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Librarians insist Google digital library not a threat

By Gus Lûbin | January 13, 2005

When Jeff Horrell takes over as College librarian Feb. 7, he will be faced with a dynamic new threat to the physical library: the Google Digital Library. Google is starting a massive project to digitally scan millions of books from libraries at the University of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard and Oxford, along with the New York Public Library.

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Keg limits mark SEMP discussion

By Elise Waxenberg | January 12, 2005

Despite a dearth of student attendance -- several tables originally intended for small group discussion remained empty and only a single student showed up -- the Social Event Management Procedures committee proceeded with a community hour in Collis Commonground on Tuesday, discussing kegs, parties and pre-gaming. The committee has scheduled a question-and-answer session for Tuesday, Jan.

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Gronas probes public lit. taste in Amazon reviews

By Gus Lûbin | January 12, 2005

Russian professor Mikhail Gronas is looking beyond academic literary criticism, scouring book reviews and ratings on Amazon.com to discover what they collectively reveal about the reading public beyond the individual opinions they contain. Gronas contends that the patterns of reviews and ratings provide insight into the way the public reads books and the similar ways they react to comparable books. "We are used to seeing books analyzed from above -- from the intellectual perspective -- but most people do not look for things like plot structure and rhetoric when they read," said Gronas.

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Police Blotter

January 12, 2005

Jan. 3, Fayerweather Hill Road, 2:25 a.m. Police responded to a complaint lodged by EBAs claiming that students in the Mid-Fayerweather dorm had attempted to pay for $50 worth of food with multiple faulty credit cards.

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Men's pleasure talk aims to lend a helping hand

By Jennifer Garfinkel | January 11, 2005

Students filled Tindle Lounge Monday night for the Mechanics of Men's Pleasure workshop. Curt Crane, a comical urology resident at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Ken Leslie, a post-doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, spoke about the physical anatomy of men and male brain chemistry. Crane kicked off the seminar by showing slides of different penis types.

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Hillel Rabbi helps swear in Governor

By Stuart A. Reid | January 11, 2005

College Rabbi Edward Boraz led the audience at Gov. John Lynch's Jan. 6 inauguration in a prayer for the Democrat's new administration. Boraz was one of four clergymen chosen to recite prayers during the recent State House ceremony in Concord.

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Zuckerberg faces off with rival in copyright lawsuits

By Alix Cody | January 11, 2005

After close to a year of connecting students across campus and across the country, thefacebook.com is under siege from its chief competitor, ConnectU.com, whose founders filed a lawsuit against thefacebook in September claiming that its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, stole their ideas and information to create a rival website. ConnectU creators Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, all recent Harvard alumni, allege that Zuckerberg stole ideas and programming codes from ConnectU in late 2003, when he was programming the site. According to Tyler, Zuckerberg became a partner with ConnectU in Nov.

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TDX party collects $1,200 for tsunami victims

By Linzi Sheldon | January 10, 2005

Students partied for a good cause Saturday night, raising $1,200 at a tsunami relief fundraising party hosted by Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After its members heard news of the Southeast Asian tragedy, Theta Delt reportedly set out to host an event that would benefit relief agencies.

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Hankins '05 competes on Jeopardy, bows out early

By Jinah Roe | January 10, 2005

When California realtor Nancy Zerg recently brought the era of Ken Jennings' Jeopardy domination to an end, Dartmouth students saw one of their own, David Hankins '05, competing against the longest-running champion in game show history. Hankins, a history major, finished third to Jennings' second.

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Tsunami carnage brought home in campus aid effort

By Stuart A. Reid | January 7, 2005

Alumni Hall served as the headquarters for Dartmouth's tsunami relief efforts Thursday, as students, staff and community members gathered to mourn the loss of life in Asia and kick off a campuswide fundraising effort. College President James Wright urged students to act to help survivors of the disaster, invoking the words of former President John Sloan Dickey: "The world's troubles are your troubles." The highlight of the gathering came when graduate student Rukman De Silva and Achint Ahuja '05 relayed their personal experiences with the tsunami. Ahuja was on the beaches of Goa, India when the tsunami reached land on the other side of his native country.

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Three '05s settle drug charges

By Matthew Kelly | January 7, 2005

Three members of the Dartmouth Class of 2005 -- Steven DeMarco, Eric Testan and Sheanon Summers -- reached plea agreements with New Hampshire state attorneys last month, admitting guilt to a variety of drug possession charges. As part of the plea, the state dropped the most serious charges leveled against DeMarco, including selling and possessing cocaine.

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