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Panel criticizes slow reaction to Darfur

By Jessica Chen | March 3, 2005

Four prominent individuals from the political, humanitarian and academic communities stressed the urgency for the international community to stop the Darfur atrocities in Sudan Wednesday to a packed audience in Carpenter Hall. All the panelists strongly concurred that the international community's hesitation to intervene in Darfur was unacceptable. Panelist David Scheffer, the former ambassador at-large for war crimes during the Clinton administration, criticized the international community for arguing legal terms rather than intervening. "It takes years to make a determination that genocide has occurred," he said.

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Police Blotter

March 2, 2005

Feb. 25, Lyme Road, 4:27 p.m. A woman reported to the Hanover Police that the man she lives with assaulted her.

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James named new Hopkins director

By Matthew Abbott | March 2, 2005

Jeffrey James will usher in a new era for the Hopkins Center for the Arts when he becomes the center's sixth director this August, the College announced Tuesday. James will fill the vacancy left by the upcoming retirement of Lewis Crickard, who has directed the Hopkins Center since 1992 and plans on retiring in July. Established in 1962, the Hopkins Center houses four academic arts departments, a visiting performing artist series and workshops for students to learn more about the arts. "The Hopkins Center is one of the country's most distinguished campus-based arts institutions," James said in a press release.

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Speech prof. complains of lack of support

By Gus Lûbin | March 1, 2005

A fully staffed department from 1920 to 1979, the speech program at Dartmouth is now limited to a single office run by one professor. The director and only professor in the office of speech, Jim Kuypers, teaches approximately two speech classes a term but is not a tenure-track professor.

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DHMC leases second emergency transport helicopter

By Dan Duray | March 1, 2005

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team, which responds to only the most extreme trauma, cardiac or neonatal emergency calls and has been called to the Dartmouth Skiway, will soon realize its goal of adding a second helicopter to its already impressive array of emergency transport vehicles. Early last fall, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center decided to lease the new helicopter, DHART 2, from Metro Aviation Inc., the same company that built and maintains their current helicopter.

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Ben and Jerry's exec. notes importance of social duties

By Hannah Plotkin | February 28, 2005

Walter Freese Tu'79, Ben and Jerry's "chief euphoria officer," emphasized the power of business to support social missions Friday in his keynote speech at the third annual Business and Sustainability Initiative conference at the Tuck School of Business. As the company's top executive, Freese leads Ben and Jerry's efforts to receive superior business returns, produce the best possible ice cream and be environmentally responsible. Although many doubt the possibility of combining business with social responsibility, Freese cited Ben and Jerry's success with its social mission. "Business also has the ability to be a force for change environmentally and to be a force for change in economic and social justice," Freese said. He went on to explain that it is not the job of a specific individual within the company to achieve this but every employee's responsibility, from the top down.

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Vt. border patrols upset, inconvenience students

By Alix Cody | February 28, 2005

When Victor Fressie '05 tried to board a bus in White River Junction, Vt., last winter, two border patrol officers stared at him, followed him onto the vehicle and proceeded to check the identification of all passengers, he said. Fressie, a native of Mexico, told The Dartmouth that when they got to him, they questioned him more thoroughly, asking about the exact date that he was naturalized.

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Students protest Princiotti dismissal

By Gus Lûbin | February 28, 2005

A day before Anthony Princiotti conducted the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra in its seasonal concert, students were fighting for his job in a meeting with Lenore Grenoble, the associate dean of the faculty for the humanities. In a Friday afternoon meeting, students voiced their concerns over the recent decision not to retain Princiotti as a private violin instructor in the music department, a position he has held for 12 years. One by one, the 29 students and community members in attendance spoke about Princiotti's skill and value as a teacher and music guru.

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Dance troupe's archives return to campus roots

By Kelsey Blodget | February 25, 2005

Pilobolus -- a groundbreaking modern dance troupe founded in 1971 by two Dartmouth students -- donated the valuable newspaper clippings, playbills, photos, videos, publicity material and posters that archive their history to the Rauner Special Collections Library, the College announced Thursday. The archive is available to all students, faculty and visiting researchers as a resource, but according to Special Collections Librarian Jay Satterfield, it will take several years to categorize the archive and make the information accessible. "We are delighted to have this collection," Satterfield said.

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Proposed Bush budget would cut loan program

By Alex Belser | February 25, 2005

The Bush administration's proposed federal budget would slash the Federal Perkins Loan program, used by 1,325 undergraduates, potentially forcing the College to adjust its financial aid program. Budget squeezes at the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, meanwhile, will likely result in less government money available for science research. The Department of Education, which has argued that Perkins Loans duplicate other programs and are only available at a limited number of institutions, would rather earmark money for Pell Grants, which are targeted to low-income students regardless of the institution they attend. If approved by Congress, which has the power to strike or modify any part of the budget during the approval process, the end of Perkins Loans would lead Dartmouth to look to other programs -- especially Stafford Loans -- to try to meet the needs of students and their families, according to Virginia Hazen, the College's director of financial aid. The College lent out $5.7 million in Perkins Loans last year but usually disburses around $3 million, Hazen said.

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