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Substance and personality combine to influence elections

By Megh Duwadi | May 1, 2002

It's a perpetual dilemma in nearly all elections -- how can candidates encourage voters to make their choices based on issues, not personality? While candidates participating in today's Student Assembly races have pledged to run their campaigns on substance, they acknowledge that name recognition and popularity play a very prominent role in voters' preferences. The five candidates running for student body president cited their differences in ideas as a way for voters to identify who will best serve their needs.

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On eve of elections, pres. hopefuls debate issues

By Charles Gardner | May 1, 2002

Questions of reform and representation dominated last night's debate between candidates for student body president, who came together in Tindle Lounge on the eve of today's elections. The debate, formatted to allow candidates to pose questions to each other, was more contentious than last week's speech night, though only around 25 students -- of whom more than half were Student Assembly members -- were in attendance. Time limitations prevented the audience from asking questions of their own at last night's event, which Student Body President Stutzman '02 said was arranged at the last minute. Questions posed by candidates Eric Bussey '01, Tara Maller '03, Janos Marton '04, Karim Mohsen '03 and Michael Perry '03 in large part dealt with reforming the Assembly and making it more representative of student concerns. Each candidate delivered a brief summary of his or her position at the outset of the debate, with four out of the five stressing a need for differing degrees of structural change to the Assembly. Marton emphasized "a need for SA to address fewer and bigger issues," while Mohsen stated his desire "to reform the Assembly so that each member has a constituency." Bussey, who termed himself "a revolutionary candidate," mentioned his plan for holding campus-wide referendums on major issues.

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Prioritize the Important Issues

By Janos Marton | May 1, 2002

Have you ever woken up and wondered, "Why is my day so full of committees? Why is my life full of committees?" Have you ever felt unfocused, disorientated and over programmed at a time when something important must be going on? For too long, the Student Assembly has left huge pockets of the campus behind.

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Making Dartmouth Better

By Michael Perry | May 1, 2002

Why do I want to be student body president? I love Dartmouth, I love making Dartmouth a better place and I think that next year I have the skills, experience and ideas necessary to do just that. I've been involved in Student Assembly since my freshman fall.

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BlitzMail for OS X on its way

By Nathaniel Ward | May 1, 2002

Indicating continued support for the Macintosh platform despite plans to switch administrative offices to Windows, Computing Services is working to adapt the core Dartmouth software for use in the new Macintosh operating system. A beta version of BlitzMail for the Mac OS X operating system -- known to some familiar with its development as "Blitz X" -- has been in a testing phase for several months.

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Focusing on Communication

By Julia Hildreth | May 1, 2002

Just as I did in my speech the other night, I'm going to begin with a confession. While I was walking around last Friday, hanging posters on ever floor of every dorm on campus, I wondered -- just for a second -- why am I doing this?

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Sorority women combat stereotypes of Greeks

By Karla Kingsley | May 1, 2002

In an open and candid presentation, "Dartmouth Sororities: A Look from Within," 10 sorority members spoke on a variety of issues, withholding nothing from their speeches and attempting to dispel stereotypes given to members of the Greek system. In front of a diverse crowd that included Greeks, non-Greeks, '05s and administrators, the women addressed race, body image and the Greek/anti-Greek controversy that continues to rage on the Dartmouth campus. Dara Adams '04, programming chair of the Panhellenic Council, was motivated to organize the event because, "the sorority system is representative of a huge number of women on campus and we don't get together enough to voice our opinions." Jana Borg '02 addressed arguments that single-sex organizations are exclusionary and anti-feminist.

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Services, Yes. But Also More.

By Stephanie Bonan | May 1, 2002

Like many '03s who are returning to campus after studying abroad or completing internships, I am reacquainting myself with Dartmouth -- meeting '05s and attempting to reclaim my place within this community.

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Sprinklers flood GreenPrint area

By Nathaniel Ward | April 30, 2002

A construction worker accidentally set off a sprinkler yesterday morning near the printing stations and computer machine room in the basement of Berry Library. None of the computer equipment -- including the brand-new GreenPrint printout stations a few feet away -- was damaged when the sprinkler went off at 7:37 a.m., machine room manager Mike Hogan said. Since the fire system was activated, the alarm was sounded, summoning the Hanover Fire Department and causing the building to be evacauated. Hogan credited the machine room staff's alertness with saving the exposed computers.

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Environment and atmosphere help heal at DHMC

By Karla Kingsley | April 30, 2002

There's one place in the Upper Valley where you do your shopping and get an appendectomy -- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Inside the North Mall, hospital employees, patients and visitors have access to just about anything they may need.

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Greek honor soc. inducts admins.

By Lizzie Wise | April 30, 2002

Despite an often strained relationship between Greek students and College administrators and faculty, members from each group joined together yesterday at the Hanover Inn to initiate honorary members into the Order of Omega Greek honor society. Honoring Greek students at Dartmouth based on scholarship and leadership for eleven years, the Lambda Rho chapter of the Order of Omega is now inducting members of the Dartmouth community outside the Greek system as honorary members. Yesterday's honorary initiates included Dean of the College James Larimore, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, Director of Alumni Relations Nelson Armstrong '71 and Dean of the Class of 2002 Carolynne Krusi.

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Expanded squatting lets some avoid room draw

By Nathaniel Ward | April 30, 2002

In advance of next week's room draw, several hundred rising juniors and seniors selected housing last night during the second year of "squatting," which will allow upperclassmen to remain in the same residential cluster next fall. The process was introduced last year but was expanded this year to include almost all campus dormitories, including many of the most popular.

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