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Online scholars don't measure up

By Kristina Mendicino | April 2, 2002

Students enrolled in online courses performed significantly worse than their counterparts in traditional classroom-based courses, according to a Michigan State University study. The results come as no surprise to many Dartmouth professors, who are not yet willing to abandon the classroom. "There is no such thing as an online classroom that has the emotional component that a live classroom has," English Professor Thomas Luxon said.

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Officials warn Greeks about high-school students

By Matt Lewis | April 1, 2002

As Dartmouth social life awakens from winter hibernation, the Department of Safety and Security has warned all Greek house leaders of a possible influx of local high-school students attempting to enter fraternity and sorority parties. According to fraternity and sorority social chairpersons who attended the Risk Managers/Social Chairs meeting last week, Safety and Security acknowledged an increasing presence of high-school students on campus during Winter term. Officer Robert Young "mentioned that Hanover police had been reporting more incidents with high-school students, and they think it could be related to them coming to our events," said Lois Schonberger '03, social chair of Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority. Safety and Security Proctor Robert McEwen said he had no knowledge of an increase of high-school students at Greek parties, although Hanover High School students contacted by The Dartmouth said that they attend such functions. Officer Gregory Timmins, who was also present at this meeting, said that Young was simply advising the Greek leaders to be aware of a potentially greater presence of high-school students during Spring term. "We haven't noticed an increase, it's just a warning to the houses to keep an eye out," Timmins said.

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Williams is Truman Scholar

By Tracy Landers | April 1, 2002

A small-town girl from North Dakota and a published mathematician, Heidi Williams '03 was recently named a 2002 Truman Scholar for her work on improving young women's access to math and science education. The $30,000 award, offered to 64 out of 590 undergraduate candidates, will pay for part of Williams' graduate school program in mathematics. The Truman Scholarship is designed for students who want to pursue careers in government and nonprofit, and Williams fits the bill with her interest in education. As part of her current Presidential Scholarship independent-study program, Williams single-handedly organized a Sister-to-Sister Conference, which brought 110 middle school-age girls from eight local schools to the Rockefeller Center on March 8 to discuss educational inequality. "I feel like teaching will always be a big part of what I do.

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Greeks expect strong second-round rush class

By Lauren Gee | March 29, 2002

Coed, fraternity and sorority organizations are once again gearing up to recruit new additions to their houses as the Spring rush process makes its Dartmouth debut. Fraternity leaders anticipate 100 male rushees this Spring term, but Interfraternity Council President Sunil Bhagavath '03 admitted, "I don't know exactly what to expect and I'm sure some of the houses don't know exactly either." Panhellenic Council President Ann Chang '03, projected a much larger second-round recruitment class than in 2001.

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Sept. 11 memorial in works

By Nathaniel Ward | March 29, 2002

College administrators and students have begun planning a memorial to the 11 members of the Dartmouth community -- including eight College alumni -- killed in the Sept.

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ORL, Greeks create action plans

By Charles Gardner | March 29, 2002

After a term of planning and preparation, Greek leaders will soon meet with members of the Office of Residential Life to begin shaping their Student Life Initiative-inspired "action plans." The house-specific, student-created regulations will replace the existing system of Minimum Standards beginning next year. The action plans -- first described in a report of the Greek Life Steering Committee in June 2001 -- will be based on the Greek community's six guiding principles and will incorporate a number of recommendations outlined in January by Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman. After a term spent creating a basic template to assist groups in drafting their plans, representatives from coed, fraternity and sorority organizations will confer with ORL to review the past year's priorities and to establish future goals to be incorporated into the action plans. "It's a total learning process," Assistant Dean of Residential Life Cassie Barnhardt said.

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ORL readies door locks for fall

By Carl Burnett | March 29, 2002

Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman says he is "100 percent sure" the College's new electronic door-locking system will be on-line for this Fall term, although testing of the system may begin this summer. Implementation of the new system, which was originally scheduled for last fall, has been delayed several times and for a number of reasons. "Technically, we could've turned it on for Winter term, but we would've needed to work day and night to train people," Redman said.

