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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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Police Blotter

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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Security tight at tonight's bonfire

By Lizzie Wise | October 29, 2004

Anticipating a crowd at this year's Homecoming bonfire commensurate with the large crowds of yore, Safety and Security and the Hanover Police Department are prepared and armed in numbers. To assist with crowd control on Friday night during the bonfire, College Proctor Harry Kinne estimated that approximately 30 Safety and Security officers and 20 to 25 officers from the Hanover and other area police departments will be on the Green.

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More to HC weekend than beer and bonfire

By Bridget Alex | October 29, 2004

The temperature forecast may be 50 degrees, but sultry confessions and a Disco Inferno party should make this year's Homecoming a hot one. In a new event this year, Programming Board and DTV are putting on a "Dashboard Confessional" program in which students will sit behind a car dashboard and video camera to recount their craziest times at Dartmouth.

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Campus celeb pumped for Homecoming

By Steven Orbuch | October 29, 2004

Jesus did it over 2,000 years ago. Tupac did it in 1997. Keggy's doing it at Homecoming. Keggy the Keg, Dartmouth's unofficial rogue mascot, will be resurrected at a major campus event this weekend, according to sources close to the giant beverage container. Jeffrey Wagner '06, who, along with the Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern humor magazine, was left in charge of the caricature mascot, declined to comment regarding what event Keggy will appear at and on who will wear the costume in the absence of former Keggy Andrew Argeski '06, but promised that he would make "a big splash this weekend, particularly for the '08s who haven't seen him yet." Argeski, who has performed the role of Keggy since he first appeared at the 2003 Homecoming, is currently on the off-campus Environmental Studies program informally known as "The Stretch." Following his first appearance at last year's Homecoming game against the Columbia Lions, in which Keggy was helped onto the field by Safety and Security for an impromptu performance alongside the Dartmouth College Marching Band, Argeski found a dedicated following as he appeared at various campus sporting events. "I liked the way he united the student body and how people got behind him ... even when the team was losing," Wagner said.

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Not all profs hold class on Homecoming Friday

By Rebekah Rombom | October 29, 2004

Even though today is a day of classes according to the Dartmouth term calendar, many students will be able to begin their Homecoming festivities early, as several professors have cancelled class or opted to use the x-hour in lieu of holding regularly scheduled classes. The Principles on the College's calendar mandate that there be at least 47 days of classes per term. "When you're on a quarter system, there is limited flexibility -- for every day off, there is a day on," said College Registrar Polly Griffin. The Principles have been revised only twice since they were written in 1974, and they have never included a provision to make the Friday before Homecoming weekend an official College holiday. In spite of the regular schedule, Latin professor Holly Haynes, who teaches at 8:45 and 10 on Friday mornings, decided to use the x-hour for both classes instead of teaching on Friday. According to Haynes, she cancelled class under "pressure from the students, [because] they said they weren't going to show up." However, Haynes said that since she has scheduled class during this week's x-hour, the students won't be missing any instruction. Louis Shapiro, a visiting mathematics professor from Howard University, is not of the same mindset.

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College's Homecoming unique among Ivies

By Phil Salinger | October 29, 2004

At Dartmouth, students start looking forward to the Homecoming bonfire, parties and football game at the beginning of Fall term, and freshmen eagerly await the Freshman Sweep and other festivities on the Friday night of Homecoming.

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