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Rolling coed rush period kicks off Thursday

By Jennifer Garfinkel | October 18, 2005

Although fall rush is over for campus fraternities and sororities, coed rush is just getting underway with The Tabard and Phi Tau coed fraternities beginning their rolling rush processes and Alpha Theta holding two nights of rush on Oct.

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Torture debate marked by protest from history prof.

By Astrid Bradley | October 18, 2005

Attendees at a Monday discussion about whether torturing wartime prisoners is justified ran into protestors at the door of Filene Auditorium who argued that the subject should not be up for debate. History professor Ronald Edsforth organized the protests and distributed handouts at the door detailing his position. "Should we Americans be debating whether our government should be civilized or barbarian?

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Fly-In introduces Am. Indians to College

By Marina Agapakis | October 17, 2005

The annual Native-American Fly-In and Dartmouth Bound visitation programs took place last week as part of Dartmouth's recruitment effort for minority students. Forty-eight American Indian high school seniors, representing 31 different American Indian nations from 42 states and two Canadian provinces, traveled to campus last Thursday for the annual Native-American Fly-In program. The four-day program, which was first organized in the late 1970s, provides talented American Indian high school seniors with the opportunity to learn about the College firsthand. Students took part in a number of information sessions, admissions interviews and social events to acquaint them with the campus in general as well as with the American Indian community at Dartmouth. "The Fly-In gave me a chance to see campus, sit in on classes and meet students and professors," said Dulce Shultz '09, who participated in the Fly-In program last fall.

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Thompson leads off bioethics conf.

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | October 17, 2005

As the United States' war on terrorism continues, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson urged Dartmouth faculty, students and community members to support medical diplomacy as an additional way to combat terrorism and improve global heath. Thompson's speech kicks off a campus-wide symposium on global bioethics that includes a movie, lectures and workshops designed to create a framework for other groups around the country to follow. "Our goal is that Mr. Thompson's speech will set the tone for a two-day conference that will tackle some of the thorniest issues facing the medical community, politicians and bioethicists," said Aine Donovan, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics. Thompson, the highest ranking United States health-care official from 2001 to 2005, proclaimed himself a "recovering public servant" citing parking tickets and actually driving a car rather than being chauffeured. The Department of Health and Human Services employs over 67,000 people and spends 23 cents out of every federal dollar.

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Sororities offer 267 bids after week-long rush

By Hillary Wool | October 17, 2005

Women gathered in Collis Thursday evening to hear the results of the week-long sorority rush process, with 267 women receiving bids to enter one of the College's six sororities. The number of new sorority pledges this fall is similar to the number who received bids last fall but higher than those of previous years, when sorority rush was held during Winter and Spring terms. Alpha Xi Delta sorority offered 39 bids; Delta Delta Delta sorority, 49; Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, 31; Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, 49; Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, 49; and Sigma Delta sorority, 49, according to Zobeida Torres '06, the Panhellenic Council's vice president for recruitment. Rushees met with their recruitment counselors on Thursday to find out which house invited them back for bid night.

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College hurricane relief efforts focus on Biloxi

By Rebekah Rombom | October 17, 2005

After a week-long visit to Biloxi, Miss., one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, Tucker Foundation Dean Stuart Lord and Katrina Help student coordinator Nick Taranto '06 have devised a plan to offer support and relief to the community over a two-year period. "This is not a one-time fix," Lord said.

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Alums capture youth voice in Young Americans Project trip

By Sam Rendall | October 14, 2005

Adam White '05, Matt Heineman '05 and Ben Grinnell '05 are on the road to exploring America's future. The three recent Dartmouth graduates have joined with Boston College senior Matt Wiggins to capture the voice of the nation's youth through a three-month recreational vehicle ride across all 48 continental states.

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Grad. schools co-host own career fair

By Christine Paquin | October 14, 2005

An array of 48 prominent companies from Burton Snowboards to Microsoft will be on campus Friday to recruit Dartmouth students during the Ninth Annual Engineering and Technology Career Fair. The fair, co-hosted by the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business, provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing careers in science and technology to get a sense of their career options. E.

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Fick '99 pens autobiography on Iraq, Afghanistan experience

By Matt Beale | October 14, 2005

On March 19, 2003, while Dartmouth students were enjoying their spring breaks, Nathaniel Fick '99 was crossing the Kuwaiti border in the dead of night, leading his elite Marine Corps special forces unit into Iraq. Fick, who also served in Afghanistan as part of the Marines' special operations force, published a book, "One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer," in October covering his training and his combat service.

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Vermont professor to lecture on finding balance

By Julie Glasgow | October 14, 2005

Students overwhelmed by their hectic and pressure-packed schedules can find advice on how to manage their lives Saturday at a conference entitled, "Finding Balance: Leadership, Spirituality and Health" to be held in Collis Commonground. Organized by a committee of Dartmouth students and faculty, this weekend's conference has already created quite a buzz on campus.

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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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