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Students flock to web-based facebook

By Lizzie Wise | March 9, 2004

Building up social networks and tallying up friends has provided ample procrastination time for much of campus since Dartmouth's addition to the facebook.com database was launched Sunday evening. By 10 p.m.

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Senate to hear D-Plan pros, cons

By Dax Tejera | March 9, 2004

Dartmouth's financial aid director will testify about the pros and cons of the College's year-round academic program before a Senate committee hearing today, as the federal government considers legislation that would encourage more universities to adopt calendars similar to the Dartmouth Plan. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen.

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Gaposchkin will serve as advising dean

By Alix Cody | March 9, 2004

Visiting history professor Cecilia Gaposchkin has been named assistant dean of pre-major advising, a new position created in response to widespread criticism of the current advising system. The announcement comes in the wake of College reports and student complaints about academic advising, including a 2001 report from a committee chaired by first-year dean Gail Zimmerman that recommended creating a director of advising position. Gaposchkin said she is reserving judgement on the current state of pre-major advising until she assumes her role in the spring, but she does see broad problems with it. "The student body is not being fully served," Gaposchkin said.

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College picks 2 charter trustees

By Dax Tejera | March 9, 2004

Two new charter trustees have been elected to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees, marking the first change in the board's composition in over 40 years. Charles Haldeman Jr.

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DHMC hosts forum on drug trials, lab research

By Jenn Buck | March 8, 2004

Policymakers and leaders in the pharmaceutical industry came to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Friday for a panel discussion that highlighted the link between laboratory drug research and patient trials. National Institutes for Health Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni, joined Sen.

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SA's term marked by focus on student rights

By Lizzie Wise | March 8, 2004

During a short nine-week period that saw few upperclassman leaders on campus, the Student Assembly's winter focused on three projects that look to last far beyond this term and benefit the student body as a whole.

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Letter to faculty stresses honor policy

By Megan Spillane | March 8, 2004

The Honor Education Committee will distribute a letter to faculty members this week urging them to make clear what they expect from students regarding the Academic Honor Principle. The committee aims to increase general awareness about students' obligations and to highlight some of the Honor Principle's commonly neglected aspects, according to committee member Ali Levine '07. "Our hope is that if professors place more of an emphasis on the Honor Principle in their classes, students will take the Honor Principle more seriously," Levine said. Since students can be found "responsible" or guilty by the Committee on Standards for unintentionally violating the principle, Levine suspects that preemptive discussion about what constitutes a violation may reduce their occurrence. "We hope that through the faculty, we can help students to better understand what the honor principle entails so that in the end we can limit the number of honor principle violations," Levine said. During the 2002-03 academic year, the COS heard 21 cases of alleged academic honor principle violations.

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French editor speaks on anti-Semitism

By Rebecca Leffler | March 5, 2004

It's a country famous for croissants, escargot and unabashed pompousness, but more recently France has become more well-known for reports of a huge resurgence of anti-Semitic aggressions plaguing its streets. Nicolas Weill, editor of France's major daily newspaper Le Monde, argued in a speech Wednesday evening that the current wave of anti-Jewish violence is the most recent reflection of deep-seated anti-Semitism passed on from older generations. Weill, who has written myriad books on the subject, addressed the question of whether or not "the current resurgence of anti-Semitism is the indication of a fundamentally new phenomenon." Recent anti-Semitic acts occurring in France "haven't tried anything new" and "stem more from the desire to designate an enemy than from a subtle analysis of what is going on," Weill said. In his opinion, "traditional" anti-Semitism has not disappeared, but just manifests itself differently in younger generations. Weill cited statistics showing that 80 percent of the overall violence in France in 2000 and 62 percent in 2003 were a direct product of anti-Semitism.

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College grapples with meaning of 'bias'

By Jenn Buck | March 5, 2004

As Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" continues to stir up debate in the national media, Dartmouth has been dealt its own taste of controversial religiosity on campus. An alumnus from the Class of 1985 was recently apprehended by Safety and Security while putting up posters directing readers to the website "vox-com.com." Upon further investigation, officers found the website to contain incendiary messages about Jesus Christ, abortion, homosexuality and obscure Biblical references. Following protocol, Safety and Security informed Associate Dean of Student Life for Pluralism and Leadership Tommy Lee Woon, whose job is to assess whether the affair could be called a "bias incident." Just what a bias incident is, however, and how the College responds to one, remain somewhat unclear.

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In '72 speech, a different kind of Kerry

By Matthew Kelly | March 5, 2004

Probable Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry will likely face a challenge on the left from Ralph Nader soon, but 32 years ago, Kerry showered his possible electoral spoiler with praise in a speech at the College. Kerry implored Dartmouth students "to be their own Ralph Nader" in opposing the Vietnam War, urging the audience to "break the cycle of non-involvement." Kerry, who had recently served as president of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, spoke on Jan.

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Hanover Police to step up 'high-risk' patrols

By Mark Henle | March 5, 2004

The Hanover Police Department will soon ratchet up its patrols of areas deemed high-risk for underage drinking, thanks to a $14,000 state grant to pay current officers to work overtime. Hanover Police will use the grant to fund both uniform and undercover patrols of zones known for high alcohol abuse, including Stinson's liquor store and Webster Avenue. "The grant will be used to target areas known for alcohol use and abuse," said Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone. Given that 40 to 50 percent of student arrests are made while students are trying to get home from fraternities, the increased patrols would put more pressure on Greek houses, several of which are already on probation.

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Internet outage causes headaches for students

By Zachary Goldstein | March 5, 2004

Take away campus internet access for four hours and hordes of students go into a desperate panic. Wednesday night, Dartmouth students did just that when the campus "border router" was brought down due to excessively high traffic, Director of Computing Services Bob Johnson said.

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Election for trustee vacancies begins

By Dax Tejera | March 5, 2004

Two vacancies are up for grabs on the Board of Trustees, one of which will be largely decided by a vote of alumni beginning today. After reviewing hundreds of potential nominees, the Dartmouth Alumni Council nominated a slate of three individuals to fill the alumni trustee seat opening in July 2004, with the retirement of Peter Fahey '68 from the board in June. The Alumni Council slate includes two educators, Bruce Duthu '80 and Daniel Papp '69, and a corporate executive, Laura Stein '83.

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Hunt '04's food paper wins national attention

By Kate Carolan | March 4, 2004

Senior Anne Hunt recently made her entrance into the world of post-graduate academia -- months before even graduating from college. Hunt's work in the field of Spanish literature won her a spot at a by-invitation, for-professors-only conference in late February at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Two trustees prepare to step down

By Dax Tejera | March 4, 2004

After a decade on the Board of Trustees, Susan Dentzer '77 and Peter Fahey '68 Th '69 are readying to retire from their seats in June. Originally elected as alumni trustees in the early 1990s, Dentzer and Fahey have witnessed tremendous changes at Dartmouth. In 1998, Dentzer, Fahey and their fellow trustees appointed James Wright the 16th President of the College.

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Through Campus Cupid, students find love

By Steven Orbuch | March 4, 2004

According to some profiles sent in to Campus Cupid, Dartmouth students are fantastic in bed, totally sweet, hot and single. Since its inception, the new dating service has received about 300 student profiles -- ranging from inane to bluntly honest.

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