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Pitcher recalls pitfalls of restoring ballpark

By AnnMary Mathew | February 24, 2005

Former Major League pitcher Jim Bouton shared his struggle to overcome local corruption and bring town baseball back to Pittsfield, Mass., in a lecture Wednesday in Carpenter Hall. Bouton and Chip Elitzer '69 attempted to resurrect a vintage baseball park in Pittsfield but repeatedly faced opposition from local bankers, the local newspaper and local politicians in the pockets of both groups, Bouton said.

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Wright comments on Summers' speech

By Alex Lentz | February 23, 2005

College President James Wright distanced himself from Harvard University President Lawrence Summers' controversial remarks about women in the sciences but declined to criticize the embattled academic leader in an interview with The Dartmouth on Tuesday. Last week, Summers released a transcript of his comments, which he made at a January conference, amid growing criticism over his leadership at Harvard. Although he dismissed the notion that biological factors make women unable to pursue careers in the sciences, Wright stopped short of chastising the Harvard president for his comments. Summers was trying to "encourage conversation and he clearly has done that," Wright said, adding that focus should now shift from Summers to "factors that militate against women pursuing careers in the sciences." "There certainly are not any innate biological factors that prevent women from pursuing careers in the sciences," Wright said. The presidents of Princeton and Stanford Universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have all openly criticized Summers' remarks.

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Alumni look to recruit volunteers for social change group

By Stuart A. Reid | February 23, 2005

Unlike seniors who go through corporate recruiting, Miranda Johnson '97 had no alumni network to help her find a nonprofit career before the end of her senior year. "Most of the alumni I had met were people who came back to do corporate recruiting and were the more traditional type," Johnson said. So, in 2002 at her five-year reunion, Johnson started the group Alums for Social Change to focus on connecting socially active Dartmouth alumni and attracting current undergraduates to nonprofit ventures. Students need access to experienced alumni with similar values and career objectives, Johnson said. As advisors, alumni mentors provide a "social change" perspective on issues such as graduate school or job searches. According to Rachna Jaggi '99, a member of ASC and a medical student, social change is a "purposely broad term, and we have included things from people working in nonprofits to Peace-Corps volunteers to public-school teachers." Jared Alessandroni '03, who lives in New York City and teaches at an inner-city school in the Bronx, runs the group's web site, alumsforsocialchange.org. The web site helps alumni communicate, organize action and get together for social and service activities. Billed by Alessandroni as a "Tucker Foundation for alumni," ASC boasts 290 members, a majority of whom graduated during the past 10 years. According to Johnson, the members are younger and more racially diverse than other alumni groups, and there are fewer corporate employees. Current undergraduates interested in nonprofit work can contact group members or peruse the web site's list of job offers.

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DHMC writes prescriptions for hiking in Upper Valley

By Kelsey Blodget | February 23, 2005

Doctors in the new physical activity awareness program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center don't just prescribe diet pills for their patients -- they prescribe specific exercise regimens to whip overweight Upper Valley residents into shape. The program's patients fill out questionnaires about their exercise habits, and physicians give them prescriptions with detailed assignments, such as walking for a half hour every day. "Instead of just vaguely saying, 'You should exercise more,' we put it in writing and sign it like a prescription to give it a little more weight," program director Dr. Charles Brackett said.

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Greek leaders elect new moderator, events chair

By Matthew Abbott | February 23, 2005

Greek leaders gathered Tuesday night in Silsby Hall to elect two of their peers as new executive members of the Greek Leadership Council. Although the Council chose Taylor Cornwall '06 as moderator, it could not agree on a public relations chair. While a tied vote prevented the election of the public relations chair, the results will be announced following a meeting of the GLC today. Cornwall, the newly elected GLC moderator and a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, will lead the weekly executive council meetings and the biweekly general council meetings.

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SA alters election rules for Spring term

By Elise Waxenberg | February 23, 2005

The Student Assembly approved new campus election guidelines to prevent another controversial contest for student body president this spring. Assembly members also passed funding for a spring Ivy Council conference at their Tuesday night meeting. Although Assembly members received the seven pages of revised spring election regulations one hour before the meeting, the General Assembly passed the regulations almost unanimously after an hour of discussion. Key changes to the former election rules include a ban on mass BlitzMail messages issued by campaigns, tighter controls on campaign spending, restrictions on promoting candidates in other races and a shorter campaign period of 10 days instead of 15. "Last year was a really crisis prone election," said EPAC head Dave Hankins '05, who cited fairness and transparency as the group's top goals in amending its rules. EPAC faced major problems when a student allegedly hijacked and sent mass BlitzMail messages from the BlitzMail account of a friend of now-Student Body President Julia Hildreth '05. The matter had to be resolved by administrators, who had given EPAC full control of student elections three years earlier. While the 20-recipient cap on BlitzMail campaign messages was done away with, new rules restrict BlitzMail campaigning to personal acquaintances and organizational BlitzMail lists. Another new rule disallowing recipient list suppression was also addressed. "We're saying no mass blitzing, therefore you shouldn't need to repress the recipient list," Hildreth said.

