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Alums return, remember Green Key

By Jennifer Garfinkel | May 13, 2005

When students leave Dartmouth College, they take many memories of Green Key weekends with them -- fraternity barbecues with live bands and dancing as well as afternoons on the Green spent lounging on the newly sprouting grass.

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Spinto headlines AD lawn party

By Kelsey Blodget | May 13, 2005

On Saturday afternoon, students will flock to the famed Alpha Delta lawn party, where they will revel in the flow of Keystone, the laid-back, musical atmosphere and the company of 500 of their closest friends. "Historically it's been the biggest party of Green Key," AD President Griffin Gordon '06 said. The lawn party has gained popularity with good reason.

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Tuck student markets flesh-flavored tofu on website

By Dan Duray | May 12, 2005

According to Mark Nuckols Tu'06, humans do not taste anything like chicken. The founder and CEO of Hufu, LLC -- the company that produces hufu, a type of tofu that simulates the texture and flavor of human flesh -- claims that his company's product "tastes like beef but a little softer in texture and a little sweeter in taste." "I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh," Nuckols said.

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Robinson, Zywicki win trustee election

By Stuart A. Reid | May 12, 2005

WEB UPDATE, May 12, 6:03 p.m. Petition candidates Todd Zywicki '88 and Peter Robinson '79 won this year's trustee election, the College announced early Thursday evening, defeating four Alumni Council nominees.

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Kresge gives $1 mil. for math building

By Kelsey Blodget | May 12, 2005

For College fundraisers, April Fool's Day was no joke. The Kresge Foundation, a private grant-giving organization, promised to reward the College with a whopping $1 million challenge grant toward the construction of new math department home Kemeny Hall if it could raise $10.6 million by April 1. Fifteen months of mailings, student calls from Greencorps and advertisements in the Alumni Magazine paid off in grand fashion, with alumni gifts rolling in at $10.7 million on time to meet the Kresge Challenge. The 60,000 square-foot Kemeny Hall, under construction north of Baker-Berry Library, will reunite the math department, previously split between Sudikoff, the Choate House and Bradley Hall.

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Communal bike program debuts

By Kevin Garland | May 11, 2005

Student Assembly launched a new public bicycle program Monday, casting away the days of bright green, ineffective bikes and introducing high-handled black beauties and a revamped circulation program.

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SA budget increases $10K for next year

By AnnMary Mathew | May 11, 2005

Student Assembly President Julia Hildreth '05 announced an Assembly budget of $90,000 for next year at the organization's weekly meeting on Tuesday. "It's a significant increase from last year," Hildreth said.

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Free speech org. lauds College policies

By Rebekah Rombom | May 10, 2005

David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said yesterday that the organization would improve Dartmouth's free speech rating from a poor "red light" to the highest rating, a "green light." FIRE, a self-declared watchdog group that rates and advocates for free speech on campus, accords its highest ranking to 25 to 30 percent of colleges and universities nationwide, according to French.

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EPAC advises nixing most BlitzMail regs

By Elise Waxenberg | May 10, 2005

With this season's intense student body presidential elections two weeks behind them, election officials sat down Friday to come up with recommendations for next year's student-run Elections Planning and Advisory Committee.

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Profs debate Social Security policy

By Stuart A. Reid | May 10, 2005

Trading statistics and one-liners, economics professor Andrew Samwick and government professor Jeff Smith faced off in an insightful and nonconfrontational debate over Social Security Monday evening in the Rockefeller Center.

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Princeton undergrads speak up for filibuster

By Rebekah Rombom | May 9, 2005

For the past 13 days, Princeton University has become the center of national political controversy, as a group of students have staged a filibuster of sorts outside the university's Frist student center. The students, faculty and other supporters are protesting against the proposal of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to invoke the so-called nuclear option, which would prevent members of the Senate from using the filibuster to block the President's judicial nominees.

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Web law library adds DCUJL to offerings

By Stuart A. Reid | May 9, 2005

Law students around the world will be able to bolster their arguments by citing Dartmouth students many years their junior after an online law review website decided to include the Dartmouth College Undergraduate Journal of Law in its database.

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Business, med. school apps decline this year

By Matthew Abbott | May 9, 2005

Dartmouth undergraduates applying to business or medical school will face a more forgiving admissions landscape next year, according to Justin Serrano, vice president at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. Part of the reason for higher admissions rates is that fewer undergraduates are applying to business school. Seventy-five percent of business schools saw their applicants drop this year from the 2003-2004 admissions cycle.

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Admissions yield tops 50 percent

By John Mitchell | May 9, 2005

Despite a much larger and more competitive applicant pool for the Class of 2009 and a record-low acceptance rate, the College received good news when student decision letters arrived last week.

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