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The Pavilion can't get kosher for Passover

By Carl Burnett | March 28, 2002

Due to the difficulty of following the strict rules needed to prepare kosher food for Passover, Dartmouth Dining Services has decided to close the kosher dining facility in The Pavilion throughout the week-long Jewish holiday. While The Pavilion will continue to provide halal meals during the next week, the three kosher kitchens closed yesterday and will remain closed until dinner on Sunday, April 7, since Passover ends Thursday evening and The Pavilion is closed on Fridays and Saturdays. The difficulty of serving food that is kosher for Passover is that each kitchen being used must be kashered, or made kosher, specifically for Passover -- a process that would involve purchasing new utensils and cookware, kosher kitchen manager Robert Lester said. Lester said that a salt shaker that had been used before Passover would have to be thrown away and a new one opened for Passover, and so on with the entire kitchen. Most facilities that serve kosher-for-Passover food maintain a separate kitchen specifically for that purpose, he added. Lester emphasized the importance of making absolutely sure that the kitchen complies in every way with Jewish law. "We don't want to 'oops,'" Lester said.

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New plan might attract scholars

By Kristina Mendicino | March 28, 2002

A proposal to establish College-wide professorships -- part of President James Wright's strategic plan draft released last month -- could make Dartmouth the home to a greater number of distinguished scholars, if implemented. The purpose of the new professorships, according to Wright's report, would be to recruit and retain "faculty of the highest distinction." Such professors, instead of serving a single department, would serve the entire College, and as a result could take on broader, interdisciplinary assignments. Many other schools already have university-wide professorship positions, and discussions of adding the post to Dartmouth have taken place for years among faculty and administrators, according to Lewis Duncan, dean of the Thayer School of Engineering. The addition of such professorships would help "ensure that Dartmouth remain an institution at the forefront of ... teaching and research in the United States," according to Provost Barry Scherr. According to Duncan, College-wide professorships would foster greater study of interdisciplinary issues and raise the level of intellectual debate on campus. Provost Barry Scherr explained that those granted a College-wide professorship would be "people who have achieved recognition -- very high recognition -- within a particular area [yet] would be known in spheres extending beyond the area of their teaching and writing." With College-wide professorships, nondepartmental structures such as the Rockefeller and Dickey Centers would grow in prominence, and a greater number of cross-listed courses could be offered, Duncan said. Duncan also said that the establishment of a College professorship position would not compromise Dartmouth's focus on undergraduates. "As thought leaders, these scholars would not be particularly worried about being surrounded by graduate students ... They are past that point in their career in that way, and would almost want to go back to undergraduates," he said. Duncan speculated that donations solicited from benefactors of the College would endow the professorships.

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Winter never ends at nearby lab

By Katie Lieberg | March 28, 2002

As Dartmouth students who have survived a winter in the Northeast can attest, cold weather poses serious problems for transportation, construction and even clothing choices. For the military, problems associated with severe cold can complicate even the simplest of maneuvers.

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Justices consider Earls '05 case

By Karla Kingsley | March 28, 2002

Lindsay Earls '05 had her day in court -- the U.S. Supreme Court, to be exact -- on March 19 as the nine justices heard her case contesting the constitutionality of drug testing in schools. Earls sued her high school in 1997 as a result of a drug test she had to take in order to participate in choir.

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Hanover water works seeks filtration sys.

By Kaitlin Bell | March 27, 2002

If everything goes according to plan, the Class of 2010 will not be drinking the fishy-tasting water that currently flows from Hanover pipes every spring and fall. Hanover Water Works, which supplies water to the town, is currently in the process of reviewing plans to install a water-filtration system, said Peter Kulbacki, General Manager of the Water Works and Director of Public Works. Currently, Hanover has the only remaining unfiltered water system in the state. Lebanon's water-filtering plant has existed since 1907.

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GRE will include writing assessment

By Sabrina Peric | March 27, 2002

The Graduate Record Examinations services announced this week that they would be radically altering the existing format of the GRE test by replacing the analytical section with a writing assessment this October. The change comes in the wake of a more general call to make standardized testing less focused on multiple-choice questions -- especially with the recent demands that the SAT I include a writing section. "We were really excited about the opportunity to allow students to express their analytical thinking in their own words ... rather than relying solely on multiple-choice questions," said Thomas Rochon, executive director of the GRE Program. Rochon said that the recent turn away from multiple-choice testing was an effort to develop a fair way of evaluating incoming students.

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