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Wheelock expands, absorbs new demand

By Thomas Sexton | April 2, 2003

Dartmouth students no longer have a choice when shopping for textbooks in Hanover. With the Dartmouth Bookstore forced to discontinue textbook sales to undergraduates, Wheelock Books has been expanding its staff to accommodate the resulting increase in business. Although many have expressed concern about the lack of shopping options, students have generally found Wheelock's accommodations to be adequate in handling the start-of-term textbook rush. The Dartmouth Bookstore had been considering scaling back its textbook department since last summer.

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Carapico details life in Yemen

By Elise Dunphe | April 1, 2003

"Yemen is one of the most outspoken of the Arab countries," Sheila Carapico, a professor at the University of Richmond, said, explaining that Yemeni citizens enjoy relative freedom of speech and of the press. Carapico, who has lived in Yemen for the purposes of study, argued that important strides have been made in the modernization of the country and in the civil liberties granted to the citizens, but that Yemen remains a nation not quite democratized. Because Yemen has not yet fully achieved democracy, she said, the government is vulnerable to moving further away from pluralism in the new age of heightened national security measures.

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Press sounds off on urban warfare

By Max Brooks | April 1, 2003

Dartmouth government professor and urban warfare expert Daryl Press joined such national luminaries as Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman on the March 26 editorial page of The New York Times to analyze the course a battle for Baghdad might take. "The basic argument is a good news/bad news story," Press explained to The Dartmouth.

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Hart reflects on past leaders, academia

By Elise Dunphe | March 31, 2003

Former Senator Gary Hart slowly walked across the Green, wearing a tie with bald eagles clutching the Declaration of Independence in their talons, and spoke of his admiration for Thomas Jefferson. He did not say whether or not he would be running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004.

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Dartmouth Habitat dedicates '04 House

By Colin Barry | March 31, 2003

Thanks to the efforts of Dartmouth students, single mother Marlene DeNutte has a new home to call her own. At a ceremony yesterday, Dartmouth Habitat for Humanity dedicated its first independently-built home.

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Fundraising, taxes on Huffington agenda

By Tim Mosso | March 31, 2003

Arianna Huffington, political analyst and author, visited Dartmouth on Thursday as part of a national campus tour to promote her latest book, "Pigs At The Trough." After speaking to an audience of students, professors and area residents about America's shortage of principled and visionary leaders, Huffington spoke to The Dartmouth about her views on other current issues. The Dartmouth: What do you feel are the three most important domestic political issues? Arianna Huffington: One, tax justice.

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Spring rush numbers see gains from 2002

By Valerie Silverman | March 28, 2003

Registration for spring rush stands at an all-time high, continuing a Winter term trend which saw large numbers of students eager to join Greek houses. The high number of women participating in sorority rush "indicates that people are feeling more positive about the status of the Greek system and community," said Julia Keane '04, Vice President of Recruitment for the Panhellenic Council. Rush for women begins this Saturday.

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Ministers draft peace statement

By Judith Phillips | March 28, 2003

Editor's note: This is the first in a set of articles that will examine perspectives on the Iraq conflict of specific segments of the Dartmouth community. The United Campus Ministers of Dartmouth recently drafted a pro-peace statement in anticipation of a war against Iraq in conjunction with the Tucker Foundation.

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Pinkeye crisis gets natl. press

By Maggie Shnayerson | March 26, 2003

Last year's pinkeye outbreak put Dartmouth in the pages of several national newspapers, and now major medical journals are paying attention to the rash of cases that swept the campus. In its March 20 issue, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study examining the unusual epidemic.

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Political students see more than party lines

By Jessica Spradling | March 26, 2003

Editor's note: This is the first in a set of articles that will examine perspectives on the Iraq conflict of specific segments of the Dartmouth community. After two terms of debate, teach-ins, rallies and protests by Dartmouth students, the Bush administration issued its final ultimatum and began its military campaign in Iraq while Hanover was vacant and students were at home sleeping off their Winter term exhaustion. For members of Dartmouth's political organizations, reactions to the war were mixed.

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