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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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Controversy erupts over Al-Nur website

By Matthew Abbott | July 15, 2004

A series of recent editorials and letters to the editor concerning controversial statements on the Al-Nur Dartmouth Muslim Student Association website have sparked a controversy over whether the student group should be subject to sanctions for placing offensive material on its website. The strife began after a piece entitled "Preaching Hatred at Dartmouth" ran in the June 29 issue of The Dartmouth.

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Power outage leaves Hanover in the dark

By Zachary Goldstein | July 13, 2004

An underground cable failure near Hanover High School Sunday that contributed to two local power outages over the last two days has proven irksome to students living both on and off campus. The first outage started at 8:45 p.m., Sunday and affected 1,900 customers, according to Granite State Electric spokeswoman Jackie Barry.

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SEAD graduates 16 high schoolers

By Kristin Janssen | July 13, 2004

After three summers of guidance, 16 rising high school seniors graduated from the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program Monday night at a ceremony held in Dartmouth Hall. This year's graduates were the second class to complete the SEAD program since its inception in 2001 after area resident Carol Fuchs approached Tucker Foundation Dean Stuart Lord with the idea of creating a summer program for high school students. According to Jay Davis '90, SEAD's director, the program's mission is to help disadvantaged youth by developing their personal strengths and promoting growth and learning in many areas. "We want to expand their conceptions of what's possible in their lives," Davis said. Those who graduated from SEAD's third year last night said they felt this goal had been accomplished.

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Kresge prepares for fitness makeover

By Mark Herman | July 13, 2004

After years of student lobbying to expand the Kresge Fitness Center, the Board of Trustees earmarked funds for the project at its last meeting and the Athletics Department has begun planning for the renovation of the second floor of Alumni Gymnasium to accommodate the new fitness center. The current center will move upstairs to a space at least double its size, while the intramural, club and physical education activities that currently use the space will be relocated downstairs and to other locations, Associate Director of Athletics Roger Demment said. "Obviously one of the major objectives here is to provide a new and improved fitness center that is much larger than the one we have and contains much more equipment than the current one, and at the same time, be able to provide for all the programs we currently offer," Demment said. The project is still in its early stages, however, as athletics officials continue to work with architects to develop plans for renovation. "We've been in talks with the architects.

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Guides lead rash of would-be '09s

By Rebecca Houck | July 13, 2004

Sophomores are not the only ones to discover the magic of Hanover during the summer. Many prospective students join in the fun as well. As most sophomores don their bathing suits and enjoy "Camp Dartmouth," sophomore tour guides at the Admissions Office work overtime.

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Low turnout fails to STRIP the fun from outdoor trips

By Sarah Givner | July 13, 2004

Every summer with a wave of nostalgia, scores of sophomores throw down their books and take off for the wilderness to relive their freshman trip experience. Sophomore Trips, an annual outdoor program under the auspices of the Outdoor Programs Office, organizes groups of sophomores to venture into the wilds of New Hampshire while getting to know their fellow classmates.

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Police Blotter

July 8, 2004

June 28, Hanover Police Department, 6:14 p.m. A husband and wife were involved in a domestic dispute at the Hanover Police station on Lyme Road.

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Cormen pens new agenda for writing

By Megan Peck | July 8, 2004

Charged with coordinating writing instruction on campus, computer science professor Tom Cormen started his three-year term as acting director of College's new writing program July 1. The writing program will oversee all first-year courses -- English 2-3, English 5 and the first-year seminars.

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