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Students neglect to offer input on librarian search

By Liz Yepsen | February 25, 2004

A Dean of the Libraries search committee meeting designed to gather student input into the hiring of a new dean attracted no students and no input Tuesday night. Members of the search committee were present to field questions and suggestions, but no students arrived to offer feedback. The committee, formed last September, is seeking to gain student and faculty opinions as the College looks for a replacement for former Librarian of the College, Richard Lucier.

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S&S, police outline alcohol regulations

By Matthew Kelly | February 25, 2004

College and Hanover Police Department officials held an information session Tuesday evening to explain alcohol laws and regulations and try to dispel student confusion about the subject. Captain Frank Moran of the Hanover Police Department, Director of Safety and Security Proctor Harry Kinn and Director of Undergraduate Student Affairs Marcia Kelly spoke at the event, held Tuesday at Sigma Delta sorority. The event's main purpose was to educate students on their rights regarding alcohol, in an effort to create more "informed consumers," as Kinne jokingly termed it. A major concern for many students in attendance was the state's relatively new internal possession law. The New Hampshire underage drinking law was broadened last year to include alcohol present in the body under the category of "possession of alcohol." Alcohol possession is measured by either obvious intoxication or a .02 blood alcohol content.

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SA forges plans for Lone Pine

By Lizzie Wise | February 25, 2004

Prompted by student input from a Student Assembly campus-wide BlitzMail survey, Student Body President Janos Marton '04 has joined forces with Dartmouth Dining Services and the Collis Center in an attempt to cater to students' eating demands. Based on 610 student responses, the survey results indicated that a noticeable majority of students prefer a late-night snack-food option upstairs in Collis rather than downstairs. However, Lone Pine Tavern's loyal customers should not fret, the survey said. The report concluded that a compromise between a modified Lone Pine Tavern and a modified Big Green Bean would be reached.

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Parker '73 runs for Ala. Supreme Court

By Steven Orbuch | February 24, 2004

Tom Parker '73, legal adviser to controversial former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, has announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for a seat on the Alabama Supreme Court. Parker will face off in the June 1 state Republican primary against incumbent Justice Jean Brown -- one of the eight associate justices who had Moore's Ten Commandments monument removed from a rotunda in the Alabama Judicial Building. The primary race is expected to be one of the more heated ones in Alabama, Parker said, because Democrats have yet to post a challenger for Brown's seat. Therefore, the contest for the Alabama Supreme Court seat will most likely be resolved at the Republican primary, Parker said. At present, Parker and Moore's careers are very much intertwined. Parker was an adamant supporter the Ten Commandments monument that U.S.

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Native Americans form all-Ivy organization

By Megan Spillane | February 24, 2004

Drawing students from each Ivy League school and several others in the northeast, the All-Ivy Native American Student Conference discussed "Indigenous Minds Uniting" at a weekend conference held at the College. The conference witnessed the founding of the Ivy Native Council, to be comprised of one representative from each of the eight Ivy League schools. The council, organizers said, will convene regularly to discuss Native American issues and to further the development of both Native American studies departments and Native American community programs at the universities. Beginning Thursday, Feb.

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College ponders shift from Blitz

By Dax Tejera | February 24, 2004

Dartmouth is considering offering a third-party alternative to the College's BlitzMail e-mail client, as concerns about the aging communication program have mounted in recent months. While no solid plans to phase out BlitzMail currently exist, the College's Council on Computing has charged a subcommittee with gathering information on e-mail features most important to members of the Dartmouth community. A web survey, too, seeks to gauge campus opinion about features a potential "off-the-shelf" e-mail client should have and whether BlitzMail still serves its users' needs. BlitzMail, which was developed at Dartmouth in 1987 and is a registered trademark of the College, was created before the term e-mail was coined and electronic messaging became popular.

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Water main bursts at Alumni Gym

By Steven Orbuch | February 24, 2004

A water main burst late Sunday night nearly kept Alumni Gymnasium and Berry Sports Center closed Monday, but quick repair work brought both complexes back up and running by 11 a.m. The pipe burst, which left Alumni Gym and Berry Sports Center without cold water, occurred when an old water pipe cracked beneath East Wheelock Street. Manley Gymnasium, adjacent to Alumni Gym, was not affected by the accident because it draws cold water from a separate water main. The incident was "was probably a result of the freeze-thaw process," Facilities Operation and Management employee Frank Roberts said.

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Police Blotter

By Matthew Kelly | February 24, 2004

Feb. 16, Massachusetts Row, 7:52 p.m. Police receive medical assistance call. College-age female was experiencing an asthma attack. Feb.

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Hop plans physical expansion

By AnnMary Mathew | February 23, 2004

Plans are in the works for expansions to the Hopkins Center for the Arts that will include a new building for the studio art and film and television studies departments. "The film and studio art programs are in desperate need of more space," said associate director of facilities planning Jack Wilson. Currently, "studio artists are really jammed between Wilson and Clement Hall," Wilson said. Studio art intern Meredith Esser '03 agreed with Wilson.

