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DOC helps to renew floundering sculpture tradition

By Lance Kramer | February 7, 2003

The Dartmouth Green may be the only locale on this side of Middle-Earth fitting enough to host a giant snow statuette of the wizard Gandalf holding none other than -- a pair of skis. Though in past years carried out exclusively by the Winter Carnival Council, according to Jeffrey Burns Woodward '06, one of five chairs of the project, the Dartmouth Outing Club assumed the responsibility of designing and building the 25-foot tall sculpture this winter.

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Winter Snow, Carnival Splendor

By Ryan Tan | February 7, 2003

Admittedly, for a sizable portion of upperclassmen, the consensus is that winter is the ideal term to scratch an "L," "T" or "O" into one's D-plan.

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Cornell's Assembly votes 'no' to Iraq war

February 6, 2003

While Cornell's Student Assembly unanimously passed an anti-war resolution last week, Dartmouth's own Student Assembly could only take a similar political stance if the resolution spoke for the majority of the student body, according to Student Body President Janos Marton '04. Cornell's assembly decided to ratify the resolution against a possible war in Iraq after the Anti-War Coalition, a campus organization over 200 members strong, brought the proposal to the assembly. The assembly engaged in active discussion over the idea at a meeting at which "there was standing room only," Cornell Assembly President Noah Doyle said. Cornell's resolution followed the lead of 54 cities and 13 universities that have recently passed similar anti-war statements.

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SEVIS monitors int'l students' activities

By Maggie Shnayerson | February 5, 2003

For most students at the College, moving off-campus or taking a leave term does not present the possibility of deportation from the United States. For international students like Tanya Ghani '03 and Nicholas Bwana '06, however, failure to report details like these to a new Immigration and Naturalization Services program called SEVIS could earn them one-way tickets back to their respective countries of Pakistan and Kenya. SEVIS, or the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, is a real-time Internet-based government program on which U.S.

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Wilson: America's cities to stay 'divided'

By Devin Foxall | February 5, 2003

William Julius Wilson, a professor at Harvard University, warned yesterday that American cities "will remain divided racially and culturally for the foreseeable future." This division will lead to greater, and possibly violent, ethnic conflict, unless groups begin to develop a sense of interdependence. Wilson, who for the last three decades has written prominent books on race and the urban poor, told an overflowing crowd in the Rockefeller Center that the potential for ethnic unrest occurs when groups are "more likely to focus on their differences than their commonalties." Because tension increases when people believe they must compete with members of another race for jobs and services, races -- particularly those living in the same neighborhood or city -- must realize they are dependent on one another and focus on their common goals, he said. As an example, Wilson said that in one neighborhood, white and Hispanic parents joined together to fight an autocratic school council. "They shared a common concern: the education of their children," he said. There will have to be more examples like this to prevent continued racial tension, which threatens American cities, according to Wilson. This is the first time in the nation's history, he said, that whites are the minority in the 100 largest cities.

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Bikers travel, build for Habitat chapter

By Sarah Betts | February 5, 2003

Dartmouth students can frequently be seen biking around Hanover, but a few will widen their horizons this summer and pedal all the way to Vancouver as part of Bike and Build, a group that organizes cross-country biking trips to benefit Habitat for Humanity projects. So far, eight Dartmouth students have signed up to make the trek, and Bike and Build founder Marc Bush expects up to 30 people to participate.

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Profs face off over potential war in Iraq

By Elise Dunphe | February 4, 2003

Students trekked to Dartmouth Hall in droves yesterday to hear Professors Ronald Edsforth of the history department and Allan Stam of the government department take on opposing sides of the debate over a potential war in Iraq. While Stam supported the war for moral reasons, Edsforth stressed his opposition to any military involvement in Iraq. "We are party responsible for his being there in the first place," Stam said of Saddam Hussein.

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Groups up meningitis awareness

By Matt Lewis | February 4, 2003

The Dartmouth College Health Services and the Nathan Smith Society have spearheaded a campaign to spread the word on the dangers of meningitis, a potentially fatal disease known for striking college campuses, in the hope that more students will volunteer for vaccines and be able to detect its early symptoms. A video on meningitis from the Nova public television series entitled "Killer on Campus" will be presented on Feb.

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