Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism.
SUPPORT THE DARTMOUTH
The Dartmouth
August 14, 2026
The Dartmouth
News
News

Black hairstylists fulfill minority student need

By Melana Yanos | August 13, 2002

The "Black Hair" salon service offered this past Sunday in Collis may have proved to be a small but crucial step towards meeting the needs of minority groups on campus. Professionals specializing in hair services popular among African-Americans and other minority groups--such as dred locks, braids, weaves and extensions--were brought to campus, giving members of the Dartmouth community an opportunity to receive hair care that local salons in Hanover do not commonly offer. This is the second time that the event has taken place.

News

DDS will debut new delivery service Sun.

By Charles Gardner | August 9, 2002

Hungry students will gain another late-night eating option this Sunday when Dartmouth Dining Services debuts its new delivery service. The new service will primarily feature cold items such as wraps and subs, which will be both prepared and delivered by student employees, according to DDS Director Tucker Rossiter. Picking up at Food Court's usual closing hour, the service will offer delivery from 9 p.m.

News

ACT stops flagging untimed tests

By Alison Schmauch | August 9, 2002

The American College Test ended the flagging of test score reports for students who take the test without a time limit last Friday. Formerly, students who have documented learning disabilities such as dyslexia or attention deficit disorder were allowed to have special accommodations during the test. The ACT's decision comes on the heels of one by the College Board to stop flagging test scores for students who take the SAT, SAT II Subject Tests and Advanced Placement exams untimed, according to Ken Gullette, director of media relations for the ACT. The College Board decided to stop flagging scores after a blue-ribbon panel of testing and admissions professionals recommended that they do so. The panel was formed in response to a 1999 lawsuit against the Educational Testing Service alleging that the flagging of these scores discriminated unfairly against disabled students, according to Jennifer Topiel, associate director of public affairs at the College Board. Gullette said that the ACT had originally decided to flag these students' scores in 1985 because there was no research indicating how test scores obtained under extra time compare to those obtained under standard time constraints. While there is still no conclusive research showing how extra time affects learning disabled students' scores, Gullette said that the ACT nonetheless felt compelled to follow the SAT's lead.

News

N.H. residents speak on Upper Valley homelessness

By Charles Gardner | August 9, 2002

Several Upper Valley residents who have experienced homelessness spoke on the shortage of affordable housing in the region Wednesday evening in Tindle Lounge, shedding light on a problem that seems remote for many Dartmouth students. Tina Paquin, who lived out of a camping tent before finding housing in Templeton, said the stigma of being homeless was hurtful not only to her, but to her children, who were objects of taunts and abuse at school. While "most people think that to be homeless, you have to be a drug addict or a drunk," she said, many more are the victims of a dearth of low-income housing throughout the Upper Valley. In 2001, Paquin said, over 700 people -- including more than 300 children -- were turned down for low-income housing in the region, with the number continuing to increase each year. Tom Cagle, another speaker, said the current lack of affordable housing can be traced in large part to the phenomenon of "NIMBY," or "not in my backyard," in which residents are reluctant to approve of any form of housing that might depress the property value of their homes. Until the 1970s, speaker Janice Stevenson said, the states of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine built adequate amounts of low-income housing. Since the economy was weak at the time, and there was net emigration from the region, a housing shortage was averted, she said.

News

Cheating scandal rocks GRE, ETS

By Tara Kyle | August 9, 2002

In a display of cheating unprecedented in the Educational Testing Services' nearly 50-year history, an unknown number of students in China, South Korea and Taiwan dramatically improved their scores on the verbal section of the Graduate Record Examination by sharing questions over the internet during the last academic year. After taking the computer examination, which reuses questions and was administered six days per week, students logged onto several Chinese and Korean-language Web sites and posted memorized questions, ETS learned during a months-long investigation. Responding to the debacle, ETS announced on Tuesday that it will temporarily suspend all electronic testing of the GRE in those countries in favor of a paper examination that will be offered only twice in the coming year, on Nov.

