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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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Proposed Vt. law would lower drinking age to 18

By Stuart A. Reid | March 9, 2005

Dartmouth students between the ages of 18 and 21 might soon be able to legally buy 30-packs of Keystone Light in Vermont and smuggle them across the Connecticut River if the Vermont legislature passes a new bill to lower the state's drinking age.

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Kennedy named new Hood director

By Matthew Beale | March 9, 2005

The College's Hood Museum of Art, which will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year, is welcoming a new director to lead the museum into the next decade. Brian P.

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TDX pleads not guilty to felony alcohol charges

By Phil Salinger | March 9, 2005

Theta Delta Chi fraternity will forego an arraignment, originally scheduled for Wednesday morning at 9 a.m., by pleading not guilty to five felony counts of serving alcohol to minors in a formal waiver recently submitted to the Grafton County Superior Court, according to George Ostler '77, Theta Delt's attorney. The indictments stem from events that occurred Wednesday, Jan.

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SA votes to fund contentious community bike program

By Elise Waxenberg | March 9, 2005

Intense debate raged over the Big Green Bike program Tuesday night at the Student Assembly's last meeting of Winter term, which garnered attendance by over 85 percent of the Assembly's membership. The proposal earmarking $2,000 of Assembly funds for BGB passed by seven votes after extended debate that frequently reached a fevered pitch. Last night's move allows BGB sponsors, including Student Body Vice President Todd Rabkin Golden '06, to implement the program, which aims to provide between 50 and 100 communal bicycles to students, who would rent keys opening all the bicycle locks for $10 per year. Earlier on Tuesday, Student Body President Julia Hildreth '05 admonished Rabkin Golden for setting up a table in the Collis Center to solicit student support for BGB and sign up students for the program. "I have already told [Rabkin Golden] that I consider this to be disrespectful to SA and dishonest to campus," Hildreth wrote to the Assembly executives yesterday in a BlitzMail message obtained by The Dartmouth. Hildreth described Rabkin Golden's actions as an "error in judgment," but noted the problem had been solved. "If there's a program that Student Assembly hasn't officially endorsed, you can't be taking money in that program's name," Hildreth said at the Assembly meeting. Rabkin Golden said his efforts were aimed at engaging student interest and talking about the program with students.

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Winter term SA continues centralization, expansion

By Elise Waxenberg | March 8, 2005

Winter term saw the Student Assembly absorb two previously independent student organizations, make significant moves to assume responsibility for alumni-student relations and set up over 30 new BlitzMail computers on campus. The Assembly, however, struggled throughout the term with bureaucratic and procedural woes, including the dramatic removal of an Assembly executive for allegedly leaking word of the secret Blitz-terminal rollout. Centralization has been a key theme this term for the Assembly, which adopted the Dartmouth Chapter of the Ivy Council, the organization that attends and coordinates conferences with student-government leaders from the other schools in the Ancient Eight, and the Election Planning and Advisory Committee, which regulates and oversees spring elections for various campus-wide student offices. While Ivy Council returned to the Assembly after only a short stint as an independent group recognized by the Committee on Student Organizations, EPAC was created four years ago and administered by members of the Palaeopitus senior society.

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Pool renovations cause swim-test concerns

By Samantha Ackah | March 8, 2005

With the renovation of Karl Michael Pool scheduled for Spring term, some seniors are scrambling to fulfil the swimming requirement before graduation in June. The College requires all students to pass a 50-yard swim test to be eligible for graduation, but seniors who have put off the test until their final year may face difficulties as the swimming facility is remodelled throughout Spring term. The renovation of the pool will involve the installation of a dehumidifier system, which is necessary to prevent structural damage to Alumni Gym, according to Roger Demment, associate director of athletics for physical education and recreational sports. "The humidity is beginning to eat away at the infrastructure," Demment said. The renovation, which was "needed to maintain the integrity of the building," is part of a wider plan to improve the College's athletic facilities, Demment said. Plans include refurbishing the upper level of the gym, creating two new multipurpose rooms and improving the current fitness center.

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ORL announces plan to cut smoking dorms

By AnnMary Mathew | March 8, 2005

Dartmouth smokers will soon be forced to stop lighting up in their dorm rooms as the College's last smoking residence halls -- Lord, Richardson, Wheeler and South Massachusetts -- will all become smoke-free by fall 2006, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman. The decision was primarily the result of public-health concerns and Dartmouth's small population of smokers relative to the large percentage of students who want smoke-free housing, Redman said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Less than 10 students in the Class of 2008 claimed they were smokers in an ORL poll, Redman said.

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Tuck applicants hack website for results

By Dan Duray | March 8, 2005

Having gone through the college application process, most Dartmouth students understand the agony of having to sit and wait for institutions to make their admission decisions. But some impatient business-school applicants decided to find out their fates early this year by hacking into admissions information at several prominent institutions, including Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and the business schools of Duke, Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon Universities. A hacker going by the name "brookbond" posted instructions on a Business Week online forum describing how applicants could check their admissions status before they were officially notified. "I know everyone is getting more and more anxious to check [the] status of their apps to [Harvard Business School]," the hacker wrote in a message which remained on the website for over nine hours before being removed by site administrators.

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Students spend off-terms in exotic locales around world

By Samantha Ackah | March 7, 2005

While many Dartmouth students who spend a term away from Hanover jockey for New York City investment banking internships, some juniors have shunned the conventional in favor of more unusual off-term experiences. For these students, being away from Dartmouth and experiencing new cultures has made for exciting adventures. Raina Milne '06 spent six days climbing Mount Kilimanjaro during her time volunteering at an orphanage in Tanzania.

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Religious panelists discuss stances on sex, homosexuality

By Jennifer Garfinkel | March 7, 2005

Four panelists of different religious affiliations from the United Campus Ministry addressed their religions' stances on sexual intimacy and premarital sex Friday at a discussion titled "Sex and Religion: What Does God Think about Sex ... And What Does that Mean for You?" Nicole Leonard, from the Provision Christian Fellowship, stressed the importance of waiting until marriage. "The human sex drive is one of the strongest drives we have, but God never intended us to be slaves to our sex drive.

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Parties, projects dominate break plans

By Clare O'Keeffe | March 7, 2005

With only a few more classes left and the last day of exams just a week away, Dartmouth students are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and their minds are turning to spring break. "The thought of going to Rome is the only thing keeping me sane right now, in the midst of three final papers, a presentation and finals," Meredith Raucher '06 said. Raucher spent last spring in Rome on a Dartmouth language study abroad program.

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