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The Dartmouth
April 9, 2026
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Poor economy leads to fewer internships

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As a nationwide economic recession continues, cutbacks and cancellations are affecting summer internship programs as well as permanent employment opportunities. Dartmouth students have expressed some concern over whether the faltering economy will impact their internship options, Director of Career Services Skip Sturman said.


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Students deliberate issues at SA dinner

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Students, administrators, and members of Student Assembly convened in Collis Commonground last night for the Assembly's Illuminations dinner to discuss a wide range of topics, including how to facilitate communication between different campus groups. Participants grouped themselves at tables, each of which had a designated topic.



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Unknown vandals wreck artwork

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Vandalism Friday night devastated the work of student artists in the sculpture, architecture and painting studios of Clement Hall, as well as the Hopkins Center's print-making shop and the new AREA gallery space at the Top of the Hop. The person or persons responsible appeared to systematically target studio art interns and senior majors, using yellow spray and oil paint to deface most works in sight. The graffiti on individual pieces was often slight, but care was taken to hit every piece.


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Durham store sues student for using fake ID

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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.

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.