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SA nixes 'Big Green' as new mascot option

By Colin Barry | May 14, 2003

Shortly after news spread of the Big Green Bean's closing, Student Assembly leaders proposed measures intended to preserve the features of the soon-to-be-defunct campus coffee shop. At yesterday's meeting, the Assembly passed a resolution to allocate $1,000 for a Big Green Bean pilot program, set to take effect next Fall term.

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Aly: Jewish property funded World War II

By Alison Schmauch | May 14, 2003

Many of the profits accumulated from the liquidation of Jewish property were used directly to fund the costs of World War II, Dr. Goetz Aly argued yesterday. Aly claimed at his speech that much of the media, scholarly and legal attention devoted to profits that banks made off the war is misplaced, since the lion's share of property confiscated from the Jews was funneled directly into Nazi war chests. Overall, the funds raised from the confiscation of Jewish property "didn't come close to covering war costs, but they moderated peaks of expense and slowed inflation," Aly said. Aly examined the financing of the war in several different occupied countries to support his case. After the widespread confiscation of Jewish property in occupied Serbia, the Serbian government collected between 3 and 4 billion dinar, enough to cover the costs of occupation for approximately six months. Money collected from the liquidation of Jewish assets also tended to reduce the inflationary pressures on the national currency of German-occupied countries, Aly said. In Belgium, where the Germans collected 225,000 Reichmarks from the seizure of Jewish property, these funds covered occupation costs for two months. At a meeting between Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Belgian officials held just before the issuing of a decree to nationalize all Jewish assets, the only issue they discussed was funding of the war, Aly said. Germans liquidated Jewish assets in various ways.

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Kennedy criticizes U.S. foreign policy

By Dan McConville | May 13, 2003

Paul Kennedy gave a scathing assessment of U.S. foreign policy during a speech in last night as the Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs Fellow. The speech, titled "The conundrum of American power in a fragmented world" highlighted the unprecedented dominance of American military and economic power today. Kennedy, the Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and the Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, contrasted this power with dramatic changes occurring in the developing world, including enormous population growth and increasing income gaps.

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In N.H. schools, inequities persist

May 13, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles that will examine issues surrounding social class in education. While Stevens High School struggles to find funding to carpet its classrooms, Hanover High School develops field trip programs as far afield as Canada and Costa Rica. In 1997, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the state's system of financing public education was unconstitutional.

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Lacrosse falls to Syracuse

By Bret Anderson | May 12, 2003

The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team traveled to Syracuse yesterday to take on the perennial powerhouse and defending national champion Orangemen in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but dropped a heartbreaker 13-11 in the Carrier Dome. The Big Green laid it all on the line in its first appearance in the Big Dance, and hung in tough with one of the top offenses in the country.

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Senior Symposium on last legs

By Colin Barry | May 9, 2003

The Senior Symposium -- an event that for 23 years has attracted distinguished figures and energized campus debate -- may be facing its end. The Spring term tradition has lost prominence in recent years, with prestigious speakers increasingly drawn to the campus by other groups. For the second year in a row, Dartmouth's graduating class will not sponsor the event. The '03 class council had hoped to invite filmmaker Michael Moore to speak this year, class leaders said, but hesitated about spending a significant sum on a single honorarium. "It's like $35,000 to bring Moore to Dartmouth," said Jason Ortiz, the president of the senior class.

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Shalka '05 could stay in hospital six weeks

By Tara Kyle | May 9, 2003

The Dartmouth student seriously burned in a hotel fire in Nimes, France, attempted to escape her upper floor room by climbing out onto a ledge, the director of the French language program she is enrolled in said. Tricia Shalka '05, whose name had been withheld until her father's consent was given, is expected to remain in the burn center of Hospital Lapeyronie in Montpelier, France, for six weeks, French Language Study Abroad Faculty Director Andrea Tarnowski said.

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Katz: Israeli occupation responsible for violence

By Mark Herman | May 9, 2003

Activist Sue Katz brought her controversial views on Israeli-Palestinian relations to Filene Auditorium last night, decrying what she called the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and its social consequences in a lecture entitled "Another Israel: The Activists who Refuse to be Occupiers." Katz, a native Californian who moved to Israel in 1987 and founded a pro-Palestinian protest group, told the audience, "I blame the occupation 100 percent" for the violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Katz might have offended ardent supporters of Israel who say its military actions are needed for its security.

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Students debate Michigan case

By Robert Kimmitt | May 8, 2003

A round table conversation entitled "People's Court: University of Michigan Aftermath" had students discuss the affirmative action case before the Supreme Court that could have far-reaching consequences on the admissions process at institutions of higher education nationwide. In two cases, Grutter v.

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Bias incidents target LGBT community

By Tim Mosso | May 8, 2003

A series of incidents primarily involving first year students and homophobic messages has aroused feelings of anger and disappointment among members of the Dartmouth community.

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