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Pranks, theft a part of Greek life

By Alison Schmauch | August 5, 2002

Ever since Brian Pingree '04, summer president of Alpha Theta co-ed fraternity, has been a member of his house, a silver cup that Alpha Theta won for outstanding achievement in Dartmouth's annual "Hums" musical contest has been missing. Many Dartmouth students hear stories about the disappearance of such items from Greek houses at one time or another.

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Frats encounter minor vandalism

By Charles Gardner | August 5, 2002

An individual entered Bones Gate and Sigma Nu fraternities and caused minor damage in each early last week, but Hanover Police say no arrest has yet been made in the case. During the early morning hours of July 30, Bones Gate reported to police that an individual had caused "minor damage" there then left the building, according to Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone. The same individual later entered Sigma Nu fraternity and damaged parts of the basement, Giaccone said, including some wall paneling and a wood countertop. Bones Gate reported the individual to police immediately after the vandalism occurred due to concerns "that the person needed help," according to Giaccone. Sigma Nu, however, did not report the incident for an additional 12 hours, only calling police at 9:30 p.m.

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Journalist investigates White House staffers

By Elise Dunphe | August 1, 2002

After writing an article for the July issue of "Esquire" magazine, Ron Suskind became the target of a White House effort to discredit his character. Suskind, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and journalist-in-residence this term at Dartmouth, spoke Wednesday afternoon on the "Perils of Truth-telling" and the ways in which the current presidential administration had handled and managed the media. Evoking images of a tight-lipped White House communications staff, Suskind chronicled the period of time when he had access to, in his consideration, the most powerful female in the history of the Presidency: Karen Hughes. His original plan was to write a feature piece, a profile of the woman President George W.

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Organic Farm will host Summer Fest.

By Tara Kyle | August 1, 2002

Students eager to escape Hanover's usual Friday offerings will have an opportunity tomorrow to take to the fields for a full day of events at the Dartmouth Organic Farm's Summer Festival. The six-year-old facility, located off of Lyme Road, holds such an event each term at Dartmouth, but the summer season promises optimal weather conditions and activity options. "We just want people to have a good time," Anna Fleder '04, the event's primary organizer, said.

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COSO ponders funding policy

By Melana Yanos | August 1, 2002

The Council on Student Organizations, which provides funding for dozens of campus groups, is currently discussing whether or not to extend financial support to selective organizations. COSO currently denies funding eligibility for selective organizations.

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Gubernatorial race up for grabs

By Charles Gardner | August 1, 2002

The tightly-contested New Hampshire Senate race may be garnering more attention statewide, but the campaign to fill departing Governor Jeanne Shaheen's position promises as close a finish, with no candidate having yet emerged as a clear front-runner. With little more than a month remaining before primary elections, Republican Craig Benson holds a lead over rivals Gordon Humphrey and Bruce Keough in most polls, while Democratic candidates Bev Hollingworth and Mark Fernald remain neck-and-neck. Recent weeks, however, have seen Benson come under fire for alleged discrimination against women while he was head of Cabletron, a network software provider that became one of the most successful companies of its kind in the late 1980s and 1990s. Benson, who has touted his business experience during the campaign, saw a jury order Cabletron to pay a $2.5 million penalty on sex discrimination charges in 1995. In response, Benson's campaign has pointed at Humphrey's own corporate career on the board of directors of W.R.

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Society celebrates Southern culture

By Charles Gardner | July 30, 2002

The founders of the Southern Society -- Dartmouth's newest student organization -- hope their group will provide insight into a culturally distinct and historically important region which they say is poorly understood and given only scant scholarly attention. Byron Fuller '02, who along with Alston Ramsay '04 helped found the organization, said its creation was partly motivated by a lack of Southern-related courses at Dartmouth, as well as the attitudes of many students towards southerners. Upon coming to the College, Fuller said, "many Southern students feel displaced" in a culturally alien atmosphere among others who often hold "uninformed and prejudicial" views of those from the south. Ramsay said he had noted "a general sense of disdain" toward southerners at Dartmouth, while hoping that the Society would provide "a means to discuss and dispel stereotypes." Among the group's major goals are to spread a better understanding of the modern-day South and to facilitate discussions on Southern history and culture, in addition to providing "a sense of community" to Southern students on campus, according to the Society's constitution. Though the organization now counts over 20 members -- despite being largely unable to draw on other Dartmouth classes during Summer term -- the group has faced some initial hurdles.Recently, the Society was denied official College recognition by the Council On Student Organizations on grounds that the group "was moving in too many directions at once," according to Fuller. "Their points of view made a lot of sense," said Fuller, while emphasizing that the multiple goals of the Society -- which include promoting both cultural and academic issues -- are each important and closely linked. "Given the importance accorded to other cultures, we feel this is valid as well," Fuller said.

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25 members of SEAD II graduate from program

By Elliot Olshansky | July 30, 2002

The Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) Program celebrated its progress and growth yesterday afternoon, as 25 rising juniors from underfunded public high schools in Boston, Canaan N.H., New York and Philadelphia graduated from the SEAD II program Monday afternoon in Filene Auditorium. The graduation ceremony marked the completion of an eight-day program during which the students " who attended the original SEAD program last summer " learned to develop their individual skills and apply them to effect change in their communities. The original SEAD program, which completed its second session earlier this month, brings students to Hanover for classes in English, math, and computer science, athletic, cultural and community-building activities, and a discussion of post-secondary options. The academic portion of SEAD II focused on heroes and heroines.

