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Sex T-shirts return to Webster Ave.

By Kristen Kelley | July 29, 2004

In place of a typical Friday evening on frat row, the Sexual Awareness Peer Advisors have organized a street-wide event to fight rape on campus, giving away their ever-popular "Consensual Sex is HOT" T-Shirts. The aim of the event is to teach students about consensual sex not through lectures, but through entertainment such as board games and inquiry wheels.

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Havard's endowment managers draw scrutiny

By Mary Haile | July 29, 2004

Harvard University, an institution usually regarded with the highest distinction, has become the subject of the latest financial controversies after a New York Times report released Sunday questioned the university's endowment practices. Concerns arose in 2000 when Harvard indirectly profited from Smith College's $15 million investment of its endowment with Regiment Capital Management L.L.C.

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Photo sleuth aids law in detecting doctored images

By Samantha Lane | July 29, 2004

When a picture of John Kerry and Jane Fonda speaking together at an anti-war rally appears on the Internet, who is to say that the event never took place -- that in reality the two speakers never shared a platform? Thanks to the pioneering research efforts of Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth, analysts are gaining access to technology that allows them to identify manipulated digital images such as the Kerry/Fonda collage. Just yesterday, Farid sent code he has developed for authenticating digital media to the forensics department of the FBI, in the hopes of helping them crack down on digital forgery -- a problem that has grown in the past few years thanks to technological advances in Photoshop and the Internet. According to Farid, there are a number of different tools that one might use to manipulate an image.

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Cable failures spark five summer power outages

By Megan Peck | July 29, 2004

One unexpected feature of Sophomore summer has been the frequent blackouts that have some wondering if Hanover is reverting to the Stone Age. Tuesday morning's power outage marked the fifth blackout to hit Hanover this July.

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Two Dartmouth Republicans vie for N.H. House seat

By Megan Spillane | July 27, 2004

The New Hampshire State House of Representatives race in the predominantly Democratic Hanover-Lyme district looks to be somewhat more interesting than it has been in years past, as two Dartmouth Republicans have thrown their hats in the ring. Jesse Roisin '05 and Katherine Racicot '06, who are both active members of the College Republicans, have decided to run for seats in the State House.

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Heller '05 wins community service award

By Matthew Abbott | July 27, 2004

Dartmouth students are often praised for their involvement in a wide range of community service activities, but one student in the College recently received special honors for her outstanding contributions of aiding the underprivileged. Rebecca Heller '05 was presented the Campus Compact Howard R.

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Police Blotter

July 16, Lyme Road, 9:08 p.m. Police arrested a 20-year-old male sophomore from Indiana on unlawful possession charges, dating from a June 24 incident in Novack Cafe, when a College custodian encountered the student passed out and covered in vomit in the bathroom of Novack that morning.

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Parents skip official events over weekend

By Rebecca Houck | July 27, 2004

Most who partook in '06 Sophomore Family Weekend lauded the event as a success. However, over Family Weekend many visitors plunged into the atmosphere of Sophomore Summer that the Class of 2006 knows well, and chose to lounge around and attend social functions, rather than go to College-sponsored events. While the Student Activities Office and the '06 Class Council worked together to plan activities to keep family members of all ages entertained throughout the weekend, most students had their own agendas for their families, thus opting not to take advantage of professor lectures, running clinics or the hypnotist show. Yet Katherine Lawson, a sophomore co-coordinator said the weekend went very well, mentioning the student performance showcase Saturday night as a particularly well-attended event. "It was such a short period of time.

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'05s plead not guilty in drug case

By Matthew Kelly | July 22, 2004

Three Dartmouth students charged last month with several felony-level drug offenses all pleaded not guilty prior to their scheduled arraignments Tuesday. Steve DeMarco '05, Eric Testan '05 and Sheanon Summers '05 all decided to waive arraignment and plead not guilty.

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Five Olde joins Keggy on Playboy website

By Mary Haile | July 22, 2004

Playboy Magazine recently reinforced the College's reputation for intemperate alcohol consumption, previously established by National Lampoon's "Animal House," by choosing Hanover's very own Five Olde Nugget Alley as its College Bar of the Month. "It's great exposure and I'm honored," the bar's owner Thomas Leonard said. Better known as "Five Olde," the pub began serving patrons in the 1960s, and has since become a favorite among undergraduates, including the online feature's author, Nic Duquette '04, a freelance writer for Playboy and the former editor of the Jack-O-Lantern. "There are Playboy college reps at colleges all across the Country.

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Pong and picnics planned for sophomore parents

By Kristen Kelley | July 22, 2004

It appears that the arrival of sophomore parents and siblings this weekend will not diminish the amount of drinking that takes place on a typical weekend, as many Greek organizations have planned parent-child pong tournaments and afternoon cocktail parties.

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Luckenbill prepares to compete in Athens

By Megan Peck | July 20, 2004

During this year's Olympic women's soccer competition, members of the Dartmouth community will have a hometown athlete to cheer for as Kristin Luckenbill '01 will travel to Athens as a member of the U.S.

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Freshmen connect with friends on thefacebook

By Matthew Kelly | July 20, 2004

Thefacebook.com, the website whose popularity has spread like a conjunctivitis epidemic across campus, has even infected many incoming members of the Class of 2008, who are months away from matriculation. On its homepage, the site offers to "see a visualization of your social network" and "find out who is in your classes," but it has aided those who have yet to sit through their first Dartmouth lecture. As of Tuesday, 183 incoming Dartmouth freshmen have signed up on the site; that number excludes '08s who did not specify their class years.

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Tubestock sees few incidents

By Matthew Abbott | July 20, 2004

The most serious injury of an otherwise uneventful Tubestock came early Saturday when a male participant jumped off the roof of a house on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River and was knocked unconscious upon hitting the water. A Hanover police officer on one of the marine patrol boats noticed the injured participant and responded immediately, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone.

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Historian elucidates current election

By Megan Spillane | July 20, 2004

Montgomery fellow and renowned presidential historian Robert Dallek, who will lecture Tuesday in Filene Auditorium, shed light on the current administration and the 2004 presidential election in a recent interview with The Dartmouth. Voters' judgments of the continuing violence in Iraq and of the Bush administration's "inaccurate or false assumptions," will determine the outcome, according to Dallek.

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Summer Assembly looks to increase involvement

By Katherine Harrison | July 15, 2004

The Student Assembly plans to take business to a higher level of professionalism this summer. Led by summer president Todd Rabkin Golden '06, the Assembly's goals include improving communication with students and changing its image. In an effort to improve communication with students on campus, Assembly leaders will update their previously unused BlitzMail bulletin on a weekly basis while maintaining their website and Hopkins Center bulletin board with current information. As part of its image change, the Assembly also plans to redesign its logo.

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