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Durham store sues student for using fake ID

By Matt Lewis | February 22, 2002

A recent settlement between a University of New Hampshire student and a Durham store owner has armed New Hampshire alcohol purveyors with the power to file suit against underage patrons using false identification to purchase alcoholic beverages. The student, Jeremy Reny, was caught using his older brother's valid driver's license.

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Norwich eliminates secret soc.

By Valerie Silverman | February 22, 2002

Secret societies at Dartmouth take a back seat to Greek life and remain a mystery to most. At nearby Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., however, where no fraternities or sororities exist, the recent discovery by administrators of an unauthorized secret society, Left Out Society, caused a stir on campus. While Norwich strongly condemns and prohibits secret societies, six of the organizations exist at Dartmouth and are acknowledged by the school.

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Kline details Chechnya horrors

By Katie Martin | February 22, 2002

"Chechnya is quickly becoming a nation of invalids and fresh graves," Chris Kline, the last Western journalist to leave the war-torn state, told an audience at the Rockefeller Center yesterday as he recounted his clandestine journey to the front lines of the conflict. The freelance war correspondent risked death, torture and imprisonment to enter the region just months after Grozny fell to the Russian military.

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Tulloch's defense options narrow

By Tara Kyle | February 22, 2002

New details released Tuesday in a grand jury indictment of Robert Tulloch will shape arguments at the April trial, but the precise effect of these revelations remains unclear, according to legal experts contacted by The Dartmouth. Whether or not the latest information -- which states that Tulloch and James Parker visited four houses before targeting the Zantops -- will endanger Tulloch's insanity plea depends largely on the medical conditions that defense attorneys use to build their arguments, Boston University School of Law professor Wendy Kaplan said. Even Tulloch's defense team may not yet realize how large or small an impact the revelations will create because lawyers are likely still in the process of gathering and analyzing information from medical experts, Vermont Law School professor Michael Mello said.

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Panelists discuss black issues

By Karla Kingsley | February 22, 2002

Although the environment at Dartmouth has changed tremendously and boundaries have lessened between races, black students at Dartmouth still face difficult issues, according to associate history professor Judy Byfield '80 and three other panelists. Byfield spoke on a panel of four Dartmouth alumni during this Thursday's community hour, dubbed "Black at Dartmouth." Both Byfield and Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Ozzie Harris '81 had some negative memories of events on campus. Byfield came to Dartmouth in 1976, the first year that women graduated from Dartmouth.

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Pink eye spreads after misdiagnoses

By Sarah Betts | February 21, 2002

Though it was initially determined to be a viral outbreak, Dick's House doctors now consider the conjunctivitis epidemic, affecting nearly 250 students so far, to be bacterial in form, and therefore treatable with antibiotics. Dartmouth Health Services staff previously told those diagnosed with "pink eye" that they had a viral type of the ailment that is less severe.

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Schools have new cost analysis tool

By Katie Martin | February 21, 2002

A new cost-assessment methodology unveiled last week offers colleges across the country a uniform way to explain their costs in per-student terms. The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) unveiled the results of their "Cost of College" project after three years of development. The Cost of College project resulted from a call that the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education made in 1998 to increase the public accountability of colleges and universities. Damon Manetta, Assistant Manager of Public Relations at NACUBO, explained that the new methodology is not designed to create industry benchmarks. "The NACUBO methodology is a paradigm for schools to simply and clearly summarize their financial information.

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Prof.: science classroom isn't site for creationism

By Nathaniel Ward | February 21, 2002

Arguing that creationism should never be taught in schools in a science setting, law professor Kent Greenawalt said yesteday that the Supreme Court's got it right in previous decisions on religion in education. Greenawalt, a member of the faculty at Columbia Law School, spoke in the Rockefeller Center just hours after the Supreme Court debated the future of publicly-funded vouchers for students attending private or religious schools. Previous Supreme Court decisions -- including the landmark 1968 Eperson v.

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Stinson's may can beer kegs

By Sarah Betts | February 21, 2002

Stinson's of Hanover may discontinue beer kegs sales after receiving a citation for violating a keg registration law that will likely leave the store facing a 5-10 day suspension of its liquor license and a $500 fine. Stinson's is presently one of the only stores in the area that sells kegs, and is the number one keg seller in New Hampshire. The violation comes in the wake of a new law, adopted in Jan.

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Vatis calls for culture, structure change at FBI

By Nathaniel Ward | February 20, 2002

To protect civil liberties and better prevent terrorism, the United States' intelligence agencies must change their operational culture and do a better job of analyzing and disseminating the information they gather, former FBI and Justice Department counter-terrorism expert Michael Vatis said. Vatis, the director of Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies and former director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center, did not propose any specific reforms, but said that "structural and cultural changes" in the FBI and other agencies are important. "Our principal shortcomings lie not in our ability to collect the information" domestically, he said, but rather in the interpretation and timely distribution of relevant and accurate data. The analysis of collected data turns new information into knowledge, Vatis said, adding that most of the intelligence errors that failed to forewarn of the Sept.

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New details reopen old wounds

By The Dartmouth Staff | February 20, 2002

Members of the increasing number of communities linked in the aftermath of the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop reacted to the newly-proposed motive yesterday with a mix of emotions, mainly sadness, fright and continued puzzlement. Dean of the College James Larimore said yesterday's revelations do not ease the pain of the "horrible actions" and encouraged members of the community to reach out to one another. "While we have all been hoping to better understand what happened on that fateful day last year, there is no comfort in knowing that we lost two wonderful people to such a senseless act of violence," Larimore wrote in an email. Before the announcement of the new charges, Howard Chesshire '74 of Vershire, Vt., said he felt a degree of empathy for the suspects, Robert Tulloch and James Parker, who attended tiny Chelsea High School with his daughter.

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Cathcart seeks GLBT civil rights

By Kaitlin Bell | February 20, 2002

Stonewall Lecturer Kevin Cathcart spoke to an enthusiastic audience of about 70 students and faculty on the recent successes and continuing challenges faced by the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights movement. Cathcart has been the executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund since 1992.

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College can't touch Zeta Psi

By Rachel Osterman | February 19, 2002

Despite Zeta Psi fraternity's de facto existence, Dartmouth has lost its authority to regulate the derecognized house, legal experts say. Although Zeta Psi continues to throw parties where underage drinking takes place, elect officers and recruit new members, Dartmouth's breaking of all ties with the fraternity means that the privately owned house is legally just that -- a privately owned house. The Hanover Police Department and the New Hampshire state police are the only bodies with authority over the fraternity, located on 8 Webster Avenue.

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Early decision grows at Ivies

By N.F.S. Knight | February 19, 2002

Despite growing concerns about the fairness of early decision, its use continues to proliferate throughout the Ivy League, with some schools filling half of their incoming freshman slots with early applicants. The most dramatic increase came at the University of Pennsylvania, where 50 percent of its freshman class will be admitted early this year, up from 43 percent last year. Columbia, accepting 490 students, admitted 49 percent of its incoming class early.

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