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Greek houses expect alumni to return for weekend reunions

By Matthew Abbott | October 21, 2005

With an influx of alumni returning to Hanover for the Homecoming festivities, Greek houses are busy preparing reunions for their members who will be in town. Chi Heorot fraternity plans on having a post-football game reception at their house that usually draws about 40 alumni, according to Heorot president Schafer Boeder '06. In addition, Heorot will host the Class of 1970 tent on their lawn from 10 a.m.

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Homecoming traditions: sprinting, parties, fire, football

By Samantha Ackah | October 21, 2005

Fall term's biggest weekend has arrived and the College will play host to a football game against Columbia University as well as the traditional bonfire as part of this year's Homecoming celebrations. While parties are already underway, the main focus of Homecoming will be Friday evening's bonfire.

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College boosts bonfire precautions

By Elliot Mattingly | October 21, 2005

While the much-famed Homecoming bonfire may look like an insurer's nightmare, the College carefully orchestrates the seemingly chaotic event. This year's bonfire safety and insurance situation is virtually identical to that of last year.

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S&S predicts trouble, steps up patrols

By Phil Salinger | October 21, 2005

Whenever a thousand college freshmen sprint around a massive fire, law enforcement officials tend to take extra precaution. As the bonfire burns this Friday evening, Hanover Police and Safety and Security will be taking extensive measures to protect the safety of students and to catch anybody who takes the festivities too far. Hanover Police plans to staff between 20 and 25 personnel on and around the Green during the fire, which will entail pulling officers from other jurisdictions such as Lebanon and New London, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said. In order to improve efficiency, police will set up a makeshift processing station just off the Green so that any officer who makes an arrest will not have to waste his time bringing the assailant all the way back to police headquarters. The Green-side station will allow police to get a preliminary identification of the subject and of the arresting officer before the officer hands the individual over to the station, allowing the officer to return to the fire, Giaccone said. Safety and Security will also increase its presence, as every one of their patrol officers will be working that evening, College Proctor Harry Kinne said. On top of the slew of Safety and Security officers on duty, the College has also hired personnel from Green Mountain Security, a private security company, to assist as the freshmen stampede around the fire.

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Theme parties highlight weekend

By Katie Silberman | October 21, 2005

Forget football or the bonfire -- students across campus are anxiously awaiting the abundance of parties that accompany the four-day-long Homecoming celebration. In a week steeped in school spirit and excitement, the anticipation of coming parties often overshadows that of sporting events. Tabard's Disco-themed party and Sigma Nu's "Early '80s" party are arguably the two most popular festivities of the week.

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COSO slashes funds for student orgs.

By Katie Silberman | October 20, 2005

The Mock Trial team, traditionally a well funded student organization, is resorting to alternative fundraising means this fall after receiving a smaller budget than it anticipated from the Council on Student Organizations. Last Saturday, members of the nationally ranked team sold peanut butter and jelly sandwiches outside of the Rockefeller Center to raise money so they could attend national competitions throughout the year. In past years, Mock Trial has asked for and received up to $10,000 from COSO, the group charged with recognizing undergraduate student clubs and allocating funds to them.

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Edwards to address poverty Fri.

By Gus Lûbin | October 20, 2005

Former Senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards will launch his Opportunity Rocks program at Dartmouth with a speech in Collis Commonground on Friday morning. Edward's visit to Dartmouth will be the fifth stop of his Opportunity Rocks College Tour, a whirlwind tour through 10 college campuses across America intended to inspire student activism in the fight against poverty. The tour represents a milestone and a takeoff point for student groups at the 10 schools that have and will continue to work with the former senator in organizing student volunteering and activism in their local communities. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Edwards described the importance and the potential of a student-led movement against poverty. "We have a window of opportunity after Katrina where people are paying attention to poverty, but that won't stay open unless we keep it open, unless we drive it open.

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Fellow speaks on power of creativity

By Ashley Zuzek | October 20, 2005

Oliver Sacks, the acclaimed author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat," spoke to an enthusiastic crowd in Moore Theater Wednesday. The speech, entitled "Creativity and the Brain," was sponsored by the Montgomery Endowment. "There are innumerable sorts of creativity," Sacks said as he listed perceptual, natural, individual and communal creativity, along with "creative driving" and "creative cooking," as examples. Sacks emphasized that creativity provides inspiration to all people. "Creativity is universal," Sacks said.

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Library partners with Google Scholar

By Marina Agapakis | October 20, 2005

The Dartmouth College Library recently announced a partnership with Google Scholar, one of the newest Google innovations in web research. The new division of Google provides a simple way to simultaneously search various sources for scholarly literature.

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Minority Greeks recruit new members

By Matt Beale | October 20, 2005

Though rush is over for most fraternities and sororities, the process of inducting new members is still proceeding under the radar screen for some minority Greek organizations. Alpha Phi Alpha, Dartmouth's traditionally African-American fraternity "does not mirror the school's traditional rush process," Alpha President Tramaine Tyson '06. The Alphas do not offer bids or recruit new members, though they do offer periodic informational sessions.

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Diamond predicts lasting obstacles to Iraqi sovereignty

By Matthew Abbott | October 19, 2005

The chances for long-term stability and a successful transition to democracy in Iraq may not be as encouraging as some officials are leading the public to believe, Hoover Institution senior fellow Larry Diamond said in a speech Tuesday. Diamond is also a professor at Stanford University.

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Seniors rush to meet second resume deadline

By Madhavi Menon | October 19, 2005

Many seniors are scrambling to complete cover letters by Wednesday in time to meet the second and final major resume-drop deadline of the term Thursday morning at 2:59 a.m. The resume drop is a chance for students at the College to submit materials through InterviewTrak, an online database of employers, in hopes of receiving interviews for entry-level jobs. The first resume drop deadline occurred on Oct.

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