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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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AmeriCorps' existence on rocks

By Kate Lyon | July 31, 2003

As the federal government struggles to cut costs in a slumping economy, it may prove unable to step in and alleviate internal problems with organization and accounting that have put the national service program AmeriCorps -- as well as its 22,000 volunteer positions -- in jeopardy. The 10-year-old program, one of three managed by the National Corporation for National and Community Service, provides stipends and educational grants in exchange for volunteer service projects aimed at children and low-income families throughout North America.

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Hurlbert '91 to try Kobe Bryant case

By Megh Duwadi | July 29, 2003

July, apparently, epitomizes the dog days of summer less for some members of the public sphere than for others. During the month's course, Mark Hurlbert '91, a cross-country skier from 750-person Dillon, Colo., has been pitted against one of the nation's most easily-recognized sports superstars -- and a legal "dream team" to match. The prosecutor who is set to try Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old female June 30 at a Vail lodge, Hurlbert has gone from a quiet life as the attorney for Colorado's Fifth Judicial District to morning talk-show appearances, newspaper interviews and now, death threats directed toward him and his family. Even more jarring, perhaps, is the fact that Hurlbert, 34, is only in his eighth month of office.

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Even without beach, 'Hawaii '05' is a success

By Alison Schmauch | July 29, 2003

This year's sophomore family weekend narrowly escaped being titled "High Five." "We decided that name wouldn't have worked, though," said Zach Rubeo '05, who was in charge of coordinating volunteers for the weekend on behalf of the 2005 Class Council. Rubeo remembered finding an appropriate name as one of the greater challenges that the weekend's planning committee faced.

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