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Endowment jumps by 18 percent from 2003

By Dax Tejera | September 30, 2004

Dartmouth's endowment saw an 18 percent investment return over the past fiscal year -- the second-highest return in the Ivy League among those universities reporting to date. The College has yet to officially announce the endowment's gains, as independent auditors are still confirming Dartmouth's internal analysis of the fund's performance.

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Thayer construction serves as boon for campus decorators

By Kelsey Noonan | September 30, 2004

As construction on the Thayer Engineering School moves into its third month, traffic road signs are disappearing and turning up in student dorm rooms. Safety and Security has recovered four stolen signs from the Thayer site during patrol in dorm and common rooms so far this term -- and the College wants to make certain that no more are stolen. With no one guarding the signs at night except Safety and Security officers on patrol, it is not difficult for signs to go missing. At the beginning of the term, River Community Director Krista Beron sent a BlitzMail message to all cluster residents warning about stolen signs. Beron later denied knowing of any actual cases. "We have so many; it is difficult to keep track of them all," site worker Alex Amature said. But at least two would-be freshmen thieves said stealing the signs has proved a challenge. "Our problem is not in taking the signs, it is getting them back across campus without being seen," said the freshman, a male resident of the Choates who did not want to be identified by name. "We figure we can fit a smaller sign into an EBAs large pizza box, but to move the big 'yield' and 'road closed' signs we may have to dress up as construction workers." He added, "I am in the market for a hard-hat, if anyone can help." Why the construction kleptomania?

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Students frustrated by long food lines

By Rebekah Rombom | September 30, 2004

Staff shortages within Dartmouth Dining Services and a large on-campus population this fall are making for long waits at peak mealtimes -- and some frustrated students. A few minutes after classes scheduled in the 12-hour time slot let out, lines stretch out the door at the Courtyard Caf in the Hopkins Center, while students bump elbows in lines at Collis Caf. Julia Treseder '07 was among dozens of students Wednesday who hurried over to Collis straight after their 12-hour classes.

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College cites new law as reason for hike in arrests

By Alex Belser | September 30, 2004

A substantial increase in alcohol-related arrests at Dartmouth last year was due to New Hampshire's new internal possession law, according to College officials and Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone. The number of alcohol violations increased 22 percent in 2003, to 115 from 94 in 2002, according to statistics released last week in accordance with the federal Clery Act. As was reported Monday, the greatest increase was in violations that occurred on "non-campus properties," which hit 51 from 21 in 2002. Since January 2003, New Hampshire law has made it illegal for underage drinkers to have a blood alcohol content of greater than .02.

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Registration policy shift worries Greeks

By Kate Lyon | September 29, 2004

A shift in the College's party registration policy has Greek leaders worried that the current practices in determining keg allotment will leave them unable to adequately serve legal-aged guests at their parties -- let alone provide alcohol to everyone present. The old policy allotted kegs based on how many guests the house expected throughout the night.

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Houses struggle to fill bedrooms

By Mary Haile | September 29, 2004

Most Greek houses don't struggle to cram their basements. Several of these organizations, however, are struggling to fill their bedrooms, forcing some houses, like Tabard and Phi Tau coed fraternities, to pull in non-members. Dartmouth residency quotas require that Greek organizations house a minimum number of occupants per term, in order to ease up pressure in overcrowded College housing and generate more revenue in rent for the house themselves. Vacancy in Greek houses doesn't always indicate fading membership.

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Students converge on Employment Fair

By Zana Bugaighis | September 29, 2004

Hot. Congested. Just too much. Tuesday's campus job fair, which will continue today, did not receive rave reviews from students, despite Career Services' cheerful endorsement of the event. Between 800 and 900 students visited the Hopkins Center yesterday for a preliminary introduction to the job market.

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Digging deep, Inglis '06 goes to Romania to study fossils

By John M. Mitchell | September 29, 2004

Gabrielle Inglis '06 eschewed lazy afternoons on the Green this summer in favor of days exploring Transylvanian caves. Inglis was one of seven American college students among a slew of Romanian cave enthusiasts who spent four weeks recovering ancient bear fossils from the Cioclovina caves in central Romania. The fossils, guessed to be around 12,000 years old, represent the remains of the skeletons plundered by amateur archaeologists looking for a quick buck.

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Man recovers from near-fatal accident

By Gus Lûbin | September 28, 2004

Doctors at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center are treating a 77-year-old Vermont man who spent two nights trapped beneath a large beech tree after a logging accident left him immobilized and injured. Edward Austin had been cutting trees for firewood last Thursday in the woods of his secluded farm in Shaftsbury, Vt.

