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April 12, 2026
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Wallowing in Dartmouth

By Liam Kuhn | May 17, 2002

Ah, Green Key. It's kind of like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of Dartmouth big weekends: there's no real justifiable explanation for why it still exists, but we enjoy it anyway every time it comes to town.

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A Note from the Editor

By Charles Gardner | May 17, 2002

It's easy to criticize Green Key for what it is not. The weekend features no signature event, while the chariot races and keg throws of old only survive in photographs. Although the rowdiest traditions have been largely left by the wayside, the spirit of Green Key remains undimmed by time. Since the weekend's early origins more than 100 years ago, Green Key has offered a chance to set aside work and celebrate the coming of spring and warm weather after months of frozen dreariness. Freshmen commemorate the completion of their first year at the College, while for seniors, the event takes on special meaning as the last big weekend they will experience as Dartmouth students. So disregard those who would say that Green Key is a failing tradition: in the end, your Green Key weekend will amount to little more than what you choose to take from it. Exams, papers and presentations are no excuse for avoiding your true responsibilities this weekend.

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New sleep drug Provigil generates controversy

By Carl Burnett | May 16, 2002

Touted by some as a wonder drug that can replace sleep, a relatively new drug called Provigil has failed to win widespread support from the medical community as anything more than a treatment for some sleep disorders. The drug, scientifically known as modafinil, was developed in France in the 1970s, but it was not tested in the United States until the 1990s. In 1998, the U.S.

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Reporter, psychiatrist debate youth violence

By Kristina C. Mendicino | May 16, 2002

Youth behavior patterns, such as youth violence, are analogous to "canaries in a mineshaft" signifying cultural instability, according to James Gilligan, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist. He and freelance reporter Eric Francis spoke last night at the Ethics Institute dinner, which followed an afternoon discussion panel on youth violence. Ethics Institute leader Ronald Green mediated the afternoon discussion panel, which also included a judge, Edward Kelly.

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Hildreth eager to step into vice-president role

By Megh Duwadi | May 16, 2002

For Julia Hildreth '05, attending Dartmouth was "a childhood dream." The student body vice president-elect, a native of Gilford, N.H., said that her aspiration to attend the College grew out of early visits to Hanover with her father, a salesman. "I always used to come up when I was little," Hildreth said. Even Hildreth's most elaborate dreams did not encompass her rapid rise this year in student government, a field in which she had participated throughout high school despite becoming disillusioned by its apparent lack of efficacy.

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College ups grad. stipends

By Carl Burnett | May 16, 2002

Dartmouth will spend $2 million over the next five years to guarantee health insurance and to increase stipends for its nearly 300 graduate research and teaching assistants, the College announced last week. The average base stipend for graduate students in the arts and sciences -- which does not include students at the Tuck School of Business or some Dartmouth Medical School and Thayer School of Engineering students, who pay tuition -- will increase from $16,440 to $18,084 per year, starting July 1. "I'm not certain why they didn't do this sooner," said mathematics graduate student Barry Balof, a member of the Graduate Student Council.

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An accidental creation, social norms grows in influence

By Carl Burnett | May 15, 2002

In the mid 1980s, two alcohol-education researchers named Wesley Perkins and Alan Berkowitz hit upon a revolutionary idea: instead of trying to scare college students into not drinking, it might be more effective to tell them how little their peers were drinking.

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SA discusses new dorm delivery rules

By Charles Gardner | May 15, 2002

Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman defended the College's new door-locking system -- which has been installed across campus but not yet activated -- during Student Assembly's weekly meeting last night. Responding to the concerns of Assembly members over the timing, motivation and potential effects of the new door-locking mechanisms, Redman said the decision to implement the card-access system had been spurred primarily by safety concerns. "Students should not have to be fearful" of unwanted intruders entering residential spaces, he said of the system, which he hoped would begin by the start of Summer term. Other students, however, took issue with the policy that all non-College-contracted businesses -- including independent student-run publications as well as restaurant delivery services -- will be barred from using the card access system to enter dormitories for commercial purposes. Under the new system, students must come to dormitory entrances themselves to greet delivery persons. Kendra Quincy Kemp '02 disagreed that student publications and other campus organizations deserved to be lumped together with outside businesses, like Ramunto's Pizzeria, but Redman said total prohibition represented the only fair way to address the issue. "If we say yes to door-to-door delivery to one business, we have to say yes to all," he said.

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Duke questions applicants on admission essay help

By Carl Burnett | May 15, 2002

Duke University, for the last two years, has been asking applicants the unique question: "How much help did you receive on your college application essays?" Neither Dartmouth nor many other institutions have added this question to their applications. Christoph Guttentag, director of admissions at Duke, said the purpose of the question is not to weed out plagiarism, but to provide a context for the essays. "Some students write their essays as part of a class.

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Trailblazer role a trial for Dalianis

By Kay Fukunaga | May 15, 2002

"There were people on the New Hampshire Superior Court when I was appointed who would not talk to me, not even to say 'hello,'" said Justice Linda Dalianis, who subsequently became the first woman to serve on the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Speaking at the annual spring dinner of the Women's Network of the Upper Valley to an attentive audience, Dalianis talked of the difficulties that underlie the judicial profession, citing a case in which the jury convicted an individual on charges of child molestation. "I didn't believe that he did it," Dalianis said.

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Hillel votes to take pro-Israel stance

By Tracy Landers | May 15, 2002

Dartmouth Hillel members voted last night to submit a pro-Israel advertisement to The Dartmouth, making a campus-wide statement with which some among the roughly thirty-five students present at the meeting strongly disagreed. The advertisement, reading "Wherever we stand, we stand with Israel," is a statement supported by many Hillel International-affiliated organizations across America and is intended to encompass the variety of opinions held by "Diaspora Jews," Rabbi Edward Boraz said. Some students said that the statement is an important expression of support for Israel, but others suggested it could alienate Jews who do not agree with Israel's current political policies. "This has the potential to be something less than peaceful," Jessica Goldberg '03 said.

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Dartmouth Catholics struggle with scandal

By Sarah Betts | May 15, 2002

As the Catholic Church faces a national scandal surrounding allegations of sexual abuse by its priests, Roman Catholics at Dartmouth and across the country are struggling to cope with a disillusioning barrage of accusations, arrests and legal fights. In January of this year, defrocked priest John Geoghan was convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy.

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