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2-day sheep chase vexes farm

By Megh Duwadi | August 12, 2003

The chase lasted 50 hours and involved the same number of volunteers and concerned passersby -- it just never broke a speed of five miles per hour. If only Little Bo Peep had been called to the scene. At various points starting Friday morning and ending midday on Sunday, three young sheep -- the entirety of Dartmouth Organic Farm's nascent livestock program -- were on the lam, evading student caretakers and maintaining generally uncooperative attitudes before their return to the Farm, located in nearby Lyme, N.H. The escapade began between 7:30 and 8 a.m.

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Wed. meteor shower to be year's brighest

By Dan Olson | August 12, 2003

It just might be the rainbow in a precipitous weeklong weather forecast. If the clouds manage to clear early Wednesday morning, astronomy aficionados predict that some of the best meteor showers of the year will be visible.

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Tourney showcases odd world of high school debate

By Richard Lazarus | August 12, 2003

In the world of serious high school and college debate, Ken Strange is a distinguished figure. He is the director of the accomplished Dartmouth Forensics Institute as well as the founder of the Dartmouth Debating Institute, DFI's prestigious debate boot camp where every summer ambitious high school students come to research and debate the coming year's resolution against other top high school debaters. This year's DDI workshop ends tonight as the eight teams that survived yesterday's Octofinals are whittled down to the final two. Strange has been debating since ninth grade.

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College ranks 7th in outdoorsiness

By Kate Lyon | August 12, 2003

In recognition of the wind-swept hills, lone pines and famed New Hampshire granite that surround Dartmouth, the September 2003 issue of Outside magazine has ranked the College seventh among its "40 Best College Towns." While the article includes numerous New England schools as ideal places to work and play, the top honors go to the University of California-Santa Cruz as the number one school with the ideal combination of outdoor excursion/indoor academic setting and surrounding town. Outside magazine used criteria such as the sport-friendliness of the college, the type of town the school was located in, the involvement of the student body in outdoor pursuits on campus, including the types of outdoor clubs that exist, and the environmental initiative of the college to determine their rankings, said Katie Arnold, its managing editor. While the magazine's target group is active outdoor people in their twenties and thirties, not current or prospective college students, Arnold added that the article merged several of the objectives of the magazine. "The article is an interesting thing for us because our average reader is older, but we thought it was a good way to reach out to the younger demographics," she said. Arnold agreed that the article would be useful for both prospective students and their parents with an interest in the outdoors, as well as current students of the ranked schools and their parents who might enjoy reading about their school and learning about the available outdoor options on campus. Furthermore, she said, older readers could "live vicariously" through the article, or the article could be useful for someone looking to relocate to an active outdoor town, as "often the best towns are college towns." The article highlights several of the "Little Ivies" such as Middlebury College and Williams College, as well as Dartmouth's Ancient Eight counterparts Cornell University and Princeton University, as schools with the appealing combination of outdoor-enthusiast locale and a commitment to the environment, as well as esteemed academics. Dartmouth is ranked higher than the other Ivy League schools mentioned; Cornell is ranked 14, and Princeton 35.

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Fast talk and high stakes at DDI

By Richard Lazarus | August 8, 2003

From Steven Kung's description, the world of high school debate, currently manifesting itself in the Choates Cluster in the form of the highly prestigious summer Dartmouth Debate Institute, seems pretty surreal. It has drama, certainly, but also those high school issues of cliques, high emotions and status, mixed in with a seemingly brutal academic process of gathering evidence and preparing arguments.

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Dankers maintains swing's legacy

By Kaitlin Bell | August 8, 2003

Some of the best tree"climbers in the world have signed their names in support of preserving the tree that until a few days ago held Dartmouth's latest -- and by some accounts, greatest -- rope swing. Nicholas Dankers '01 wants the College to know it. En route to the Pine Park site of the now-defunct swing yesterday, Dankers presented signed placards, festooned with pictures from his portfolio of landscaping work, to administrators and professors, as though to prove that it he is not some lone, crackpot tree hugger. Dankers has been intimately invested in the swing from its conception in the fall of 2001 and regards himself as its current caretaker.

