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Education department announces new minor

By Colin Barry | November 25, 2002

After facing elimination twice in the past decade as a result of negative internal reviews, the education department now appears to be in the midst of significant change -- the oldest minor will be cut, and a new minor is in the works. At the end of last year, the department announced that the Education Studies minor, one of two minors it offers, will be unavailable after the conclusion of Spring term in 2003.

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Faculty prefer mid-morning slots

By Richard Lazarus | November 25, 2002

Dartmouth students like their sleep, but that's only one consideration departments make when they schedule their classes for the coming term. "In my world, it's called 'bunching,'" College Registrar Polly Griffin said.

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Are 'gut' classes as easy as they seem?

November 25, 2002

Every college student encounters "gut" classes -- easy classes taken to fulfill distribution requirements, or to get a good grade with minimal work. Although these gut classes might at first seem to contradict the high standards of Dartmouth, they have a special place in the hearts of students. When asking students to name gut classes, any number of rhyming nicknames surface. "I've heard of some easy classes " 'rocks for jocks,' 'quakes for flakes,' and 'clapping for credit,'" said Gabby Sapia '03, referring to Earth Sciences 2, Earth Sciences 5 and Music 10, respectively, just some of the gut courses mentioned by students. While these courses might garner a reputation for being easy, students enrolled in these courses do not always agree that they deserve to be guts.

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United Way fundraising effort hits halfway mark

By Allison Forbes | November 22, 2002

After kicking off its annual fundraising campaign earlier this fall, the Upper Valley United Way is looking to the Dartmouth community to raise 20 percent of its expected contributions. The Dartmouth campaign aims to raise $232,650 by the end of the drive on Feb.

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Students: STD testing discouraged

By Allison Caffrey | November 22, 2002

Although Dick's House offers all enrolled Dartmouth students testing for sexually-transmitted diseases and HIV, many who have requested to be tested this year allege that administrators at the health-care facility have encouraged them not to undergo some tests. Several students, who wished to remain anonymous for privacy reasons, told The Dartmouth that when they asked to be tested, the staff at Dick's House tried to talk them out of it.

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Event commemorates coeducation

By Mark Herman | November 22, 2002

College President James Wright reiterated the theme of his convocation speech -- campus diversity -- as faculty, administrators, alumni and students gathered in the Top of the Hop yesterday at a reception to celebrate the 30th anniversary of coeducation at Dartmouth. Event host Giavanna Munafo of the Center for Women and Gender, previously the Women's Resource Center, said it was intended to celebrate the accomplishments of the last 30 years and the vision that will shape the next 30 years in a way that includes everyone at Dartmouth. Wright said coeducation at Dartmouth fundamentally altered the College. "Coeducation is about more than adjusting admissions and admissions criteria," Wright said.

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National groups question Sununu's education stance

By Andrew Haringer | November 21, 2002

A much-debated topic in the recent election, N.H. Senator-elect John E. Sununu's commitment to education continues to be questioned by Democrats and watchdog groups. A pamphlet that was distributed on campus by Dartmouth's Young Democrats prior to the election asserted that Sununu voted five times against Pell Grant increases while serving in the U.S.

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A Hop mainstay, Croft dies at 65

By Cole Entress | November 21, 2002

Dartmouth lost a valuable employee and a fierce patron of the arts in Georgia Croft, 65, who died in her home Saturday after a year and a half-long battle with lung cancer. At the College, Croft erved as the Hopkins Center's media relations coordinator for nearly a decade.

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At Aquinas, statistics defy reality

By Elizabeth Gibson | November 21, 2002

Fewer Catholic '04s, '05s and '06s submitted optional religious affiliation forms than did students from previous classes, but campus religious leaders said that Catholic activity on campus is still strong. Religious affiliation forms are mailed to students after their admission to the College, and a student may use these forms to indicate interest in a campus religious organization. When a student returns the form, his or her name is sent to the religious groups on campus.

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MCAT to end score withholding

By Karla Kingsley | November 21, 2002

The Association of American Medical Colleges, sponsor of the Medical College Admission Test, has decided to implement a new policy of "full disclosure" -- starting in April 2003, applicants will no longer have the option to withhold test scores from their applications to medical schools. The MCAT -- a dreaded eight-hour test that is required of all pre-med students -- forms one facet of a student's application.

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'Dry' votes turn controversial for SA

By Kaitlin Bell | November 20, 2002

The Student Assembly passed six amendments to its constitution last night in an effort to bring the rules governing the group up to date with current practices. The amendments passed almost unanimously, with the only opposition coming from long-time Assembly members who defended the rationale behind the original constitution. The proposed amendments proved surprisingly contentious, given that the actual changes made were minor and Student Body Vice President Julia Hildreth '05 had warned that the amendment process would be "dry." But in questioning the amendments' language and stressing the importance of semantics, Mike Perry '03 and Erica Berman '03 seemed to be making more of a symbolic gesture than expressing any radically different policy views. The six "housekeeping amendments" drafted by the Assembly's Membership and Internal Affairs Committee do not represent any major policy changes, but are meant to reflect practices the Assembly has been pursuing informally since at least the beginning of this term, Hildreth explained to the Assembly. "MIAC feels that it's really important for the constitution to reflect what we really do in Assembly for it to be respected.

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DDS delivery faces losses, shutdown

By Devin Foxall | November 20, 2002

Dartmouth Dining Service's money-losing delivery program will be canceled after only one full term unless more students begin to use the service during the remaining weeks of the Fall term. DDS administrators and student managers of the program will decide at the end of the term whether to continue the delivery service into the winter, Assistant Director of Dining Services David Newlove said. "It has to be able to stand on its own," he said, explaining the criteria for sustaining the program.

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New committee to study ethical investing

By Devin Foxall | November 20, 2002

The Board of Trustees moved to institute a permanent advisory committee on investor responsibility during its Fall-term meeting. Paving the way for a new committee that will handle many of Dartmouth's investment decisions, the Trustees' decision marks Dartmouth's first step toward disclosing how it invests its endowment. The formation of the committee caps years of behinds-the-scenes debate, in addition to some more visible protest, over Dartmouth's lack of transparency about where it invests its endowment. The committee's formation can be seen as a compromise between one side of the investor responsibility debate that wants Dartmouth to divest from such industries as tobacco, and the side that believes Dartmouth should invest in whatever provides the best return.

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Public and private colleges face distinct choices

By Kaitlin Bell | November 20, 2002

Despite socially responsible investing movements led by faculty and students at schools around the country, decisions to invest in certain companies are often determined not by the degree of activism on campus, but by a college's status as a public or private institution. A number of prominent state higher education systems, including New Hampshire and North Carolina, have bylaws stipulating that university endowments be invested to maximize profits without regard to companies' social or political policies. Most private universities, by contrast, have the flexibility to examine investment decisions on a case-by-case basis. "We don't have a socially responsible investment agenda per se," said Mark Yusko, of the UNC Management Company, the organization that handles investments for the North Carolina's higher education system.

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Herpes cases surge on campus

By Kristin Szostek | November 20, 2002

Cases of genital herpes diagnosed on campus spiked this month, with a total of eight new cases of the sexually transmitted disease already reported just over halfway through November.

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