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College rallies behind Shannon

By Megan Spillane | August 10, 2004

Members of the Dartmouth community have been keeping vigil over Michael Shannon '06, who has been in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for several days following a life threatening infection and struggle with toxic shock syndrome. An offensive tackle on the Dartmouth football team, Mike first checked into the hospital 10 days ago, at the insistence of his father, Dr. Michael Shannon. On Sunday, Aug.

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N.H. voted best state to live in, beating out Minn.

By Katherine Harrison | August 10, 2004

Despite its modest population numbers and rural atmosphere, New Hampshire won the title of the nation's most livable state, topping the charts of "State Rankings 2004." New Hampshire narrowly defeated reigning champion Minnesota, which has held the title for the last seven years. Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman has lived in both New Hampshire and Minnesota and said that the state rankings do not surprise him.

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Uncited quotation gets Bush, alum in hot water

By Matthew Kelly | August 5, 2004

All Charles Trumbull '02 wanted was a good grade on a history independent study term paper. Instead, he became embroiled in a cross-national war of words in what has become the latest chapter of the bitter U.S.-Cuba relationship -- a chapter Trumbull said would not have started if the White House had accurately cited his paper. Last month, President Bush quoted from Trumbull's paper on Cuba's economy by to rail against Fidel Castro's supposed promotion of prostitution. "The dictator welcomes sex tourism.

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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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