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DOC strips prove popular

By Tara Kyle | July 8, 2002

Over 100 Dartmouth students spent the weekend hiking, paddling, climbing and biking around rural New Hampshire for Sophomore Trips, but funding challenges last spring threatened to cost them that opportunity. Organizers of the four-year-old Strips program ran into major financial problems last term, when a number of sponsoring organizations Strips had depended on in previous years unexpectedly turned the program down for reasons including leadership turnover.

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McEwen announces impending retirement

By Alison Schmauch | July 2, 2002

Bob McEwen, who has served as Dartmouth's college proctor since 1976, late last week announced his intention to retire effective one year from now, on July 1, 2003. As proctor, McEwen is in charge of all matters relating to campus security.

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SAT to undergo major overhaul

By Charles Gardner | July 2, 2002

College Board trustees voted last Thursday to make significant changes to the SAT with the goal of allowing the test to better measure in-class learning, though officials at Dartmouth and elsewhere said the alterations would likely hurt as much as help. The revisions call for the addition of a full-blown essay question, a more challenging math section and the elimination of verbal analogy questions on the college entrance exam taken by more than a million high school students each year. The revamped test will debut in March 2005 and will raise the top possible score to 2400 from the current 1600, to account for a new handwritten essay section and multiple-choice grammar questions based on the SAT II writing test. Though University of California President Richard Atkinson recently proposed dropping the SAT as a consideration in college admissions, arguing that it failed to adequately measure learned knowledge, he wrote in a Jun.

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Tulloch considered book deal

By Tara Kyle | July 2, 2002

A month after the conclusion of the criminal cases against James Parker and Robert Tulloch, the New Hampshire attorney general's office released some 6,500 pages of investigative documents -- including letters and school essays written by Tulloch in the months preceding the slayings of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop. One of the letters, made public by the state on Friday, recalls the fears of Tulloch's potential to profit from the highly-publicized crimes that led to the May's plea agreement preventing Tulloch from making money through film or publishing deals. "Chief and I," Tulloch wrote while in jail of an unidentified fellow inmate, "were going to write a book, and make millions since two Dartmouth professors died." Tulloch's plea agreement stipulates that the Zantop family will now acquire earnings from any such book; in exchange Tulloch will not face a restitution hearing. Essays written during Tulloch's stint at Chelsea Public School in Chelsea, Vermont display sharp cynicism over such subjects as school, teachers, and U.S.

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Door lock activation

By Elise Dunphe | June 28, 2002

The Hitchcock residence hall and housing in Massachusetts Row and the Gold Coast became the first dormitories to utilize the new electronic security system this past week.

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Harper named Athletic Director

By Tara Kyle | June 28, 2002

The College brought nearly three weeks of uncertainty following Charles Harris' controversial resignation to a close yesterday, when Dartmouth announced the appointment of current Senior Associate Director of Athletics JoAnn "Josie" Harper to the position of Director of Athletics and Recreation. Due to the flap surrounding Harris' departure in early June (because of revelations that he had lied on a resume while applying for a past job), Dean of the College James Larimore said he "very briefly" considered closing the search for a new athletic director and restarting efforts next year. After deciding to move ahead with the appointment, Larimore and the search committee returned to examinations of a pool of five final candidates from which Harris had been accepted.

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Earls '05 loses court decision

By Charles Gardner | June 28, 2002

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the right of public high schools to randomly test their students for drugs, ending the nearly four-year struggle of Lindsay Earls '05 to see such practices banned. In a 5-4 decision, justices ruled that schools' efforts to rid themselves of drug use represent a more compelling interest than the right of students to privacy. The ruling specifically addressed student participants in extracurricular activities and team sports: prior to the decision, schools were only allowed to test athletes. For Earls personally, the ruling came as a blow to years of effort and toil. "I cried for about 20 minutes after I heard of the decision," she said.

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Harvard evaluates early decision

By Alison Schmauch | June 26, 2002

Two professors who serve on Harvard's standing committee on admissions and financial aid have recently said that there is a possibility that Harvard might begin to accept students during regular decision admissions who have been accepted at other colleges during the early decision round. Karl Furstenberg, Dartmouth's Dean of Admissions, while concerned about the ethical implications of such a proposed change, did not think that such an alteration of admissions policy would affect Dartmouth significantly. "For most of the students who apply to Dartmouth Early Decision, Dartmouth is clearly their real first choice.

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Internet offers cheap textbooks

By Richard Lazarus | June 26, 2002

If you aren't checking the prices of your textbooks online, you are probably spending too much money. Buying used textbooks online is quickly becoming an attractive alternative for students facing rising prices on already expensive books at Hanover's more traditional booksellers. Websites that allow students or retailers to sell new or used textbooks directly to other students who need them offer significant savings over textbooks at the Dartmouth Bookstore and Wheelock Books in Hanover. "I would do the same thing if I were a student," said David Cioffi, president and general manager of the Dartmouth Bookstore, when asked about online student book exchanges. "There's no way we could do that.

