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Changes in store for College Greens

By Madhavi Menon | September 28, 2005

The Dartmouth College Greens, a nonpartisan student activism organization, is undergoing several changes this term beginning with a new name. The group voted in a meeting Sunday night to change its name to the Dartmouth College Progressives now that they are no longer affiliated with the national Green Party. Progressives members said the new name will allow the organization to better disseminate its messages. "We are looking to recruit, expand and become generally more effective.

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College adds eight endowed chairs

By Gus Lûbin | September 28, 2005

Dartmouth recently rewarded eight professors at the College with appointments to endowed chair positions. The endowed chairs, which range in their origins from the 19th century to the past year, are intended to recognize excellent and active professors and to provide money for their further research. "[Endowed chair positions] allow us to honor the individual accomplishments of our faculty and to publicly celebrate the creativity and innovation their life's work brings to our students, our curriculum and to broader public," Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt said. The recent appointments include the creation of a new endowed chair, the Charles Hansen Professorship, which was given to history professor David Lagomarsino to acknowledge teaching and the advancement of liberal education. Lagomarsino said he uses his research to inform his teaching. "Not only does research keep teaching alive, but I've found teaching helps research," Lagomarsino said. The Charles Hansen professorship is one of 25 endowed chairs that will be funded by the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience. The capital campaign, which is designed to preserve and improve a Dartmouth education, is focusing on the creation of endowed chairs as a way to distribute professors among popular and new fields, said Carrie Pelzel, the College's vice president of development. "A reason we have endowed chairs is so that we can address new and emerging disciplines and make sure that a Dartmouth education is one that is always a response to emerging fields," Pelzel said. Among the appointments, the College promoted a creative writing professor to an endowed chair for the first time in the College's history. Cleopatra Mathis is the new Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 professorship in the art of writing, which was created in 1989. Mathis, the author of five books of poetry, recognized the appointment as a boost of confidence in her writing and a position that will give her money and opportunities to write in the future. "The funding will allow me to go to places where I would like to go to write," Mathis said.

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Alcohol use, smoking linked to parents

By Ashley Zuzek | September 27, 2005

Children may form their perceptions about alcohol and tobacco use before they ever encounter peer pressure at school, a new Dartmouth Medical School study suggests. According to the study, conducted by Dartmouth Medical School pediatrics professor Madeline Dalton, childhood attitudes toward alcohol and tobacco are directly correlated with parental use of these substances. Dalton, who has been involved in tobacco prevention for ten years, oversaw the structured observation of 120 children, ages two to six, whom she asked to purchase items for a simulated dinner party from a mock grocery store.

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Police charge second man with murder of '07

By Phil Salinger | September 27, 2005

Police arrested Christopher Hollis, the second man charged in the murder of Dartmouth student Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, after a Friday night traffic stop in Fresno, Calif. According to Fresno Police reports, Hollis initially gave officers a false name when his car was pulled over under suspicion of a hit and run.

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Comic offends some, adds fuel to debate over religion

By Gus Lûbin | September 27, 2005

Debates over the place of religion in campus and community discourse continued Monday evening as the Navigators Christian Fellowship at Dartmouth discussed a recent comic strip caricature of Jesus. The caricature, which Paul Heintz '06 drew as part of his "Guy and Fellow" comic strip in The Dartmouth, portrayed Jesus as a marijuana smoker and Student Body President Noah Riner '06 as a crusading theocrat in the wake of his Convocation speech. Riner's numerous invocations of Jesus during his Convocation remarks bewildered and offended some members of the Class of 2009 and prompted the resignation of a high-ranking Student Assembly official. In a routine meeting Monday, Navigators officers responded to Heintz's comic.

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Gazzaniga to leave for UCSB

By Elise Waxenberg | September 27, 2005

Michael Gazzaniga, one of Dartmouth's most renowned faculty members, will leave the College at the end of Fall term for a full-time professorship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Gazzaniga, who is widely regarded as the father of the cognitive neuroscience field, will join UCSB's psychology department in the winter and head up a new interdisciplinary center for the study of the mind, UCSB psychology department chair James Blascovich said. Currently the David T.

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Lecture series examines religion, politics

By Christine Paquin | September 27, 2005

As faith occupies an increasingly high profile part of public life, academic disciplines at the College are coming together to sponsor a new lecture series on on religion as politics as part of the Dartmouth Centers Forum. Aine Donovan, executive director of the Dartmouth Ethics Institute, one of six interdisciplinary centers involved in the forum, said the topic for this year's events came out of the last presidential campaign. "The idea of religion and politics as this year's topic was conceived during the 2004 election when Howard Dean was visiting campus as the Rockefeller Center's Class of 1930 Distinguished Fellow," Donovan said. Campus discussion surrounding the speech Student Body President Noah Riner '06 delivered at this year's Convocation exercises has made the topic even more relevant, Donovan added. "The recent Riner controversy has served as a great impetus for the whole discussion of religion's role in politics," she said.

