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April 4, 2026
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Politician and printer forged 'friendship'

By Robert Kimmitt | April 24, 2003

Dr. Roderick Cave, printing and book expert, recounted the history of author Somerset Struben de Chair, his publisher Christopher Sandford, and his printing company to an audience of community members and faculty yesterday in a speech entitled "The Politician and the Printer." The Golden Cockerel Press, de Chair's printing company, was a small but respected private publishing firm that printed limited-edition and ornate books.

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Allen '79 stresses student input

By Jessica Spradling | April 24, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the second in a three part series profiling the platforms of candidates for the College's Board of Trustees. As opposed to having the Trustees hand down decisions without any consultation with the student body, trustee candidate Elyse Benson Allen '79, Tu '84 wants to emphasize the importance of student voice in directing the path of the College. "I think with any decisions that the College makes, they need to make sure they have been consulting with students and looking at general trends at what people are doing and where they are going," Allen said. Allen said she feels that the College needs to pay more attention to the needs of students, particularly the major national trends, so that Dartmouth can provide the programs and services students will most utilize. "We don't build for today's students, we build for tomorrow's students," said Allen of potential changes to the College's.

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Doctor talks on suicide

By Alison Schmauch | April 23, 2003

Suicide ranks as the second leading cause of death for 15 to 19 year olds. Within the next 24 hours, 1439 teenagers will attempt to kill themselves. Dr. Steven Atkins, a psychiatrist at Dartmouth Medical School, used these statistics near the beginning of a talk at Sigma Nu fraternity last night to emphasize just how common suicides are among college-age students. The talk was held in memory of Sigma Nu member Daryl Richmond '04, who committed suicide at home in Reno, Nev., on Feb.

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Khrushchev, a 'jester' within Stalin's court

By Elise Dunphe | April 23, 2003

Did Nikita Khrushchev really bang his shoe on a table at the United Nations? Eyewitnesses each have their own recollections of the event, including accounts that the Soviet Premier did indeed exhibit a moment of unbridled temper, that he only brandished the shoe and that although he was holding his footwear, it was his fist that hit the table. "I'm here to tell you that history is complex and even eyewitnesses disagree.

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Trustee candidate: College should be 'absolute best'

By Jessica Spradling | April 23, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the first in a three part series that will profile the platforms of candidates for the College's Board of Trustees. The future of the Greek system as we know it, the spending priorities that can determine the fate of our athletic teams and countless other decisions regarding the long-term direction of the College all rest in the hands of an elusive and notoriously tight-lipped group known as the Board of Trustees. This year, Dartmouth alumni all across the globe have a chance to affect this mysterious group by electing an alumnus to the Board of Trustees to serve for at least the next five years.

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Davis '03 honored for work

By Mark Herman | April 22, 2003

Rebecca Davis '03 got more than her regular paycheck recently for her job in the library. In honor of National Student Employment Week, the Student Employment Office gave Davis $100 last Thursday as the recipient of the first annual Student Employee of the Year Award.

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Koop stresses need to bolster public health

By Elise Dunphe | April 22, 2003

"We need a new television show called 'CDC,'" said Dr. C. Everett Koop. "And I'm only half joking." In a time when SARS cases continue to emerge across the globe, the 86-year-old former Surgeon General expressed a hope that the glamorization of preventative medicine would lead to an increase in applications for study in the public health field. Koop also stressed the importance of national preparedness against chronic illnesses and biological terrorism in a talk to students at the Dartmouth Medical School yesterday. He held the medical students captive for a mere 61 minutes -- in which he proudly covered 171 topics, mentioned 19 diagnoses, 10 treatments and an additional 17 facts. Koop compared the need to increase both knowledge of preventive health measures and the role of public health workers to the way that anti-terrorist efforts have been improved after Sept.

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In vilified France, complex emotions

By Megh Duwadi | April 21, 2003

PARIS " To Americans unfamiliar with its surroundings, the Saint Germain des Prs neighborhood " a busy crossroads at the center of the French capital " possesses several culture shocks. Newsstands dotting the quarter's streets have been littered for weeks by periodicals decrying what the overwhelming majority of France's population calls unjust American action in the Middle East. Graffiti at the entrance of nearby subway stations spout slogans against President George W.

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For Why War, new questions emerge

By Richard Lazarus | April 21, 2003

Standing in front of a blue sign proclaiming "War is Not the Answer!" speakers addressed a grab-bag of war-related and semi-war-related issues at a teach-in Friday sponsored by the campus group Why War. At the event, members of Why War announced that they would bring an anti-war statement to be voted on at the Hanover town meeting on May 13. According to Natalie Allan '06, who organized the event -- titled "Now What?" -- along with Graham Roth '04, the statement will not mention Iraq, but will state that any pre-emptive war is against the principles of the United States. The two-and-a-half hour teach-in came at a time when coalition forces have already achieved what they proclaimed as their main objective -- the removal of Saddam Hussein's Baath party from power -- and the international anti-war movement is reconsidering its goals and focus. Whether "Now What?" was meant to be asked of the future of Iraq, or if it was meant of the future of the anti-war movement, few clear-cut answers emerged from the diverse list of speakers. Still, there remains a small group of dedicated students that continue to organize events like "Now What?" The question is whether popular support will support the events. At the "What Now?" event, Allan said that attendance began around 40, but by 3:30, an hour and a half into the event, it had dwindled around half that number, including about six members of Why War and five professors, some of whom were also speakers. Speakers at the teach-in included professors, the College chaplain and a local poet. History Professor Bruce Nelson addressed the largest crowd, and Ronald Edsforth, director of the war and peace studies program, followed. English Professor Shelby Grantham talked about unconventional ways to protest the war, citing examples from Poets For Peace to Westerners acting as "human shields" in Palestine. Her presentation ended with an argument with one of the other speakers over Grantham's efforts to organize a faculty statement against the war. Upper Valley poet Peter Money read from a poem "America, America" by Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef.

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Town may donate land for housing

By Jessica Spradling | April 18, 2003

During a town meeting next month, Hanover voters will decide whether or not to donate a large tract of land near Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to Vital Communities, a local affordable-housing advocacy group.

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