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Advocates highlight local food possibilities

By Kevin Garland | May 3, 2005

This year's first-annual Local Foods Week highlights Dartmouth's environmentally-conscious reputation with an effort to create awareness about local food options at Dartmouth Dining Services. Working under the local non-profit organization Vital Communities, the Local Food Week hopes to educate students about Valley Food and Farm's efforts to bring more locally grown products to DDS. The Vital Communities effort has already met with some success.

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Hanover maintains ties to sister towns

By Dan Duray | May 2, 2005

While a large city like New York has sister metropolises such as Cairo and London, the "Welcome to Hanover" sign displays two inconspicuous flags in reverence of its little-known sister, or "twin," towns of Joigny, France, and Nihonmatsu, Japan. Hanover developed relations with its sister cities in the 1990s for the purpose of fostering cultural exchange, and spends $2,000 per city each year to maintain friendly contacts. "It's been a rich relationship for the town of Hanover," Town Manager Julia Griffin said, "and by rich I mean culturally rich." Hanover and Joigny were joined in a "twining ceremony" in 1993, largely due to a close relationship formed by the Hanover-Joigny Exchange Program, which was established in 1990 by local residents to promote student travel between the cities.

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'Unspoken rule' obstructs faculty-student dating

By Jacques P. Hebert | April 29, 2005

Dartmouth undergraduates seeking age and maturity in an on-campus romantic partner are in luck. Though the Dartmouth student dating pool has disappointed some, the College currently maintains no written policy prohibiting students from dating members of the faculty. While student-faculty dating at Dartmouth has not created enough attention to necessitate an official policy, several other peer academic institutions have recently instated guidelines as a result of specific instances. However, a feeling of uncertainty and confusion envelops the issue, leaving students and members of the faculty unsure of what the boundaries are. Director of the Ethics Institute Aine Donovan stressed that maintaining professionalism and a sense of community is important in consideringwhether professors should be allowed to date students. "As a community, we try to counsel professionals that may be entering into areas of embarrassment," she said. While no official written guidelines exist, an unspoken rule bars professors from having an amorous relationship with students in their class.

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Alcohol screening day draws record numbers

By John Mitchell | April 27, 2005

Tuesday's alcohol screening day at Dartmouth broke the previous year's record for number screened, but some students may have flocked to Collis Commonground in pursuit of free Nalgene bottles rather than for health reasons. Students waited in lines that rivaled those at fraternity basement bars in anticipation of receiving one of 800 Nalgenes. The focus of alcohol screening day's advertising efforts, the popular bottles were snapped up before the screening ended. This year's mix-and-match Nalgenes featured a slogan stating that 73 percent of Dartmouth students eat food before they drink, according to a 2003 Health survey. "We're hoping to help students learn something about their relationship with alcohol," said Ryan Travia, coordinator for alcohol and other drug education programs. The event consisted of a brief multiple-choice test, followed by a short interview with a counselor and some recommendations about how to party safely. Last year, Dartmouth's screening process gained national recognition as a top program. While the number of students participating in the screening process has risen, Travia said that in past years alcohol-counseling offices on campus have not seen a significant rise in appointments after alcohol screening day. Some students told The Dartmouth they skewed their responses to avoid the recommended counseling that accompanied high scores. "Well, I would have been completely honest if I wanted to listen to the counselor talk to me for 20 minutes about how to not participate in the Dartmouth social scene," Trak Lord '08 said. Still, counselors were pleased with the turnout, whatever students' motives may have been. "I've been encouraged by the fact that people are considering their drinking habits," said Bryant Ford, a counselor at Dick's House who evaluates the questionnaires and helped organize the event. "This is our biggest event of the year.

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Globe editor explores coverage of religion

By Kevin Garland | April 27, 2005

In a short lecture followed by a question-and-answer session Tuesday afternoon, Deputy Foreign Editor of The Boston Globe Richard Chacn questioned the media's incomplete coverage of religion in the United States and abroad. Chacn said he believes the media has not covered the growing importance of religion in world affairs accurately, choosing to focus on flash-bulb events and the extremes of the religious right and secular fundamentalism instead of the presence of faith in everyday life.

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