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College adds $30,000 to club sports budget

By Katy O'Donnell | October 14, 2005

Dartmouth will nearly double its institutional support for club sports teams this year with the addition of $30,000 to the club sports budget, Dean of the College James Larimore announced Thursday. College President James Wright decided to allot the $30,000 from his discretionary budget as a short-term solution to the club sports funding problem.

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Profs. debate virtue of masculinity in society

By Zach Swiss | October 13, 2005

A tame debate turned controversial Wednesday night when current politics entered the arena as Harvard University government professor Harvey Mansfield and Dartmouth College English professor Peter Travis faced off about manliness in a free society. Travis listed elected Democrats who had served in the armed forces and contrasted them with a list of elected Republicans who had not before he posed the first politically charged question of the evening. "What kind of manliness is being displayed by our political leaders, party by party?" Travis asked Mansfield. In response, Mansfield criticized Democrats for being wrapped up in contradictions.

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Dartmouth senior interns at conservative think tank

By Christine Paquin | October 13, 2005

Lively debate, political buzz, intellectual growth -- words usually associated with the academic year rather than an off term -- characterized this past summer for Scott Glabe '06. Along with 63 other college students, Glabe interned at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

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Rushees anxiously await sorority bids

By Hillary Wool | October 13, 2005

Pledge terms are underway for sophomore men who sank their fraternity bids this past weekend, but sophomore women, who completed the rush process with preference night on Tuesday, still anxiously await their sorority assignments. Recruitment counselors will meet with their rushees Thursday evening to present them with their sorority bids just hours before the new members attend their respective houses for bid night. After two rounds of rush, the six sororities presented preference night invitations to 265 rushees.

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SA funds walkathon, plans mock standards hearing

By Katy O'Donnell | October 12, 2005

The Student Assembly announced Tuesday night that it will host a mock Committee on Standards hearing next Monday at the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity to educate students on the group's procedures should they ever be tried for standards violations. Members also passed a resolution to fund a hurricane walkathon and a proposal to fund the Assembly's Profiles in Excellence Teaching Awards.

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Colwell stresses unity in international cholera fight

By Ashley Zuzek | October 12, 2005

Montgomery Fellow Rita Colwell touted the importance of global cooperation and interdisciplinary sciences in the fight against cholera during a speech Tuesday in Filene Auditorium. Colwell is visiting Dartmouth through the Montgomery Endowment, which has brought a series of noted individuals to campus since 1977, including Bobby McFerrin and Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Baker. Colwell, the former director of the National Science Foundation, has made great strides in battling the cholera epidemic that rages throughout much of Africa and Asia.

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Levin analyzes Middle East psyches in Oslo Accords

By Katie Silberman | October 11, 2005

Combining psychiatric analysis with international relations, Dr. Kenneth Levin spoke about his new book analyzing Israeli psychological responses to the Palestinians in a Monday night speech sponsored by Chabad. Levin, a clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School and frequent commentator on Israeli politics, claimed that groups living under such stressful situations -- the "chronically besieged" -- often choose to accept even the most improbable offers of relief in hopes of ending their mistreatment. "The chronically besieged tend to embrace the indictments of their accusers in hopes that by accepting them, by reforming, they will escape their predicament," Levin said. The Oslo Accords, a series of agreements between Israel and Palestine in an attempt to end the Israeli-Arab conflict peacefully, were signed in 1993.

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Alexander defends free speech

By Amanda Cohen | October 11, 2005

Constitutional law professor and self-proclaimed "free-speech hawk" Lawrence Alexander questioned the inherent human right to freedom of speech in a lecture Monday sponsored by the Rockefeller Center. Alexander's talk described his struggle to reconcile the need for limited free speech with the benefits of open expression, themes he explores in his new book, "Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?" While conducting research for his book, Alexander said he concluded that he was unable to substantiate any of the already existing and widely accepted theories that justify freedom of speech as a human right.

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College, town team up to clean Occom

By Madhavi Menon | October 11, 2005

The summer stench of Occom Pond will soon be a thing of the past, as the College and town of Hanover are undertaking a new initiative to improve the pond's water quality. According to flow tests and core samples conducted over the last 25 years, the pond's water contains high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous.

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Fraternities give bids to sophomores

By Jennifer Garfinkel | October 11, 2005

Dartmouth fraternities finished their third and final evening of rush Monday, with sophomores sinking bids in numbers comparable to last fall's. This year marks the second year in recent memory that fraternities have held rush events during Fall term.

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Willis-Starbuck '07 remembered by friends

By Astrid Bradley | October 11, 2005

Students, faculty and staff gathered Monday to remember and celebrate the life of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, who was murdered in Berkeley, Calif., this summer. Purple and pink balloons declaring "Happy Birthday!" decorated the chapel while Freddie Jackson's "You Are My Lady" played in the background during what would have been Willis-Starbuck's 20th birthday. Dean of the Tucker Foundation Stuart Lord opened the event and explained its purpose. "We ask questions like, 'Why?

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Riner discusses convocation speech on national radio

By Katie Silberman | October 10, 2005

Laura Ingraham '85, a conservative political analyst and host of the country's sixth-most popular radio show, brought Student Body President Noah Riner '06, Dartmouth Review editors Michael Ellis '06 and Scott Glabe '06 onto her nationally-syndicated radio talk show Friday to discuss the controversy surrounding Riner's now-infamous convocation speech. Ingraham, who served as editor-in-chief of the Review from 1984 to 1985, invited the three seniors to discuss the speech during a segment entitled "Dartmouth Student Body President Gets in Trouble for Mentioning Jesus in a Speech." Ingraham asked Riner, Ellis and Glabe about the current political and academic climate at the College and the speech's reverberations throughout the Dartmouth community.

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ORL turns on heat as scheduled

By Jessica Peet | October 10, 2005

Despite high oil costs and a week of high temperatures, the Office of Residential Life turned on the heat in College buildings over the course of the weekend.

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NH already anticipating flurry of 2008 presidential primary

By Stuart A. Reid | October 10, 2005

With recent visits from Sen. Russ Feingold and former Rep. Newt Gingrich, Hanover is already feeling the anticipation of the 2008 presidential primary, even though it is still more than two years away. Assuming Vice President Dick Cheney sticks to his former statements and does not run, 2008 will be the first time since 1952 that the incumbent party has put forth a candidate who is neither the president nor vice president. Government professor Linda Fowler, who studies the New Hampshire primary, explained why both politicians and the media lend importance to the state's first-in-the-nation primary. "It's the first test of how a campaign's message resonates with the electorate," Fowler said.

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Athletes face limited D-Plan options

By Hannah Plotkin | October 10, 2005

Charlie Stoebe '08 has no one to hang out with. Stoebe, who runs on Dartmouth's track team, is currently at home in Westport, Conn., while the vast majority of his friends are on campus taking classes. "I'm in season during both Winter and Spring terms, so right away those two are out," he said of choosing a leave term. "I guess it's possible to petition and take off sophomore summer, but that's a huge part of the Dartmouth experience, and it's supposed to be a great time, so who would want to skip that?" Stoebe is not alone in his predicament; many athletes find themselves choosing their Dartmouth Plans around their teams.

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