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Pool renovation threatens team practices

By Samantha Ackah | March 31, 2005

With construction scheduled to begin next month on Dartmouth's Karl Michael pool, the men's and women's swim and water polo teams are set to face major disruptions to their seasons. The renovation of the pool, which is part of a planned restructuring of Alumni Gym, involves the installation of a dehumidifier and a replacement to the roof.

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Dueling textbook outlets compete for student buyers

By Kelsey Blodget | March 31, 2005

The Dartmouth Bookstore lured students inside during this week's book rush with free coffee and cookies, and rocketing sales may mean that its market-share war with locally-owned Wheelock Books could intensify. Dartmouth Bookstore manager John Cusick said store sales and traffic have both doubled since January, and as academic departments that previously dealt exclusively with Wheelock Books are beginning to release lists of assigned texts to both stores, Wheelock Books is in danger of losing its textbook monopoly. "Wheelock is a great store," Cusick said.

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Sexual assaults abroad prompt student response

By Alix Cody | March 30, 2005

While participating in an off-campus program in Mexico last year, Liz Allen '06 said she discovered that despite the popularity of off-campus programs, the sexual assault resources usually available on campus were not accessible abroad. Allen's personal experiences motivated her to form Abroad Change, a group working to extend sexual assault resources to students on Dartmouth off-campus programs. "The barriers, such as the cultural divide, language barrier, physical distance and lack of accessibility to Dartmouth resources make it more isolating than it already is," Allen said. In an informal survey conducted by Abroad Change in mid-February, 19 out of 89 respondents reportedly said they had been sexually assaulted or experienced unwanted sexual contact during their off-campus program.

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SA weighs in on financial aid, lib. hours

By Elise Waxenberg | March 30, 2005

The Student Assembly kicked off its first meeting of the Spring term Tuesday night, passing a resolution on financial aid, discussing extensions of library hours and electing members to its Membership and Internal Affairs committee. The Assembly passed a resolution expressing concern about President George Bush's proposed fiscal year 2006 budget, which eliminates Perkins Loans, currently capped at $4,000 per year, while raising the maximum federal Pell Grant award by $500. "Obviously with the deficit and the budget cuts a lot of different groups are being affected, and college students are one of them," resolution sponsor Jacques Hebert '07 said. Perkins Loans, available to undergraduate and graduate students demonstrating financial need, are locked into a five percent interest rate. The Assembly's resolution also addresses recently proposed updates to the tax tables used to calculate students' financial needs.

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Squabble colors trustee election

By Kate Lyon | March 30, 2005

As the end of trustee election campaign period draws near, some alumni and former trustees have formed Alumni for a Strong Dartmouth, a controversial third-party group that has been accused of undermining traditional campaign regulations. With less than a month remaining in the campaign period, the group has endorsed the four candidates nominated by the Alumni Council over the two petition candidates currently on the ballot. The organization has come under attack recently for questionable third-party campaigning activity.

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Police Blotter

March 30, 2005

March 12, Rip Road, 10:39 p.m. A man reported to police that he had received a prank phone call from a woman whose voice he did not recognize.

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Mock trial teams qualify for national tourney

By Kelsey Blodget | March 29, 2005

Strong cross-examinations and convincing testimony qualified three Dartmouth mock trial teams for the American Mock Trial Association national championship this month. After placing second out of 30 teams at the New England Mock Trial Tournament in February, Dartmouth's top team led by senior attorneys David Rhinesmith, Victoria Corder and Sean Miller will qualify for the country's most prestigious national competition to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, in April. A second Dartmouth team that placed fourth at a different regional tournament held at Manchester Community College attended a national competition in St.

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Panda House to close after fraud charges

By Phil Salinger | March 29, 2005

Panda House, the downtown Hanover Chinese restaurant, will soon close its doors for good after multiple allegations of credit card fraud against restaurant employees have greatly diminished its business. In the most recent scandal, more than 20 Panda House customers, some of who are Dartmouth students, lost well over $10,000 to a type of credit card fraud called "skimming." Skimming is a process by which the skimmer, in this case an unknown Panda House employee, runs customer credit cards through a handheld device that electronically captures data stored on the magnetic strip of the card.

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Rocky staffer elected to Lebanon Council seat

By Stuart A. Reid | March 29, 2005

Rockefeller Center student activities coordinator Karen Liot Hill '00 won a seat on the Lebanon City Council, following a campaign enlisting the help of two other Dartmouth women -- Sarah Ayres '06 and Tucker Foundation staffer Becky Windt. Hill, 26, ousted 59-year-old incumbent Dominic Balestra earlier this month with 64 percent of the 363 votes, winning her a 2-year term on the council. "I was very surprised, especially by the margin," Hill said.

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Winter lands frat, sorority on probation

By John Mitchell | March 29, 2005

While snow and ice slowed travel around Hanover this past winter, the weather did not slow down the rest of life on campus. Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority continued to deal with serious hazing allegations that originated in the fall. Theta Delta Chi was placed on probation for 12 weeks, while Delta Delta Delta received a four week term.

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Tuck considers apps from accused hackers

By AnnMary Mathew | March 29, 2005

Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business chose last week not to follow Harvard Business School's lead in automatically denying admission to applicants accused of hacking into an admissions processing website to learn the decision on their applications early, Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a press release. "The involvement in this incident was deemed a very important, negative factor, but only one of many factors in our admissions decisions," Danos said. Dartmouth is one of over ten business schools that used an online application system built by ApplyYourself.com.

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Three roommates among All-Ivy winners

By Steven Orbuch | March 29, 2005

Ten Big Green student-athletes on winter sports teams received All-Ivy academic honors on March 22. The 80 men and women chosen for the award were selected from a pool of student-athletes that consisted of starters or key reserves on any officially recognized varsity team with 3.0 or better cumulative grade point averages. A trio of past and current roommates -- Cam Fortin '05 (squash), Mike Liddy '05 (basketball) and Sean Robinson '05 (swimming and diving) -- were among the honorees. Liddy said that living with Fortin and Robinson, all three members of Psi Upsilon fraternity, was a positive influence that helped steer him toward the academic All-Ivy distinction. "It's nice having roommates that are also athletes because they understand the demands of balancing academics and athletics too," Liddy said.

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Danos: Tuck may admit early viewers in online admissions scandal

By AnnMary Mathew | March 21, 2005

WEB UPDATE, March 21, 10:06 a.m. Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business will not follow Harvard Business School's lead in automatically denying admission to applicants accused of hacking into an admissions processing website to learn the decision on their applications early, Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a press release. "The involvement in this incident was deemed a very important, negative factor, but only one of many factors in our admissions decisions," Danos said. Dartmouth is one of over ten business schools that used an online application system build by ApplyYourself.com.

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Annual fall room crunch drives a few to housing 'black market'

By Alix Cody | March 9, 2005

Two freshman females, who had planned to live together next year, are scrambling to avoid the dreaded housing waitlist after receiving priority numbers within the last 50 assigned. One option they are considering is to pay a student with a better number to get them a room and drop out before the start of next year. "We are thinking about doing something with a person who is not planning on using their number and paying the fee," one girl said.

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Police Blotter

March 9, 2005

March 1, Tuck Mall, 12:04 p.m. A Tuck student reported that his gold 1997 Saab had been victim to a hit-and-run accident while parked and unattended in the River parking lot.

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