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SA addresses ongoing problems in advising

By Alex Belser | November 4, 2004

If teachers are considered role models by anyone, it is probably by their students. But Dartmouth's student government is trying to find professors who can serve as examples for another group altogether -- other faculty members. A Student Assembly initiative is set to recognize up to five freshman faculty advisers for their good work, based upon student input. Freshmen and sophomores are being asked to nominate exceptional advisers by e-mail.

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Lynch puts gubernatorial seat in Democrats' hands

By Gus Lûbin | November 4, 2004

At 2 a.m. Wednesday, many news anchors were still holding New Hampshire aside with Ohio, New Mexico and Iowa as "too close to call." It seemed as though the Granite State's four electoral votes might make the difference in the presidential race. In the end, they didn't.

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Bush wins electoral mandate

By The Associated Press | November 4, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush claimed a re-election mandate Wednesday after a record 59 million Americans chose him over Democrat John Kerry and voted to expand Republican control of Congress as well.

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20 seniors inducted to Phi Bete

By Hannah Plotkin | November 3, 2004

The 20 members of the Class of 2005 with the highest cumulative grade point averages were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society's Dartmouth chapter Tuesday evening. The newly initiated Phi Betes are Mikhail Akulov, Devin Dwyer, Cortelyou Kenney, Jason Lee, Andrew Li, Tori McKee, Anna Nowogrodzki, Elizabeth Pope, Sandeep Ramesh, Samantha Schilling, Christine Schott, Nicholas Schwartz, Hiram Shaish, Katharine Stahl, Stephen Stahr, Mark Wang, Patrick Ward, Katharine Wendell, Christina Yu and Thomas Zangle. Potential Phi Betes must rank among the top 20 undergraduates in terms of cumulative grade point average after three years spent at the College.

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Students face few poll challenges

By John Mitchell and Kelsey Blodget | November 3, 2004

Democratic and Republican party challengers questioned few students' right to vote at the polls at Hanover High School Tuesday, despite reports of 500 same-day registrations and widespread speculation that challenges would be common. In 2002, lawyers hired by the Republican Party challenged over 500 students who declared New Hampshire as their legal domicile.

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At Hanover polls, students turn out in droves

By Kelsey Blodget | November 3, 2004

Over 5,000 voters cast their ballots in Hanover's energetic Election Day atmosphere Tuesday. Normal sleep schedules stood interrupted while eager students showed up in droves -- by 10 a.m., when many Dartmouth classes commence, 2,000 votes had already been placed. Volunteers from the Young Democrats and College Republicans also woke up bright and early for Election Day get-out-the-vote efforts.

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Monday's poll indicates N.H. vote still dead heat

By From staff and wire reports | November 2, 2004

A poll released in New Hampshire Monday shows Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and President Bush locked in a near dead heat as voters head to the polls. The final tracking poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire for WMUR-TV, had Kerry picking up 49 percent and Bush 48 percent. One percent said they would vote for another candidate, including Ralph Nader, and 1 percent were undecided. Both Bush and Kerry picked up one percentage point since the poll surveyed likely voters by telephone Sunday, while the number of undecided and third-party voters each dropped one percentage point. The poll's results indicate that New Hampshire's four electoral votes could again prove decisive this year.

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Pamphleteers dissuade students from voting

By Elise Waxenberg | November 2, 2004

Right down to Election Day, the question for many student voters who have yet to register in New Hampshire is not whom they will vote for, but whether or not they should vote in the state at all. Students have been showered in Democratic and Republican party leaflets about student voter registration for the past several weeks, but legal questions still linger for out-of-staters who plan to take advantage of New Hampshire's same-day registration laws.

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Dean stumps for former rival Kerry at Hop

By Phil Salinger | November 2, 2004

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean blasted Republican candidates for focusing their campaigns on "guns, God, gays and abortion," instead of issues such as the economy, lost jobs, healthcare and public education Monday at the Hopkins Center. Dean's speech touched on a wide range of his misgivings about America's current state, from President Bush's policies to the state of intellectual debate in this country to the importance of voting. Dean blamed the Bush administration for discouraging dissent and intelligent discourse, two qualities he described as essential to a united democracy. "They think that what they think is more important than what American voters think," Dean said of the Bush administration. Speaking in front of a crowd of about 300, Dean spent much of his speech discussing the importance of not only voting, but also of convincing others to vote.

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Homecoming arrests show dip from past

By Lizzie Wise | November 2, 2004

Police activity over Homecoming weekend declined slightly from recent years, with Hanover Police reporting 16 arrests and four protective custody cases between Friday evening and Sunday morning.

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November 2, 2004

Oct. 25, South Main Street, 6:56 p.m. Seen staggering around the vicinity of The Wrap, a 24-year-old male resident of Hanover was taken into protective custody on suspicion of drug abuse.

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Paid Bush supporters cause uproar

By Mark Henle and Kaitlin Bell | November 1, 2004

State Democrats reacted quickly when the Republican Party, trying to garner last-minute support with New Hampshire's swing voters, began paying part-time workers $75 this weekend to devote a day to the Bush campaign -- especially in liberal areas like Hanover. Democratic field organizers in the area alerted supporters and volunteers Friday about students from nearby colleges who had been paid to hold Bush-Cheney signs and wear campaign stickers on the Green. The program, meant to boost volunteer numbers in key swing states, is offered nationally, with students from less contentious states like Vermont being bussed into swing states to campaign for President Bush.

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College offers few barriers to getting morning-after pills

By Bridget Alex | November 1, 2004

Elizabeth Hirsh, manager of the women's health program at Dick's House, rummaged through a filing cabinet as she searched for a handout on pregnancy options. "This is how often I have to pull this out," said Hirsh, who was unable to find the little-used printout. Dick's House sees just a handful of unplanned student pregnancies each year, down from between 25 and 40 in 2001.

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'04s make weightless trip on board of NASA craft

By Kate Lyon | November 1, 2004

Flanked by a "Dartmouth 2004" banner, Stephanie Feldman '04 and Lauren Talbot '04 floated weightlessly on board NASA's microgravity plane in the opening slide of their presentation "A Weightless Wonder: Our Foray into Microgravity" in Spannos Auditorium at the Thayer School of Engineering on Sunday. As part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunity Program, Feldman, Talbot and Lea Kiefer '04 spent the last eight months designing and testing experimental exercises to prevent muscle atrophy in astronauts while in space. The project culminated in a chance to test their ideas in the "Weightless Wonder," an antigravity aircraft that simulates the feeling of weightlessness in outer space at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in July. Calling themselves the Dartmouth Resistance Exercises for Anti-Gravity Muscles, or the DREAM team, the women said they were inspired to search for better ways for astronauts to avoid the atrophy of muscles during weightlessness by the work of their adviser, Dr. Jay Buckley, a professor at the Dartmouth Medical School. On earth, muscles get constant exercise because gravity gives them something to resist.

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GOP faithful greet Bush in Manchester

By Jessica Chen | November 1, 2004

MANCHESTER, Oct. 29 -- Thousands of Republicans surged to their feet in thunderous applause Friday, as President Bush and Laura Bush entered the packed Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester for one of his final speeches of the presidential campaign.

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