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April 14, 2026
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College-funded 'party packs' provide non-alcoholic alternative

By Alix Cody | April 8, 2005

College-sponsored pizza and nonalcoholic drinks found their way to several fraternity parties last weekend as part of a new Student Activities Office effort to highlight options besides beer at evening events. The so-called "party packs" consist of 20 pizzas and 100 drinks delivered at midnight from Everything But Anchovies.

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Student candidates prep for start of campaigning

By Elise Waxenberg | April 8, 2005

Sidewalk chalk, mass BlitzMail messages and fluorescent posters will blanket the campus this weekend, when official campaigning for student elections kicks off on Saturday at midnight. Voting will take place April 19 and 20, but for Student Body Presidential hopefuls, campaign managers have been signed on and maneuvering has been in full swing for months. "They're probably all getting really nervous first of all, mainly about the increasing time commitment that they're going to have to dedicate to prepare their campaigns," current Student Body President Julia Hildreth '05 said. Hildreth said that the candidates are probably strategizing with their teams, deciding how to spend their money and networking with potential supporters. "Forming a good campaign team and talking to people is one of the main strategies at this point because actual public campaigning hasn't started," candidate Ben Waters '06 said. Pre-campaigning has included "just going around, introducing yourself to as many people as possible, being places, being out," Waters said.

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Expert lectures on dangers of hazing

By Samantha Ackah | April 8, 2005

Greeks packed into Cook Auditorium Thursday night for a talk on the societal problems of hazing. Hank Nuwer, an author of four books on hazing and a nationally recognized expert in the field gave the hour-long talk as part of his three-day visit to the College. Nuwer who also teaches journalism at Franklin College began writing about hazing following a death at the University of Nevada, Reno where he was a graduate student in 1975. During the talk he encouraged students to intercede when they witness incidents of hazing. "If you could have saved a human being's life and you didn't... its hard to get out of your mind," Nuwer said. Nuwer recounted hazing incidents going as far back as the 1800s and discussed several tragedies resulting from hazing, including sexual assault and deaths from alcohol intoxication. In the years since 1975 there has been a death every year in the national Greek system and Nuwer was pessimistic about the chances of averting further tragedies unless students worked harder to avoid it. "I don't believe in my lifetime that we will be able to end the deaths," he said Although the talk was targeted toward members of fraternities and sororities, Nuwer emphasized that hazing was not unique to the Greek system and discussed athletic hazing as well as incidents in high schools. "I argue with administrations [about] the idea of hazing being a Greek problem.

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COSO recognizes new student groups for funding

By Jennifer Garfinkel | April 7, 2005

The start of Spring term is also a fresh beginning for several new student groups on campus. The College recognized several new organizations at the end of Winter term, and now, with funding from the Council On Student Organization, the club leaders are preparing to increase awareness about everything from malnutrition to grassroots politics to Taiwanese culture. In response to the 2004 presidential election, several students spearheaded the creation of Dartmouth For Democracy, a self-described non-partisan group designed to train students interested in gaining necessary skills to run grassroots campaigns. Dartmouth for Democracy claims it will support any candidate on the national, local, or college level who is "socially progressive and fiscally responsible," said co-founder Sarah Ayres '06. "So that could potentially be Democrats or Republicans.

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Columbia rocked by allegations of anti-Semitism

By Rebekah Rombom | April 7, 2005

Tensions over students' accusations of harassment by allegedly anti-Semitic professors at Columbia University intensified so greatly in recent weeks that a group of students began to call for Columbia President Lee Bollinger's resignation. Jewish pro-Israel students at Columbia claimed that they were being harassed and intimidated by pro-Palestine professors both in and outside of the classroom.

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College alum convicts WorldCom CEO Ebbers

By Dan Duray | April 7, 2005

Called a "rising star" by The New York Times, David Anders '91 added yet another success story to his already impressive resume when his prosecution team successfully convicted former WorldCom Chief Executive Officer Bernard Ebbers last month. Anders joined the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in late 2000, just before the country's recent deluge of corporate scandal, giving Anders the opportunity to work on several high-profile cases, including the prosecution of former Credit Suisse First Boston investment banker Frank Quattrone last year. "I'm really lucky to get these opportunities," Anders said.

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Prof. exposes dwindling GOP faculty representation

By Kristen Kelley | April 7, 2005

Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara Daniel Klein pointed out the primacy of Democratic professors at leading Californian universities at a lecture in the Rockefeller Center Wednesday night. Klein recently published his research on the political ideologies in the realm of academia.

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SA denies funding to Festival of Humanity

By Kevin Garland | April 6, 2005

Student Assembly rejected a controversial proposal to fund the Festival of Humanity Tuesday night, instead passing a resolution to only support the event. Mats Lemberger '06, candidate for Student Body President, sponsored the proposal during the meeting, which all other candidates also attended. The legislation proposed to donate $1,000 to the Festival of Humanity to fund an all-day barbecue.

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Nation's elite schools grow more selective

By John Mitchell | April 6, 2005

Ivy League institutions mailed out a record number of dreaded thin envelopes this week for the Class of 2009. Meanwhile, schools across the Ancient Eight reported that the qualifications of their accepted students broke virtually every record in the books, including SAT scores so high that the test may have lost significance in decisions. Although the number of high- quality applications continues to rise, the number of first-year spots at top schools has remained nearly unchanged, and acceptance rates have plummeted. While Dartmouth's final acceptance rate -- including both early and regular admissions -- hit an all-time low of 16.8 percent, it still pales in comparison to the rates of some peer institutions. The acceptance rates of Harvard and Yale were below ten percent, while Stanford and Princeton each accepted a shade over a tenth of their applicants.

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Two longtime administrators pass away

By Jacques Hebert | April 5, 2005

Late March marked the passing of two men intimately connected to the Dartmouth community. Jay O. Emery '60, former Associate Director of Individual and Class Giving in the Dartmouth College Fund Office, died of cancer on March 26 in his Hanover home.

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