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Students hoist masts of pirate ice sculpture

By Mark Henle | January 24, 2005

Dedicated students are already carting snow to the center of the Green to build the centerpiece of this year's Winter Carnival: a pirate ship featuring 52-foot-tall twin masts and an 8-foot slide open to the Dartmouth community.

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Campus mourns death of beloved professor Perrin

By Alex Lentz | January 24, 2005

Family members, friends and colleagues gathered to celebrate and remember the life of longtime Dartmouth English professor and author Noel Perrin Saturday afternoon at Rollins Chapel. Perrin, known to his friends as Ned, was a professor emeritus of English and an adjunct professor of environmental studies.

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Recent hirings do little to relieve crowded departments

By Gus Lûbin | January 24, 2005

While recent faculty hiring expanded and internationalized a number of departments and programs, it did little to lessen the strain on many popular social science departments and several smaller programs. Dartmouth hired 27 new professors, according to a compilation of figures from individual department chairs. But Martin Dimitrov is the only of the 27 new professors who is teaching in the chronically overenrolled government department. "If we don't hire new faculty then we will either have to take caps off overenrolled courses and give multiple choice tests instead of essays, or we would require fewer seminars or narrow the breadth of our courses," government department chair Anne Sa'adah said. "Of course we have only so much office space, so it's not always easy to hire more," Sa'adah added. The psychology and sociology departments also hired only one additional faculty member each. Outside of the large social science departments, chairs of the film and television studies department and the office of speech said they would like to see more faculty members in their programs as well. The film department has recently expanded from being an academic program, similar to Asian and Middle-Eastern studies.

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Investment committee divulges vote record

By Mark Henle | January 21, 2005

Undergraduate representatives from the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility held an open forum Thursday to solicit student input and divulge the committee's voting record. The 10 students present pressed the group's student representatives -- Sally Newman '05 and Luke Gilroy '05 -- for information on everything from its function to its proxy voting record. The committee, formed in 2003 to exercise the College's voting rights on shares it owns, has voted on everything from animal rights to weapons manufacturing to nuclear power in its relatively short history. While the committee generally forms a strong consensus before voting, some issues have led to drawn-out conflict among its members.

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Bush sworn in for second term

By Dax Tejera | January 21, 2005

WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush swore the presidential oath Thursday for a second time, becoming the 16th president in American history to win a second term after a full first four years.

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Skiway gears up to host Special Olympics

By Kristen Kelley | January 21, 2005

Despite forecasts of unbearably cold weather and last-minute changes to courses and event schedules, a record number of volunteers and over 140 participating teams are eagerly anticipating the third annual Winter Special Olympics set to take place Saturday at the Dartmouth Skiway. The recent cold front caused freezing complications and forced the winter games management team to make last-minute changes to the games' structure, games director Pete Bleyler said. Due to the freezing of Garipay Field, the designated location for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, those events must shift to the Skiway, where a 100-meter course was created with artificial snow.

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Harvard pres. under fire for comments on women

By Rebekah Rombom | January 20, 2005

Harvard University President Lawrence Summers' controversial comments at a conference last week about women in math and science have elicited a swift and fervent response from both male and female academics across the country, including those at Dartmouth. At a Friday conference entitled, "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce: Women, Underrepresented Minorities and their S.

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Tuck Dean named to General Mills board

By Hannah Plotkin | January 20, 2005

Minneapolis-based retail food giant General Mills enhanced its relationship with Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business recently when it elected the school's dean, Paul Danos, to its 13-member board of directors. Danos will join Stephen Demeritt '65 Tu'66, the board's vice chairman, and Christina Shea Tu'77, the president of the General Mills Foundation, to advise the company at formal meetings five to six times a year. Danos, who also serves on the boards of BJ's Wholesale Club and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, said he is excited for the opportunity to participate in a corporation as distinguished as General Mills. "I think it's really kind of an exciting prospect to be involved with a company whose brand is so well-known and whose products are used in so many households," Danos said. General Mills, best known for its cereal brands that include Cheerios, also markets Haagen-Dazs ice cream, Yoplait yogurt and Betty Crocker and Pillsbury baked goods. Given the company's products, which are bought and consumed by much of the nation, Danos indicated he felt a strong sense of duty in his prominent new position. "It's a big responsibility, I think, to make it [General Mills' product] as healthful as possible and affordable as possible, as it affects the lives of a lot of people," Danos said. Danos' association with the Tuck School, whose alumni are influential in the General Mills organization, was instrumental in his election to the Board. "Tuck has always had several people in the management of the corporation, so Tuck has a relationship," Danos said.

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Cold forces students indoors for Jan., Feb.

By AnnMary Mathew | January 20, 2005

Despite last week's unusually mild weather, Dartmouth students should put away their tanning oil in favor of mittens and scarves, as Hanover's typical subzero temperatures descended Tuesday and will likely not ease up soon. The cold weather has many staying inside to avoid the dangerous cold.

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SA joins up with Ivy Council once more

By Elise Waxenberg | January 19, 2005

Just over a year after formally severing ties with the Dartmouth chapter of the Ivy Council, the Student Assembly voted to reestablish relations with the body Tuesday, narrowly achieving the three-quarters majority necessary for the constitutional change after extensive debate that caused a motion for instant-runoff voting to be tabled until next week. Ivy Council, an organization comprised of student government delegations from the eight Ivy League schools, meets once per term and will convene at Dartmouth in the spring. Logistical issues caused Dartmouth's Ivy Council to effectively break off from the Assembly three years ago and become a Council on Student Organizations-sponsored group. "The benefits didn't outweigh the consequences of this decision," amendment co-sponsor Dave Zubricki '07 said of the earlier decision he attempted to rectify. Dealing with budget constraints of its own, COSO insisted this year that several of its recognized organizations seek outside sources of funding. Russell Lane '06, who headed Dartmouth's Ivy Council during his last three terms on campus, introduced the legislation.

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CFS party guidelines under examination

By Dan Duray | January 19, 2005

Although it was open to the entire campus, an audience of mainly Coed, Fraternity and So rority presidents and social chairs advocated for CFS houses to bear more responsibility in social events management procedures at a SEMP review committee forum held Tuesday night at Phi Delta Alpha fraternity. Tuesday's meeting was part of an ongoing effort to reach out to students to gain suggestions about the policy.

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Police Blotter

January 19, 2005

Jan. 12, Lebanon Street, 4:03 p.m. Hanover Police responded to a Hanover High School student's complaint that his iPod had been stolen from his unlocked locker.

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