News

Meningitis victim feels 'much better'

By Charles Gardner | August 7, 2002

Kelly Cameron '04 was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis this weekend and taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for treatment, where she was listed in satisfactory condition yesterday. Cameron left intensive care on Monday and is "progressing very well," according to DHMC spokesperson Deborah Kimbell. Friend Lauren Wondolowski '04, who visited Cameron yesterday, said she was "feeling much better" and would likely be able to return to the College on Saturday. Director of Health Services Jack Turco stressed that a single case of the bacterial disease should not serve as cause for alarm. "This is a terrifying illness, but I don't think students are at any higher risk of developing it than last week or two weeks ago," he said. Meningitis, a disease that causes inflammation of the lining of the spinal cord and brain, is "in general not very contagious," Turco said.

News

Women share past experiences

By Richard Lazarus | August 7, 2002

A panel of about a dozen women discussed poetry, body image, sexual assault and the difference between men's and women's experiences before an audience of about twenty women last night. At "A Celebration of Womanhood," host Soojung Rhee '04 introduced the event as a way to reaffirm "how important we are to ourselves and to the women around us." Susan Edwards '04 read a prepared statement about sexual assault, talking about both the extensiveness of assault on campus and her own experience of being raped in her senior year of high school. Edwards said the experience had changed her completely.

News

Prof. says assault not the answer to Saddam

By Richard Lazarus | August 7, 2002

Containment is a better strategy against Iraq than fighting a direct war, according to Dartmouth Professor Daryl Press, who spoke Monday on "Phase II: Attack on Saddam." Press laid out two points he thought best made the case for an invasion of Iraq -- defense against a possible attack against the United States and the possibility of installing a progressive government in the Arab world. He then presented some reasons not to invade.

News

North campus to grow in 2003

By Richard Lazarus | August 5, 2002

A new dining facility, dormitory and academic building will be constructed over the next several years, replacing older buildings in a bid to improve student life. The most important buildings being constructed as far as student life is concerned is probably a complex consisting of a new dining hall, residence hall and social facilities on the north side of Maynard Street, on the far north end of the campus. Director of Facilities Planning Reed Bergwall said he hopes construction will begin on the Maynard Street buildings by 2003.

News

Students encourageN.H. voter registration

By Tara Kyle | August 5, 2002

As candidates and campaigners continue to gear up for fall elections, lawyers and state and local law clerks will hit campus next week to lend support for at a voter registration drive at Dartmouth. Five students currently working or volunteering for New Hampshire Democratic Party candidates -- Ben Correa '04, Josh Marcuse '04, Phil Peisch '04, Rebecca Perkins '04 and Josh Stern '04 -- began planning for the registration push around three weeks ago. Their efforts came about in part as a response to an overburdening of Hanover's local government during "same day registration programs," which for 2000's federal elections brought over 1,000 Dartmouth students to beleagured Hanover town officials on election day. That turnout created what Marcuse, who is working for the New Hampshire Democratic Party's campaign office in Lebanon, called a "logistical and clerical nightmare" for local offices.

News

Pres. apologizes to Yale, applicants

By Alison Schmauch | August 5, 2002

Princeton University has said recently that some of the people who used its computers to gain access to a Yale University admissions Web site were not employees of the university, but in fact students. Four Princeton students entered the Web site, according to Marilyn Marks, media relations director at Princeton. Two of these Princeton students who entered the Web site had siblings who applied to both Princeton and Yale, according to Princeton, in spite of an announcement on the site warning that nobody except applicants themselves was authorized to use it. One other person who accessed the site from Princeton's computers was a student who had applied to both Yale and Princeton and was visiting the Princeton admissions office that day. Shirley Tilghman, Princeton's president, also released her first official statement. "Basic ethical principles of privacy and confidentiality are at stake here," Tilghman said in an E-mail message to the Princeton community. "We teach these principles and we hold our students, faculty and staff to them.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

Trending
The Dartmouth