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April 9, 2026
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Eight students vie for top Assembly positions

By Charles Gardner | April 17, 2002

Eight students representing four different Dartmouth classes will compete for the positions of Student Body President and Vice President over the next two weeks, while dozens of other candidates will vie for spots on the Green Key Society, Committee on Standards and other organizations. Five students -- Michael Perry '03, Janos Marton '04, Karim Mohsen '03, Tara Maller '03 and Eric Bussey '01 -- will run for the student body presidency, while Stephanie Bonan '03, Julia Hildreth '05 and Alana McLaughlin '04 will contend the vice-presidency. Molly Stutzman '02, the current Student Body President and Chair of the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee, said she was "very excited" by the number of students running for the two major positions. Most of the candidates have been involved in Student Assembly in the past, but nonetheless differ widely in their range of personal experiences and ideas for the Assembly. Perry, who like Stutzman served as the Assembly's summer president, said he hopes to have the Assembly "try to engage the bigger issues on campus" by increasing student control over both the decision-making process and campus social areas. "It's painfully obvious to me that the school needs to create new social spaces," he said.

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Pressure often drives cheating

By Megh Duwadi | April 17, 2002

Why do students cheat? Although cheating pervades college campuses, experts say malicious intent and moral decline rarely impact such academic transgressions, pointing instead to students' feeling the need to stay academically afloat. The evidence for a rise in cheating is relatively straightforward.

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Reading between the lines at the University Press of New England

By Davey Archwamety | April 16, 2002

Located in downtown Hanover, next to the Dartmouth Co-op and at the top of the stairs, is the prolific University Press of New England. Founded 31 years ago as a publisher of academic books, the UPNE is a university publishing consortium based at Dartmouth that also serves Brandeis, Middlebury, Tufts, Wesleyan and the University of New Hampshire.

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Alcohol rules set for revision

By Matt Lewis | April 16, 2002

A "working group" charged with recommending changes to the College's alcohol policy will emphasize educational and preventive measures to remedy problems allegedly caused by student alcohol consumption when their report is released today. According to a memo sent to Dean of the College James Larimore by the working group and obtained by the Dartmouth, tonight's recommendations will include revising alcohol-related adjudication penalties, adding a policy regarding the role of trained student and other bartenders and making registration of parties simpler. The group, chaired by Special Assistant to the Dean of the College Robert Binswanger '52, also targeted the purportedly inadequate level of communication between the student body and the administration on alcohol issues. "The main idea of the alcohol policy shouldn't be something that pits the administration against the students," Binswanger working group member Frank Yoshida '02 said.

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Inspired to service, Cogut '02 leads SEAD

By Kristina Mendicino | April 16, 2002

Sitting in her Education 20 class, Pam Cogut '02 listened as the day's guest speaker, Tucker Foundation Dean Stuart Lord, urged students to involve themselves in community service. Inspired, Cogut decided to take action. Soon, she found herself directing a pilot summer program bringing disadvantaged high school students to Dartmouth. The program, Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth, was the brainchild of Lord and was designed to assemble students of various racial and economic backgrounds in a supportive, structured environment at Dartmouth. Cogut -- with help from education professors and the Tucker Foundation -- included classes in English, mathematics and computer science, along with recreational trips to outdoor locales such as Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in the two-week program. And in her work, Cogut explained, she not only found great satisfaction in helping the 29 SEAD participants, but found the experience one of personal growth. "I am not always the most spontaneous person," she explained.

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Carson Hall approaches completion

By Nathaniel Ward | April 16, 2002

Final touches are now being applied to Baker-Berry Library and Carson Hall, the future home of the history department and Computing Services, with full occupancy expected by the start of Fall term. The History Department will move in during August, and Computing Services will transition some of its offices -- most significantly the Computer Sales and Services department -- from the basement of Bradley and Gerry Halls over the summer. When finished in July, Carson will be connected directly with Berry, though access will only be allowed between Novack Caf in Berry and the ground floor of Carson. The top three stories of Carson -- the second through fourth floors -- will be occupied by history department offices and seminar rooms. In Carson, "we have seminar rooms, larger offices, more facilities for computers and printers," history department chair Mary Kelley said. The second and third floors both have seminar rooms with space for 24 students on the North Main Street side of the building.

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None want responsibility to address rental fraud

By Kaitlin Bell | April 16, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the final article in a series about local landlords who have escaped legal scrutiny of their questionable tactics. With fresh revelations about Hanover's poor and sometimes illegal rental housing conditions, neither town officials, students who rent those properties nor the College which controls most of the local housing market can agree on what if any action to take against fraudulent landlords. The problem boils down to one of legal responsibility.

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Honor society faces national criticism

By Megh Duwadi | April 16, 2002

Entangled in accusations of scandal, corruption and rampant over-commercialization, Golden Key International Honour Society's presence at Dartmouth continues to grow despite the society's alienation from its peers in the academic community. Golden Key, established nationally in 1977 to recognize college juniors and seniors in the top 15 percent of their respective classes, boasts an annual inductee count of over 120,000.

