Students win Olympic gold medals

Associated Press Fourteen Dartmouth students and alumni competed for four different nations in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, winning a total of three gold and two bronze medals, all of which came in women's ice hockey. Gillian Apps '06, Cherie Piper '06 and Katie Weatherston '06 each took home gold medals as members of Canada's undefeated team.

Police Blotter

Feb. 15, South Part Street, 10:15 a.m. The Co-op Mobile Station reported to Hanover Police that two male occupants of a vehicle with Massachusetts plates were asking customers for money.

ORL to introduce sophomore advising

Editor's note: This is the sixth in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. As the College restructures residential life on campus, some of its older residence halls will become the new homes of advising and affinity programs. This fall, the Fayerweather cluster will begin housing the Office of Residential Life's new sophomore advising program. On Tuesday night, Associate Dean of Residential Life Deborah Golder held a preliminary committee meeting to discuss the creation of the sophomore advising program. "What I am looking for is feedback from students about what they need at this stage," said Cecilia Gaposchkin, assistant dean for pre-major advising. Few details, like the program's number of faculty advisers, are available because the committee members themselves are still deciding what the program needs, Gaposchkin said. The Fayerweathers, which have traditionally been sophomore-dominated, will be reserved entirely for second-year students once the advising program is implemented. "Sophomores right now aren't assigned an adviser [as] they are as first-year students and those ready to graduate.

Steinberg '88 speaks on media

Jenny Wang / The Dartmouth Staff A reporter for The New York Times and an editor-in-chief emeritus of The Dartmouth Jacques Steinberg '88 spoke about the ethics of reporting in today's media in front of a crowd of approximately 50 students in Collis Commonground on Thursday. In his lecture, entitled "Internal Affairs: A Report from the Frontlines of the Battle Over Accuracy and Ethics in the Media," Steinberg addressed several instances of recent journalistic fraud. Not long after Steinberg took on the media beat at the Times, the Jayson Blair scandal was exposed, forcing Steinberg to report on the journalistic fraud committed by his Times colleague.

BlitzMail survives tough technological competition

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series focusing on the use of BlitzMail on campus. Despite being as old as members of the Class of 2009, BlitzMail remains the primary mode of communication on campus, though the increasing popularity of cell phones and instant messaging seems to threaten its dominance. The BlitzMail terminals that blanket the campus and the internet Blitz websites that allow users to access their inboxes remotely have played important roles in helping BlitzMail compete against newer technologies. Dartmouth's extensive wireless network allows students to access BlitzMail from anywhere on campus, but before the network's installation a few years ago, students relied heavily on the public computers known as "Blitz terminals." Most of the Blitz terminals on-campus are administered by the Student Assembly, which replaced over 30 computers across campus last Winter. "We decided last year to update the Blitz terminals because they were failing at an increasing rate," said Lucas Nikkel '05, who administered the program last year for the Assembly.

New dorms pose threat to the Greeks

Editor's note: This is the fifth in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. The luxurious new dormitories slated to open this fall will effectively alleviate the sophomore housing crunch, but they could leave empty beds in their wake, especially in Greek and affinity houses. Greek houses have had difficulties in the past finding enough boarders to fill their beds.

ICC discussion tackles diversity, campus issues

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff The Inter-Community Council, a fledgling student organization, introduced itself to the Dartmouth community on Wednesday evening at a dinner held in Collis Commonground. Currently in its second year, the ICC aims to raise awareness about diversity at Dartmouth.

Uncertainty expressed over global warming

Earth sciences professor Eric Posmentier explained the complexities and uncertainties surrounding global climate change on Wednesday in his lecture entitled "A Climatologist's View of Climate Change -- Facts and Fallacies." The speech was part of a series of lectures on climate change, and was co-sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences and the Sierra Club, which supports the passage of legislation intended to slow climate change. Postmentier stressed that definitive answers on global warming and climate change in general, are "intrinsically impossible to generate." "The professor seemed a lot less confident in the occurrence of global warming than you usually hear about," James Preston '09 said.

