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The Fort truck stop says 'no' to smoking

By Luke Schoen | February 9, 2004

Local families and students are discovering an unlikely new dining option at the local truck stop. The Fort, formerly known as Fort Lou's, has long been a favorite late-night pit stop for truckers and midterm-weary Dartmouth students in search of nourishment.

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Window restoration, rights card mark SA's Winter term

By Lizzie Wise | February 9, 2004

Editors' note: Halfway through Winter term, The Dartmouth takes a midterm report of Student Assembly and its recent developments. In what may prove to result in an important artistic addition to the College, the Student Assemblylast month passed a resolution to unveil boarded-up stained-glass windows containing Christian religious imagery in Rollins Chapel. The Assembly leadership handled what could have been a controversial proposal with awareness and diplomacy toward all religious groups who would be affected by the unveiling. Members of the Assembly's Committee on Student Organizations met with Hillel executives to assure that this unveiling would not affect Jewish High Holy Day services annually held in the Chapel.

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Campus addresses Mass. court ruling

By Dax Tejera | February 6, 2004

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that full and equal marriage rights for gay couples would be constitutional, virtually assuring that the nation's first same-sex marriages could be granted as early as May. The court's ruling comes on the heals of a Massachusetts constitutional convention scheduled for Wednesday, where the state legislature will consider an amendment that would effectively ban gay marriage by defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman. In November, the Massachusetts court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, and ordered the legislature to change state laws to guarantee that right within six months.

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Football players flock to UCSB

By Colin Barry | February 6, 2004

If it seems like Manley Weight Room empties out during Winter term, it might be because when cold weather comes to Hanover, the football team goes west. In keeping with a long-standing, but informal, tradition, most sophomore football players and many junior athletes spend Winter term at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

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Friends, family attend mass for injured '06

By Steven Orbuch | February 6, 2004

Students and faculty joined together to support and pray for the health of Christina Porter '06 at a mass held at Aquinis House Thursday night. At present, Porter remains at the intensive care unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and is in relatively stable condition, having sustained a critical injury to the head while participating in a physical education ski course on Tuesday Although the special did not vary much from a typical mass, some of the hymns and Biblical selections recited at the service were chosen with Porter in mind. Porter's parents, President James Wright, Dean of College James Larimore and Upperclass Dean Teoby Gomez were in attendance. The event at AQ took place on a day in which the College and Porter's parents spoke publicly on the accident for the first time. Brent and Mary Porter, Christina's parents, released two statements on Thursday. In a statement released to the College, Porter's expressed that they were grateful for the support they have received from the Dartmouth community. "We very much appreciate the many expressions of concern for Christina and hopes for her recovery that we have received and continue to receive," they said in a statement. At the mass, a statement from Porter's parents that was read touched on the need for better safety helmets and for better landscaping at the Dartmouth Skiway. On behalf of the College, Larimore said that Porter's "family and friends are with her and doctors are doing everything in their power to help her make a recovery." At present, Porter's exact health beyond what her family indicated as a "relatively stable condition" is unclear. Sources told The Dartmouth on Tuesday that Porter had entered a coma and would remain in it for at least a week. However, neither Larimore nor Porter's parents' statements indicated whether or not Porter is currently in a coma. Although the exact sequence of events from the moments leading up to Porter's accident to her arrival at DHMC have yet to be released, sources indicated the student members of the Dartmouth Ski Patrol played a significant role in Porter's rescue and preparation for airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. After locating the site of the accident, sources said, ski patroller contacted DHMC, the patrollers skied her down the mountain and then commandeered a car to drive her to the waiting helicopter.

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Demo shows off digital novelties

By Jenn Buck | February 5, 2004

High-tech came to the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration Wednesday, as local and international players in the digital music industry visited the business school to showcase the latest technology and address the future of the digital music. Apple, Dell, Samsung and Bose joined electronics giant Best Buy and others for a morning of technology show-and-tell in Tuck's Stell Hall.