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Police warn of heroin's N.H. arrival

By Lizzie Wise | September 28, 2004

The seedy heroin market of Massachusetts may be seeping into sleepy Hanover, and fraternities and sororities should be on the lookout for related burglaries, according to local law enforcement officials. Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said that teens and persons in their twenties and thirties, who obtain heroin from a largely Hispanic market in Massachusetts, are targeting rich environments in the area. Robberies have already been reported in Lebanon, West Lebanon and Newport, and Giaccone said he has reason to believe these burglaries were heroin-related, due to intelligence from other area police departments. In a meeting last Thursday addressing social chairs of coed organizations, Captain Frank Moran informed fraternity and sorority social chairs of increased heroin use and of armed robberies in pursuit of money or goods that could be sold to obtain the drug. While houses might start locking their doors or use lead pipes and bicycle chains to protect personal belongings -- as Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity intends to do -- most members said they were not overly worried. "Seeing as we have nothing of any real value in our house, and none of us deal or use heroin, I don't see Alpha Delta being a prime heroin junkie target in the near future," Alpha Delta fraternity social chair Adam Cohen '05 said. Thus far, fraternities have not experienced break-ins that they attribute to heroin. "We've had brothers from other fraternities try to break in and steal things, but I don't think they were under the influence of that particular drug," Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity social chair Andy Aranda '05 said. In related news, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, responding to a growing substance abuse problems and a lack of area treatment options, plans to begin an intensive outpatient program for substance abuse treatment.

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Tuck drops slightly in Journal rankings

By Phil Salinger | September 28, 2004

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration has finished near the top of yet another set of business school rankings, due largely to high marks from corporate recruiters who praised the workplace abilities of the school's graduates.

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Police Blotter

September 28, 2004

Sept. 22, East Wheelock St. and Rip Road, 12:53 a.m. A Hanover Police cruiser spotted a male, clothed in all black, standing on the side of the road near East Wheelock Street and Rip Road shortly after midnight.

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2004 Employment Fair kicks off in Hopkins Ctr.

By Zana Bugaighis | September 28, 2004

Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students will get a chance to see what may be in store for them after Dartmouth at a campus job fair that begins at noon today at the Hopkins Center. The 100-plus job representatives present will be expecting plenty of questions, but students shouldn't expect to start handing out resumes yet.

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Columbia site aims to gain on facebook.com's ground

By Jessica Chen | September 27, 2004

After months of database dominance, thefacebook.com will have a rival on campus. Columbia's student-designed CampusNetwork was released to Dartmouth this weekend in hopes of making the same splash as it did at Columbia, where 75 percent of undergraduates are members. Dartmouth was selected to be the first school to receive CampusNetwork, an online community similar in intent to thefacebook.com, because it was the most technically advanced, said program spokesman and Columbia junior Wayne Ting.

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DHMC launches HPV vaccination prog.

By Kevin Garland | September 27, 2004

Women in the Hanover area now have the opportunity to receive a vaccination for human papillomavirus, a treatment that past studies have shown can help prevent 76 percent of cervical cancer cases.

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Crime spikes in Dartmouth dorms

By Alex Belser | September 27, 2004

The number of reported burglaries at campus residence halls more than doubled last year, according to statistics just released by the College's Department of Safety and Security.

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Dems rally around Kerry's cause

By Alix Cody | September 27, 2004

CONCORD, N.H. -- Democrats from across the state invaded Concord Sunday afternoon for the first Kerry-Edwards organizing convention of the New Hampshire campaign.

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Student Assembly plans revamp of bike program

By Lizzie Wise | September 27, 2004

One of Student Assembly's highly-publicized initiatives from last spring, Ride Across Dartmouth community bike program, left something to be desired: functioning bikes. For the 2004-2005 session, the Assembly expects to revamp the program with the addition of some 100 bikes and a more practical system of borrowing, according to Student Body President Julia Hildreth '05. The Assembly expects to obtain most of the bikes through donations, Hildreth said.

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House hopeful leads health panel

By Linzi Sheldon | September 24, 2004

On the campaign trail for New Hampshire's second district Congress seat, Democratic candidate Paul Hodes '72 stopped in Hanover last night to moderate a panel on healthcare. Hodes described the forum as an opportunity to highlight an issue important to voters and offer his own perspective as a congressional candidate.

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