Students debate importance of sexuality in admissions

Bailey Massey / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth and Hanover High students gathered in the Cutter-Shabazz lounge Monday night to debate whether prospective Dartmouth students should have the opportunity to check a box specifying sexual orientation on admissions applications.

First-years lack sexual assault resources

Editor's note: This is the second of a three-part series examining sexual abuse toward women at Dartmouth. When Dean of the College Jim Larimore expressed his concerns about sexual assault to a group of sorority girls in 1999, one woman replied, "You don't need to worry, because we look out for our sisters." In response Larimore asked, "But if you can't join an organization until your sophomore year, who's looking out for the first-year women?" "I got back a set of wonderful, bright young women, seeming to suggest, 'It's not our problem,'" Larimore said. Larimore saw flaws in their logic, and still believes that all Dartmouth students should help protect one another from sexual assault, a term defined by the Dartmouth College Handbook as intimidating conduct of a sexual nature, non-consensual contact with an intimate part of the body or forced sexual intercourse when no consent is given. "In my mind, it's their problem.

Repatriated Tulane students enjoy mild clime

Courtesy of Nate Scott After spending nearly three cold months in upper New England, Tulane University freshman and Texas native Ollie Kiel, arrived in sunny New Orleans this January to start his first semester there. "The best thing about leaving Dartmouth was definitely the cold weather," he said. Kiel was one of 32 undergraduate students who spent Fall term at Dartmouth after their own university suspended operations due to Hurricane Katrina.

United Way shatters campaign targets

Bailey Massey / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth United Way campaign surpassed its fundraising goal of $250,000 by almost $5,000, weeks before the campaign closes on Feb.

Study shows students lacking 'real world' skills

'Flurrymail' allows quick BlitzMail access on phones

Dartmouth students who compulsively check their BlitzMail accounts can now find reprieve even when BlitzMail terminals are nowhere in sight.

Many rape incidents occur yearly at College

Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part series examining sexual abuse toward women at Dartmouth. A female friend of Thiago Oliveira '06 visited Dartmouth for one weekend and left the campus a victim of sexual assault. "I had close friends from home who were sexually assaulted, friends on campus during freshman year who were sexually assaulted ... [but this incident] just shoved in my face how vulnerable women can be in male-dominated spaces on campus," Oliveira, who has since been trained as a Sexual Abuse Peer Advisor, said. Dean of the College Jim Larimore estimated 50 or more completed rapes on campus per year.

Most Americans value academics over sports

Although many Dartmouth community members and alumni severely criticized Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg last year for his private comments that Dartmouth's football recruitment hindered the academic quality and diversity of incoming classes, almost four in five Americans echo that sentiment in prioritizing academics over athletics. In a poll conducted for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics by Widmeyer Research and Polling of Washington, D.C., 79 percent of Americans believe that college athletes should focus more on their academics. The poll, completed this past December, questioned 502 American citizens on appropriate behavior for collegiate athletes in the coming years.

Outreach groups address teen issues

Sarah Shaw / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Homemade glitter headbands, bright yellow t-shirts and giggling voices filled Collis Commonground yesterday as over 100 Upper Valley 'tween girls gathered to take part in the local Sister-to-Sister summit. The conference, which is in its fifth year, provides a forum for young girls to engage in a dialogue about subjects such as body image, peer pressure, friendship and boys.

M.I.T. prof. lectures on changing media in society

Author Henry Jenkins discussed the changing consumer-producer relationship in a lecture entitled "Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide," on Thursday night in Filene Auditorium. The lecture was the inaugural piece in a new series of discussions on Film and Television Studies, sponsored by the Rockefeller Center.

Committee searches for dean of the faculty

On Thursday night, the committee searching for the next dean of the faculty held the last of three private meetings used to solicit professor input.

Police use Green Book to make arrests

The Hanover Police department acknowledged their use of the Green Book as a tool for tracking down suspected lawbreakers in the undergraduate student body. While nationwide police departments have begun using Facebook.com, a popular online social network, to collect information about suspects, Hanover Police uses the College's publication to gather similar information. "We maintain a collection of facebooks," Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said in reference to the Green Book, adding that the publication is "a part of an assortment of investigative tools" used by the police department to catch lawbreakers. Giaccone explained that the Hanover Police purchases copies of the publication from the College for the purpose of profiling students. "We try to build a composite of a suspect and the facebook is one of many tools used in creating that composite," he said, referring to the Green Book. Giaccone said Hanover Police had compared camera stills of lawbreakers committing a crime to pictures found in the Green Book in order to catch suspects. Giaccone, however, declined to describe specific instances in which Hanover Police had used the Green Book to track down a suspect. According to Giaccone the police department has referred to the Green Book as "the facebook" for several years, which has generated confusion since the introduction of Facebook.com in 2004. This confusion has caused some students to postulate that Hanover Police use Facebook.com to gather information on undergraduates.

Prof. Shaiko speaks on Palestinian election results

Associate Professor of Government Ronald Shaiko, who just returned from the West Bank and Gaza where he was observing last week's Palestinian Legislative Council elections, spoke Thursday afternoon to a packed crowd in Rockefeller Center about his experiences in Israel and his hopes for the future. The PLC elections brought about the startling rise to power of Hamas, an extremist Islamic group turned political party, which captured a majority in the unicameral legislature from the more moderate and established Fatah party. Shaiko, who went as part of the United States observer delegation organized by the National Democratic Institute and the Carter Center, was the only American selected to travel to Gaza.

Applications increase by 10 percent in 2006

Nearly 14,000 high school seniors submitted regular decision applications to Dartmouth this year, a 10 percent increase over last year's number, according to the Undergraduate Office of Admissions. The official number of total applicants is currently unknown, however, because many applications come in late or are still missing components.

Cleanliness, noise issues solved with new policies

Library remains 'patron friendly' despite rule, guideline alterations

Survey reveals underclassmen increasing volunteer efforts

One-quarter of Dartmouth freshmen note participation in 'community action programs'

New dorms to increase housing by 500 beds

Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman announced the future of campus housing Wednesday night at a coffee talk in Sanborn Library, including plans to consolidate freshmen into only five clusters rather than the current eight clusters. The First-Year Experience, the restructuring of freshmen housing, will eventually lead to the clustering of sophomores, juniors and seniors as well, as Redman predicts.

Dartmouth tops list in Peace Corps rankings

The Peace Corps released its annual list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities Tuesday.

Police Blotter

Jan. 21, Dartmouth College A Dartmouth sophomore had bid $4,000 for a car in an eBay auction, but did not win the auction.

Partisans dispute Bush address