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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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S&S officers lack the training of officers in blue

By Cordelia Zukerman | October 21, 2002

Those green-and-white uniforms aren't the only trait that distinguishes Safety and Security officers from the blue of the New York Police Department. Although Dartmouth's Safety and Security officers are charged with the protection of the College's student population and the enforcement of College rules and policies, they are not police officers.

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Tuck's French relishes rural life

By Jessica Spradling | October 18, 2002

Tuck School Professor Kenneth French is one of the world's top thinkers in economics and finance, but if you don't find him in his office, look for him to be out skiing or cycling in the New Hampshire countryside he loves. French and his academic partner, University of Chicago Professor Eugene Fama, were on several shortlists to win this year's Nobel Prize in economics.

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Vendors increase scrutiny of IDs

By Griffin Gordon | October 18, 2002

Following the arrest of two Dartmouth students for the mass production of fake identification, area vendors are being warned to check IDs from California, Florida and New Mexico and may be clamping down on those seeking to buy alcohol underage. Police allege that Tom Allason '02 and David Seidman '04 produced over 100 fake drivers' licenses prior to their arrests in early September. Although mostly not new additions, the ominous warnings like "Don't try it if you're under 21" and "If you're under 30, expect to be proofed" that decorate the windows of Hanover's gas stations, grocery stores and restaurants may have taken on new meaning since the arrests. "We don't mess around," said Nigel Leeming, the owner of Mojo's Bistro and Murphy's on the Green. Establishments in Hanover use a variety of methods to detect fake IDs, ranging from the use of scanners to manual examinations, but each takes the use of false identification seriously. Stores that are caught for selling alcohol to minors face a minimum $1,000 fine on the first offense, which is reason enough to be careful, Leeming said. Many shops that sell alcohol in Hanover have books with complete listings of all state manufactured IDs in existence.

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Sam Means '03 tests his mettle on 'Weakest Link'

By Devin Foxall | October 18, 2002

Over the summer, Sam Means '03 and a friend traveled to New York City for an open audition for the popular television game show, "Weakest Link." After a mock game with other hopefuls, designed for the producers to pick actual contestants, Means took a dim view of his chances. "I thought they would want someone more interesting," he said. But last week, Means competed for real.

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Time well spent on ranking polls?

By Kaitlin Bell | October 18, 2002

As fluctuations in the rank of certain elite schools on U.S. News and World Reports' annual rankings list continue to capture the public's attention -- and even as the debate over such rankings' merits continues to rage -- the significant demands such rankings make on administrators' time go largely unheeded. But that's the way it should be, according to a number of deans and public relations officers responsible for providing the data used in the rankings, including deans of admissions and directors of public relations from the Thayer School of Engineering, Tuck Business School, Dartmouth Medical School and other Ivy League institutions. Theirs is a mostly pragmatic approach to the rankings.

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College sells house on seniority sys.

By Alison Schmauch | October 18, 2002

Despite Dartmouth's recent budget cuts, officials in the College Real Estate office still plan to sell a house located at 1 MacDonald Drive in Hanover on the basis of seniority, rather than trying to sell it at the highest possible cost. Priority will first be given to bidders who have not lived in the Dresden School District -- which includes Hanover and Norwich, Vt.

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