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Freshman jumper ends Chi Gam party

By Phil Salinger | April 4, 2005

Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity shut down a dance party early Saturday morning, after an intoxicated freshman, Thaddeus Olchowski '08, allegedly jumped out of a window at the fraternity, leading to his arrest. Brandon Piper '06, Chi Gam president and one of the party's sober monitors, said he was standing near the window as the freshman defenestrated himself on the stairway between Chi Gam's basement and first floor. Olchowski allegedly deliberately walked from the basement, up the stairs and to the window.

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New state bill would permit casino gambling in N.H.

By Stuart A. Reid | April 1, 2005

While there are no plans to open a Mohegan Sun casino on Maynard Street, risk-taking students may soon be able to legally quench their desires for gambling just over an hour away from campus. The New Hampshire legislature is contemplating Senate Bill 225, which would allow for over 6,000 computer gambling machines across the state and gambling in three hotels located in northern New Hampshire. The bill's sponsor, Senator Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, said the bill is aimed at fixing the state's projected budget deficit of nearly $250 billion. But critics of the bill believe it will lead to an increase in gambling addictions while fueling embezzlement, child abuse, alcoholism and crime. Jim Rubens, who heads the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling, opposes the bill because he thinks it conjures an image of government supported gambling addictions. "This is the same reason we don't legalize crack cocaine parlors," he said, adding that the bill would create an additional 3,000 pathological gamblers. In an e-mail to supporters, he wrote, "Casinos are the only budget fix that would damage our state's reputation as a healthy, family-friendly place to live, work and visit." Bill proponents dismissed Rubens' concerns. "It's not true," D'Allesandro said in reference to social problems from gambling.

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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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