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Military welcomed despite some nat'l debate

By Elliot Mattingly | November 4, 2005

First Lieutenant Tony King of the U.S. Marine Corps found even the doors to Thayer Dining Hall open to him this week when he set up a table there to speak to students about opportunities in the Marines. "We've had a lot of success with Dartmouth in the past," he said.

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Streaming media hits the classroom

By Matt Beale | November 4, 2005

Lotus Subhapholsiri '06 had to miss her Engineering Sciences 13 class when she came down with a respiratory infection Thursday, but she will be able to watch streaming videos of the lectures she missed on the course's website as she recovers this weekend. "I think it is a great idea -- just because I can review notes really effectively," Subhapholsiri said. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in classes like Engineering Sciences 13 despite concerns about whether it affects class attendance or gets in the way of a traditional liberal arts education. English professor Tom Luxon directs the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, which helps professors use digital technology.

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Merkel preaches sustainability

By Christine Paquin | November 4, 2005

Armed with reusable cloth napkins and an environmental cause, students flooded Collis Commonground Thursday to hear James Merkel, the College's sustainability director, pitch his plan to transform campus into a model of conservation and effective resource management. Merkel's role is designed to coordinate sustainability efforts and maximize sustainability awareness on campus, he said. A former military engineer who changed careers after witnessing the horror of the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill, Merkel will be working in conjunction with a new student-run organization entitled Sustainable Dartmouth.

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Alum and former clerk praises Alito

By Dan Duray | November 4, 2005

It didn't take long for James Killmond '87, who clerked for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, to notice the judge's dedication to precedent, a quality Killmond said makes Alito an excellent choice for the Supreme Court. Killmond worked for Alito from 1999 to 2000 while the judge sat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. "Judges are bound and have to obey precedent set by the Supreme Court and federal laws passed by the Congress," Killmond said, noting that Alito's 15-year record demonstrates his respect for this responsibility. "I think that if you read these cases, it's pretty clear that here's a person who's honestly and fairly engaging the existing law to make these decisions.

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Alum's jewelry hits Barney's, Vogue

By Rebekah Rombom | November 3, 2005

Local retailer JuliAna has only one pair of Lulu Frost earrings left. The dangly, gold-toned creations consisting of buttons and chain links were hand-made by Lisa Salzer '04, a young designer who started selling antique-influenced jewelry to friends out of her apartment during her senior year at Dartmouth. Salzer's popularity has recently spread far beyond the Upper Valley.

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Hillel remembers Holocaust victims

By Gus Lûbin | November 3, 2005

Dartmouth Hillel premiered a 35-minute documentary about its spring 2005 service trip to Eastern Europe Wednesday night at Collis Commonground. The showing was part of a Holocaust-remembrance event put on by Hillel and the International Student Association that began Tuesday night with a talk by Israeli historian Michael Bar-Zohar. The documentary, "From One Generation to the Next: Remembering the Jews of Lunna," tells the tragic story of the Jewish population of the small village of Lunna, Poland (now Belarus), during World War II.

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Hubbard touts economic growth

By Stuart A. Reid | November 3, 2005

Top White House economic adviser Allan Hubbard gave an upbeat report on the current U.S. economy Wednesday evening at the Rockefeller Center, during which he expounded on the benefits of free-market policies and fielded questions from a rapt audience. Hubbard, who said he meets with the president four to five times per week, is the assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council, an organization that advises the president on domestic and global economic policy. "My goal is to convince you that free markets lead to the best economies possible and benefit everyone, and centrally controlled economies are really not helpful and result in virtually everyone being hurt," he said. Hubbard pointed to the growth in the gross domestic product and relatively low levels of unemployment as he presented a positive analysis of the American economy. "The American economy is quite, quite strong," he said. Making an argument for free-market economics, Hubbard compared the American economy to the economies of France and Germany, both of which have higher unemployment rates and slower economic growth.

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Health Services looks for new alcohol program coordinator

By Hannah Plotkin | November 3, 2005

Dartmouth's Health Services is searching for a coordinator of the alcohol and other drug education program, a position formerly held by Ryan Travia, who resigned in July to join the staff at Harvard University. The Alcohol and Other Drug Education Office serves as an informational resource for the Dartmouth community and initiates programming that encourages low-risk choices relating to substance use, according to the Health Services website. Bryant Ford, director of the substance abuse treatment team at Dick's House and the chair of the search, hopes to fill the coordinator position by Winter term, he said. After interviews, Ford invited the top three candidates back to campus to give presentations.

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Dartmouth researchers win $1.4-million defense grant

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | November 3, 2005

The United States Department of Defense recently awarded a $1.4-million grant to Dartmouth professors Celia Chen and Joseph Shaw of the biology department to study toxic metals in estuaries in the northeast portion of the country. The Strategic Environment Research and Development Program awards such grants in hopes of combatting high levels of pollution caused by the U.S.

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Police Blotter

November 2, 2005

Oct. 25, South Park Street, 2:38 p.m. An employee of the Hanover Food Co-op observed a 16-year-old boy drink a can of Arizona iced tea in the store and then hide the empty can on a shelf within the store without paying for it.

