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Panel considers racial profiling in police arrests

By John Mitchell | May 27, 2005

Complaints of racial profiling and unfair treatment by Safety and Security and the Hanover Police Department have come out from Dartmouth's minority communities in recent weeks. Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity, an organization dedicated to service of the Latino community, organized a panel discussion on this topic Wednesday night.

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SA refuses to confirm Glaser '08 for IVC

By Elise Waxenberg | May 26, 2005

The new Student Assembly administration ran into its first glitch Tuesday night when the General Assembly declined to confirm the Dartmouth Chapter of the Ivy Council's nominee for head delegate, Frank Glaser '08. At the Assembly's second meeting under the leadership of newly-elected Student Body President Noah Riner '06, the 24 voting members present debated Glaser's confirmation behind closed doors before rejecting his bid by an undisclosed margin. In the last two years, two committee chair nominees have lost their confirmation bids. The Dartmouth Chapter of the Ivy Council, the group that sends delegates to bi-annual conferences of Ivy League student government representatives, became an Assembly committee during Winter term. "The decision power is in the hands of the Assembly and I stand by the Assembly's decisions," Riner said. Unlike the Assembly's seven other committees, whose chairs are nominated by the student body president, DIVC was allowed to elect its own candidate for committee chair, subject to General Assembly confirmation. The issue of whether the president would nominate a head delegate or the committee would put its own selection up for a vote was only resolved a few weeks ago after Riner and Assembly Vice President Jeffrey Coleman '08 reviewed Assembly rules. Glaser said Riner and Coleman warned him a week before the confirmation vote that he might not be confirmed. "They wanted me to know in advance that there was a possibility of me not getting confirmed and that they didn't want me to be too surprised or something," Glaser said. Glaser was elected within the Ivy Council several weeks ago and attended an Ivy Council steering meeting in New York City on May 9 as Dartmouth's new head delegate without having been confirmed by the rest of the Assembly. "The person who will be head delegate will not have had the benefit of attending that or expressing their opinions," Glaser said.

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Pong playing on the rise, highest among Greeks

By Gus Lûbin | May 26, 2005

Chances are, if you are a member of a Co-ed, Fraternity or Sorority house, or a varsity athlete, and are playing with a usual or romantic partner, you probably won your pong game last night -- at least according to John Pryor, the College statistician and director of Student Affairs Planning, Evaluation and Research.

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WTC design by Arad '91 reworked

By Ann Mary Mathew | May 26, 2005

Once the celebrated winner of the World Trade Center memorial design competition, Michael Arad '91 has been relegated to the sidelines by city, state and developmental interests, as his design is being altered into something far removed from his original vision.The biggest change to Arad's design is the proposed addition of a forest of trees to the memorial, an addition that would contradict Arad's conception of the memorial, Dartmouth architecture professor Karolina Kawiaka said. Other changes include moving Arad's reflecting pools so that they are centered on the footprints of the Twin Towers and removing two of the four ramps entering the site. "When I talked to [the landscaper architect] he thought the design was a little sparse," said Arad, commenting on the decision to add the trees to the memorial. Immediately after Arad won the contest, the organizers paired him with a landscape architect and assigned him to work with two architecture firms, Peter Walker & Partners and Davis Brody Bond.

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Argentinian women recount tragedies of dictatorship

By Jacques Hebert | May 25, 2005

Two crusading Argentinian grandmothers noticeably moved an audience with their tales of struggle against a violent military dictatorship that kidnapped their daughters and separated them from their grandchildren, in a lecture Tuesday night at the Rockefeller Center. Estella Barnes de Carlotto and Rosa T.

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Faculty alters policies on take-home examinations

By Jessica Peet | May 24, 2005

In a meeting of the Faculty of the Arts and Science yesterday, the faculty passed legislation regarding changes in the position of the Dean of the Faculty as well as policies regarding take-home examinations. In order to protect students' right to a reading period, the Committee on Instruction proposed changes to the current policy on take-home examinations. The changes, which passed unanimously by voice vote, prohibit professors from assigning take-home examinations that are due before the regularly scheduled exam date. The meeting primarily focused on the debate over changes to the Dean of the Faculty position proposed by the Committee on Organization and Policy. The changes, which were debated two weeks ago at a meeting of the Committee on Chairs, include alterations in the process for selecting the dean as well as reassignment of the dean's committee duties. Before voting on the proposal, faculty members raised concerns.

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Ivy Council shrinks to seven with Harvard's departure

By Elise Waxenberg | May 24, 2005

The Ivy Council's membership shrank from the Ancient Eight to a selective seven last week when Harvard student government leaders passed a resolution to withdraw their Undergraduate Council from the independent association of Ivy League student governments. The Harvard resolution, passed last Monday, leveled numerous criticisms at IVC, declaring its spring 2005 conference unproductive, blasting Yale representatives unprepared and decrying some financial expenses as unmerited. IVC, a non-profit organization comprised of student leaders from the Ivy League schools, hosts two conferences each year for student governments to exchange ideas and vote on statements related to issues of national concern. Harvard, the only school to drop out of IVC since the organization formed in 1993, is bowing out for the second time.

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Cancer benefit walk raises $73K

By Samantha Ackah | May 23, 2005

Tents and sleeping bags littered Memorial Field Friday night as students participated in the Relay for Life, a night-long walk around the track that raised over $73,000 to benefit the American Cancer Society. Although the majority of students soon ditched their sleeping bags for the warmth and comfort of their dorm rooms, a few dedicated volunteers stayed through the night.

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Kenneth Bogart, 62, taught through 'guided discovery'

By Gus Lûbin | May 23, 2005

Family members and friends gathered in Rollins Chapel Sunday to remember and celebrate the life of Dartmouth mathematics professor Kenneth Paul Bogart, who died in a biking accident at the age of 62 while on sabbatical in California on March 30. Bogart's relatives, students and peers offered a warm image of Ken as a man with a sense of humor, a love of life and a natural ability to explain and break down complex mathematical concepts in the simplest terms.

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