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Fehely '03 is lady of the ring

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Dancing may be an uncommon activity in boxing rings, but, after only three short rounds, a victory by the first Dartmouth female boxer to set foot inside the interscholastic ring was indeed cause for celebration. "My coach jumped into the ring and grabbed me and swung me around," Megan Fehely '03 said. Fehely began training last spring, but because there are so few female boxers, was unable to find someone in her weight class to box against until last Saturday against Raquel Carey of Amsterdam, New York. One of only two female bouts that day, Fehely's domination of all three rounds was in her first bouth ever was remarkable.





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Press: Recent gains restricted in scope

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Yesterday U.S. forces continued thrusts into Baghdad and held on to several symbolic sites within the city in the wake of a downtown bunker-buster bombing that may have killed Saddam Hussein on Monday afternoon. Government professor and urban warfare expert Daryl Press, who has recently appeared on CBS, CNN and the Upper Valley's own WMUR to present his analysis, expressed surprise about the ineptitude of Saddam's loyalist forces fighting on Baghdad's boulevards but stressed that the American-led coalition still controls only a small portion of the Iraqi capital. After seizing and holding a presidential palace and the Information Ministry in downtown Baghdad on Monday, U.S.



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College's admit drop leads Ivies

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Though other schools in the Ivy League boasted lower acceptance rates and more applicants, Dartmouth's four percent acceptance rate decrease and 15 percent increase in applications constituted the largest such changes in the Ancient Eight this year. Harvard, however, again received the largest number of applications in the Ivies, with 20,986 students applying for admission.


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April weather woes form familiar refrain

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Though warm temperatures over the first few days of the new term brought frisbees, sandals and idlers back onto the Green, students were soon dismayed to wake up to an all-too-familiar Hanover tradition -- the springtime snowstorm. Temperatures dropped ten degrees below the seasonal average last week, and disappointed Dartmouth students were quick to once again pile on several layers of jackets and clothing to cope with the cold conditions. Average temperatures in the Upper Valley for the first week of April are between 50 to 52 degrees Fahrenheit.



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Numbers rise for spring rush

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The second year of spring rush wrapped up with sororities offering an increased number of bids and Gamma Delta Chi again attracting a significantly larger spring pledge class than any other fraternity. Completing an over week-long process for sororities and a shorter stint for fraternities, participants in spring rush have recently received and accepted their bids for membership. Between nine and 12 bids were given out by each of the six sororities, while the number of bids for fraternities ranged from one to 18.









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'Likely letters' bring admit. news early

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As the 10,636 students in the regular admissions pool wait anxiously for their decision letters this week, nearly 500 of them won't be surprised by the news. Each year the College sends out three waves of letters to exceptional students who are "absolutely clear- cut" acceptances, according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg.


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Speaker advocates intervention in Africa

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A lack of international attention to the people of sub-Saharan Africa has been responsible for the absence of effective intervention by nations during the Rwandan massacres and other human rights violations in the region, said General Romeo Dallaire, former commander of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Rwanda. In his speech, entitled "The War-Affected Children of Rwanda," Dallaire posed the question, "Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?" He said there is a "value" placed on human life that favors residents of strategically important and economically bountiful areas. He cited Yugoslavia as an example, saying that more people died in 100 days in Rwanda than in 8 or 9 years of fighting in Yugoslavia, yet Yugoslavia received far more financial, political, media, and military attention. He commented on the growing tendency of nations to violate the rules of the Geneva Convention, in particular noting the use of children as combatants. "Children have become weapons," he said.


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Acceptance rate falls to 17.5%

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Nearly 12,000 high-school seniors will soon know whether they have been accepted to the Class of 2007, as e-mail decision letters will be sent out today in what has been one of the College's most competitive years ever for admissions.