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Theme parties highlight weekend

By Katie Silberman | October 21, 2005

Forget football or the bonfire -- students across campus are anxiously awaiting the abundance of parties that accompany the four-day-long Homecoming celebration. In a week steeped in school spirit and excitement, the anticipation of coming parties often overshadows that of sporting events. Tabard's Disco-themed party and Sigma Nu's "Early '80s" party are arguably the two most popular festivities of the week.

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College boosts bonfire precautions

By Elliot Mattingly | October 21, 2005

While the much-famed Homecoming bonfire may look like an insurer's nightmare, the College carefully orchestrates the seemingly chaotic event. This year's bonfire safety and insurance situation is virtually identical to that of last year.

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Homecoming traditions: sprinting, parties, fire, football

By Samantha Ackah | October 21, 2005

Fall term's biggest weekend has arrived and the College will play host to a football game against Columbia University as well as the traditional bonfire as part of this year's Homecoming celebrations. While parties are already underway, the main focus of Homecoming will be Friday evening's bonfire.

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Greek houses expect alumni to return for weekend reunions

By Matthew Abbott | October 21, 2005

With an influx of alumni returning to Hanover for the Homecoming festivities, Greek houses are busy preparing reunions for their members who will be in town. Chi Heorot fraternity plans on having a post-football game reception at their house that usually draws about 40 alumni, according to Heorot president Schafer Boeder '06. In addition, Heorot will host the Class of 1970 tent on their lawn from 10 a.m.

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Alumni recall past Homecomings with fondness, nostalgia

By Dan Duray | October 21, 2005

Though Dartmouth students often can't remember portions of their Homecoming weekend, most alumni find the experience hard to forget. For many, it is the bonfire that spurns the fondest memories. "Its legacy over the years and each class' individual memory of building it, guarding it, making friends around it is wonderful," Julie Cillo '92 said.

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Keggy the Keg pumped for weekend

By Zach Swiss | October 21, 2005

Best known on campus as Dartmouth's unofficial mascot, Keggy the Keg is truly much more. Behind the green stockings, bulging eyes and silver paint lies a true Dartmouth role-model. Few on campus have more school spirit than Keggy the Keg, who is portrayed by Andrew Argeski '06. "It's good to raise support for the teams that are playing and to get people to come to the games," he said. Argeski, who has portrayed Keggy since his induction as the unofficial mascot in 2003, will once again don the Keggy costume this year.

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Minority Greeks recruit new members

By Matt Beale | October 20, 2005

Though rush is over for most fraternities and sororities, the process of inducting new members is still proceeding under the radar screen for some minority Greek organizations. Alpha Phi Alpha, Dartmouth's traditionally African-American fraternity "does not mirror the school's traditional rush process," Alpha President Tramaine Tyson '06. The Alphas do not offer bids or recruit new members, though they do offer periodic informational sessions.

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Library partners with Google Scholar

By Marina Agapakis | October 20, 2005

The Dartmouth College Library recently announced a partnership with Google Scholar, one of the newest Google innovations in web research. The new division of Google provides a simple way to simultaneously search various sources for scholarly literature.

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Fellow speaks on power of creativity

By Ashley Zuzek | October 20, 2005

Oliver Sacks, the acclaimed author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat," spoke to an enthusiastic crowd in Moore Theater Wednesday. The speech, entitled "Creativity and the Brain," was sponsored by the Montgomery Endowment. "There are innumerable sorts of creativity," Sacks said as he listed perceptual, natural, individual and communal creativity, along with "creative driving" and "creative cooking," as examples. Sacks emphasized that creativity provides inspiration to all people. "Creativity is universal," Sacks said.

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COSO slashes funds for student orgs.

By Katie Silberman | October 20, 2005

The Mock Trial team, traditionally a well funded student organization, is resorting to alternative fundraising means this fall after receiving a smaller budget than it anticipated from the Council on Student Organizations. Last Saturday, members of the nationally ranked team sold peanut butter and jelly sandwiches outside of the Rockefeller Center to raise money so they could attend national competitions throughout the year. In past years, Mock Trial has asked for and received up to $10,000 from COSO, the group charged with recognizing undergraduate student clubs and allocating funds to them.

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Edwards to address poverty Fri.

By Gus Lûbin | October 20, 2005

Former Senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards will launch his Opportunity Rocks program at Dartmouth with a speech in Collis Commonground on Friday morning. Edward's visit to Dartmouth will be the fifth stop of his Opportunity Rocks College Tour, a whirlwind tour through 10 college campuses across America intended to inspire student activism in the fight against poverty. The tour represents a milestone and a takeoff point for student groups at the 10 schools that have and will continue to work with the former senator in organizing student volunteering and activism in their local communities. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Edwards described the importance and the potential of a student-led movement against poverty. "We have a window of opportunity after Katrina where people are paying attention to poverty, but that won't stay open unless we keep it open, unless we drive it open.

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Diamond predicts lasting obstacles to Iraqi sovereignty

By Matthew Abbott | October 19, 2005

The chances for long-term stability and a successful transition to democracy in Iraq may not be as encouraging as some officials are leading the public to believe, Hoover Institution senior fellow Larry Diamond said in a speech Tuesday. Diamond is also a professor at Stanford University.

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Seniors rush to meet second resume deadline

By Madhavi Menon | October 19, 2005

Many seniors are scrambling to complete cover letters by Wednesday in time to meet the second and final major resume-drop deadline of the term Thursday morning at 2:59 a.m. The resume drop is a chance for students at the College to submit materials through InterviewTrak, an online database of employers, in hopes of receiving interviews for entry-level jobs. The first resume drop deadline occurred on Oct.

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Police Blotter

October 19, 2005

Oct. 11, Lyme Road, 3:17 p.m. Police arrested Jacqueline Carter, a 22-year-old West Lebanon resident, for allegedly being an accomplice to a theft committed in Hanover on or about Sept.

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