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S&S plans for active weekend

By Nathaniel Ward | May 17, 2002

While incidents over Green Key weekend have fallen in recent years, Hanover Police and Safety and Security will take some additional measures to provide for security and encourage students to be alert. Hanover Police said the volume of calls they receive is no higher than most weekends, though Capt.

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'Egil's Saga' is a powerful work

By Steve Kantor | May 17, 2002

"Let me read your unspoken words," repeats Asgerd (Katia Asche '04), with increasing frequency as Kristjan Thorgeirsson's adaptation of "Egil's Saga, Depictions of a Viking Poet," makes its way through eight episodic sections.

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Many traditions of Green Key weekend endure today, but in a weaker form than those of yesteryear

By Matt Lewis | May 17, 2002

More than any other Dartmouth holiday, Green Key weekend has seen its traditions ebb and flow by way of intermittent administrative intervention and escalating student involvement in planning alternative social options. Centered around music and alcohol, student-organized activities for this year's weekend reveal the development in campus culture since the birth of the annual spring rite in 1924. In the footsteps of former Green Key musical guests like the Grateful Dead in 1978, Phish in 1989, and Blues Traveler in 1988, the Programming Board selected contemporary rock band Guster to headline this weekend's events. "I think I could safely say that [Green Key weekend] has toned down to some degree," said College Proctor Robert McEwen, citing an overall decrease in outside guests and fewer traditional activities and competitions. McEwen, a Dartmouth employee since 1967, added that more bands performed in the past, as modern acts are more expensive to book and tour less frequently than their predecessors. In the 1960s, all 24 fraternities on campus featured bands for the weekend. Music will still dominate the Greek scene.

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I Don't See No Key!

By Dan Rothfarb | May 17, 2002

When I think of Dartmouth, a number of things come to mind. Most memorable, however, are those moments that unite us all as a campus, those moments when we are brought together annually around our beloved bonfire, our snow sculpture and our Green ... Key.

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AD lawn party remains Green Key weekend highlight

By Tracy Landers | May 17, 2002

Tomorrow afternoon, Alpha Delta fraternity will continue its decades-old tradition of outdoor alcohol and live music despite increased pressure from the College to control underage and dangerous drinking. The atmosphere of wild abandon that has characterized the AD lawn party in past years will most likely be toned down as Safety and Security officers and six sober monitors scan the crowd for incidents of students without wrist bands drinking alcohol not provided by the AD basement. Weeks ago AD went through a grueling process of acquiring an exception from the Office of Residential Life, Safety and Security and Dean of the College James Larimore to allow outdoor alcohol consumption for students over the age of 21. While fraternity members would likely have been even more dissatisfied with an outright ban on all outdoor drinking, AD officers expressed frustration and disappointment with the College's strict new policies. Unlike past years, students who bring their own alcohol to the lawn party -- classically disguised in opaque Nalgene bottles -- face not only an Safety and Security write-up, but also the wrath of AD brothers who are eager to avoid a backlash of alcohol policy violations. AD social chair Scott Rutherford '03 expressed doubt about the ability of his house to control the drinking habits of the hundreds of students from all classes that come to the lawn party. "We're going to put forth our best effort, but the idea that no one will bring their own alcohol doesn't seem feasible.

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Area offers many options to sate Green Key appetite

By Megh Duwadi | May 17, 2002

As the next Green Key party awaits, give your DBA a reprieve and sample one of the many fine restaurants in Hanover and its environs. While the Upper Valley may not be known for its gourmet delights, an array of enticing yet economical dining options are available only steps away from Thayer. Got bread?

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Weekend namesake has served for 80 yrs.

By Lizzie Wise | May 17, 2002

Who would have guessed that the raucous weekend immortalized in "Animal House" -- Green Key Weekend -- gained its moniker from a junior honorary society? For over 80 years, the Green Key Society has devoted its service to the College. Founded in 1921, the Green Key Society was established to provide hospitality to other college students during their visits to Hanover.

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Wallowing in Dartmouth

By Liam Kuhn | May 17, 2002

Ah, Green Key. It's kind of like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of Dartmouth big weekends: there's no real justifiable explanation for why it still exists, but we enjoy it anyway every time it comes to town.

