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Center offers tech, writing help

By Licyau Wong | October 8, 2003

The new Student Center for Research, Writing and Information Technology, which will provide students with guidance in the research and writing process for papers as well as multi-media projects, enjoyed a very low-key grand opening Monday night. RWIT, a joint effort by the Composition Center, the library, and the Jones Media Center, will provide yet another academic resource for students on campus. The idea for RWIT started two summers ago when Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing, and Susan Fliss, Director of Research and Informatics Learning, both approached Professor Karen Gocsik, Director of the Composition Center, about the possibility of creating a Composition Center-type service that would help students struggling with research and technical questions. Gocsik saw the potential to combine the two with writing to create a "one-stop shop" for students. The center will be open every Sunday through Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m.

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FSPs expand -- gradually -- to non-Western nations

By Michael Herman | October 8, 2003

At this rate, Dartmouth students may be going nowhere fast. Within the past two years, Dartmouth has created only one new foreign study program "" the anthropology and linguistics FSP to Auckland, New Zealand. This newest FSP is also one of only 13 out of 36 programs that Dartmouth offers outside of Europe and the United States -- despite what may be rising student interest in traveling to non-Western countries Executive Director of Off-Campus programs John Tansey attributed the lower number of non-Western FSPs to a lack of interest from Dartmouth's faculty and students.

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Dartmouth professors aid Kuwaiti university

By Mark Herman | October 8, 2003

When the American University of Kuwait opens its doors for the first time next fall, it will do so with the advice of those experienced in offering a liberal arts education, members of the Dartmouth faculty and staff. To meet the challenge of creating the first private university in Kuwait to focus on the liberal arts, AUK president Shafeeq Ghabra sought the advice of Dale Eickelman, the Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth. "Dartmouth's commitment to outstanding liberal arts education is well known, and we are excited to learn from its experiences as we forge together a new path in Kuwait," Ghabra said.

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SA discusses Greek regulations

By Kevin Garland | October 8, 2003

The Student Assembly discussed perceptions that some College administrators have unfairly implemented Greek life policies at a meeting last night. "For those of you who aren't aware, there's been a crackdown on the Greek system, sometimes in subtle ways," Student Body President Janos Marton '04 said. Marton suggested that the Assembly create a body to look into violations of Greek-related regulations.

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FSP admissions mystifies and frustrates students

By Zachary Goldstein | October 8, 2003

When Megan Peck '06 applied last February for the Art History Foreign Study Program in Florence, Italy, she had visions of spending her sophomore spring in some of Medieval Europe's most gorgeous cathedrals. She had just taken her first college-level art history course, Art History 2, and had tentatively made the decision to pursue art history as her major.

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Silverglate: Free speech in danger on campuses

By Vivian Chung | October 8, 2003

Harvey Silverglate, co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, warned that colleges and universities face unprecedented challenges to the right to free speech as administrators impose increasingly stringent speech codes on students. In his lecture "Free Speech on Campus Before and After 9/11" Silverglate examined the history of free speech in the United States, likening it to a constantly swinging pendulum.

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Arnold triumphs in California recall

By Colin Barry | October 8, 2003

California voters recalled Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and elected Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger as the state's new governor yesterday, according to exit polls conducted by CNN. Schwarzenegger -- who in recent days was accused of groping more than 15 women and admiring Adolf Hitler -- had garnered 51 percent of the reported vote early this morning.

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Is Dartmouth foreign study truly different?

By Laura Quayle | October 8, 2003

Professors and students alike generally praise Dartmouth's off-campus programs for their convenience, fun and ready accessibility -- but administrators at other schools feel their programs provide a depth Dartmouth's programs lack. Unlike most other schools, the College directs programs exclusively for Dartmouth students that are always staffed by Dartmouth professors.

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ESPN vets share experiences

By Nedko Kyuchukov | October 7, 2003

ESPN personality Dave Ryan and director Len Mead '94, aided by Rick Adams, "the voice of Dartmouth football," lectured students on the basics of sports broadcasting on Monday night in the Collis Center. Ryan, the more experienced of the ESPN duo, graduated from Syracuse University in New York in 1989.

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Local MEChA chapter defends Bustamante

By Laura McGann | October 6, 2003

While conservative commentators recently pressured California gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante to distance himself from the Chicano advocacy group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, the head of the organization's Dartmouth chapter supported Bustamante's stance and defended the aims and purpose of the group. MEChA, a student group created to increase the number of Chicanos entering college in the United States, has been called racist and violently radical.

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Arabic department sees interest spike

By Mark Herman | October 6, 2003

As events in the Middle East continue to dominate the news, enrollment in Dartmouth's introductory Arabic classes has skyrocketed. Thirty-nine students signed up to take Arabic 1 this fall, up from just over half that figure last year, said professor Hussein Kadhim, who has taught Arabic at Dartmouth since 1998.

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Domestic violence examined

By Janet Lee | October 3, 2003

Ted Bunch and Tony Porter, advocates against domestic violence, spoke to students and faculty on how men can work to end violence against women in their communities yesterday at Collis Commonground. Both speakers primarily discussed the issues surrounding sexism, which they said they believe to be at the very core of violence against women.

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Report: Campus crime unchanged

By Colin Barry | October 3, 2003

The Department of Safety and Security released its annual federally-mandated report on College crime on Wednesday, but the value of the disclosure may be limited by reporting procedures that vary widely by institution. The so-called Clery report -- consisting of yearly statistics on reported crimes as well as security policy statements -- revealed little change in the frequency or severity of campus misdeeds from last year.

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Williams, Nobel recipient, reflects on activist career

By Mark Herman | October 3, 2003

Jody Williams, who was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in banning landmines, reflected on her career as an activist yesterday in Dartmouth Hall as part of the not-for-profit career fair. Speaking to a crowd composed mostly of students considering non-profit work, Williams commented on the career she chose. "I believe it is a rewarding path -- to say the least," she said. Williams said the most rewarding and important experience of her career was when 121 nations adopted the treaty to ban landmines on September 18, 1997, an effort she led after being approached by several organizations to become involved. The event marked the first time that a conventional weapon has been taken out of the arsenals of countries around the world, and it was the result of a campaign that spent just $6 million over five years, Williams said. "We knew ... we would affect the lives of millions of people around the world," she said, as she described a mood of jubilation among those who had worked to get the treaty passed. The second most significant day of Williams' career was when she received the Nobel Peace Prize, she said, adding throughout her talk that the prize gave her greater credibility as an activist, something she once needed. "I toiled in relative obscurity for 20 years," Williams said of the early stages of her career which started during college in opposition to the Vietnam War and led to her work against United States policy in Central America during the Cold War. Williams was inspired to become involved in this cause after attending a meeting in a basement where a guerilla organizer "made me understand that I had to do something, as a citizen of this country that was using my tax dollars to kill his people," she said. Williams, an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, continues her resistance to U.S.

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