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Festivities reflect on Tucker Foundation's 1st half-century

By Katie Lieberg | April 15, 2002

The Tucker Foundation celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a broad array of speeches and festivities with the theme "Leadership for Social Change and Responsibility." It was 50 years ago that the College's trustees and then-President John Sloan Dickey established the Foundation to encourage and organize community service, religious life and students' decisions of conscience.

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'Digital library' to debut in Fall term

By Nathaniel Ward | April 15, 2002

Dartmouth students will soon have access to a world of information beyond the dusty stacks of Baker Library thanks to a "digital library" which will add a variety of digital multimedia and electronic publications to the over two million printed volumes. According to College Librarian Richard Lucier, the new resource -- set to debut this fall -- will combine scholarly resources with the Internet's ease of use. "Dartmouth has been a leader in technology and the application of technology to scholarship and education," according to Lucier, a tradition he hopes to continue with the digital library. Project coordinators compared the digital library to "an academic Google," referring to the popular Internet search engine. Associate College Librarian John James explained that the digital library, by working from a defined content base, would "help to narrow things somewhat more than Google does" with its thorough searches. Dartmouth is working with several other institutions and the Fretwell Downing Company to develop the digital library.

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Sororities gain 40 from second term of rush

By Valerie Silverman | April 15, 2002

The first second-term spring rush wrapped up last week, increasing the size of the 2004 pledge classes in sororities by about 40 new members total. Most fraternities saw a similar turnout in the second-round process as in previous years, except for Chi Gamma Epsilon and Gamma Delta Chi fraternities, who added 11 and 17 new members to their houses, respectively. Each of the 53 girls who attended preference-night parties received a bid, according to Christine Sebourn, vice president of the Panhellenic Council. While 36 participated in the second-term rush during Winter term 2001, 62 girls started in this spring's rush, with nine dropping out in the process. "This is an entirely new thing for us," said Sebourn.

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Trustees allocate expansion funds

By Tracy Landers | April 15, 2002

The trustees' participation in the Tucker Foundation's 50th anniversary celebration was the highlight of their spring meeting, which took place at the end of last week. While still finding time to meet with faculty committees, Student Assembly and Graduate Student Council leaders as well as receiving financial and facilities updates, the trustees attended poet Maya Angelou's keynote address and the following dinner reception. The trustees' reaction to Angelou's speech was overwhelmingly positive. "I thought it was spectacular -- a good kick-off to a weekend of fundamental importance to the College," trustee David Shribman said. President James Wright described the speech as "one of the most powerful lectures, though it was more than a lecture, I've ever seen." Although trustees had the opportunity to talk with many Dartmouth community members, this Spring's meeting held few surprises for trustees or those with whom they met, according to President Wright. "This was not a board meeting with a lot of action items on the agenda," he said. Nevertheless, the board did make financial decisions that will affect students and faculty alike.

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Honored prof. readies to depart Dartmouth

By Karla Kingsley | April 12, 2002

It would be easy to mistake religion professor Darryl Caterine for a student. He often goes out for coffee with his students to talk, stays up late nights in the library and is surrounded by a youthful and enthusiastic aura. For Caterine, education and teaching have formed an axis around which his life rotates.

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Students allege rental fraud

By Kaitlin Bell | April 12, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles about local landlords who have escaped legal scrutiny of their questionable tactics. Yet another local real estate company has broken tenants' rights laws by renting dangerously substandard housing to students, withholding security deposits and failing to adequately explain exorbitant damage charges, according to several students who have recently rented apartments from J&R Properties Unlimited. Students say that both company employees and its owner, Jerry Rich of Manchester, are deceitful and impossible to contact, complaints that come in the wake of strikingly similar revelations about two Hanover real estate companies owned by local orthodontist Fred "Dr. Sal" Salvatoriello. While some students who rented from J&R describe what they considered run-of-the-mill tenant frustrations, many pointed to questionable and sometimes illegal behavior that underscores the town of Hanover's general ineffectiveness at ensuring fair rental practices. Representatives from J&R maintain that they run an honest operation, deal promptly with maintenance requests and do not charge tenants unless they caused the damage, said property manager Steve Landon.

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Group starts Zantop memorial fund

By Sarah Betts | April 12, 2002

A memorial fund in memory of Half and Susanne Zantop established through the Upper Valley Community Foundation has already received $20,000 in donations from around the nation.

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Admission rates hit record low across Ivies

By Charles Gardner | April 12, 2002

Students applying to Ivy League institutions faced formidable challenges this year as admission rates at several schools dipped to record-low levels in the face of growing numbers of applicants. Dartmouth experienced a sharp drop in its admittance rate -- which fell from 22.8 to 20 percent -- while registering a five percent rise in total applications, the greatest such increase among its peer institutions. Harvard University was still the most selective Ivy, admitting only 10.5 percent of applicants and sending out over 17,000 letters of rejection. Following close behind was Princeton with a 10.8 percent acceptance rate.

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Bill may expand drinking-age law

By Matt Lewis | April 11, 2002

A bill that would allow police to arrest underage drinkers for possession of alcohol even if they do not physically possess an alcoholic beverage is currently under review in the New Hampshire State Senate. The proposed revision would expand the scope of underage alcoholic beverage possession to include "constructive possession," defined as the intent or power to exercise control over an illegal substance.

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