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John Chittick '70 discusses AIDS dangers at Phi Delt

By Matthew Abbott | November 2, 2005

HIV and AIDS activist Dr. John Chittick '70 is spreading his message of AIDS awareness and prevention in the Upper Valley this week as he meets students at Dartmouth and area high schools. Chittick, who spoke to Phi Delta Alpha fraternity Tuesday night, will speak to the Dartmouth community Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

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Nobel laureate examines junction of science, faith

By Ashley Zuzek | November 2, 2005

Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize winner and Yale University biology professor, emphasized the importance of valuing science in a faith-dominated society during a speech Tuesday in Moore Hall. Altman, who is on campus as a Montgomery fellow, discussed stem cell research and intelligent design, two topics he said were "inextricably tied with faith." Congress has avidly debated stem cell research, and many religious politicians argue that using embryos as a source of stem cells is destroying life, he said.

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Assembly backs Katrina relief with $7,000

By Katy O'Donnell | November 2, 2005

The Student Assembly unanimously passed a proposal Tuesday night to help fund the College's education and service corps trip to Biloxi, Miss., this winter. The Assembly also passed a resolution to establish a peer support system in the Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Office and heard remarks from a member of the figure skating team who is frustrated with the Athletic Department. The Biloxi proposal called for the allocation of $7,000 from the Assembly's budget to finance the production of a documentary video chronicling the trip and to partially finance food expenditures.

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Prescott to lead Sexual Abuse Awareness Program

By Astrid Bradley | November 1, 2005

Leah Prescott, the new coordinator of the College's sexual abuse awareness program, sees several ways to raise awareness for issues of sexual violence on campus, starting with a radio show dealing with the subject that will debut Tuesday night. The show, entitled "Eyes and Ears: Seeing Violence... Hearing Silence," will air Tuesdays from 4 to 6 p.m.

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Wright looks to hire more College faculty

By Elise Waxenberg | November 1, 2005

College President James Wright called for more arts and science faculty hires, lauded massive campus construction and announced a broad administrative review in his annual state of the College address to the faculty on Monday. Although Wright noted that the Tuck School of Business and the undergraduate programs have consistently ranked among the top institutions nationwide, he warned against expanding the College to compete in national rankings, which he said use measurements that put smaller schools like Dartmouth at a disadvantage. "We may not compete in size, but we can and do compete in quality, and our size is an advantage," Wright said. Although the size of both the student body and administration need to be limited, Wright said, expanding the faculty topped his list of priorities in the arts and sciences. "It is our ambition to hire only the best faculty, and indeed we continue to get our first choice of faculty in most searches," Wright said.

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Delany comments on gay life, AIDS

By Marina Agapakis | November 1, 2005

Award-winning science-fiction writer Samuel "Chip" Delany, who has been credited as one of the most influential figures in gay literature, discussed his own sexual gambles and the politics of AIDS studies during a provocative Monday afternoon speech. Delany delivered the speech, titled "Queer Thoughts and the Politics of Sex," as the sixth annual Stonewall Lecture in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.

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New Hampshire poet laureate resigns after moving to Vermont

By Zach Swiss | November 1, 2005

Cynthia Huntington did not resign last week amid threats of indictment or political scandal. Rather, the New Hampshire poet laureate just changed her address. Huntington, a Dartmouth English professor and former Hanover resident, said she believed that by moving to the town of Thetford, Vt., she was required to step down from her New Hampshire post. Huntington disagrees with articles from local papers, including the Concord Monitor, which wrote that there is no requirement that the poet laureate reside in New Hampshire. "I was informed otherwise," Huntington said.

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Sororities meet with house reps.

By Katie Silberman | October 31, 2005

Representatives from each of Dartmouth's three national sororities visited campus this weekend to establish relationships and strengthen the bonds with their chapters at the College. Two delegates each from Alpha Xi Delta sorority, Delta Delta Delta sorority and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority's executive offices came to the College on Friday to participate in the National Panhellenic Council summit, an event organized by the houses and the Office of Residential Life's coed fraternity and sorority department.

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Stephan dissects novels' appeal

By Zach Swiss | October 31, 2005

Alexander Stephan, professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar at the Ohio State University and senior fellow at the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security, discussed the blockbuster success and implications of the "Left Behind" Christian fiction series in a speech Thursday evening at the Rockefeller Center. "Left Behind," whose heroes come from Middle America to battle the anti-Christ and fend off imminent apocalypse, is the highest-selling Christian literary and movie series of all time. "[The series] outsells everything but Harry Potter," Stephan said. In response to its enormous popularity, "Left Behind" products have flooded the market.

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Halloween celebrations focus on service, not scares

By Jessica Peet | October 31, 2005

Instead of scaring people this Halloween, Dartmouth students are donning costumes, baking goods and more to help various community service organizations on campus. Last Friday, members of DREAM, an organization that mentors children from underprivileged communities, enlisted the aid of campus sororities and fraternities to help celebrate an early Halloween.

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