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Mitchell testifies in Willis-Starbuck case

By Kelsey Blodget | February 1, 2006

/ The Dartmouth Gregory Mitchell, a key witness in the Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 shooting case, testified yesterday, but failed to contribute any significant new information to the case. Granted immunity by the prosecution, Mitchell offered his version of the July 17 events during preliminary hearings on Jan.

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Wright lauds College, cautions alumni

By Elise Waxenberg | January 31, 2006

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff College President James Wright warned alumni to avoid "adversarial relations" among themselves and with the College in a 30-minute speech to the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley Monday night in Alumni Hall. "We have too good an enterprise, we have too much to do together, to get caught up in feuds [and] misunderstandings that sap our energy and erode our purposes," Wright told the audience of over 120 alumni. Speaking before Wright, Vice President of Alumni Relations David Spalding '76 announced that the Alumni Association Executive Committee will launch a new weblog Tuesday for alumni to debate proposed changes to the Alumni Association constitution. Spalding, who assumed the Alumni Relations post four months ago, called the launch of the blog a "very important opportunity to take part in the debate on Dartmouth's future." This week, letters will go out inviting alumni to participate in the forum, while e-mails will be sent to the approximately 40,000 alumni with BlitzMail accounts, Spalding said. The opening of the forum is a precursor to a Feb.

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Transition to VoIP technology nearly complete, despite delays

By Madhavi Menon | January 31, 2006

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff As Technical Services completes the last phase of a campus-wide transition to Voice over Internet Protocol, students can now enjoy new features such as caller identification on their dorm room telephones. The project began in late 2004 when the College decided to combine the voice, video and data streams into one unified network.

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DREAM service group raises nearly $10,000 for summer trip

By Katie Silberman | January 31, 2006

Courtesy of DREAM This June, while most students return home or settle in for the summer, a handful of undergraduates will take nearly 20 local underprivileged children to California for a two-week outdoor adventure. These High Adventure trips are sponsored by DREAM, a non-profit mentoring program founded in 1999 by several Dartmouth graduates.

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Student recognized posthumously

By Astrid Bradley | January 30, 2006

The Martin Luther King Celebration Committee honored the late Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, who died this summer of a gunshot wound, with the Emerging Leadership Award Friday at the Fifth Annual Social Justice Awards in the Hopkins Center. In total, three student organizations and five individuals, including former Vermont poet laureate Grace Paley '98H, received awards as part of a month-long celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Thokozani Xaba '89 and Matthew Wilson '83 received Ongoing Commitment Awards, while the committee honored Nick Kotz '55 and Paley with the Lester B.

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Lambda 10 works to erase homophobia

By Jennifer Garfinkel | January 30, 2006

Jennifer Garfinkel / The Dartmouth Staff On Saturday afternoon, 30 members of Dartmouth's Greek community packed into a Rockefeller Center conference room for the pilot session of Lambda 10, a national project seeking to abate homophobia in Greek systems across the country. Michael Guzman '06, Ricky Cole '06 and Pam Misener, an adviser to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, facilitated the day of discussions, movie clips and role playing that lasted from 10 a.m.

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Discussion focuses on waste in Greek houses

By Jennifer Garfinkel | January 27, 2006

Students brainstormed how to make Dartmouth's Greek system more environmentally efficient Thursday night at a discussion led by College sustainability coordinator Jim Merkel at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, but Merkel himself knew little about Dartmouth's Greek system and did not suggest any of his own solutions. After Merkel asked the audience if an infrastructure aimed to reduce waste exists within the Greek system, Cayelan Carey '06, recycling and scholarship chair for Theta, suggested that each Greek house should have a "point person" in charge of forming a recycling network within the Greek system. The waste issues that students labeled as the causes of Greek houses' sustainability woes included the mass consumption of non-recyclable disposable cups and the lack of recycling of beer cans. Toby Lunt '08, a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, said that the College could help Greek houses recycle by providing each with a second dumpster for cans only. Popular ideas included offering incentives to Greek houses to cut back on waste and pushing the College or Stinson's convenience store to order recyclable cups in bulk to cut back on their high cost. Merkel spent the majority of his talk, entitled "How sustainable are the Greeks?", explaining the concept of sustainability as it applies to the world and to Americans, posting slides with they key concepts of sustainability and with shocking statistics about American consumption. The sustainability coordinator spent little time talking about the threats that the Greek system poses to the environment and did not suggest any steps that Greek organizations could take toward environmental consciousness. Merkel, who came to the College in June, admitted to knowing little about fraternities and sororities on campus.

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Nan Aron criticizes Bush, Alito

By Christine Paquin | January 27, 2006

Sarah Miller / The Dartmouth Staff In a speech which addressed issues such as the American judiciary and citizen advocacy, president and founder of the Alliance for Justice Nan Aron argued that the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito could threaten the future of the nation's highest court Thursday afternoon. In the wake of Chief Justice John Roberts' confirmation and Judge Alito's nomination, Aron's comments came at a crucial moment within the American political and judicial spheres. The Alliance is a national organization of public interest and civil rights groups which promotes social justice and which has been aggressively critical of the Bush administration. Aron said that she founded the Alliance in 1979 after observing a need to combat the rising conservative movement, as well as a growing need to safeguard an objective judicial system. "There was a need for leadership around addressing a number of concerns, such as the rise of the conservative movement," Aron said.

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Professors give out citations for excellence

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | January 27, 2006

In an age of increasingly high average grades, professors have been giving out more and more citations, which recognize students whose class performance merits acknowledgment that a letter grade fails to explain. Dartmouth has used the citation system for over 40 years as a way to add a "personal touch" to a student's transcript. The selectivity of citations has made them prized commodities.

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Women tend to study abroad more than men

By Katy O'Donnell | January 27, 2006

Women outnumber men nearly two-to-one on study abroad programs, both nationally and at Dartmouth according to recently released statistics. Three hundred and forty of the 569 Dartmouth students who went abroad in the 2004-2005 academic year were female----nearly 60 percent.

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Famous publisher advises students

By Cathy Wu | January 26, 2006

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Publishing consulting company founder Carol Luitjens told of her experiences in the publishing industry to a room full of future business leaders on Wednesday evening at the Rockefeller Center.

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Lafsky '00 reveals herself as controversial blogger

By Stuart A. Reid | January 26, 2006

When Melissa Lafsky '00 wrote her first weblog entry on March 14, 2005, she had no idea that less than a year later she would quit her job at a law firm, receive threatening e-mails and begin writing a book based on her experience as a 27-year-old associate lawyer.

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Police Blotter

January 26, 2006

Jan. 18, North Main Street, 9:10 a.m. Safety and Security reported to Hanover Police that an unwelcome man was in Robinson Hall.

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