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Applicant pool drops from 2003

By Zachary Goldstein | February 5, 2004

Applications to Dartmouth for the Class of 2008 dropped nominally from last year's record number of applicants, according to preliminary numbers from Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg.

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Skiway crash lands '06 in ICU

By From Staff Reports | February 4, 2004

Christina Porter '06 entered a deep coma Tuesday after sustaining serious injuries that afternoon at the Dartmouth Skiway. As of late Tuesday evening, Porter, a glee club member from Brooklyn, N.Y., remained in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's intensive care unit, where she was kept on a breathing tube. Doctors predict that Porter will remain in a coma for at least one week, sources told The Dartmouth. Rushed from the Skiway to DHMC, Porter underwent several surgeries Tuesday evening.

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Crane takes over for Lucier as librarian

By Jenn Buck | February 4, 2004

The Dartmouth College libraries came under new leadership this week as John Crane, formerly the Deputy Librarian of the College, stepped up to fill the interim Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College position. Richard Lucier resigned from his three-year post as librarian on Jan.

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Lapham criticizes U.S. 'imperialism'

By Rebecca Leffler | February 4, 2004

Sporting a pin-striped suit, munching on a ham, cheese and mayonnaise sandwich and exhaling the smoke from a Parliament cigarette between sentences, Harper's magazine editor-in-chief Lewis Lapham appeared at first glance Tuesday to be the epitome of the ostensibly stuffy, white-shoed aristocratic elite. But the acclaimed journalist's message that afternoon -- one that assailed the U.S.

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SA puts finishing touches on rights cards

By Lizzie Wise | February 4, 2004

Reacting to what Student Assembly executives describe as the recent furor over student rights and privacy issues, the Assembly is reprinting student rights cards to be distributed before the end of the term. The Assembly is updating cards made this summer, double-checking the status of Hanover statutes and the cards' overall accuracy. Todd Rabkin Golden '06 and Ralph Davies '05 have been looking into the issue of students' privacy rights for several months now, but with the onslaught of what they say many students perceive as a crackdown on the Greek system, they are finally pushing for the cards. The cards would address students' rights when dealing with Hanover Police and Safety and Security, namely those situations involving intoxication, searching of dorm rooms and the use of excessive force. "Students are totally unaware of their rights, especially incoming students and underclassmen, and we want to create better awareness and a better sense of trust on campus," Davies said. Both Rabkin Golden and Davies have already met with Safety and Security officers to discuss the cards and are set to finalize the cards and distribute them across campus. "We're stepping up on the issue, and we are confident that S&S will too, and from conversations we have every indication to think that they will," Davies said. Rabkin Golden also introduced a proposal to promote and provide free Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and First Aid training to interested students, in a "rather inexpensive" measure that he sees as potentially having a long-term, concrete impact on the student body. "My goal is to have every student in the school who is interested to be able to take the course for free," said Rabkin Golden, who is an American Heart Association certified CPR instructor and is currently becoming an Emergency Medical Technician. The Assembly passed the CPR and First Aid resolution and plans to vote on funding next week.

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Financial Times ranks Tuck No. 8

By AnnMary Mathew | February 3, 2004

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration came up eighth nationally and 10th worldwide in the Financial Times' annual ranking of business schools, up from ninth in the country and 11th worldwide last year.

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Snow sculptors hope for cold blast

By Jenn Buck | February 3, 2004

As temperatures rise above freezing for the first time in weeks, one group of students is praying for cold weather. The six-member snow sculpture committee was out on the Green in T-shirts yesterday, shoveling hundreds of pounds of snow into a giant pile that will become the base of a 35-foot tall homage to Dr. Seuss, the whimsical author known to his Dartmouth classmates as Theodore Geisel '25. "We're nervous about the warm weather," said Dan Schneider '07, who had taken off his hat and jacket.

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