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Class officers consider merger of alumni groups

By Stuart A. Reid | September 26, 2005

Over 300 officers, hailing from Class of 1929 through the Class of 2005, attended last weekend's Class Officers Weekend, an event aimed at educating new officers, sharing techniques and energizing the classes. The Alumni Governance Task Force also proposed changes this weekend that would make the Alumni Association more egalitarian, it said in a statement it released. "Currently there are two alumni governing bodies: the Alumni Association and the Alumni Council," Rex Morey '99, assistant director of young alumni and student programs, said.

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Garrott to head Aquinas House

By Stuart A. Reid | September 23, 2005

The walls at Aquinas House, the College's Catholic student organization, could soon reverberate with the music of a guitar-playing priest as Father William Garrott assumes the center's directorship. Garrott, who was ordained in 1994, received his master's degree in theology from the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome and spent time as an associate professor in Ohio. Most recently, Garrott worked as director of vocations at the Order of Preachers in Washington, D.C., where he recruited young men interested in becoming Dominican brothers and priests. At Dartmouth, Garrott's responsibilities include saying mass, meeting with students and organizing Aquinas House activities.

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Katrina devastates students' homes

By Rebekah Rombom | September 23, 2005

Over three weeks ago, the winds of Hurricane Katrina poked holes in the tile roof over the house where Veronica Jones '06 and her family had decided to wait out the storm. The day after the worst weather subsided, the levees that held back Lake Pontchartrain broke, sending floods nine feet high into senior Anton Hasenkampf's neighborhood.

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Fifteen finish cross-country biodiesel bus trip

By Jessica Peet | September 23, 2005

As Americans shuddered at fast rising gas prices this summer, 15 Dartmouth students traveled 10,000 miles across the nation and back promoting environmentally friendly transportation in the Big Green Bus, a 37-foot vehicle fueled almost entirely by vegetable oil. After the group completed each day's journey, they met up with Dartmouth alumni, ultimate frisbee players and family friends who hosted the group overnight. The seven members of the group who were approved to drive the bus divided the journeys to their next destinations, which ranged from two or three hour stretches to the overnight journey from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to Seattle. The bus ran primarily on vegetable oil, the same liquid used to fry eggs at the Hopkins Center's Courtyard Cafe, but it also used diesel fuel, or the more environmentally friendly biodiesel fuel, to heat the engine.

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SA committee chair resigns after contentious speech

By Elise Waxenberg | September 23, 2005

One day after Student Body President Noah Riner '06 delivered a controversial Convocation speech invoking Jesus, the Student Assembly's Vice President for Student Life Kaelin Goulet '07 severed all ties with the organization. Goulet, a Riner appointee, announced her resignation Thursday to several other Assembly executives. "I consider his choice of topic for the Convocation speech reprehensible and an abuse of power," Goulet wrote in a BlitzMail message obtained by The Dartmouth, to which she attached the text of her resignation letter. "Your first opportunity to represent Student Assembly to the incoming freshmen was appalling," Goulet wrote to Riner.

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Wilson to plead not guilty in Willis-Starbuck murder

By Phil Salinger | September 23, 2005

Christopher Wilson, the 20-year-old California resident accused of murdering Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, postponed entering a plea on the charge of homicide when he was arraigned last week in Hayward, Calif. Wilson, a friend of the slain Dartmouth junior, has been released on $326,000 bail and is due back at Alameda County Superior Court on Oct.

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Riner lays out plans for SA, defends Convocation speech

By Elise Waxenberg | September 22, 2005

The Student Assembly will concentrate on reducing class sizes, soliciting student concerns and assisting campus groups this year, Student Body President Noah Riner '06 said Wednesday in an interview with The Dartmouth. Riner, whose controversial address at Tuesday's Convocation exercises included repeated references to Jesus, said the speech had nothing to do with his agenda for the Student Assembly but was intended to get students thinking and talking about character. "I realize that I have a very specific perspective on the issue of character," Riner said.

