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Four recent grads test research on NASA's zero-gravity plane

By Kristen Kelley | August 5, 2004

Through a series of parabolic arcs aboard a NASA aircraft, four recent Dartmouth graduates experienced hours of weightlessness to experiment their solutions to muscle atrophy, the most common physiological problem astronauts experience in space. Inspired by the work of 1998 space shuttle Columbia crewmember and Dartmouth medicine professor Jay Buckey, Stephanie Feldman '04 recruited three classmates to submit a weightless atmosphere research proposal to NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.

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Native Americans receive admissions focus

By Mary Haile | August 5, 2004

In an attempt to solve the growing problem of a steadily declining Native American college population, one summer program recently invited 50 Native American high-school students to receive an in-depth workshop about the college application process. College Horizons, a five-day institute hosted at Carleton College this year, boasted representatives from 21 of the country's most selective colleges, including Dartmouth. The program aimed to teach students how to search for colleges, write an attention-grabbing essay, produce an impressive resume of academic and extracurricular achievements, master an interview and fill out financial aid forms among other activities.

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Tubestock nudity concerns administrators, not students

By Jen Krimm | August 3, 2004

Tubestock: Drinking, yes. Nudity, yes. Sexual harassment, maybe. In response to booing and chants of "take it off" at Tubestock, Abby Tassel, the sexual assault awareness program coordinator, encouraged women who jumped topless off fraternity rafts to send their accounts and opinions on the controversial event. The responses Tassel received to her inquiry were varied.

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Hackers crack College servers, access records

By Megan Spillane | August 3, 2004

Confidential information, including students' names, social security numbers and birthdays, is no longer secure within the College's databases, as an unauthorized user gained access to eight computer servers in the Berry Machine Room and uploaded an unauthorized program late Wednesday night. Associate Provost for Information Technology Larry Levine alerted the entire College community of the intrusion and the potential information leak in a BlitzMail message sent on Friday evening. With access to people's names, social security numbers and birthdays, the hackers could obtain a credit card in someone's name, access financial information or create a false identity. Levine encouraged the recipients of his e-mail to take appropriate action to protect themselves from identity fraud and to contact computing services or human resources to discuss the matter in depth. While Levine told The Dartmouth that many recipients responded to his e-mail, to the best of his knowledge, "no one has discovered any questionable activity." Levine reported the hacking to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but he said that the FBI receives many reports related to these types of hackings and that he is doubtful that anything will come of his report. "The odds are very low," Levine said of apprehending the hackers.

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Man watches porn on first floor Berry

By Steven Orbuch | August 3, 2004

Who ever said that long nights at the library are boring, monotonous affairs? On Thursday evening, a typical night at Baker-Berry Library ended up being a seminal moment of Sophomore summer for those lucky enough to have a front row seat. An unidentified middle-aged man, approximately 35 years old, according to sources, settled down into a Dell reference terminal on the first floor of Berry Library, adjacent to the reference desk.

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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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