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April 9, 2026
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Fromherz '02 receives Fulbright

By Kay Fukunaga | April 11, 2002

For most high school and college seniors, a small envelope in the mail is met with dread. For Allen Fromherz '02, though, it was an unassuming envelope that recently delivered the good news of his selection as a 2002 Fulbright Scholar. "Usually, when they use a small envelope, you think it's going to be a rejection letter," Fromherz said.

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Universities withdraw students from Israel

By Nathaniel Ward | April 11, 2002

In the wake of the recent escalation of violence in Israel, a number of colleges and universities nationwide have recently cancelled their foreign study programs there. Last week, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California system all suspended their programs in Israel, citing security concerns. Dartmouth's fledgling Language Study Abroad for Hebrew and Arabic in Jerusalem, approved in 2000 for the Summer term, did not run last year and will not run again this year due to insufficient applications to the program.

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Costa Rica work gives Morse '03 new purpose

By Sarah Betts | April 11, 2002

"I went from wanting to be president to wanting to be a Peace Corps member." These are the words of Dave Morse '03, an Asian studies and government major who took his sophomore year off for a Tucker Foundation fellowship in Costa Rica, where he helped rural students pass the national English exam and worked with a local teacher to improve the curriculum. While in Costa Rica, Morse found his own life was changing as much as the lives of the students he helped. "My freshman year, I wanted to explore Latin America a little more in depth," Morse said.

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Assembly votes to subsidize campaigns

By Charles Gardner | April 10, 2002

Candidates in this term's races for Student Body President and Vice President will now have their campaign expenses subsidized by Student Assembly, which passed a resolution last night allocating $900 to partially fund the costs of students' election bids. The move to fund this year's student candidates -- who have a spending limit of $125 for all campaign expenses under current regulations -- will compensate students for all expenses towards that total beyond an initial $35. The $35 figure was chosen to accordance with the spending caps for other Assembly positions, according to the resolution's sponsor, Kendra Quincy Kemp '02, which are uniformly set at $35. Kemp told the Assembly that "not all students can afford the $125" required to run a successful campaign, and said the resolution aimed to prevent monetary considerations from deterring potential candidates. Student Body President Molly Stutzman '02 agreed.

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U.S. students protest Israeli attacks

By Tracy Landers | April 10, 2002

Students at 30 universities across the country, including Columbia, Georgetown and the Universities of California, Massachusetts and Washington rallied yesterday under the banner of human rights to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestinian areas. This national "day of action" kicked off a student-led movement petitioning universities to divest themselves of stock from corporations that support Israeli military operations, such as Boeing. At the University of Michigan, a march and demonstration organized by a group called Students Allied for Freedom and Equality attracted a crowd of 200 students and community members including "a mix of Arabs, many Muslim students who weren't Arab, Christian students, Jewish students, American students and a few African-American students," said Amer Zahr, an active member of SAFE. "We are not an organization that is ethnic or religious -- we're an organization of all religions with a simple message of human rights ... What we want to see is peace and justice for all," said Fadi Kiblawi, the organizer of yesterday's demonstration. "The root of terrorism is occupation," Kiblawi said, as he and the members of SAFE advocate the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

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Students: Hanover landlord is a fraud

By Kaitlin Bell | April 10, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles about local landlords who have escaped legal scrutiny of their questionable tactics. Escaping the notice of town officials, two Hanover real-estate companies owned by a local orthodontist have violated N.H.

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Satcher sees obesity as major health problem

By Nathaniel Ward | April 9, 2002

The U.S. healthcare system should increase its focus on the problems of an overweight population and adopt the "Healthy People 2010" plan released two years ago, former Surgeon General David Satcher said yesterday. Satcher -- who served a four-year term as Surgeon General that ended this year -- outlined his public health plan to combat the problems of obesity affecting Americans. Such a plan would be similar to the anti-smoking campaign that started with the original Surgeon General's Report in 1964.

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Event protests sexual violence

By Sarah Betts | April 9, 2002

Students and faculty members gathered to protest sexual violence during the annual "Take Back the Night" march and candlelight vigil last night. Take Back the Night, begun in Germany in 1973, includes events held all over the world that voice a common demand "that the perpetrators of this violence be held accountable and be made to change." Participants met in front of the Hop and listened to opening comments by Katie Oliviero '01 before marching with signs and chants around the campus. Oliviero likened sexual assault to a form of terrorism.

