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Eco group campaigns at Collis

By Kristin Szostek | October 24, 2002

A small but determined group of students gathered on the Collis Center porch yesterday afternoon in its second step toward raising campus awareness about genetically modified foods. Wednesday's event was the follow-up to a survey campaign conducted about two weeks ago at various Dartmouth dining establishments. The student organizers, Sue DuBois '05, Peter Rapp '03 and Chris Prentice '05, began the meeting with a series of short speeches outlining their current work on campus and the facts on genetically modified organisms in American food. Prentice revealed the results of the survey, stating that while many students questioned weren't previously aware of the issue, most agreed that they would like to see labels on GMO-based products. Rapp discussed various issues surrounding genetically modified foods, stressing their negative effects on the environment and irreparable damage they can wreak on organic farms. Adverse effects of genetically-altered substances include narrowing the diversity of plants and crops and killing off or stunting the growth of certain insects, such as the monarch butterfly, according to Rapp.

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Prof. wins Fulbright for study in Nigeria

By Kathleen McDermott | October 23, 2002

The recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholar grant, history Professor Judith Byfield '80 will pack her bags this January for Abeokuta, Nigeria, and spend five months interviewing women who led a 1947 tax revolt against their colonial government. Approximately 800 scholars from the United States conduct research abroad each year through the U.S.

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Title IX largely benefits whites, leaving minority women out

By Tracy Landers | October 23, 2002

Kiva Wilson's slender frame, big voice and outspoken friendliness make her a perfect coxswain for the women's light-weight crew team -- if she still wanted to row. Wilson '04 was at one point the only African-American woman on a year-round team that demanded a tight bond with fellow athletes who, despite being some of her closest friends, did not share her cultural background. Coming from Columbia, North Carolina, Wilson returned home her first winter break and found it comically difficult to explain her new sport.

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Title IX is felt in little leagues, soccer fields across the country

By Kathleen McDermott | October 23, 2002

This past spring, the soccer fields of Anoka, Minn. -- a suburb just north of Minneapolis -- were heavily sprinkled with blond ponytails. That's because of the Anoka Junior Soccer Association's 24 teams, two-thirds are all female. The organization's president, Nancy Giancola, herself the soccer mom of a fifth-grade girl, said she has witnessed a rapid expansion in the opportunities for girls to play youth sports in the past several years and since she was a young girl."When I was my daughter's age, we didn't have girls' sports at all," Giancola explained. Giancola grew up in the pre-Title IX era, during which only one in 27 girls played high school sports, and a second-grade girl playing in a youth soccer league was the exception to the rule. But growing up 30 years after the passage of the watershed legislation, her daughter has witnessed such female athletic triumphs as the U.S.

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Brooks: politicians stuck in the past

By Devin Foxall | October 23, 2002

The political parties' reluctance to offer ideas on a national scale or to address emerging issues will make the 2002 elections one of the least crucial in recent history, political commentator David Brooks said yesterday in Filene Auditorium. "This is really the last election of the 20th century," Brooks said.

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Thirty years after Title IX, White House scrutinizes act

By Alex Friedman | October 23, 2002

Thirty years after its creation, Title IX is back on the political agenda -- and up for possible revision. Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal assistance, is being formally re-evaluated by the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, a committee created by the Bush administration's secretary of education. An expression of the often-widespread resistance to Title IX, especially in conservative circles, the commission has until Jan.

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Big Green sports move towards gender equity

By Sammy Kardon | October 23, 2002

When Judy Oberting '91 arrived in Hanover in the fall of 1987 to play ice hockey and lacrosse for the Big Green, things were a little different for female athletes than they are today. "All our equipment, except for skates and sticks, were hand-me-downs from the men's team.

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To less attention, Title IX impacts much of academic life

By Jessica Spradling | October 23, 2002

While most of the debate over Title IX focuses on gender equity in sports, the landmark law was actually intended to affect all aspects of education -- and has had a major impact beyond the athletic field. Throughout its history, Title IX has dramatically increased opportunities for women in academia. Mostly, Title IX has made it possible for women to pursue degrees in areas previously dominated by men and has made it easier for them to rise through the professional ranks. More recently, Title IX has influenced an even wider range of education policy.

