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Fallen pipes badly injure construction worker

By Matthew Abbott | November 21, 2005

A construction worker remains in critical condition at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Monday after an accident last Tuesday left him trapped under a pile of copper piping. The worker, 49-year-old Brian Gagnon of Randolph, N.H., was helping to load copper piping into a storage trailer located off Maynard Street at the time of the accident.

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College to collaborate with Sun Microsystems

By Astrid Bradley | November 21, 2005

Network computing company Sun Microsystems and Dartmouth's Public Key Infrastructure Laboratory are creating a new partnership that pairs Dartmouth's expertise in secure computing with Sun's Open-Solaris Project, an open-source operating system that is being enhanced through community input, the College announced Friday. Both organizations stand to benefit from the new partnership, according to Glenn Weinberg '78, vice president of operating platforms at Sun. "A lot of the research and directions that Dartmouth were pursuing were very interesting to Sun, and a lot of the things that Dartmouth needed in terms of again providing that really solid foundation on which to build we had already put into Solaris-10," Weinberg said. Through the collaboration, Dartmouth will restructure its graduate operating systems course to include equipment donated by Sun, allowing students to get a more hands-on approach.

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Administrators advise caution in Facebook postings

By Christine Paquin | November 21, 2005

Students nationwide may be learning that popular Facebook.com groups like the Marijuana Legalization League, Dartmouth College Streakers or I Pregame for Everything could get them in trouble at college or get in the way of future job offers. Created in 2004 by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook, an online database that connects students from various colleges through social networks and various groups, has proved to be a rising phenomenon.

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Tulane students prep for homecoming

By Rebekah Rombom | November 18, 2005

As students start preparing to leave Hanover for leave terms and winter break, those students Dartmouth accepted when Hurricane Katrina devastated Gulf Coast-area schools are getting ready to say goodbye to Dartmouth and move back to their home institutions permanently. Just before Fall term began, the College admitted 32 students from colleges and universities that had to suspend operations during the fall semester.

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Foundation takes aim at dangers of alcohol

By Marina Agapakis | November 18, 2005

Still in his first days of freshman orientation, Alex Cushman '08 couldn't wrap his mind around the idea that one of his best friends, who was in the first weeks of college at the University of Colorado, had passed away from an alcohol overdose. On the morning of Sept.

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Amid national strife, grad. students largely satisfied

By Katie Silberman | November 18, 2005

In the past two years, graduate students at some of the nation's top schools have refused to teach undergraduate classes due to disagreements with administrations, but Dartmouth College undergraduates are unlikely to see their teaching assistants picketing anytime soon. In April, students at Yale and Columbia Universities protested the administrations' refusal to recognize graduate student unions and rectify insufficient stipend funding.

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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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