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Bear sightings amuse, but pose potential threat

By Shaunak Mewada | August 20, 2003

A black bear has been spotted around campus on several occasions in the past few days, providing amusement and excitement to students, but causing nightmares for Safety and Security and the administration. The bear is not a full-grown adult, and is estimated to stand approximately four feet tall and to weigh between 70 to 100 pounds. Still, the animal can be extremely dangerous, according to College Proctor Harry Kinne, the newly appointed director of Safety and Security. There have been two confirmed occasions when the bear was spotted, and numerous other reports, Kinne said.

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Guide ranks College high

By Kaitlin Bell | August 20, 2003

To high schoolers browsing through The Princeton Review's 2004 guide to the Best 351 Colleges, life at Dartmouth may seem nearly utopian. Dartmouth's students are among the happiest and the best fed in the nation, according to the rankings released yesterday by the New York based test-prep company.

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New York challenges, excites College alums

By Sarah Maxell | August 20, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the second in an occasional series chronicling the lives of Dartmouth alumni as they make it on their own. One reporter's terrible experiences in New York -- ranging from a stolen wallet to lost paychecks to run-ins with a nasty landlord -- sent her searching for an answer to the question: "What is so great about New York?" To this end, The Dartmouth interviewed two dedicated New Yorkers who also happen to be Dartmouth alumni.

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'Coming of Age' to come to Hood

By Alison Schmauch | August 18, 2003

The second floor of Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art remains closed to visitors, sealed off by a tall gray gate. For weeks, though, the shut-off galleries have been abuzz as curators, painters and conservators work to install over 100 grave stelae, vases, statues and other works of art depicting childhood in ancient Greece. These works will be on display for the next three months as parts of "Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past," an exhibition opening Aug.

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Monks open center in Lebanon

By Shaunak Mewada | August 18, 2003

For a sum of approximately $1 per day, anyone -- from the passing skeptic to the impassioned believer -- can sponsor the brethren of New Hampshire's newest arrivals, Buddhist monks whose origins lie in Tibet. A new Tibetan center opened Aug.

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Summer temps surprise

By Dan Olson | August 18, 2003

For all the precipitation seen in recent weeks, Hanover might as well be notoriously dreary England or the Pacific Northwest this term, -- at least in the eyes of those who feel cheated out of the fun in the sun they had expected for sophomore summer. John Lillywhite, a transfer student from Oxford, considered the summer's weather "perfectly normal," but most longtime Dartmouth students disagreed. "This is not normal New Hampshire summer weather," Meryl Richards '05, a New Hampshire native, said.

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Homeplate grill will sizzle Tues.

By Richard Lazarus | August 18, 2003

For only the second time this summer, beef strips will flow like water as unimitatable campus dining option Homeplate opens for a one-night-only showing tomorrow. Homeplate, Dartmouth Dining Services' leaner alternative to neighboring Thayer powerhouse Food Court, is generally "Camper World" during Dartmouth summers.

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Varied groups focus on social segregation

By Kaitlin Bell | August 14, 2003

On first glance, the two scenes could not have appeared more different. The first featured a mix of Latino, black and white students eating EBA's pizza and corn chips and salsa around a dinner table in the Latino and Latin American and Caribbean Studies House.

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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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