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Wheelock dominates text market

By Dan Duray | September 22, 2005

Despite the long lines that still reveal Wheelock Books' dominance over the Hanover textbook market, the new management at the Dartmouth Bookstore is trying to reestablish its reputation in the community and create a renewed competition between the two stores. According to John Cusick, who took over the role of manager when John Schiffman '62 purchased and renovated the Dartmouth Bookstore last summer, patronage to the store has increased significantly compared to last year. Cusick partially attributed the sales growth to more professors who were willing to share their book lists with the store this term. "There are still some who are not sharing their lists with us, but we're very appreciative of those who are, as are the students who now have the option of buying their books here," Cusick said.

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Police Blotter

By Phil Salinger | September 22, 2005

Aug. 22, Boathouse Road, 4:12 p.m. Dartmouth Safety and Security reported to Hanover Police that a lewd man had repeatedly feigned drowning to entice lifeguards, usually female Dartmouth students, to swim out to him and discover that he was not wearing any clothing.

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Construction across campus on track for 2006 completion

By Matt Beale | September 22, 2005

Five major construction projects have already begun to transform the Dartmouth campus this fall. Well underway, the combined $113-million effort, which began in August 2004 and is scheduled to end in 2006, represents a major expansion of the College's educational, athletic and residential facilities. The projects include two new residential facilities, an addition to the Thayer School of Engineering, an overhaul of the Alumni Gym and a series of buildings to house a variety of departments and centers.

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Tuck takes top spot in WSJ ranking

By Gus Lûbin | September 22, 2005

The Tuck School of Business reclaimed the top position in this year's Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive business school rankings, up from the number three spot last year.

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Statistician to crunch numbers in L.A.

By Elise Waxenberg | September 22, 2005

After studying everything from beer pong to sex to academics during the last 13 years, College statistician John Pryor will leave Dartmouth in October to direct national college surveys at the University of California Los Angeles' Higher Education Research Institute. As associate director of the Higher Education Research Institute, Pryor will conduct studies involving over 600 postsecondary schools nationwide, developing surveys for individual schools and national education policy projects. Currently the director of student affairs planning, evaluation and research at Dartmouth, Pryor oversees several student surveys each year with the aim of improving the Dartmouth experience.

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Painting the College green: The D goes color

By Jennifer Garfinkel | September 21, 2005

As Fall term classes begin today, the changing leaves won't be the only thing adding color to the Dartmouth campus. Starting Wednesday, America's oldest college newspaper will print both its front and back pages in full color each production day, bringing readers more exciting photos and more compelling infographics. The paper's leadership credited the loyalty of The Dartmouth's daily readers and the College community as reasons for investing resources in regular color printing. "The D relentlessly strives to provide readers with the most relevant and incisive coverage of events on the Hanover plain," said Colin S.

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Samwick assesses Congress, urges student discussion

By Stuart A. Reid | September 21, 2005

Economics professor Andrew Samwick linked hot-button political issues to age-old constitutional debates in a speech Tuesday night at the Rockefeller Center that focused on the First Amendment, free speech on college campuses and youth activism. In a lecture titled, "Congress Shall Make No Law," Samwick criticized the U.S.

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Mild Hanover summer marred by two tragedies

By Matthew Abbott | September 21, 2005

Despite two deaths that cast a shadow over the Dartmouth community, members of the Class of 2007 still managed to mold their sophomore summer into a unique experience. Tragedy first struck in July when Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 was shot and killed outside her apartment in Berkeley, Calif.

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Hundreds flock to first Katrina Help meeting

By Dan Duray | September 21, 2005

Hurricane Katrina's assault on the Gulf Coast region has prompted a massive humanitarian effort at Dartmouth College encompassing the entire community. Last night, 370 people crowded Alumni Hall in the Hopkins Center for a Katrina Help meeting, where they banded together to help the thousands left homeless in the wake of the hurricane. "Just talking to people around campus, everyone is interested in this issue," said Nick Taranto '06, assistant to the Tucker Foundation dean for hurricane relief.

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College admits 32 displaced students

By Rebekah Rombom | September 21, 2005

While the Class of 2009 prepares to spend the next four years in Hanover, at least 32 students from Gulf Coast-area colleges and universities will likely begin their time at the College under less favorable circumstances. After Hurricane Katrina devastated huge areas of the Gulf Coast, forcing colleges and universities to suspend operations for the fall semester, Dartmouth invited displaced students to apply. The College received 47 applications, and at press time had admitted 32 students.

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