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Dartmouth Catholics struggle with scandal

By Sarah Betts | May 15, 2002

As the Catholic Church faces a national scandal surrounding allegations of sexual abuse by its priests, Roman Catholics at Dartmouth and across the country are struggling to cope with a disillusioning barrage of accusations, arrests and legal fights. In January of this year, defrocked priest John Geoghan was convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy.

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Yield stays high for '06s

By Kaitlin Bell | May 14, 2002

Although Dartmouth admitted fewer applicants for the Class of 2006 than it has in past years, a record percentage of these students have accepted Dartmouth's offer of admission and will comprise a slightly smaller but more diverse freshman class than last year. The 53 percent yield for the class of 2006 is the highest in years and represents an increase of two percentage points over last year's figure.

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Fast food: all-American meal or scary cuisine?

By Karla Kingsley | May 14, 2002

Accusations of unsafe and exploitative practices by the fast food industry contained in Eric Schlosser's book, "Fast Food Nation," were the subject of a fiery debate yesterday between its author, food-safety and business experts and industry representives. In the book -- which has been compared to Upton Sinclar's "The Jungle" -- Schlosser presents research suggesting that the meatpacking and fast food industries exploit workers, provide unsafe food and market unhealthy products to children. Members of the audience reacted audibly to statistics indicating that Americans spent $110 billion on fast food last year and that the typical American eats three hamburgers and four orders of fries each week. According to Schlosser, however, more appalling is that obese children are dying from heart attacks. The products that fast food companies "are heavily marketing to children are high fat, high sugar and high sodium," he said.

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Tutu tells of apartheid struggle

By Charles Gardner | May 14, 2002

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has always felt it his duty to speak out against injustice, regardless of the consequences. "Sometimes when you have to speak the truth, it is like swimming against the current," he told a rapt crowd in Spaulding Auditorium yesterday during a talk that focused on the successful effort to dismantle South Africa's apartheid system. The capacity crowd of students, faculty and community members rose to its feet to welcome the 70-year-old Tutu as soon as College President James Wright concluded his introductory remarks, giving a rousing welcome to a man who has dedicated his life to fighting injustice while preaching forgiveness and reconciliation. Tutu, a native of South Africa and an archbishop in the Anglican church, was intimately involved in the campaign to end apartheid, winning a Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts in 1984. The dissolution of South Africa's apartheid regime came about through patience and the convergence of several occurrences which created a favorable climate for change, he said. With the end of the Cold War, the ascension of South African President F.W.

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400 on wait list after room draw

By Lizzie Wise | May 13, 2002

The image of homeless sophomores pitching tents on the Green was rekindled after the third annual Room Draw, which left approximately 400 students without a College housing assignment for the 2002-2003 academic year. Those '05s placed on a housing wait list will not know where and with whom they will be spending their sophomore year until mid-August, according to administrators at the Office of Residential Life. "I think it's ridiculous with all the money that you pay to go here that the College cannot even guarantee housing to half of the sophomore class until the end of the summer," wait-listed Dave Wolkoff '05 said. ORL originally planned to run Room Draw each night throughout the week of May 6, but it cancelled the final night after all available rooms had been distributed through squatting and the previous nights of room draw. Students with priority numbers higher than 3,950 attended a wait-list information session Friday afternoon in Leede Arena. Although College housing is only guaranteed for first-year students, ORL staff is confident that it will find housing for all of its students. "I don't know a student who's been stranded on the Green," acting assistant director of Housing Chealsea Nather said.

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Affinity housing goes under review

By Sarah Betts | May 13, 2002

Affinity houses and undergraduate societies are undergoing a committee review process as part of the Student Life Initiative that aims to understand how these residential options contribute to the College community and generate suggestions for their improvement. According to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, the committee of faculty, residential life staff members and students is breaking into smaller groups in order to interview students and faculty advisors.