After decades, Blitz remains College mainstay

Maxwell Copello / The Dartmouth Staff Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series focusing on the use of BlitzMail on campus. Long before students could check their BlitzMail accounts virtually anywhere on-campus, many students trekked to their Hinman Boxes to retrieve printouts of their e-mail messages. Today, most students check their BlitzMail accounts several times a day, and the e-mail system has become a staple of Dartmouth life.

New dorms will be more eco-friendly

Bailey Massey / The Dartmouth Staff Editor's note: This is the fourth in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. Constant 70 degree temperatures, cone-shaped lights and common areas complete with bamboo dance floors will greet students living in Dartmouth's new eco-friendly residence halls. The College plans to use these along with many other materials and features such as spray foam insulation to help conserve energy in the Mclaughlin and Tuck Mall residence halls, which are scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2006, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman. "We are using renewable resources wherever possible in the buildings," Redman said. To meet their eco-friendly goals, the College has tried to use recycled, renewable and durable materials for many parts of the buildings, leading to plans for bamboo floors, copper roofs and carpets made out of recycled materials. "Even little details like where the tiling is coming from, and is it made of recycled materials, even in the glazing, are all being considered to meet sustainability requirements," director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said. The new buildings will also feature a sophisticated water-based radiant heating system.

Dartmouth students impress recruiters

Some companies, however, express concern about lack of skills

Harvard's President Summers resigns

Student Assembly slams proposed DDS changes

After approximately 90 minutes of debate, the Student Assembly passed a statement criticizing the proposed Dartmouth Dining Services changes Tuesday night. Statement sponsors Chris Bertrand '07, Corey Chu '08, Dave Hollenberg '09, Ryan Payne '06 and Zak Moore '09 presented the results of recent Assembly surveys in their call to College administrators to alter the proposed changes because they "do not reflect the preferences and interests of the Dartmouth student body." These surveys showed that 96 percent of students oppose a $100-per-term DBA spending cap at Topside and 72 percent of students oppose the removal of the $705 Mini Green DBA dining plan. The statement called for DDS to increase the Topside spending cap to $300 and to reduce the newly increased Mini Green plan.

Tempest Williams speaks on community

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff Montgomery Fellow Terry Tempest Williams spoke to a crowd in Filene Auditorium Tuesday on the meaning and importance of community at home and abroad.

Program brings inner-city kids to N.H.

Fresh Air Fund sends 10,000 children on host visits each year

College professors help NASA 'Stardust' project

Courtesy of Dartmouth News Two Dartmouth professors will soon have the honor of participating in NASA's ground-breaking $168.4 million Stardust project to analyze interstellar dust particles collected from the Wild 2 comet. Susan Taylor, professor of Earth Sciences and scientist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory facility, will work with Charles Daghlian, director of Dartmouth's Electron Microscope Facility to examine the particles gathered from the comet. The Stardust project began with the 1999 launch of the Delta II spacecraft, which made two solar orbits and flew past the comet's nucleus.

Cassell, Miss Liberia International, travels to aid country

Miss Liberia International, Telena Cassell '06, traveled to Liberia from California Monday and will spend the next two weeks helping Liberian women and children, at which time she will distribute $3,000 worth of school supplies and personal items that she has collected from donors. Cassell will hand out clothing, first aid supplies and personal care products in small villages and will deliver school supplies to grade schools and the University of Liberia.

Coed dormitory plans postponed

Editor's note: This is the third in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. Despite the opening of new residential buildings this fall as older buildings close for renovations, the Department of Residential Life has postponed its plans for coed housing until the fall of 2007. ORL was not only hesitant to throw too many variables into the updated housing system, but it also wanted to first gauge the success of its 500 new beds. "It is really important for us in ORL to understand how students will respond to this new environment, to having beds.

More apply to law school in 2005

Despite a nationwide decrease in the number of law school applicants, Dartmouth experienced a 5 percent increase in the number of seniors who applied to law school for the 2005 academic year.

Dick's House notes fewer influenza cases

The Dartmouth As this temperamental New Hampshire winter progresses with its fluctuating temperatures, unseasonably warm days and lack of snow, College Health Services and Dick's House have seen fewer students with influenza and upper respiratory infections than they have in past winters.