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Large football budgets fuel the Title IX debate

By Kaitlin Bell | October 23, 2002

With Title IX's goal of assuring fairness in athletic spending, it can be tempting to blame football teams for eating up so much of colleges' athletic budgets -- or to argue that football teams, unlike many women's sports, bring in impressive revenues that justify high expenditures. At Dartmouth, there is evidence to support both sides: football has annual expenditures that dwarf most other teams, but so do its revenues. Although Dartmouth's football expenditures do not compare to those of powerhouses like the University of Texas, where operating budgets top $10 million, the nearly $1 million spent on Dartmouth's football team last year--as compared to the approximately $2.7 million divided between the sixteen other varsity men's teams -- begs the question of whether football is eating up more than its share of men's sports funding. But Dartmouth athletic officials say that the current football budget covers the necessities without taking away from other teams -- male or female. "Our other teams are not suffering because of our football -- but they are in a lot of other schools," Dartmouth Athletic Director Jo Ann Harper said. Head Football Coach John Lyons agreed. "I don't think it's as much about taking money from other sports here -- you just want to run your program and know that relative to your opponents it's a good program," Lyons said. Much of the current debate over football teams stems from the well-publicized revelation that, contrary to popular perception, football is a money loser, not a money maker, for most schools.

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SA to keep jurisdiction over teaching award

By Kaitlin Bell | October 23, 2002

Pledging to continue its support for the Undergraduate Teaching Initiative's Profiles in Excellence Teaching Award, the Student Assembly voted unanimously last night to keep the award under its own jurisdiction rather than allow other student organizations to co-sponsor the program. "I think it's important that this be just an SA thing," Julie Webb '04 said, arguing against a suggestion by Student Body President Janos Marton '04 to add an amendment that would open the award to co-sponsorship.

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Single-sex school movement bumps up against Title IX

By Sarah Betts | October 23, 2002

Title IX's implications for single-sex public education are causing heated debate, as its restrictions on publicly funded single-sex schools and classrooms stand in the way of new education reform. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, a project of the Bush administration, provides more latitude for alternative education methods and would make it easier for single-sex schools to exist. In order to resolve the two conflicting laws, the Department of Education published its intent to propose amendments to Title IX regulations in May, 2002.

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Raj asks for help to end plight of untouchables

By Jessica Spradling | October 22, 2002

Indian writer and activist M.C. Raj pleaded for Americans to support the liberation of India's "untouchables," who are assigned the lowest rung of the country's social and economic hierarchy under the Hindu caste system. "I seek your support and solidarity in whatever ways possible to you," Raj said to the crowd of over 50 Dartmouth students in attendance at his speech yesterday entitled, "Plight of the Untouchables: Breaking Down Caste Systems." Raj -- himself a Dalit -- outlined many of the daily atrocities that this group lives with.

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Students launch local answer to eBay

By Megh Duwadi | October 21, 2002

Those monthly trips to West Lebanon may not be so crucial after all. Hanover's newest shopping venue offers Dartmouth students a bevy of choices for their eclectic tastes. What's more: to make purchases from televisions and textbooks to the occasional used car, students don't even need to leave their residence halls. Operated by student-run Netbay Solutions, Darbay -- an online commerce site open only to the Dartmouth community -- made its debut earlier this month. The site, located at www.darbay.com, allows users to bid on an array of products offered by students and local merchants.

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College lures '06s to alcohol survey

By Jong Lee | October 21, 2002

Recently launched to encourage safe consumption of alcohol among the student body, a new Dick's House-run online program called "AlcoholEdu" is being heavily promoted to the Class of 2006. AlcoholEdu is a two- to three-hour-long program that "is designed to improve a person's knowledge, attitude and behavior towards alcohol," according to the program's website. "Primary prevention is educating everyone who doesn't necessarily have alcohol problems yet to prevent problems and minimize alcohol abuse in the future," Dick's House Director Jack Turco said. The program starts with a pre-assessment survey and ends with a final exam, which a student can either pass or fail. Turco said that it is more important to him that students are actually taking the course than whether or not they are passing the post-assessment exam, and that the results of the test are not used in any sort of way to discipline or hurt the participant. After completing the course, half of the participants will have a very brief follow up in six weeks and the other half in six months. All first-year students finishing the AlcoholEdu program by the Fall Term will receive two movie passes that can be used at the Nugget Theatre.

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