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A Note from the Editor

By Charles Gardner | May 17, 2002

It's easy to criticize Green Key for what it is not. The weekend features no signature event, while the chariot races and keg throws of old only survive in photographs. Although the rowdiest traditions have been largely left by the wayside, the spirit of Green Key remains undimmed by time. Since the weekend's early origins more than 100 years ago, Green Key has offered a chance to set aside work and celebrate the coming of spring and warm weather after months of frozen dreariness. Freshmen commemorate the completion of their first year at the College, while for seniors, the event takes on special meaning as the last big weekend they will experience as Dartmouth students. So disregard those who would say that Green Key is a failing tradition: in the end, your Green Key weekend will amount to little more than what you choose to take from it. Exams, papers and presentations are no excuse for avoiding your true responsibilities this weekend.

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New sleep drug Provigil generates controversy

By Carl Burnett | May 16, 2002

Touted by some as a wonder drug that can replace sleep, a relatively new drug called Provigil has failed to win widespread support from the medical community as anything more than a treatment for some sleep disorders. The drug, scientifically known as modafinil, was developed in France in the 1970s, but it was not tested in the United States until the 1990s. In 1998, the U.S.

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Reporter, psychiatrist debate youth violence

By Kristina C. Mendicino | May 16, 2002

Youth behavior patterns, such as youth violence, are analogous to "canaries in a mineshaft" signifying cultural instability, according to James Gilligan, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist. He and freelance reporter Eric Francis spoke last night at the Ethics Institute dinner, which followed an afternoon discussion panel on youth violence. Ethics Institute leader Ronald Green mediated the afternoon discussion panel, which also included a judge, Edward Kelly.

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Hildreth eager to step into vice-president role

By Megh Duwadi | May 16, 2002

For Julia Hildreth '05, attending Dartmouth was "a childhood dream." The student body vice president-elect, a native of Gilford, N.H., said that her aspiration to attend the College grew out of early visits to Hanover with her father, a salesman. "I always used to come up when I was little," Hildreth said. Even Hildreth's most elaborate dreams did not encompass her rapid rise this year in student government, a field in which she had participated throughout high school despite becoming disillusioned by its apparent lack of efficacy.

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College ups grad. stipends

By Carl Burnett | May 16, 2002

Dartmouth will spend $2 million over the next five years to guarantee health insurance and to increase stipends for its nearly 300 graduate research and teaching assistants, the College announced last week. The average base stipend for graduate students in the arts and sciences -- which does not include students at the Tuck School of Business or some Dartmouth Medical School and Thayer School of Engineering students, who pay tuition -- will increase from $16,440 to $18,084 per year, starting July 1. "I'm not certain why they didn't do this sooner," said mathematics graduate student Barry Balof, a member of the Graduate Student Council.

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An accidental creation, social norms grows in influence

By Carl Burnett | May 15, 2002

In the mid 1980s, two alcohol-education researchers named Wesley Perkins and Alan Berkowitz hit upon a revolutionary idea: instead of trying to scare college students into not drinking, it might be more effective to tell them how little their peers were drinking.

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SA discusses new dorm delivery rules

By Charles Gardner | May 15, 2002

Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman defended the College's new door-locking system -- which has been installed across campus but not yet activated -- during Student Assembly's weekly meeting last night. Responding to the concerns of Assembly members over the timing, motivation and potential effects of the new door-locking mechanisms, Redman said the decision to implement the card-access system had been spurred primarily by safety concerns. "Students should not have to be fearful" of unwanted intruders entering residential spaces, he said of the system, which he hoped would begin by the start of Summer term. Other students, however, took issue with the policy that all non-College-contracted businesses -- including independent student-run publications as well as restaurant delivery services -- will be barred from using the card access system to enter dormitories for commercial purposes. Under the new system, students must come to dormitory entrances themselves to greet delivery persons. Kendra Quincy Kemp '02 disagreed that student publications and other campus organizations deserved to be lumped together with outside businesses, like Ramunto's Pizzeria, but Redman said total prohibition represented the only fair way to address the issue. "If we say yes to door-to-door delivery to one business, we have to say yes to all," he said.

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