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From Snow Queens to movie cameras to icy swims, time has altered Dartmouth's traditions

By Nathaniel Ward | February 7, 2003

A defining Dartmouth tradition, Winter Carnival has had many faces in its 93-year history. Starting as a humble field day, Carnival has evolved into one of the biggest events on campus and over the decades has included athletic competitions, evening balls, beauty pageants and even TV commercials in the years since its founding in 1910. The first Winter Carnival, the brainchild of Dartmouth Outing Club founder Fred Harris '11, was envisioned as a way for Dartmouth students to take advantage of the school's prime location for winter sports.

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Partner, Remember the Hills?

By From the Scrapbook of Fred Harris | February 7, 2003

Partner, remember the hills? The gray, barren, bleak old hills We knew so well. Not those gentle, placid slopes that swell In lazy undulations, lush and green. No: the real hills, the jagged crests, The sharp and sheer-cut pinnacles of earth That stand against the azure -- gaunt, serene, Careless of all out little worsts and bests, Our sorrow and our mirth. Partner, remember the hills? Those snow-crowned battlements of hills We loved of old. They stood so calm, so inscrutable and cold, Somehow it seemed they never cared at all For you or me, our fortune or our fall. And yet we felt their thrall And, ever and forever to the end, We shall not cease, my friend, To hear their call. Partner, remember the hills? The grim and massive majesty of hills That soared so far, Seeming, at night, to scrape against a star. Do you remember how we lay at night And watched the moonshine -- white Against the peaks all garlanded with snow While soft and low The night wind murmured in our ears -- And so We wrapped our blankets closer, looked again At those great, shadowy mountaintops, and then Sank gently to our deep And quiet sleep. Partner, remember the hills? The real hills, the true hills. Ah!

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DOC helps to renew floundering sculpture tradition

By Lance Kramer | February 7, 2003

The Dartmouth Green may be the only locale on this side of Middle-Earth fitting enough to host a giant snow statuette of the wizard Gandalf holding none other than -- a pair of skis. Though in past years carried out exclusively by the Winter Carnival Council, according to Jeffrey Burns Woodward '06, one of five chairs of the project, the Dartmouth Outing Club assumed the responsibility of designing and building the 25-foot tall sculpture this winter.

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Winter Snow, Carnival Splendor

By Ryan Tan | February 7, 2003

Admittedly, for a sizable portion of upperclassmen, the consensus is that winter is the ideal term to scratch an "L," "T" or "O" into one's D-plan.

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Cornell's Assembly votes 'no' to Iraq war

February 6, 2003

While Cornell's Student Assembly unanimously passed an anti-war resolution last week, Dartmouth's own Student Assembly could only take a similar political stance if the resolution spoke for the majority of the student body, according to Student Body President Janos Marton '04. Cornell's assembly decided to ratify the resolution against a possible war in Iraq after the Anti-War Coalition, a campus organization over 200 members strong, brought the proposal to the assembly. The assembly engaged in active discussion over the idea at a meeting at which "there was standing room only," Cornell Assembly President Noah Doyle said. Cornell's resolution followed the lead of 54 cities and 13 universities that have recently passed similar anti-war statements.

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SEVIS monitors int'l students' activities

By Maggie Shnayerson | February 5, 2003

For most students at the College, moving off-campus or taking a leave term does not present the possibility of deportation from the United States. For international students like Tanya Ghani '03 and Nicholas Bwana '06, however, failure to report details like these to a new Immigration and Naturalization Services program called SEVIS could earn them one-way tickets back to their respective countries of Pakistan and Kenya. SEVIS, or the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, is a real-time Internet-based government program on which U.S.

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