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Is Dartmouth a public, or a private, institution?

By Elise Dunphe | October 9, 2002

In the middle of February in 2001, a female student happened to be walking by Psi Upsilon fraternity. What she heard shouted from the porch -- a chanting rendition of "Wah-hoo-wah, scalp 'em, scalp 'em" -- would become the focus for tense campus debate and, eventually, six months of social probation for the fraternity. In all the controversy over the sanctions, one criticism emerged that would highlight the sometimes cloudy status Dartmouth enjoys as a private institution: because the College receives federal funds it should have to abide by free speech principles that would make such a punishment unconstitutional. Dartmouth itself has a quick answer to that complaint -- no. Officials covet its status as a private institution, which effectively shields the College from potentially costly First Amendment lawsuits. Almost 200 years ago in the precedent-setting Dartmouth College Case, Daniel Webster arbitrated in front of the U.S.

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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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