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Shaheen criticizes Arab stereotypes

By Jessica Spradling | October 9, 2002

Former CBS News Middle East affairs consultant Jack Shaheen argued that Hollywood stereotypes dehumanize Arabs and Arab-Americans in a speech in Dartmouth Hall last night entitled, "Reel Bad Arabs." Shaheen, a retired Southern Illinois University professor, engaged the audience with a plethora of evidence of Hollywood stereotyping, gathered from his more than 20 years of research.

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SA looks to spruce up social spaces

By Kaitlin Bell | October 9, 2002

To gauge support for providing student activities funds to a broader range of student social groups -- including Greek houses -- the Student Assembly sent out a campus-wide email last night asking for student opinion on where such funds should be directed. The BlitzMail message asked students to identify the social spaces most in need of improvement, how many times a week they use various social spaces and whether student activities money should be used to fund improvements to coed, sorority and fraternity organizations, the Fuel nightclub and affinity houses. "We want to see if the College is funding spaces that students actually use," Student Life Committee Chair Amit Anand '03 said. The survey was inspired by a suggestion from Student Life Committee Member Jim Baehr '05 that the Assembly use some of its funding to make improvements in run-down fraternity basements. "I see a really need for fraternities' social spaces not to be as disgusting as they have been," Baehr said.

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'06s already 'experts' on life at Dartmouth

By Kay Fukunaga | October 9, 2002

With almost three weeks at the College under their belts, members of the Class of 2006 said they already feel at home on campus -- and shared some of their newly-acquired opinions and expertise about life at Dartmouth. This year's freshman class said that if they have learned one thing since arriving at Dartmouth, it is to take advantage of every opportunity offered -- free food or otherwise -- to help ease the transition from high school to college. "I wish I had known that it's so easy to get involved.

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Dartmouth influences, but rarely controls, Hanover govt.

By Tracy Landers | October 9, 2002

Five minutes spent at the intersection of Main and Wheelock Streets would be enough to convince the casual observer that the Town of Hanover and Dartmouth College are inextricably linked. But despite the constant flow of people, cars, goods and services, few students are aware of the intricacy of this relationship at the governmental level. The actions of the town's Board of Selectmen, the highest level of local government, influences aspects of campus life from water quality to construction of new dorms to late-night noise levels.

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Comparing DDS to its Ivy peers

By Diana Bradford | October 8, 2002

Editor's note: This is the first installment in a five-part series examining Dartmouth Dining Services' structure, quality and history. Dartmouth's meal system, the admissions office proudly proclaims, is unique among its peer schools. A survey of the Ivy League's dining services confirmed that Dartmouth is indeed the only institution to rely exclusively on a declining balance, per-item system. But there are surprises, too.

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Bush steps up anti-Iraq rhetoric

By Karla Kingsley | October 8, 2002

President George W. Bush addressed the nation from Cinnicinati yesterday, calling for support of a possible war against Iraq and opening a week of debate in Congress over resolutions that would give the president power to call for military action in Iraq. Bush dubbed Saddam Hussein a "murderous tyrant" but presented no significant new evidence of Iraqi transgression during his speech.

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Benson campaigns for gov. in Hanover

By Griffin Gordon | October 8, 2002

Republican Craig Benson, the current front-runner in the New Hampshire gubernatorial race, focused on taxes and the state economy during a lunchtime campaign event in Hanover yesterday. Though publicized as a meeting between Benson and the College Republicans, the lunchtime event saw a very low turn out of Dartmouth students, with most of the crowd made up of local supporters and campaign contributors. Enjoying a solid lead over Democratic rival Mark Fernald, Benson's talk paid major attention to taxes, a key point of debate between the two candidates.

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Pro-Israel website blacklists college profs.

By Jessica Spradling | October 7, 2002

The Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank, has recently been the center of a controversy surrounding their website, Campuswatch.org, which encourages students to monitor anti-Israel bias and pro-Palestinian campus activism. Campuswatch.org invites students to submit web reports on campus activity involving "Middle East-related scholarship, lectures, classes, demonstrations and other activities relevant to our work." Although the site previously published "dossiers" regarding specific professors with allegedly anti-Israeli views, a recent site reorganization downplayed the specificity of accusations. Although no Dartmouth students have participated thus far, students at several peer institutions -- including Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard and Stanford Universities, as well as University of California at Berkley -- have accused their professors of pro-Palestinian bias. Much of the controversy surrounding Campuswatch.org has come from the negative response in the academic community, with over 100 professors asking to be added to Campuswatch.org to indicate their solidarity with their peers. Despite public outcry however, the site, a non-profit organization maintained by private donations, claims that it supports "the views of most Americans." In response to protest in the academic community and public attention from the national press, Campuswatch.org changed its format on Sept.

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'03s brace themselves for corporate recruiting

By Richard Lazarus | October 7, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the first article in a term-long series profiling three seniors as they work through the corporate recruiting process. It's the process that everyone loves to hate, that annual ritual that inspires seniors to don their best suits and tote their most professional-looking portfolios: corporate recruiting. Every year, a little less than half the senior class enlists for that grueling process of resume and cover-letter writing, high-stakes interviews and uncertain futures. Some of the roughly 450 students who have signed up with Career Services this year know what they want.

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Assault rumors cause stir

By Alison Schmauch | October 7, 2002

Widespread rumors of a spike in on-campus sexual assaults have put Dartmouth administrators on alert, although few facts have been established amid a flurry of allegations. Several Dartmouth administrators expressed concern about the assault rumors, but they also said that they were not aware of any specific cases of sexual assault at this point. Although some of the email messages forwarded about the sexual assault cases have forged a link with members of a specific social organization at Dartmouth, no administrator interviewed by The Dartmouth said that any evidence for these allegations currently exists. Abby Tassel, coordinator of Dartmouth's sexual abuse awareness program, was away at the end of the last week and said she was surprised to return home to an inbox full of BlitzMail messages about possible sexual assault cases. Tassel said in a BlitzMail message to The Dartmouth that it seemed that there has been "a tremendous amount of misinformation flying about in my absence." Tassel said that she was not aware of any specific cases of sexual assault over the past two weeks. Sergeant Rebel Roberts of the Department of Safety and Security also said that no cases of sexual assault have been reported to Safety and Security either in the past two weeks, although one student did call to ask for information about sexual abuse. Roberts said, however, that due to the way systems for reporting sexual abuse at Dartmouth work, Safety and Security might well be unaware of any recent sexual assaults. While some students who are sexually assaulted might choose to report the incident to Safety and Security or to the Hanover Police, others might choose to report the incident only to Tassel or only to their Undergraduate Advisors, she said. No complaints of sexual assault have been filed with the Hanover Police either, according to Hanover Police Department Chief Nick Giaccone. Elizabeth Hirsh, director of women's health at Dick's House, said that Dick's House has not treated any women for sexual assault.

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