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Fifth-year students face 'awkward' social setting

By Zana Bugaighis | April 29, 2004

For fifth-year students who choose to continue their Dartmouth education at one of the College's graduate programs, life, at least in the traditional sense, can oftentimes be put on hold. The most popular of these is the fifth-year program at the Thayer School of Engineering.

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Administrators discuss College's expansion

By Chris Bateman | April 29, 2004

College Provost Barry Scherr, College architect John Wilson and several other administrators met Wednesday with a group of students to discuss, in Scherr's words, "the future of dining at Dartmouth," and a number of other issues of campus expansion. The central matter of the meeting, Scherr said, was to get student input about where Dartmouth's largest dining facility should be located when a physical overhaul of dining facilities begins as soon as a year and a half from now. As of now, a new dining facility is being planned that will occupy the current parking lot north of Maynard Street, next to Dick's House.

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Police Blotter

April 28, 2004

April 19, Mass Row, 5:30 p.m. A 20-year-old female junior reported a stolen red Mongoose 10-speed hybrid model mountain bike, complete with milk crate.

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SA elections committee targets poster vandalism

By Mark Henle and Lizzie Wise | April 28, 2004

Vandalism has been a major problem plaguing the election process, Student Assembly presidential candidates agreed Tuesday night. The candidates criticized those who have ripped down posters during the SA campaign season, saying that it will hinder a fair election. "I think it's silly.

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UGA selection chooses more women than men

By Kevin Garland | April 28, 2004

The recently-completed Office of Residential Life's Undergraduate Adviser selection process resulted in a nearly equal percentage of jobs offered to men and women, although many fewer men applied for UGA spots than did women. Out of the 219 students who completed the application process, 85 were men and 134 were women.

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In trustee race, Duthu '80 cites College ties

By Dax Tejera | April 28, 2004

Of the candidates running to fill the upcoming alumni trustee vacancy, Bruce Duthu '80 is the only one to have served as a Dartmouth administrator and faculty member for more than 15 years. Duthu, the current Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Vermont Law School, graduated from Dartmouth as a religion major.

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Campaign heats up with speeches to SA

By Lizzie Wise | April 28, 2004

The five student body presidential and three vice presidential candidates addressed the Student Assembly at Tuesday night's meeting in an attempt to articulate what sets them apart from their opponents. Despite a squabble over their commitment to club sports funding, presidential candidates Ralph Davies '05 and Dave Wolkoff '05 both emphasized reaching out to the campus. "I feel like I've always felt passionate about incorporating different groups around campus.

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Google, colleges team up to provide research tools

By Alix Cody | April 27, 2004

With the multitude of information available on the Internet, online researchers often face difficulties finding useful, reputable sources. That is why universities and other institutions around the globe are now creating "superarchives," digital depositories of scholarly material from faculty.

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Heat may affect SIDS, med school study finds

By Mark Henle | April 27, 2004

Overheating can significantly increase the chance of a newborn succumbing to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School determined in a study presented to the American Physiological Society on April 18. The researchers found that inhibiting breathing and increasing the temperature of newborn piglets by as little as four to five degrees Fahrenheit produced prolonged periods of unstable breathing. SIDS accounts for 2,500 deaths in the United States each year, and affects roughly one in 2,000 infants.

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College: Recruiting weekend a hit with '08s

By Kate Lyon | April 26, 2004

With good weather, enthusiastic hosts and no significant run-ins with the law, Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg called this weekend's Dimensions of Dartmouth "as good a weekend as we've had." The main goal of Dimensions -- to showcase Dartmouth and convince prospective members of the Class of 2008 that their futures lie in Hanover -- seemed to have been realized, according to Casey Ley '07, a student host.

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Students march in D.C. for abortion rights

By Michael Krauthamer | April 26, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Dissatisfied with what they described as the Bush administration's attacks on reproductive freedoms and global policies that hurt women, nine Dartmouth students were among hundreds of thousands of pro-choice supporters who demonstrated in Washington, D.C.

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GE CEO Immelt '78 draws crowds to Tuck conference

By Jessica Chen | April 26, 2004

Dartmouth undergraduates, Tuck students, entrepreneurs, investors and alumni poured into the Tuck School of Business Saturday for Greener Ventures 2004, an annual entrepreneurship conference that featured a keynote address and fireside chat with Jeffrey Immelt '78, chairman and CEO of General Electric. Immelt emphasized that there exists an initiative at GE to cultivate a culture of innovation and new ideas.

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Candidates spar in SA debate

By Lizzie Wise | April 23, 2004

Student Assembly presidential candidates sounded off at the first debate of the election season, as Greek issues dominated a pointed, hour-long discourse at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Juniors Jim Baehr, Ralph Davies, Julia Hildreth and Dave Wolkoff answered heated questions concerning the Assembly's Greek relations and College policies towards houses, among other issues. Davies, Hildreth and Wolkoff are members of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, respectively.

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