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SA presents plan for purchase of communal bicycles

By Elise Waxenberg | February 16, 2005

Student Assembly leaders presented a plan to resurrect its Big Green Bike program at the Assembly's Tuesday night meeting. Between 75 and 100 Iron Horse bicycles would be purchased for communal student use at a total cost of approximately $130 per bicycle, each of which normally retails for $255.

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Author recalls horror of Khmer Rouge

By Alex Belser | February 16, 2005

Policymakers should look beyond simplistic solutions and examine the root causes of threats like terrorism, former British Broadcasting Corporation reporter Philip Short argued in a speech sponsored by the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday. Short, who worked as a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years and recently wrote a book about Pol Pot, was at Dartmouth to talk about the late Cambodian dictator and his reign of terror in Southeast Asia during the late 1970s. Estimates are that starvation, illness and execution during Pol Pot's communist rule killed some 1.5 million people -- one-fifth of Cambodia's population -- though the real numbers may never be known. According to Short, however, foreign intervention in the area during Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime was misguided. "What was going on in Cambodia was dreadfully complicated and every response was simple," Short said. One important lesson, Short told a small crowd, is to realize how perceived threats -- then communism and now terrorism -- come to be.

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Altria exec defends corporate ethics

By Hannah Plotkin | February 16, 2005

Altria Group executive David Greenberg visited the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration Tuesday night to address corporate responsibility and ethics as part of Tuck's business fireside chat series.

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Marketing panel stresses passion in hiring decisions

By John Mitchell | February 16, 2005

Over 60 students searching for insight into the mysteries of corporate job hunting found a valuable source of advice Tuesday at a marketing, advertising and public relations panel held in Carson Hall. A trio of representatives from those industries outlined the entry process into their respective fields as well as some of their own experiences before taking questions from a captivated audience. The discussion largely focused not on life in the given industries but on the qualities and characteristics that firms look for in potential employees. "Research skills are very important," said Andy Plesser, founder of Plesser Holland Public Relations, a boutique public relations firm Plesser said part of his job is to try to manipulate public opinion.

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Philosophy professor wins NEH grant for new book

By Rebekah Rombom | February 15, 2005

The National Endowment for the Humanities granted philosophy professor Roy Sorensen a prestigious 12-month, $40,000 fellowship that will allow him to work on his new book, tentatively titled "Seeing Dark Things." Sorensen was one of 195 scholars in the United States who received fellowships from the endowment, which are given out annually and announced last week.

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Cuban sophomore agitates against Castro regime

By Kelsey Blodget | February 15, 2005

Frustrated by Fidel Castro's continued rule in Cuba, Cuban-American Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego '07 recently attempted to rally the Cuban community on campus through a BlitzMail call to arms. "I want the Cuban community here to train itself, to bear arms and to send every able-bodied man and woman between the ages of 18 and up over to the island," Dinnella-Borrego wrote in the BlitzMail message.

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India Queen proprietor spices up town, campus life

By Kelsey Blodget | February 15, 2005

India Queen owner Bhavnesh Kaushik, a fixture in the local community and well-known friend of many students, hosted his third annual Valentine's Day Charity Auction Saturday evening. Over 200 students and Hanover residents swarmed the restaurant to bid on seven bachelors and bachelorettes as Valentine's Day dates, raising over $4,000 for the tsuanmi relief efforts and 10 Bricks Homeless Shelter. The highest bid was over $600, according to graduate student Ken Leslie, who emceed the event. "People were pretty liquored up by that point in the evening," Leslie said. According to Leslie, Kaushik's willingness to donate his space for charity and social events when approached by students is emblematic of his open and flexible personality.

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Tuck hire dies in L.A. hit-and-run accident

By Alex Belser | February 15, 2005

A California business school student -- set to begin as a Dartmouth professor this summer -- was hit by a car and killed on a Los Angeles street corner Thursday afternoon. Gustavo de Mello, 38, was crossing the street near the University of Southern California when, witnesses told police, a black sport-utility vehicle struck him.

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Carnival arrests drop, MTV shoots footage for 'Dean's List'

By Phil Salinger | February 14, 2005

WEB UPDATE, Feb. 14, 5:28 p.m. Despite celebrations spanning from Wednesday through Saturday night for many students, the campus was more controlled during this Winter Carnival than in past years, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone. In total, police arrested seven students for unlawful possession of alcohol, one for driving while intoxicated, one for resisting arrest and one for misrepresenting age in order to buy alcohol.

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Boykin '87 dismisses AIDS myths in new book

By Dan Duray | February 14, 2005

Keith Boykin '87 is sick of people blaming the "down low" -- the phenomenon of men who identify themselves as straight but have sex with other men -- for the spread of AIDS in the black community.

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Baker offers scenic views; subtle tradition

By Jessica Chen | February 11, 2005

While "library crowds" might prompt most Dartmouth students to picture frenzied students studying for midterm or final exams, Baker Tower tours in fact cater to over 700 visitors each year in the short span of only 2 days during Winter Carnival weekend.

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Greek life dominates weekend with evolved traditions

By Matthew Abbott | February 11, 2005

Despite the plethora of events scheduled for the ninety-fifth Dartmouth Winter Carnival, many students are most anxiously anticipating only one aspect of the weekend: the parties. Winter Carnival has certainly evolved from a weekend centered on sports competitions into one of the College's most fabled social events that draws visitors from far and wide. The weekend became quite popular among students prior to coeducation, as it was a means of drawing female visitors to the male-only campus.

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Winter Carnival '05 - Editors' Note

By Emma Haberman | February 11, 2005

Watching "Peter Pan" as a little kid, it was hard to imagine why Peter never wanted to grow up. Our eyes looked forward - to driver's licenses, to proms and to the pinnacle of all that was grown up: college. Now that we have reached that pinnacle, we still look forward to the next term, the next few years -- the future.

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