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Int'l student recruiting increases

By Jessica Chen | April 8, 2004

By expanding institutional financial aid to international students, Dartmouth continues to make headway in its efforts to keep the campus diverse. Although this year saw a 6.5 percent decrease in Dartmouth's active international population, the international student population remains diverse, representing 73 countries throughout the world, a number that has remained constant for several years. Stephen Silver, director of the College's International Office, said there has recently been an influx of students from all of Asia -- specifically China, India, Hong Kong and Japan.

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Men's rush stats remain stable

By Matthew Kelly | April 8, 2004

While the arduous admissions process is just winding down for prospective students, Dartmouth's fraternity system has just completed its own screening process: spring rush. As in the case of the College's acceptance rate, spring rush results were relatively stable compared with last year's, as six more students sunk bids this term than the 71 of spring 2003.

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Dartmouth to take over composting management

By Megan Peck | April 8, 2004

In a move that will allow the College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to continue their now partially-stalled composting practices, Dartmouth will take over management of the Dartmouth/Hanover Composting Facility from New England Organics, a Maine-based waste management firm, starting mid-June. "With a maximum capacity of only 800 tons per year, the small scale of the facility made it economically infeasible for a private company to manage," said vice president of New England Organics James Ecker. Since New England Organics can no longer manage the compost facility, Facilities, Operations and Management has decided to take over operation of the facility after discussing the issue for the past six months.

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Student Assembly votes to subsidize campus elections

By Lizzie Wise | April 7, 2004

Matters of the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee, which reviews and recommends applicants for membership to College Committees, dominated Tuesday night's rather brief Student Assembly meeting. The Assembly unanimously passed an MIAC-sponsored proposal to subsidize the cost of campus elections, which are just weeks away on May 4 and 5.

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As econ majors surge, department struggles

By Kate Lyon | April 7, 2004

If it seems like all your friends are economics majors, you're not alone. Economics has increasingly become major of choice at Dartmouth over the past 10 years -- culminating with approximately 180 majors in the class of 2004 alone.

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Panhell likely to reject fall rush

By Colin Barry | April 7, 2004

Sororities in the Panhellenic Council will likely reject a proposal by the administration to move rush to the fifth week of sophomore fall, Greek leaders said on Tuesday night.

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Feds may cut aid to rich universities

By Dax Tejera | April 6, 2004

Dartmouth and its Ivy League peers may see a substantial decrease in federal funding for their financial aid programs if House Republicans have their way in new legislation to overhaul a 30-year-old aid system. But Dartmouth officials said that in the event of cuts, the College would remain committed to its long-standing need-blind admissions policy. Proponents of the legislation argue that hundreds of millions of federal aid dollars have been unfairly channeled to wealthy universities at the expense of institutions with a larger base of low-income students and substantially smaller endowments. The current federal aid system in place grants select institutions a minimum base amount to supplement institutional financial aid programs. Those guarantees were established in the 1970s through demonstrations of relative need and shrewd negotiations.

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Police Blotter

April 6, 2004

March 29, Meadow Lane, 7:33 p.m. The Lebanon police department contacted Hanover police for assistance serving an arrest warrant at an address on Meadow Lane.

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College announces return to fall rush

By Colin Barry | April 6, 2004

College administrators would sanction moving Greek rush to the fifth week of sophomore fall, Dean of the College James Larimore announced at a dinner for fraternity and sorority leaders on Monday night.

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Gazzaniga dissents in cloning recs to Pres. Bush

By Mark Herman | April 6, 2004

When the President's Council on Bioethics failed to address the issue of cloning for biomedical research in its recent report to President Bush, Dean of the Faculty Michael Gazzaniga, a two-year member of the committee, submitted his own statement supporting the practice. The council's full report, released Thursday, remained silent on the issues of biomedical cloning and stem cell research, while still recommending that restrictions be placed on reproductive cloning.

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Panel addresses 'neglected' Latin America

By Anna Parachkevova | April 6, 2004

The continuing focus on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has left other regions of the world such as Latin America in the background of media coverage, panelists argued in a discussion Monday night at the John Sloan Dickey Center. The discussion, titled "The neglected Hemisphere?

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Woodstock -- rich with New England heritage

By Jessica Spradling | April 6, 2004

White churches and whiter Christmases, commons, trees bursting with colorful foliage, wassailing, gentlemen farmers and tiny towns with a long and much-loved local history -- just a few of the images filed in the American cultural imagination under the term "New England." For many Dartmouth students who live in the vast regions of the United States where Wal-Mart and interstates are the rule of the day, part of the allure of Dartmouth is the "New England experience." The College is not shy about capitalizing on this idea, as the Dartmouth view books, with their New England panoramas, promise prospective students the New England they have imagined. Of course, Hanover is not a New England Disneyland. As Dartmouth students from all over the world have to spend four years in Hanover, it is for the benefit of everyone that the town is, relatively speaking, multicultural and modern.

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For international students, internship difficulties abound

By Anna Parachkevova | April 5, 2004

With the academic year dwindling away, Dartmouth students have started looking for summer internships. But for an international student at the College, getting that acceptance letter from the company of choice does not provide an end to uncertainty. A growing number of international students have turned down offers due to government delays in employment authorization.

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'08 admit rate holds at 18%

By Zachary Goldstein | April 5, 2004

The College's admissions office mailed out a staggeringly high number of rejection letters Friday to applicants for the Class of 2008, as only 18.3 percent of the 11,733 students who applied were admitted -- a number almost as impressive as last year's record-low 18.2 percent admission rate. Of the 2,143 students accepted to the Class of 2008, 384 heard back in December that they would be attending school in Hanover come September.

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College, Hanover increase bus service

By Mark Henle | April 5, 2004

To accommodate the dozens of commuters who will be forced to park further away from their destinations due to construction on the Engineering Sciences Center on the south side of Cummings Hall, the College has started offering enhanced shuttle bus service around campus and the town of Hanover. The shuttle, which began service March 22, connects Tuck Drive and the Dewey parking lot with popular campus locations such as Thompson Arena and the Green. The new shuttle service represents a merger between the Dartmouth-sponsored Dewey Parking Shuttle and the town of Hanover"sponsored Thompson Parking Shuttle.

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