asian and Middle Eastern studies department, examined how the benefits and risks of certain drugs are communicated to consumers through television advertising. Officials at the FDA wanted to utilize Glinert's extensive background in linguistics to assist them as they explore new methods of regulating drug and medical advertising. "This is an important issue, and I'm glad that the FDA wanted to hear from so many different constituents regarding DTC advertising," Glinert said.

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Undergrads push to build orphanage

By Christine Paquin | November 11, 2005

Dartmouth students have begun an initiative to build an orphanage in rural Bangladesh, a project inspired by a former engineering major's senior honors thesis. In his paper, Matt Sueoka '04 demonstrated a need for improved care for Bangladeshi orphans and incorporated his knowledge of engineering in a plan to alleviate the problem. Sueoka's thesis outlined a building design for an orphanage in rural Bangladesh.

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