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Alumni home for Homecoming

By Laura Quayle | October 24, 2003

Homecoming weekend brings alumni of all ages back to their Hanover "home" to see old friends, dorms and fraternities, as well as to spend time with current students. "Just as you would go home for Thanksgiving," Director of Alumni Relations Nelson Armstrong said, "Homecoming is an opportunity for alumni to come home and be part of a great ceremony." Armstrong said that while the exact number of returning alumni is unknown, there will be about 10,000 people on the Green on Friday night, and "a significant part will be alumni." He said he believes most alumni are drawn back to campus by the "pure sense of the spirit of dear old Dartmouth." For some alumni, including Ken Wagner '77, the bonfire is the main attraction, while the football game is the highlight for others, including Art Lussi '83.

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Critic: Profits trump quality in news

By Mark Herman | October 23, 2003

Well-known media critic Tom Rosenstiel said he was "absolutely" worried about the future of journalism in an interview with The Dartmouth yesterday. In an era of large media conglomerates and cable news, corporate bottom lines have become more important than the quality of journalism put forth. Rosenstiel, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, studies news outlets and has found alarming results since he began in 1996. As all three major broadcast news organizations are now small parts of large corporations, Rosenstiel and his colleagues have found that television news programs, especially morning shows, are no longer focused on journalism. According to Rosenstiel, half of every morning show hour is devoted to advertisements, mostly for items whose sales benefit the show's parent company. "Each network was more than twice as likely to sell their own products," Rosenstiel said, adding that 90 percent of the times they do, they do not inform viewers. The state of cable news is just as dismal, as reporting has been replaced by a televised form of talk radio.

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BG report alleges S&S broke lock

By Colin Barry | October 23, 2003

Bones Gate fraternity filed a police report earlier this month alleging that Safety and Security officers illegally broke into a locked room to find alcohol in the fraternity's physical plant. College security officials denied forcibly entering the room, asserting that they had found the padlock on the door to the room unlocked. The accusations come at a time when College administrators face increasing criticism for their enforcement of Greek policy.

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Assembly hears plans for Kresge expansion

By Kevin Garland | October 22, 2003

In line with Student Assembly's emphasis on improving athletics and recreation at Dartmouth, Sarah Berger from the athletics department approached the Assembly about pursuing improvements to the Kresge Fitness Center.

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Wright speaks out on administrating and politics

By Dax Tejera | October 22, 2003

Though it is counter-intuitive, it is an essential part of the job description. College administrators are extraordinarily cautious to avoid the appearance of bias, especially partisanship, in their decision-making. In interviews, senior administrators explained how important credibility and impartiality are for commanding the authority and respect necessary to be effective. Administrators maintain that political biases do not exist in the College's administration, and that in any case, certainly no such biases play a role in the decisions made by the College.

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Long lines a Fall term constant

By Alex Lentz | October 22, 2003

With more students enrolled this fall, undergraduate students are feeling the effects of the stress on College resources as they wait in long lines throughout campus. "Fall term is a real crunch," said Director of Dartmouth Dining Services Tucker Rossiter.

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Admissions office confronts conservative stereotype

By Vivian Chung | October 22, 2003

When Alexandra Giese, a prospective '08, told a good friend of hers at Brown that she intended to apply to Dartmouth, her friend's immediate response was simple: "Eww, Dartmouth's really conservative." Karl Furstenberg, Dartmouth's dean of admissions, acknowledged that many prospective students, like Giese's friend, do view the school as highly conservative, although he thought that the campus has changed greatly. He maintained, though, that the persistence of this stereotype rarely prevents applicants with more liberal views from applying. Several current students who were concerned about the political climate on campus before applying also saw a clear contrast between Dartmouth's reputation and reality. Furstenberg likewise believes that the conservative stereotype has faded.

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Clements '54 to fund new professorship

By Charles Gardner | October 22, 2003

College President James Wright announced yesterday that Robert Clements '54 and the trustees of The Clements Foundation have pledged $2.5 million to the College for the creation of a professorship devoted to the study of problems facing democracies across the world. Clements, chairman of the board at Arch Capital Group Ltd., said that the new Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics will help foster discussion on challenges facing both American democracy and emerging democracies worldwide. "American democracy is a model for other countries to emulate, but that model faces challenges at home," Clements said.

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SA moves ahead on Greek investigation

By Colin Barry | October 21, 2003

In the wake of allegations that the College's Greek regulations are unfairly enforced, Student Assembly leaders have formed a group to investigate the rules governing Dartmouth's fraternities and sororities. "We basically want to revisit some of the policies that have been enacted and try to get a sense of the direction the College is going," Student Body President Janos Marton '04 said. Leader James Baehr '05 said the group -- consisting of members of the Assembly's student organizations committee -- has singled out a number of specific policies to investigate.

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Fellow advised on Voting Rights Act

By Mark Herman | October 21, 2003

Of his groundbreaking experience as the first African American on the editorial boards of the Washington Post and the New York Times, as well as the first black columnist for the New York Times, Montgomery Fellow Roger Wilkins modestly said, "Those are things I'm fairly proud of." Wilkins, who is on campus as part of the Montgomery Endowment's series on truth and ethics in journalism, has spent the past few days meeting with and teaching students.

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Doctor: Global view necessary on health

By Dane Schlossberg | October 20, 2003

Dr. Barry Kistnasamy, dean of a renowned medical school in South Africa, discussed health care under apartheid in a speech last Friday, stressing the importance of keeping a global view on health issues. Kistnasamy credited an active student movement in the 1970s for bringing health and apartheid issues to the forefront of global consciousness.

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Fellow: 'Nastiness' dominates news

By Steven Orbuch | October 20, 2003

Montgomery fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Wilkins claimed that contemporary journalism is inherently slanted towards providing entertainment at the expense of honest reporting during a lecture last night in Filene Auditorium. "There used to be newspapers that were in the news business -- not the media business," Wilkins said. Wilkins said that journalism today is geared more toward entertainment because it is entrenched in a money-making business.

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