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Police Blotter

February 23, 2005

Feb. 15, Sanborn Road, 7:54 a.m. Police responded to a report from a resident of Sanborn Road that a small silver car "always goes the wrong way" on the one-way street past the Howe Library.

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College depts. aim to standardize evaluations

By Christopher Moss | February 22, 2005

Dartmouth is moving toward instating an institution-wide course evaluation system to address the lack of standardization in teaching and course reviews, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt announced recently. The system will bring the current course review system, which does not require all faculty members to be evaluated and differs across departments, in line with similar schools that already have similar assessment infrastructures in place. "[We're] way behind the curve.

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Student start-ups net cash, experience for undergrads

By AnnMary Mathew | February 22, 2005

While many Dartmouth students hope to make large sums of money in the future, some students have developed creative ways to expand their bank accounts while still enrolled at the College. VOX Sportswear Incorporated, currently run by seven juniors, has been selling personalized apparel to Greek houses and other organizations around campus for the last 10 years. Michael Reiss '06, a co-owner of the company, said he puts 20 to 25 hours a week into the business, spending most of that time meeting with customers and helping them through their orders. Under the leadership of members of the Class of 2006, the company has tripled its profits despite continued competition from a similar company, Big Green Tees, according to Reiss.

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College team sweeps regional Ethics Bowl, barred from nat'l

By Dax Tejera | February 22, 2005

The Dartmouth Ethics Society won the New England Regional Ethics Bowl Saturday at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. The five-member team competed against participants from Union, Marist College, the University of Rochester and Boston College in the regional tournament.

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UMass professor analyzes sexual assault stereotypes

By Jessica Peet | February 22, 2005

David Lisak, a University of Massachusetts professor, challenged assumptions about rape on college campuses before an audience of some 75 people packed into 105 Dartmouth Hall on Monday evening. Lisak spoke before the Dartmouth crowd as part of the College's Sexual Abuse Awareness Program. Lisak, an associate professor of psychology at UMass and the director of the Men's Sexual Trauma Research Project, captured the audience's attention when he played an excerpt of an interview that recalled a situation with which many audience members could relate. The testimony, portrayed by an actor who assumed the name "Frank," sounded like a typical weekend night at a Dartmouth fraternity -- the story of a bunch of guys hosting an invite-only cocktail party for a group of women. "We'd always designate some rooms before the party for bringing girls up to," Frank said.

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Women in Business hits Wall Street, shadows i-bankers

By Jessica Chen | February 21, 2005

While many students walk into their first investment banking jobs clueless about the inner workings of financial services firms, the Dartmouth organization Women in Business gave its members a competitive edge Friday with a job-shadowing trip to New York City. The trip was completely funded by Goldman Sachs, which hosted the 27 women for an alumni-student conference at the firm.

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Author advises shunning office life

By Gus Lûbin | February 21, 2005

For Colleen Kinder, author of the campus bestseller "Delaying the Real World," there is something to be said for eschewing the post-graduation office environment and jumping into the wilder parts of the world. Kinder offered advice and guidance from her life while signing and talking about her book over the weekend at the Dartmouth Bookstore.

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Rising sophomores at risk for housing waitlist

By Rebekah Rombom | February 21, 2005

While some underclassmen may be nervous about the housing priority numbers they received last week, College administrators insist the numbers do not necessarily determine the type of room each student will be able to secure. "Even the dead-last sophomore number could get a room because it depends who they're living with," said Martin Redman, the dean of residential life.

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Free Press receives $1,500 from think tank

By Alex Belser | February 18, 2005

The Dartmouth Free Press, the College-funded liberal publication, will have $1,500 more to spend within the next few weeks, thanks to a grant from the Center for American Progress, a Democratic-leaning Washington think tank. The grant is part of the center's $40,000 effort to enable liberal publications to compete with their more established conservative counterparts and reach out to young voters. "We want to balance the debate on campus and strengthen progressive voices on campus," Ben Hubbard, the center's campus coordinator, said. In all, the Washington group will award money to 14 liberal alternative newspapers on college campuses across the country.

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