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SA kicks off Summer term

By Tara Kyle | June 26, 2002

Student Assembly's summer membership got off to a quiet start at a well-attended meeting last night, with upcoming projects and the organization's own visibility around campus dominating discussion. One of the Assembly's more pressing responsibilities for the term will be to respond to the door locking system activated in College dormitories on Monday -- Summer Chair and recently elected SA President Janos Marton '04 described the present state of the system as "a complete travesty." Both Marton and Summer Vice Chair Steve Zyck '04 emphasized the immediate need to meet with students, the administration and Safety and Security to examine current problems within the system and possible solutions before another 3000 students must use the locks upon returning to campus next fall. The Assembly also discussed potential ways to increase the '04 class' familiarity with the SA and its operations. Marton highlighted the need for improvement by writing "48.8" in large letters on the whiteboard at the front of the classroom before the meeting. That figure represents the percentage of Dartmouth students who identified themselves as unsure of what the SA accomplished last year by a SA Communications Survey conducted last spring. Marton noted that a significant number of student organizations around campus that presently don't believe the SA has any benefit to them may eventually need to come to the Assembly for help -- but without understanding how the SA functions. To alleviate this problem, Marton suggested conducting meetings with representatives of many student groups, with the indirect goal that some attendees might afterwards continue to participate in SA meetings. "It can't hurt for every organization to have someone familiar with SA," he said. Zyck also updated members on the status of the forthcoming Summer Student Directory -- an online resource aimed at allowing students to locate each other this term, when so many are living off-campus.

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Music professor given prestigious fellowship

By Elise Dunphe | June 26, 2002

Music professor Steve Swayne was recently awarded a Wilson Fellowship to write a book on his studies of the style and musical influences of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Swayne explained the focus of the work he will do with the support of the Fellowship.

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Gilman: Jews have uncertain place in multicultural world

By Elise Dunphe | June 24, 2002

The Jew is omnipresent in a multicultural world, and by being so, his sense of place becomes tenuous, said Professor Sander Gilman in a lecture on Saturday. Gilman's lecture, entitled "Is Multiculturalism Good for Jews?" was part of a conference on German colonialism held this weekend to honor the work of Professor Susanne Zantop.

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'02s reflect on College activities

By Megh Duwadi | June 24, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of two articles examining the lives of four recent Dartmouth graduates. On June 9, over 1,000 graduating seniors received their diplomas, and despite being dressed in the style-erasing classic black robes, each had a unique story to tell about his or her time spent at Dartmouth over the past four years. Several seniors spoke with The Dartmouth about the activities and pastimes that have shaped their college lives: here are their stories. Emily Quetone For Emily Quetone, service has provided a lifetime of lessons. The 21-year-old Native American Studies major and education and French minor from Rochester, Minn., has been active in several Tucker Foundation organizations since freshman year.

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Sentencing of Tulloch highlights spring news

By Charles Gardner | June 20, 2002

The unexpected guilty plea of Robert Tulloch dominated the news in an otherwise tranquil Spring term and brought an end to the murder case that began nearly a year and a half ago with the brutal slayings of Half and Susanne Zantop. Pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and a conspiracy charge on April 4, Tulloch received two consecutive life sentences without parole but avoided placing his family through a trial scheduled to take place just weeks later. James Parker, Tulloch's accomplice in the killings, had pleaded guilty to reduced charges in December, agreeing in exchange to become a witness for prosecutors.

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Pair of '02s complete notable College careers

By Megh Duwadi | June 20, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the first of two articles examining the lives of four recent Dartmouth graduates. On June 9, over 1,000 graduating seniors received their diplomas, and despite being dressed in the style-erasing classic black robes, each had a unique story to tell about his or her time spent at Dartmouth over the past four years. Several students spoke with The Dartmouth about the activities and pastimes that have shaped their college lives: here are their stories. Brian Jacobs While the words "music mecca" may not accurately describe rural New Hampshire, Dartmouth's setting has provided award-winning singer-songwriter Brian Jacobs '02 a world of opportunities. The 21-year-old music and French double major from Bridgewater, N.J., has released two solo CDs during his four years at the College. Describing himself as "a cross between Ben Folds and Tori Amos," he said he aspires to produce more music in the future. Jacobs, a member of the Dodecaphonics and the Dartmouth Chamber Singers, became better known at Dartmouth after his senior thesis performance in Spaulding Auditorium this Spring term. The first such student presentation of its kind, Jacob's thesis presentation was one of the highlights of his musical career, he said. "Next year, I'm going to France to teach English and study music," Jacobs said.

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Song, silence mark Rogers' speech

By Alison Schmauch | June 20, 2002

Children's television show host Fred McFeely Rogers spoke to graduating seniors about the beauty of unconditional love, the inherent uniqueness of each person and the importance of interpersonal connections during his commencement speech on June 9. Rogers concluded his speech by reciting the lyrics to a song he has often sung on his television show entitled "It's You I Like." He explained that what the song "ultimately means, of course, is that you don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you.

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