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Harvard opts against admissions change

By Tara Kyle | July 30, 2002

When two professors on Harvard's Standing Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid said that the school was strongly considering allowing applicants already accepted under other colleges' binding "early decision" programs to enroll at the Cambridge campus, the implications of the announcement, made in early June, were daunting. If Harvard opted to break the traditional gentleman's agreement among the nation's top colleges and universities, the action would critically disadvantage schools who counted on their early decision applicants to matriculate. Instead, they would have to fear deferral from students accepted during the early action or regular decision round at Harvard -- a college with a yield 10 to 15 percent higher than its closest competitors. A recently-released statement from Harvard's Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, however, withdrew that possibility. "It is our expectation that students admitted elsewhere under binding Early Decision will honor their previous commitment and not matriculate at Harvard," the document said according to The Crimson. Despite the earlier notices that left other top colleges wondering if, according to Dartmouth's Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg, Harvard was "essentially going to be raiding schools' admissions," Harvard's policy for next year will include no marked changes. Furstenberg explained Harvard's changing line in the context of a decision made last fall by the National Association of College Admissions Counselors. The policy, set forth at a conference held shortly after Sept.

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Dean: Ivy hack 'unfortunate'

By Alison Schmauch | July 30, 2002

Dartmouth's Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg expressed concerns about allegations by Yale University that Princeton University admissions officials may have hacked into a Yale Web site which told applicants whether or not they had been accepted there. He remained hesitant to comment closely on the situation, though, as many details remain unknown. "In general, it's unfortunate that one school would feels that another is doing something that violates students' confidentiality," he said. Furstenberg said that he doubted that Princeton logged onto the Yale Web site in order to obtain information that might have changed their admissions decisions. "All the Ivy schools do business independently, very independently," he said. "We don't ask where else students apply," he added.

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'04s examine alcohol policy

By Alison Schmauch | July 26, 2002

A working group of several '04 students are currently drafting another set of recommendations for changes to the alcohol policy. According to committee members Kevin Mazur '04 and Janos Marton '04, the current student body president, the committee especially hopes to improve the relationship between Dartmouth administrators and students and to create an alcohol policy that treats Greek organizations and other student groups more equitably. Mazur said that the committee's participants, who met for the first time Wednesday night, discussed the "state of antagonism" between students and the administration.

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Princeton hacks Yale admissions

By Alison Schmauch | July 26, 2002

Yale University filed a complaint with the FBI yesterday, alleging that admissions officers from Princeton University hacked into a Yale admissions Web site. Applicants to Yale could use the Web site to learn whether or not they had been admitted after typing in their names, dates of birth and Social Security number. Princeton admissions officers used information from the applications of students who had applied to both schools to obtain their admissions information. Yale officials said that these actions violated the applicants' privacy. "We do believe there was a very serious violation of the privacy of the individuals," Yale General Counsel Dorothy Robinson told The Yale Daily News.

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Israeli journalist calls for peace in Mid-East

By Tara Kyle | July 26, 2002

Just two days after Israeli forces killed 15 during an airstrike in Gaza City, columnist and editorial board member for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz Danny Rubinstein spoke out against efforts to solve the current conflict through military action. "Both sides are moving by emotions," he said to a packed crowd yesterday afternoon for a speech entitled "Is peace still possible?

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Dartmouth students volunteer for Senate candidates

By Charles Gardner | July 26, 2002

As the tightly-contested New Hampshire senatorial race begins to heat up, several Dartmouth students have donated their time to assist candidates in their campaigns. Phil Peisch '04 learned of the opportunity to volunteer for Governor Jeanne Shaheen, who is challenging incumbent Republican Bob Smith, while serving as president of the Young Democrats during the past year. "I'm mainly helping with the voter registration drive for Dartmouth students," said Peisch, who is working for the state gubernatorial campaign as well. While both Peisch and Josh Marcuse '04, who is also helping with the Shaheen campaign, said that they had done some local door-to-door canvassing, motivating Dartmouth students to follow the race may be their most important responsibility. "The whole election could be decided by less than 1,000 votes," Marcuse said.

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Screenwriter Bernstein '40 to visit

By Richard Lazarus | July 24, 2002

Accomplished television and film writer Walter Bernstein '40 will visit Dartmouth tomorrow to lecture and see a screening of his 1964 movie "Fail-Safe." Bernstein was blacklisted in the 1950s in the McCarthy-era red scare, according to Dartmouth Film Professor Joanna Rapf.

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N.H. GOP Senate race is close

By Alison Schmauch | July 24, 2002

When asked about the possible outcome of the New Hampshire Republican Senate primary, Rockefeller Center Director Linda Fowler replied, "This is a race that smart people don't make predictions about." First of all, U.S.

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Kelley recipient of Montgomery

By Elise Dunphe | July 24, 2002

For Professor Robin D.G. Kelley, scholarship is not about accolades. To him the study of the conditions and lives of the working class is about envisioning a different future. Kelley, chair of the History Department at New York University and professor of Africana Studies, returned to Dartmouth on Sunday for his second term in residence as the College's Summer term Montgomery Fellow. "Coming back to the Montgomery House is a celebration of the publication of 'Freedom Dreams,'" he said, smiling and seeming very relaxed in the now-familiar setting of the Montgomery House living room. Growing up in a poor family living in Harlem and in Southern California exposed Kelley to such issues of social justice.

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