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SA moves ahead on Greek investigation

By Colin Barry | October 21, 2003

In the wake of allegations that the College's Greek regulations are unfairly enforced, Student Assembly leaders have formed a group to investigate the rules governing Dartmouth's fraternities and sororities. "We basically want to revisit some of the policies that have been enacted and try to get a sense of the direction the College is going," Student Body President Janos Marton '04 said. Leader James Baehr '05 said the group -- consisting of members of the Assembly's student organizations committee -- has singled out a number of specific policies to investigate.

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Fellow advised on Voting Rights Act

By Mark Herman | October 21, 2003

Of his groundbreaking experience as the first African American on the editorial boards of the Washington Post and the New York Times, as well as the first black columnist for the New York Times, Montgomery Fellow Roger Wilkins modestly said, "Those are things I'm fairly proud of." Wilkins, who is on campus as part of the Montgomery Endowment's series on truth and ethics in journalism, has spent the past few days meeting with and teaching students.

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Doctor: Global view necessary on health

By Dane Schlossberg | October 20, 2003

Dr. Barry Kistnasamy, dean of a renowned medical school in South Africa, discussed health care under apartheid in a speech last Friday, stressing the importance of keeping a global view on health issues. Kistnasamy credited an active student movement in the 1970s for bringing health and apartheid issues to the forefront of global consciousness.

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Fellow: 'Nastiness' dominates news

By Steven Orbuch | October 20, 2003

Montgomery fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Wilkins claimed that contemporary journalism is inherently slanted towards providing entertainment at the expense of honest reporting during a lecture last night in Filene Auditorium. "There used to be newspapers that were in the news business -- not the media business," Wilkins said. Wilkins said that journalism today is geared more toward entertainment because it is entrenched in a money-making business.

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For home-schoolers, admissions hurdles

By Licyau Wong | October 20, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles examining unusual high school experiences among Dartmouth students. With statistics indicating that the home-schooling movement is on the rise -- the number of home-schoolers in the United States has tripled over the last decade, according to the U.S.

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College continues to promote tech savvy

By Dax Tejera | October 17, 2003

Over the course of the past year, Dartmouth has been thrust into the national spotlight on numerous occasions on account of a collegiate technology infrastructure that counts itself among the best in the country. Dartmouth was profiled on three occasions in The New York Times, was the subject of an article for Wired Magazine and made news in several other multimedia and higher education journals.

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Curses: Yanks win thrilling game 7

By Mark Herman and Tara Kyle | October 17, 2003

For four hours last night, campus shut down as students crowded into lounges, basements and restaurants to watch the closest thing the region has to a home team vie for a World Series berth. An eleventh inning lead-off home run off the bat of New York Yankees third-baseman Aaron Boone brought those hopes to the ground.

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Former NSC member denounces Bush terror policy

By Laura McGann | October 17, 2003

The United States is no safer now than it was before Sept. 11, 2001, according to Rand Beers '64, a former member of the National Security Council, who spoke last night at a campus lecture hosted by the Institute of Security Technology Studies. Beers resigned from his position as senior director for combating terrorism, as well as from his seat on the National Security Council, in March 2003 when President George W.

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Senator's daughter hits Collis

By Licyau Wong | October 17, 2003

"I feel I have a whole entourage," Rebecca Lieberman laughed as she stopped to chat with students in Collis. Lieberman visited Dartmouth yesterday to campaign for her father, Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the nine democratic candidates running for president. Assisting with her father's campaign was an amazing opportunity that she could not pass up, according to Lieberman.

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Atlantic Monthly ranks Dartmouth 15th

By Laura Glickman | October 16, 2003

In The Atlantic Monthly's recently released rankings of the nation's most selective schools, Dartmouth ranked 15th, placing it below every other Ivy League school besides Cornell University. The Atlantic Monthly gathered data from the United States' "most selective schools" and ranked the 50 most selective based on three statistics: SAT scores, high school class ranks of incoming freshmen and the school's admissions rate. Atlantic Monthly is the latest competitor in the college ranking business, which U.S.

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Professors use net for discussion

By Steven Orbuch | October 16, 2003

BlitzMail dominates campus communication --and, as Director of Academic Computing Malcolm Brown pointed out, it is also the most popular form of online faculty-student communication.

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Assembly explores student privacy

By Kevin Garland | October 15, 2003

In response to increasing confidentiality concerns, the Student Assembly addressed possible breaches of undergraduate privacy at last night's meeting. "We're looking into the current methods by which students are being monitored on campus, including blackboard, door locks and DASH," Todd Rabkin-Golden '06 said. Rabkin-Golden noted that at this point, the inquiry is not the result of any definitive improper disclosures, but is intended to gather information. "It's just to find out what's going on," Rabkin-Golden said. On a different topic, the Assembly has put a temporary freeze on all co-sponsorships.

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Edwards maligns Bush tax policy

By Zachary Goldstein | October 15, 2003

Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Edwards made a campaign stop in Hanover last night, speaking to an overflowing crowd in a town hall meeting at the Top of the Hop. Edwards, who receives just single-digit support in most nationwide polls, spoke briefly to those in attendance before fielding questions for the next hour on a variety of topics ranging from the economy and Bush's tax cut, to health care and his "College for Everyone" plan. The attentive crowd numbered nearly 450, according to Elisabeth Smith '05, an Edwards supporter and event organizer, and was receptive to the Senator, erupting into applause after almost every strong attack on President Bush. Throughout the night Edwards heavily criticized President Bush for his handling of the economy, post-war developments in Iraq, and the civil rights and liberties of the American public.

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Greeks push for earlier rush

By Colin Barry | October 15, 2003

Greek leaders have begun a campaign to move rush to freshman spring or sophomore fall, overturning a delay imposed two years ago. Dartmouth's Greek system -- once the inspiration for the movie "Animal House" -- currently prohibits students from rushing before sophomore winter, possibly the longest deferred recruitment policy of any college in America. Greek Leadership Council officials and corporate advisers to fraternities said that in the coming weeks they will be drafting separate letters proposing rush alterations to Dean of the College James Larimore. Larimore, who holds the final say on rush timing, said he would be "open to conversation" on amending Greek recruitment policy, but noted that any change would likely take time. "This is an important enough discussion that I'd confer with a number of colleagues on campus and possibly discuss the issue with members of the Board of Trustees," Larimore said. The class of 2008 would likely be the first to experience any new rush procedure, according to GLC officials. In recent years, College officials and Trustees have often been criticized as anti-Greek and, more broadly, as out of touch with Dartmouth's undergraduates and alumni.

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