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Conference to explore ethics of courage, valor

By Valerie Silverman | April 11, 2003

While ethicists are known for studying scandal and dishonorable behavior more often than the admirable, Dartmouth's Ethics Institute will hold a conference this Saturday that will examine the ethics associated with courageous and moral behavior. The conference will consist of four keynote speakers, whose morally courageous behavior fits into the categories: Holocaust Rescuers, 9/11 -- Response to a National Crisis, Personal Acts of Heroism and Military Valor.

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Lobban: Sudan torn by political instability

By Robert Kimmitt | April 11, 2003

Sudan is beset by an array of intractable problems that are keeping the nation in a state of stagnation and war, according to Richard Lobban, professor and director of African studies at the University of Rhode Island. In a speech entitled "The Sudanese Gridlock," Lobban said the country is experiencing political, military, economic, internal and foreign deadlock. He said that the country has experienced an "oscillation between plural democratic governments and military governments," and said that democratic governments are "always weak" in Sudan. Since Sudan gained independence from Great Britain in 1956, it has had 5 changes in regime, with 36 years of military rule and 11 years of democratic rule.

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Stam documents nation on edge

By Elise Dunphe | April 11, 2003

In the photograph, the teenage boy's arms are crossed, his lips taut, his eyebrows arched just enough to let us know that he is old enough to know what happened in his home, Rwanda -- and that he will not forget. Professor Allen Stam, the photographer, accompanied a colleague from the University of Maryland on a research trip to Rwanda last summer.

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Fehely '03 is lady of the ring

By Jessica Spradling | April 10, 2003

Dancing may be an uncommon activity in boxing rings, but, after only three short rounds, a victory by the first Dartmouth female boxer to set foot inside the interscholastic ring was indeed cause for celebration. "My coach jumped into the ring and grabbed me and swung me around," Megan Fehely '03 said. Fehely began training last spring, but because there are so few female boxers, was unable to find someone in her weight class to box against until last Saturday against Raquel Carey of Amsterdam, New York. One of only two female bouts that day, Fehely's domination of all three rounds was in her first bouth ever was remarkable.

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Press: Recent gains restricted in scope

By Max Brooks | April 9, 2003

Yesterday U.S. forces continued thrusts into Baghdad and held on to several symbolic sites within the city in the wake of a downtown bunker-buster bombing that may have killed Saddam Hussein on Monday afternoon. Government professor and urban warfare expert Daryl Press, who has recently appeared on CBS, CNN and the Upper Valley's own WMUR to present his analysis, expressed surprise about the ineptitude of Saddam's loyalist forces fighting on Baghdad's boulevards but stressed that the American-led coalition still controls only a small portion of the Iraqi capital. After seizing and holding a presidential palace and the Information Ministry in downtown Baghdad on Monday, U.S.

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College's admit drop leads Ivies

By Zachary Goldstein | April 9, 2003

Though other schools in the Ivy League boasted lower acceptance rates and more applicants, Dartmouth's four percent acceptance rate decrease and 15 percent increase in applications constituted the largest such changes in the Ancient Eight this year. Harvard, however, again received the largest number of applications in the Ivies, with 20,986 students applying for admission.

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April weather woes form familiar refrain

By Kim McKee | April 8, 2003

Though warm temperatures over the first few days of the new term brought frisbees, sandals and idlers back onto the Green, students were soon dismayed to wake up to an all-too-familiar Hanover tradition -- the springtime snowstorm. Temperatures dropped ten degrees below the seasonal average last week, and disappointed Dartmouth students were quick to once again pile on several layers of jackets and clothing to cope with the cold conditions. Average temperatures in the Upper Valley for the first week of April are between 50 to 52 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Numbers rise for spring rush

By Valerie Silverman | April 8, 2003

The second year of spring rush wrapped up with sororities offering an increased number of bids and Gamma Delta Chi again attracting a significantly larger spring pledge class than any other fraternity. Completing an over week-long process for sororities and a shorter stint for fraternities, participants in spring rush have recently received and accepted their bids for membership. Between nine and 12 bids were given out by each of the six sororities, while the number of bids for fraternities ranged from one to 18.

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