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New locks may hinder deliveries

By Sarah Betts | May 13, 2002

With the institution of the new door-lock system in the fall, vendors will no longer be able to deliver to students' dorm rooms. Use of the College's ID cards to gain access to dormitories for commercial purposes will be prohibited by new policy set in place by the Office of Residential life. Both restaurant delivery persons and students distributing publications will be banned from in-dorm delivery. Because the doors will be opened with coded student ID cards, delivery persons won't be able to enter the dorms unless a student allows them in.

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WRC honors Green Party's LaDuke

By Carl Burnett | May 10, 2002

Winona LaDuke, who ran with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket in the last two presidential elections, calls her job "political gardening." "But I'm not really a proponent of the phrase 'You reap what you sow,' because some of those things you don't ever harvest," she said yesterday with a chuckle. LaDuke, a Native American activist for environmental and social justice causes, is the Women's Resource Center's Visionary-in-Residence for three days.

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Homosexuality a risk factor in eating disorders

By Lizzie Wise | May 10, 2002

Homosexuality may be a risk factor for eating disorders among men, according to a recent study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Even controlling for issues of psychological distress, homosexual men in the study were more likely than heterosexual men to exhibit signs of disordered eating. Study co-authors Pamela Keel and Christopher J.

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College boasts high 4-year grad. rates

By Jenn Coffey | May 10, 2002

Sure, everyone knows a few "super seniors," but with 86.2 percents of students graduating in four years, Dartmouth has one of the highest four-year graduation rates in the nation. Unlike many schools that have been seeing a growing number of students take five or even six years to graduate, Dartmouth's four-year graduation rate has largely remained steady over the last several years. In 1998, 83.5 percent of students graduated in four years.

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Wright seeks to improve faculty-to-student ratio

By Matt Lewis | May 10, 2002

Proposals outlined in a report released last term by College President James Wright underscore deficiencies in the size of the undergraduate and graduate school faculties and the need to bolster faculty recruitment and retention efforts. Presented as part of ongoing reforms to improve scholarship and teaching in Wright's "Strategic Plan" -- which outlines his long-term goals for the College -- the suggested measures would increase efforts to enlarge the number of Dartmouth faculty members, which would effectively reduce the student-to-faculty ratio. Provost Barry Scherr said that the administration's goal is to build the faculty by 10 percent of its current size.

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'Three-person rule' irks student renters

By Nathaniel Ward | May 9, 2002

A Hanover zoning ordinance known colloquially as the "three-persons rule" has been the bane of students seeking off-campus housing since its passage in 1961 and revision in 1976. Although it states that no more than three unrelated people can live together in a rented space, Hanover Zoning Administrator Judith Brotman said the law is probably violated more often than is discovered by zoning authorities. According to Brotman, the high cost of housing in Hanover means multiple students often contribute to paying rent.

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ORL plans for summer lock test

By Sarah Betts | May 9, 2002

A door-lock system for College residence halls based on coded ID cards -- in the works since the winter of 2001 -- might finally debut in a test run over the Summer term. If plans are approved, the lock system will be activated in residences occupied by students over the Summer term, including the River apartments, Gold Coast residence halls and Massachusetts Row residence halls. A 12-person committee -- composed of staff members from various College departments -- will decide in the upcoming weeks whether or not to recommend the summer testing of the door-lock system. "The intention right now is to test it in the summer, but if things aren't done in time, we won't be able to," Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said. The test of the system would begin four or five days into Summer term and would aim to identify any problems with the system before its full implementation in the fall. Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said that the Office of Residential Life plans to use the residence halls with smaller student occupancy "to see if there are bugs with the system." Students living in the Gold Coast, Massachusetts Row and the River apartments would receive new student ID cards coded with identification numbers for the locks when they pick up their room key.

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Tucker's Lord alienates some student leaders

By Tracy Landers | May 9, 2002

Stuart Lord, the Dean of the Tucker Foundation has worked at a feverish pitch since coming to Dartmouth two years ago, but some student leaders say he has had a polarizing effect on the Foundation. Program chairs and interns who work with Lord tend to fall into one of two categories -- those who see Lord as a charismatic, positive role model, and those who take issue with his aggressive leadership style.

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