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Homecoming Issues

By Cal Newport | November 1, 2002

Fall has arrived, and as Martha Stewart would say, "it's a good thing." The signs of the season are all around us: the leaves are changing color, the '06 girls are realizing that half the campus already owns that J-Crew sweater-jacket they were so proud of buying, and humor columnists are adding strained Martha Stewart references to their pieces. Yet to Dartmouth students, fall means something even more.

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Field rushing declines under College condemnation

By Alison Schmauch | November 1, 2002

While small numbers of Dartmouth freshmen continue to rush the field during the annual Homecoming game, the practice appears to have waned considerably since its official prohibition in 1986. The tradition originated in the 1950s, when large groups of freshmen ran out onto the field after halftime to form the numbers of their year.

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Strong Big Green faces tough Crimson opposition

By Elliot Olshansky | November 1, 2002

When looking ahead to the Big Green football team's Homecoming matchup with defending Ivy League champion Harvard on Saturday at Memorial Field, there's good news, and then there's good news. Good news: With wins over Yale, Holy Cross, and Columbia, Dartmouth (3-3, 2-1 Ivy) is riding a three-game winning streak, the team's first since 1997. More good news: At 4-2 (3-0 Ivy), this year's Crimson squad is hardly the unstoppable juggernaut that went undefeated in 2001 and came back from a 21-0 halftime deficit to beat Dartmouth, 31-21, in Cambridge last year. Despite all this good news, however, the defending Ivy League champions are still no pushover, as the Crimson is tied with Pennsylvania for first place in the Ancient Eight after defeating Cornell, Brown and Princeton. Harvard's offense is led by sophomore quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who has a 143.79 quarterback rating, the second best in the Ivy League.

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Parade, Dartmouth Hall ceremony precede bonfire

By Anna Cates | November 1, 2002

The bonfire is coming. You can practically smell the smoke in the air. But the actual burning doesn't happen without careful preparation, and the ignition of the flame only occurs after traditional Dartmouth Night events. Since the bonfire this year falls on the day after Halloween, there will be some related festivities as part of Homecoming weekend.

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Unique design, careful building ensure safe bonfire

By Richard Lazarus | November 1, 2002

What impresses Steve Erickson, assistant director of physical education and recreation, most about the bonfire is not the 35-foot height of the structure or the fact that it is built in only a few days -- although Erickson supervises that effort -- or even the moment when the fire collapses about 40 minutes after being lit, sending a stream of ash and sparks in to the air, beautifully lit by the flames below.

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All Fired Up

By Tanisha Keshava | November 1, 2002

I have always been fascinated by fires. There's something about their pristine beauty that has always attracted me.

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Ivy coalition pursues 'tree-free' campuses

By Devin Foxall | October 31, 2002

The recently created Ivy League Environmental Coalition is calling on its schools to create "tree-free" campuses by using only paper from 100-percent post-consumer recycled content. The Coalition, formed at the recent Greening of the Ivies Conference, is also mobilizing to pressure institutions to stop buying paper from the Boise Cascade Corporation, which they say is an egregious environmental offender, mostly because of its logging of old-growth forests. "We need to show [the school] that there is demand and that we are a united force speaking together," said Susan DuBois '05, the Dartmouth representative and head of the Coalition.

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New guard at SA causes divisions

By Kaitlin Bell | October 31, 2002

An infusion of newcomers into top leadership positions within the Student Assembly, coupled with an exodus of upperclassmen, has past and present members sharply divided over whether continuity in leadership or a fresh approach is better for the organization. Of the nine major executives, more than half are sophomores.

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Pluralism dean 'crosses the line'

By Kay Fukunaga | October 31, 2002

After only two months on campus, recently-hired Associate Dean of Pluralism and Leadership Tommy Lee Woon has already found time to take three student-led campus tours and try the stir-fry at Collis. "I want to see campus through student eyes," Woon said.

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Foundation ridicules 'bizarre' Dartmouth classes

By Zachary Goldstein | October 31, 2002

Not all courses are created equal -- at least not according to Young America's Foundation, a conservative educational organization that recently released a list of "bizarre" and "ridiculous" classes at colleges across the country. Among the courses to avoid, according to YAF, are "Who is Black" at Harvard University, "Cultural History of Rap" at UCLA, "Philosophy and Star Trek" at Georgetown University, "Black Marxism" at Vassar College and six courses offered at Dartmouth. These courses are included in "Comedy and Tragedy," a compendium of classes from 58 schools that YAF denotes as "eccentric, bizarre and 'politically correct.'" Their primary complaint about the courses listed is a "biased portrayal of a subject in which a number of views are not represented, frequently including courses without regard to the conservative viewpoint," said Rick Parsons, editor of "Comedy and Tragedy." Cited courses at Dartmouth include such classes as the environmental studies department's "Environmental Journalism," and the geography course "Gender, Space and the Environment." Classes in comparative literature; Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies; and women's and gender studies were also represented in YAF's survey. YAF is a "conservative educational organization which promotes conservative ideas on the nation's college campuses," according to Parsons.

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SA seeks better dorm social space

By Kaitlin Bell | October 30, 2002

Acting on the results of a campus-wide email survey, Student Assembly will contribute money --which it hopes the College will match -- to funding improvements in dormitory public spaces and creating an off-campus social option, possibly in the spot formerly occupied by Patrick Henry's bar on Main Street. The plan is part of an overall strategy -- dubbed the "Social Empowerment Initiative" by the Assembly -- to give students an increased voice in how their money is spent, Student Life Committee Chair Amit Anand '03 said. Because relatively few students supported funding long-term improvements to Greek houses, the Assembly will not donate money for this purpose.

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