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To students' chagrin, spam invades BlitzMail inboxes

By Dax Tejera | February 23, 2004

Junk e-mail and spam remain a growing problem for the College's Computing Services department, as BlitzMail users continue to complain of unsolicited messages clogging inboxes and even uploading debilitating viruses onto network computers. While Dartmouth's mail hub scans and excludes certain file types that commonly contain viruses as a precaution against malicious attachments, limiting e-mail messages from a seemingly infinite number of internet domains has proven to be a formidable challenge. Computing Services is strictly limited in its ability to make blanket restrictions on potential sources of junk e-mail and viruses, as the department has committed to offering its users freedom of information online. Ellen Young, manager of consulting services for Computing Services, explained the dilemma. "This is an academic institution.

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College spends $1.2 mil. on Alpha Chi renovation

By Kevin Garland | February 23, 2004

The Office of Residential Life plans on undertaking a $1.2 million renovation of the College-owned Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, administration officials told The Dartmouth. The updates will help the house's physical structure apply more closely to the Americans with Disabilities Act standards and current fire code regulations.

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College to modify English prog.

By Mark Herman | February 23, 2004

As the College attempts to better prepare freshmen for future written endeavors, Dartmouth's long-standing first-year English program will soon witness significant changes in its administrative handling, Dean of the Faculty Michael Gazzaniga has announced. In the current program's place will be one that brings required writing courses under the leadership of an acting director, Gazzaniga said, noting that the transition process would span about three years. The announcement comes in the wake of recommendations from the Committee on Instruction's subcommittee on writing, formed last spring to develop a program that brings required writing courses -- English 2-3, English 5 and first-year seminars -- together under one umbrella, provide resources in writing pedagogy for faculty teaching those courses and oversee College-wide academic support for writing courses. "What's happened is that the COI subcommittee on writing has, in the Fall term, reviewed the situation of required writing courses at the College, then, working with the dean and the COI, recommended that there be a transitional writing program that brings together the required writing courses into one administrative entity," said Alexandra Halasz, the subcommittee's chair. Halasz, the English department's vice-chair and the current overseer of the English 5 curriculum, said the creation of a transitional writing program, a significant change in how writing is situated in the College curriculum, would help coordinate instruction between courses taught within the English department and outside of it. "It is difficult to coordinate the courses now located within the English department -- English 2, 3 and 5 -- and the courses that operate out of different departments -- the first-year seminars.

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Yale prof. accused of sexual harassment

By Matthew Kelly | February 23, 2004

Yale University is bracing for what some are calling one of the largest scandals to hit the Ivy League, as a prestigious alumna is accusing a famous professor of sexual harassment through the media. In an article titled "Sex and Silence at Yale" published in Monday's New York magazine, noted feminist author Naomi Wolf accuses celebrated Shakespeare expert Harold Bloom of groping her 20 years ago when she was his student. Wolf also points the finger at Yale for protecting its image rather than truly investigating these and other harassment charges.

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Discussion addresses 'forgotten histories'

By Megan Spillane | February 20, 2004

The College held a community dinner to address forgotten histories of minority victimization on Thursday, which marked the 64th anniversary of the government order for the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. History Professors Vernon Takeshita and Craig Wilder spoke at the event entitled "Lost Histories: Reclaiming the Past, Empowering the Future," and encouraged attendants to connect through shared history and to communicate through open dialogues. According to Wilder, minority groups must recognize and fulfill their moral obligations to their predecessors and their contemporary obligations to each other in order to further cultural awareness and understanding. Wilder highlighted the need for members of the campus community to firmly commit to a permanent, coherent Asian American Studies program. Takeshita urged students to end the periods of "deafening silence" that have followed racially-motivated atrocities. "All too often these are the types of histories that are left out of the history books," Takeshita said.

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Nude mag could get College OK

By Zachary Goldstein | February 20, 2004

A student-run magazine featuring pictures of undergraduates is a possibility at Dartmouth, according to some members of the College's Council on Student Organizations. The Harvard Committee on College Life approved a proposal last week to produce a student-run magazine that will feature nude pictures of undergraduates -- and since then, many at Dartmouth have wondered if such a publication could be circulated on the College's campus. Last week, Harvard's CCL voted in favor of a proposal to create Harvard's newest literary magazine -- with a twist.

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Burglar breaks into Main St. jewelry store

By Steven Orbuch | February 20, 2004

Police are investigating a break-in that occurred early Wednesday morning at Ward Amidon Jewelers, located on Main St., near The Nugget Theater. The unidentified burglar smashed several display cases and stole watches of a combined value of less than $600, according to store manager Steven Doubleday. A surveillance tape revealed that only one burglar entered the store during the break-in.

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College offers Greeks loans for house repairs

By Kevin Garland | February 20, 2004

Dartmouth has set aside $8 million for the renovation of Greek houses, but Greek responses to the College Loan Program have been mixed. About $500,000 per house will be available in loans, to be paid back over the next ten years.

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Gay marriage debate heats up in state House

By Dax Tejera | February 19, 2004

New Hampshire may well become the next battleground for gay marriage rights, as the state Senate considers a bill that would spell out marriage as a traditional union reserved for a man and a woman. The proposed bill seeks to close a statutory loophole that would acknowledge same-sex unions from out-of-state couples.

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