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Brooks: Education has polarized voters

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A more educated voting public and urban sprawl are factors contributing to an increasingly polarized electorate, New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks said in a speech yesterday entitled "The Presidency Wars: Politics and Culture in a Polarized Age." An increasing number of voters with college degrees produces a voting populace that is more likely to vote along party lines and less likely to register as independent, Brooks said.


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Smith theft marks second burglary

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After the report of a second sizable theft in Smith yesterday, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone speculated that a professional burglar may be targeting dorm rooms at the College. "If it is outside talent -- meaning people who are not from this area and make it their business to target colleges -- this has me somewhat concerned.





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Journalist discusses Mideast

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Determining America's global role, changing the American view of the Islamic world and channeling faith into peaceful change are all challenges the world faces in the Middle East today, Washington Post foreign correspondent Robin Wright said Monday in her speech "The Middle East and Islamic World: Challenges in 2004." According to Wright, the American view of the Islamic and Arab world as entirely distinct from the U.S.


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Far from Hanover, military alums reflect

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Looking out a bay door in a CH-53 Super Stallion chopper, high above the Afghan desert where you're about to fight for your life, your college education may not mean much. Dartmouth graduates have found this out for themselves, as troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan reflected on their wartime experiences in recent interviews with The Dartmouth. Nathaniel Fick '99 served five years in the U.S.


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Clark stumps on religion, Iraq war

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Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark spent much of his time at Dartmouth Friday discussing traditionally Republican issues while extolling a moderate Democratic message for "leadership that will hold this country together." The retired four-star general spoke and held question-and-answer sessions on religion, military strength and a host of other issues at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity's pancake breakfast in the morning, and again at the Top of the Hop in the early evening. Both events transpired during a day in which Clark received word that he was trailing frontrunner Howard Dean by 15 points -- the narrowest margin to date between the second place Clark, and Dean-- in a Jan.



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College may shelve AEPi's charter plans

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Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity's plan to establish a Dartmouth chapter may be permanently shelved for violating College policy, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman. Redman has told The Dartmouth that accusations of student induction may count as a severe strike against the national fraternity by College administration, should AEPi resume its plan to establish ties here. Plans to create a chapter of AEPi, a national Jewish fraternity, were suspended Dec.


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Computers stolen from dorm room

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A burglar broke into a two-room triple in Russell Sage mid-morning Friday, stealing three laptops, assorted consumer electronics and $250 in cash. The room's three freshmen residents said they believed their door was locked before the robbery but that one resident lost his keys on the day of the incident. "I think either I dropped them on the way out of the room or maybe someone stole them during the day," Chris Polashenski '07 said. Safety and Security and the Hanover Police Department are both investigating the incident, although Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone said there are no suspects in the crime and no leads at the moment. Polashenski said authorities estimated there was a 10 to 15 percent chance the stolen items would be recovered. Giaccone called "this type of burglary" a rare occurrence, and declined to speculate on whether the thief was a student. Safety and Security officials noted that while computer theft is not unheard of at the College, most thievery involves a smaller monetary loss and occurs in unlocked areas. "It's more usual to have theft from a locker room or a common room, generally of a wallet or money," Safety and Security Investigator Richard Gavell said. Police reportedly dusted the room for fingerprints over the weekend. Hanover Police and Safety and Security are conducting parallel inquiries into the theft, Gavell said, although the police are the "primary investigating agency" in the crime.


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Wright retrospective champions expansion

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College President James Wright reflected on his efforts to improve student life, academics and diversity during his controversial first five years in office in a recently released report. Wright has been criticized during his tenure for plans to transform Dartmouth's student life, especially as it relates to the Greek system.



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Satirist O'Rourke defends Iraq war, criticizes Bush

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Noted political satirist P.J. O'Rourke offered a humorous but nuanced defense of the war in Iraq to a standing-room-only crowd in Filene Auditorium Thursday. O'Rourke, who has covered both the recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf, said that he supported the war in Iraq despite the lack of evidence that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Rather, he suggested that the dictator's long record of brutality was reason enough for the United States to attack. "Saddam is a guy who has been murdering everyone he could get his hands on for 25 years," said O'Rourke. He described Hussein's Ba'ath party as essentially fascist and thus an especially pernicious type of totalitarian government."Communists do bad things, but for a reason.


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Gen. Clark campaigns in Hanover, Lebanon

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Presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark has his eyes set on Dartmouth, as he is slated to spend an entire day in the Hanover area. Clark is coming to campus at a time when many Democratic nomination candidates are concentrating their efforts in Iowa for the Jan.


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Oh '04 forms online election source

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When Sean Oh '04 tried to investigate the platforms of different presidential candidates in the 1996 and 2000 elections, he was surprised to discover that he couldn't find a website that provided unbiased, fundamental information about each nominee. "I found several sites targeted to youth voters, but none of them provided impartial background information on the candidates," Oh said. In response, in the spring of 2003 he began developing Collegevoter.org -- a website devoted to introducing each of the candidates and their stance on issues of particular interest to college students. The site offers an overview of each candidate's positions and, for Democratic nominees, current probability of winning the primary.