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Disparate enrollment threatens some courses

By Gus Lûbin | September 26, 2005

If just one more student drops Geography 49, "The Nation and its Others: France, the Jews and the Muslims," the class will be cancelled. While new and obscure courses already draw few students, Geography 49 has also suffered from being omitted from the College's course catalog and, until the end of the summer, from its Internet course listing.

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Former College provost advises 'scholarly temperament'

By Sam Rendall | September 26, 2005

Returning to Hanover Friday afternoon, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger addressed a crowd of 100 in Filene Auditorium on the role of academic freedom in higher education. Bollinger, this fall's Dorsett Fellow at Dartmouth's Ethics Institute, emphasized the need for constant reassessment in the world of scholarship. "What is worth knowing should constantly be under review," he said. Bollinger's career has seen its share of controversy.

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Class officers consider merger of alumni groups

By Stuart A. Reid | September 26, 2005

Over 300 officers, hailing from Class of 1929 through the Class of 2005, attended last weekend's Class Officers Weekend, an event aimed at educating new officers, sharing techniques and energizing the classes. The Alumni Governance Task Force also proposed changes this weekend that would make the Alumni Association more egalitarian, it said in a statement it released. "Currently there are two alumni governing bodies: the Alumni Association and the Alumni Council," Rex Morey '99, assistant director of young alumni and student programs, said.

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Garrott to head Aquinas House

By Stuart A. Reid | September 23, 2005

The walls at Aquinas House, the College's Catholic student organization, could soon reverberate with the music of a guitar-playing priest as Father William Garrott assumes the center's directorship. Garrott, who was ordained in 1994, received his master's degree in theology from the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome and spent time as an associate professor in Ohio. Most recently, Garrott worked as director of vocations at the Order of Preachers in Washington, D.C., where he recruited young men interested in becoming Dominican brothers and priests. At Dartmouth, Garrott's responsibilities include saying mass, meeting with students and organizing Aquinas House activities.

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Katrina devastates students' homes

By Rebekah Rombom | September 23, 2005

Over three weeks ago, the winds of Hurricane Katrina poked holes in the tile roof over the house where Veronica Jones '06 and her family had decided to wait out the storm. The day after the worst weather subsided, the levees that held back Lake Pontchartrain broke, sending floods nine feet high into senior Anton Hasenkampf's neighborhood.

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Fifteen finish cross-country biodiesel bus trip

By Jessica Peet | September 23, 2005

As Americans shuddered at fast rising gas prices this summer, 15 Dartmouth students traveled 10,000 miles across the nation and back promoting environmentally friendly transportation in the Big Green Bus, a 37-foot vehicle fueled almost entirely by vegetable oil. After the group completed each day's journey, they met up with Dartmouth alumni, ultimate frisbee players and family friends who hosted the group overnight. The seven members of the group who were approved to drive the bus divided the journeys to their next destinations, which ranged from two or three hour stretches to the overnight journey from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to Seattle. The bus ran primarily on vegetable oil, the same liquid used to fry eggs at the Hopkins Center's Courtyard Cafe, but it also used diesel fuel, or the more environmentally friendly biodiesel fuel, to heat the engine.

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SA committee chair resigns after contentious speech

By Elise Waxenberg | September 23, 2005

One day after Student Body President Noah Riner '06 delivered a controversial Convocation speech invoking Jesus, the Student Assembly's Vice President for Student Life Kaelin Goulet '07 severed all ties with the organization. Goulet, a Riner appointee, announced her resignation Thursday to several other Assembly executives. "I consider his choice of topic for the Convocation speech reprehensible and an abuse of power," Goulet wrote in a BlitzMail message obtained by The Dartmouth, to which she attached the text of her resignation letter. "Your first opportunity to represent Student Assembly to the incoming freshmen was appalling," Goulet wrote to Riner.

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Wilson to plead not guilty in Willis-Starbuck murder

By Phil Salinger | September 23, 2005

Christopher Wilson, the 20-year-old California resident accused of murdering Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, postponed entering a plea on the charge of homicide when he was arraigned last week in Hayward, Calif. Wilson, a friend of the slain Dartmouth junior, has been released on $326,000 bail and is due back at Alameda County Superior Court on Oct.

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Riner lays out plans for SA, defends Convocation speech

By Elise Waxenberg | September 22, 2005

The Student Assembly will concentrate on reducing class sizes, soliciting student concerns and assisting campus groups this year, Student Body President Noah Riner '06 said Wednesday in an interview with The Dartmouth. Riner, whose controversial address at Tuesday's Convocation exercises included repeated references to Jesus, said the speech had nothing to do with his agenda for the Student Assembly but was intended to get students thinking and talking about character. "I realize that I have a very specific perspective on the issue of character," Riner said.

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