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Harvard's daily sues school, HUPD over crime records

By Richard Lazarus | August 6, 2003

Harvard's daily, student-run paper, The Crimson, sued Harvard and its police department last Tuesday for access to police records that Harvard University Police Department have always kept secret. "As a society, we've always counted on the openness of records and, at times, the press to be a check on abuses of power," said Amber Anderson, one of the two lead lawyers on the action and an associate attorney at Dechert LLP in Boston.

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Panhell bbq seeks to unite women students, professors

By G. Michael Krauthamer | August 6, 2003

For a span of a few hours, Dartmouth sorority members, professors and administrators were bound by one message: female solidarity. Last evening, the Panhellenic Council, Dartmouth's coalition of female Greek houses, hosted a barbecue to formally recognize the academic, cultural and social contributions of women at the College. Representatives from all of the campus sororities as well as several female faculty and staff, totaling well over 80 people, attended the first-ever Strong Women of Dartmouth Barbecue at Alpha Xi Delta sorority. "Within each sorority house there may be support networks between women, but as a whole community I felt there could be more communication," said organizer and Panhell programming chair Sabrina Singh '05.

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End of mascot search in sight as SA focuses on Fall

By Lizzie Wise | August 6, 2003

It looks as though the end of the long awaited decision for a new College mascot is in sight, according to the proceedings of last night's Student Assembly meeting. In a campus-wide Blitzmail, spearheaded by Stella Treas '05, students will select their primary choices from a list of options already formulated from student input last Spring. Potential mascots include the Big Green Giants, a Dr. Seuss character, the Lone Pine Tree, the Foresters, the Moose, the Penguins, or a Phoenix, Polar Bear, Wolf, Salty Dog, the Yeti, and Granite. Depending on the results of the campus vote, a run-off among the top choices will be held in the Fall.

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College purchases land for $4 million

By Alison Schmauch | August 4, 2003

For a price of $4 million, Dartmouth College purchased 53 acres of land on Mount Support Road in Lebanon near Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center this past Friday. It remains unclear what exactly the College plans to use the property for.

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Blabberforce takes Dartmouth's brand into own hands

By Kaitlin Bell | August 4, 2003

Its name sounds like the kind of sarcastic epithet critics might concoct. But members of the Blabberforce, an informal collection of students and administrators intent on creating a more definable image for Dartmouth, describe their efforts with the sincerity and idealism that they say only befits a school this impressive. The question of Dartmouth's image has been a recurring debate in the College's history -- whether it be discussing the extent to which the 1970s slapstick film "Animal House" accurately represents the school or sparring over whether the College's administration wants to emphasize Dartmouth as a research, rather than a so-called teaching, institution. But the Blabberforce, which after less than a term in existence boasts nearly 90 members, including top administrators, says that pinning down a coherent image is the first step -- and that its primary concern is celebrating what makes Dartmouth great, rather turning it into an imitation of the more well-known Harvard, Yale or Princeton. "The Blabberforce isn't here to transform the College into a university," member Brent Reidy '05 said.

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At 12, soon-to-be-published Manivannan '05 was novelist

By Shaunak Mewada | August 4, 2003

For someone who has been writing poetry since she was in third grade and has a novel due for release in a few months, Vyshali Manivannan '05 is shockingly self-deprecatory. "You have to keep in mind that I was 15 when I wrote it," she said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The book she was referring to is "Invictus," which is "the story of a bioroid, or living robot," as she described it.

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SA sponsors 'Consent Day' Fri.

By Lizzie Wise | July 31, 2003

In an effort to recruit more participants and spark interest in student affairs, Student Assembly treated its current members and potential converts to 250 flavors of ice cream, along with an introduction to the countless opportunities and projects available to take on this summer, at an informal meeting Tuesday night at the nearby Whistlestop ice cream parlor in Wilder, Vt. As students sat at picnic tables enjoying their free ice cream, Assembly Summer President Julia Hildreth '05 addressed the crowd from the bottom of the Whistlestop steps. Meeting attendees old and new also got the chance to participate directly in Assembly affairs.

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