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State sen. campaigns on campus

By Karla Kingsley | April 9, 2002

New Hampshire state senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beverly Hollingworth addressed an audience of campus Democrats yesterday, pleading for their support in a race focusing on issues of taxes, education and healthcare. Hollingworth emphasized her experience with the political process during last night's meeting of the Dartmouth Young Democrats, saying she wants to be elected "because we have some serious, serious problems, and because no other candidate has been able to build the relations, form coalitions and pass legislation like I have." To back up her statement, Hollingworth gave examples from her career in the New Hampshire Senate. "I have passed over 300 pieces of legislation during my time in the Senate ... I was elected to be president of the Senate by 10 of 11 Republicans" because they knew that she had the ability to pass legislation, Hollingworth said. Prompted by a question on funding for education, Hollingworth brought up the somewhat controversial issue of income taxes.

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College institutes new print system

By Nathaniel Ward | April 9, 2002

With over six million pages sent to public printers each year at Dartmouth, Computing Services has begun implementation of a new, more efficient printing system called GreenPrint. Users of the new system assign a unique name to their print jobs, and then must go to the printer and enter that name as well as a password in order for their pages to print. Currently, 30 percent of all printed materials -- approximately two million pages -- are never retrieved, according to Bill Brawley, director of Computing Services, a figure the new system intends to reduce. Five new GreenPrint release stations -- printers and adjoining computer terminals -- were installed in the basement of Berry Library at the beginning of the term, and more will be added as Computing Services resolves lingering problems with the system, according to Mike Hogan, manager of operations at Computing Services. By the end of the term, organizers hope to replace all old printers in Berry and Collis with GreenPrint release stations, said Oliver Bernstein '03, coordinatior of the Tucker Foundation's Environmental Conservation Organization, which is helping with the project. "The plan is to have one of these release stations in every dorm cluster," in addition to those in Berry and Collis, Bernstein said. In order to use the new GreenPrint system, students will also need to install special software on their computers, which is available on Dartmouth's Public and Wilson file servers.

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College considers Dartmouth-brand credit card

By Carl Burnett | April 9, 2002

In the Dartmouth "Alma Mater," College alumni hold memories of their years in Hanover "in their muscles and their brains." Soon they may also keep them in their wallets. Hundreds of colleges and universities around the country have negotiated lucrative contracts with banks, allowing them to market school-branded "affinity" credit cards to alumni.

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Anorexia common in athletes

By Karla Kingsley | April 8, 2002

Anorexia nervosa and the "female- athlete triad" run rampant in college-age women, with possible life-long effects even for those who recover, said Harvard Medical School eating-disorder expert Dr. Ann Klibanski at a presentation in Filene Auditorium Thursday night. Klibanski spoke to about 60 students and professors about these disorders, which she has researched for many years.

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Tuck auction raises money for internships

By Kristina Mendicino | April 8, 2002

Cheers burst from enthusiastic Tuck School of Business students filling the center floor and the balconies of Whittemore Hall as a $4,000 bid was offered for a deep-fried Cajun turkey dinner at Thursday night's Tuck GIVES Auction, staged to fund non-profit summer internships for first-year Tuck students. The funds raised by the auction "allow students to not have to choose between financial imperatives and doing something they're really interested in," according to Tuck student David Lee, who received funding for a non-profit internship last summer in Chile. "The goal is to turn out socially responsible managers.

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Bharucha to leave for Tufts

By Megh Duwadi | April 8, 2002

Dean of the Faculty Jamshed Bharucha announced Friday that he is leaving Dartmouth to become Tufts University's next provost and senior vice president after only one year in his current position. Bharucha will assume his new post August 1, following his June 30 departure from the College.

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N.M. governor: legalize drugs

By Karla Kingsley | April 8, 2002

After emphasizing his initial message -- "don't do drugs" -- Republican Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico spoke passionately to a large audience of his opinions on the drug war and related legislation, using arguments that promoted drug legalization. Johnson said that in spite of the current publicity campaign advertising the negative effects of drugs, "Fifty-four percent of the graduating class of 2000 used illegal drugs." Johnson advocated a more honest message that would include education about the positive medical uses of drugs and their actual consequences. He said that by prohibiting drugs, health officials lose control over the quality of the drugs, and it becomes impossible to administer a beneficial dose for medical reasons. "I was shocked to find that only 10,000 people die from their use of cocaine and heroin," Johnson said, adding that there have been no deaths from marijuana use.

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