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Ben and Jerry's exec. notes importance of social duties

By Hannah Plotkin | February 28, 2005

Walter Freese Tu'79, Ben and Jerry's "chief euphoria officer," emphasized the power of business to support social missions Friday in his keynote speech at the third annual Business and Sustainability Initiative conference at the Tuck School of Business. As the company's top executive, Freese leads Ben and Jerry's efforts to receive superior business returns, produce the best possible ice cream and be environmentally responsible. Although many doubt the possibility of combining business with social responsibility, Freese cited Ben and Jerry's success with its social mission. "Business also has the ability to be a force for change environmentally and to be a force for change in economic and social justice," Freese said. He went on to explain that it is not the job of a specific individual within the company to achieve this but every employee's responsibility, from the top down.

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Vt. border patrols upset, inconvenience students

By Alix Cody | February 28, 2005

When Victor Fressie '05 tried to board a bus in White River Junction, Vt., last winter, two border patrol officers stared at him, followed him onto the vehicle and proceeded to check the identification of all passengers, he said. Fressie, a native of Mexico, told The Dartmouth that when they got to him, they questioned him more thoroughly, asking about the exact date that he was naturalized.

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Students protest Princiotti dismissal

By Gus Lûbin | February 28, 2005

A day before Anthony Princiotti conducted the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra in its seasonal concert, students were fighting for his job in a meeting with Lenore Grenoble, the associate dean of the faculty for the humanities. In a Friday afternoon meeting, students voiced their concerns over the recent decision not to retain Princiotti as a private violin instructor in the music department, a position he has held for 12 years. One by one, the 29 students and community members in attendance spoke about Princiotti's skill and value as a teacher and music guru.

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Dance troupe's archives return to campus roots

By Kelsey Blodget | February 25, 2005

Pilobolus -- a groundbreaking modern dance troupe founded in 1971 by two Dartmouth students -- donated the valuable newspaper clippings, playbills, photos, videos, publicity material and posters that archive their history to the Rauner Special Collections Library, the College announced Thursday. The archive is available to all students, faculty and visiting researchers as a resource, but according to Special Collections Librarian Jay Satterfield, it will take several years to categorize the archive and make the information accessible. "We are delighted to have this collection," Satterfield said.

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Proposed Bush budget would cut loan program

By Alex Belser | February 25, 2005

The Bush administration's proposed federal budget would slash the Federal Perkins Loan program, used by 1,325 undergraduates, potentially forcing the College to adjust its financial aid program. Budget squeezes at the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, meanwhile, will likely result in less government money available for science research. The Department of Education, which has argued that Perkins Loans duplicate other programs and are only available at a limited number of institutions, would rather earmark money for Pell Grants, which are targeted to low-income students regardless of the institution they attend. If approved by Congress, which has the power to strike or modify any part of the budget during the approval process, the end of Perkins Loans would lead Dartmouth to look to other programs -- especially Stafford Loans -- to try to meet the needs of students and their families, according to Virginia Hazen, the College's director of financial aid. The College lent out $5.7 million in Perkins Loans last year but usually disburses around $3 million, Hazen said.

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Sex Festival organizers nix Chi Gam booth

By Jennifer Garfinkel | February 24, 2005

The Center for Women and Gender vetoed attempts by Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity to sponsor a booth at last week annual Sex Festival due to campus perceptions of the fraternity, according to the co-organizer of the festival. Chi Gam reportedly expressed interest in sponsoring a booth, called "Kiss Me Here, Please," at which students would place a sticker on a cutout of a human body, specifying their erogenous zones.

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COSO faces tight budget for rest of academic year

By Elise Waxenberg | February 24, 2005

Student groups under the Council on Student Organizations umbrella have less than a quarter of COSO's original budget left to vie for as they head into the second half of the year. As of early Wednesday, COSO had approximately $48,600 remaining in its coffers, out of the $215,000 budget it received from the Undergraduate Finance Committee last spring.

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'Likely letters' sent to relieve college tensions

By John Mitchell | February 24, 2005

"Senioritis" may infect a few select applicants to the Class of 2009 earlier than their peers, as Dartmouth's Office of Admissions once again sends out "likely letters" in February and early March. The Admissions Office sends these letters to approximately 500 exceptional members of the regular-decision applicant pool that the office has decided to accept early in the process.

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Four 'nice Jewish girls' perform in Collis

By Rebekah Rombom | February 24, 2005

An excited audience in Collis Commonground sat in anticipation for 30 minutes last night while Goddess Perlman, Vanessa Hidary, Michelle Citrin and Ophera Eisenberg prepared to take the stage in "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad," a show in which "boldly hilarious young Jewish women trying to shake their reputations as JAPs and Jewish mothers and let their wilder sides emerge," according to the group's website. Perlman, the driving force behind the creation of "Nice Jewish Girls," said she put the show together in May of 2003 when she e-mailed a group of female Jewish performers and asked if they wanted to sign onto the project. "I just kept running into all these wonderful women acts," Perlman said. Citrin, one of those women, said she was enthusiastic about the show's concept. "Defy the stereotype by embracing it -- that's pretty much what it is," Citrin said of the performance. The show began as an event for Heeb magazine, but Perlman, who does bookings and promotion as well as performances, now tours with a rotating group of female Jewish performers. The show began a half-hour late due to technical difficulties with Perlman, clad in a metallic skirt and bustier trimmed with a blue feather boa, declaring that, "I put the ho in hora." Such allusions to Jewish culture continued sporadically throughout the show, though it was not geared toward Jews alone.

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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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