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Alcohol committee issues guidelines

By Matt Lewis | April 17, 2002

The Ad Hoc Working Group on Alcohol Policy introduced guidelines for revising the College alcohol policy to an inquisitive yet receptive crowd last night, ultimately placing increased responsibility on students to create a safer environment for alcohol consumption. The guidelines emphasize clarity in policy bylaws and cooperation between the student body and College administration, with a practical focus on educating the student body on the policy and safe drinking habits. Salient revision proposals include replacing the current policy of "registering" social events with a large-scale "reservation" system, training student alcohol servers, expanding Safety and Security's responsibilities on campus, and liberalizing the "Good Samaritan" policy. Members of the committee, chaired by Robert Binswanger, maintained that the guidelines, which will appear in all student Hinman Boxes and on the Dartmouth website, comprise a "work in progress." The guidelines will be submitted to the faculty in approximately three weeks, after the report is revised according to student feedback. Suggesting specific revisions in the purportedly confusing diction of the alcohol policy, the guidelines seek to clarify and universalize the policy for all students enrolled on the Dartmouth campus.

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Anti-plagiarism resources raise ethical dilemma

By Charles Gardner | April 17, 2002

At a time when the proliferation of online sources has made plagiarism easier than ever before, one Dartmouth professor has turned to the internet himself to deter potential cheaters. Allan Stam, who teaches international relations in the government department, plans to use a free online service -- turnitin.com -- to check student papers for plagiarized material. Papers can be uploaded to the website, which will within 24 hours return an edited copy indicating how closely written sections correspond with information found throughout the internet and in an extensive database of submitted materials. "It's really pretty astonishing," said Stam, who will be using the service to check all papers he receives during the term. Despite the effectiveness of the website, which can match even individual phrases from papers with their sources, Stam said he is not motivated by any particular suspicion of students' honesty. "If I just wanted to catch people, I wouldn't have said anything about it," he said, adding that he had informed his students of his plans to use the website on the first day of classes. Instead, Stam said, the service is intended "to deter people who might be tempted through stress or time constraints" to plagiarize, and also to help prevent inadvertent plagiarism, which he said "almost every student" has done at least once during his or her academic career. Stam will hardly be the first professor to use turniton.com in his classes.

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Profs. play by the rules when they encounter cheating

By Tracy Landers | April 17, 2002

The likelihood of cheating depends on variables as far-ranging as the quality of instruction and class size, but when professors suspect cheating has taken place their responses tend to be uniformly consistent, according to faculty members who spoke to The Dartmouth. Professors stressed that, in the words of former computer science chair Scott Drysdale, "the professor isn't allowed to negotiate with the student" who is accused of cheating. Professors said they do not begin with the assumption that students will cheat, and that they report suspicions as soon as they arrive. "It's our job not to proctor, and assume that students are honest in what they do," math department chair Dana Williams said. Professors from departments as unrelated as biology and business shared Williams' views, but added that there are rules of procedure that need to be followed whenever cheating does occur. "Professors [in my department] come to me and we discuss what the issues are, such as dishonesty, an honest mistake or miscommunication," biological sciences chair Mark McPeek said. The professor then informs the student of his or her concerns at a very "perfunctory" meeting.

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Pelzel readies for capital campaign

By Tracy Landers | April 17, 2002

As Dartmouth gears up for the start of its next capital campaign in 2003, Vice President of Development Carolyn Pelzel leads a team of 150 staff members dedicated to making it easy for people to give money to Dartmouth. Working closely with Vice President of Alumni Relations Stanley Colla, Pelzel and her co-workers raised $114 million for the College last year. Pelzel's job, though less than fully understood by students, is an important one considering that 38 percent of the College's revenue comes from gifts. Pelzel said that Dartmouth's $2.5 billion endowment, which provides 27.1 percent of College's revenue, would not exist but for the philanthropy of past and current generations.

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Journalist: Israel victory is elusive

By Nathaniel Ward | April 17, 2002

Israel has been in a continuous war since its independence in 1948, and has yet to gain decisive victory over the Arabs, former Israeli soldier and journalist Yehuda Yev said yesterday. "We are still fighting a war that began at four-o'clock in the afternoon on the 14th of May, 1948, in a converted Museum in Tel Aviv," Yev said in a speech in the Roth Center for Jewish Life.

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Eight students vie for top Assembly positions

By Charles Gardner | April 17, 2002

Eight students representing four different Dartmouth classes will compete for the positions of Student Body President and Vice President over the next two weeks, while dozens of other candidates will vie for spots on the Green Key Society, Committee on Standards and other organizations. Five students -- Michael Perry '03, Janos Marton '04, Karim Mohsen '03, Tara Maller '03 and Eric Bussey '01 -- will run for the student body presidency, while Stephanie Bonan '03, Julia Hildreth '05 and Alana McLaughlin '04 will contend the vice-presidency. Molly Stutzman '02, the current Student Body President and Chair of the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee, said she was "very excited" by the number of students running for the two major positions. Most of the candidates have been involved in Student Assembly in the past, but nonetheless differ widely in their range of personal experiences and ideas for the Assembly. Perry, who like Stutzman served as the Assembly's summer president, said he hopes to have the Assembly "try to engage the bigger issues on campus" by increasing student control over both the decision-making process and campus social areas. "It's painfully obvious to me that the school needs to create new social spaces," he said.

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Pressure often drives cheating

By Megh Duwadi | April 17, 2002

Why do students cheat? Although cheating pervades college campuses, experts say malicious intent and moral decline rarely impact such academic transgressions, pointing instead to students' feeling the need to stay academically afloat. The evidence for a rise in cheating is relatively straightforward.

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Reading between the lines at the University Press of New England

By Davey Archwamety | April 16, 2002

Located in downtown Hanover, next to the Dartmouth Co-op and at the top of the stairs, is the prolific University Press of New England. Founded 31 years ago as a publisher of academic books, the UPNE is a university publishing consortium based at Dartmouth that also serves Brandeis, Middlebury, Tufts, Wesleyan and the University of New Hampshire.

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Alcohol rules set for revision

By Matt Lewis | April 16, 2002

A "working group" charged with recommending changes to the College's alcohol policy will emphasize educational and preventive measures to remedy problems allegedly caused by student alcohol consumption when their report is released today. According to a memo sent to Dean of the College James Larimore by the working group and obtained by the Dartmouth, tonight's recommendations will include revising alcohol-related adjudication penalties, adding a policy regarding the role of trained student and other bartenders and making registration of parties simpler. The group, chaired by Special Assistant to the Dean of the College Robert Binswanger '52, also targeted the purportedly inadequate level of communication between the student body and the administration on alcohol issues. "The main idea of the alcohol policy shouldn't be something that pits the administration against the students," Binswanger working group member Frank Yoshida '02 said.

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Inspired to service, Cogut '02 leads SEAD

By Kristina Mendicino | April 16, 2002

Sitting in her Education 20 class, Pam Cogut '02 listened as the day's guest speaker, Tucker Foundation Dean Stuart Lord, urged students to involve themselves in community service. Inspired, Cogut decided to take action. Soon, she found herself directing a pilot summer program bringing disadvantaged high school students to Dartmouth. The program, Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth, was the brainchild of Lord and was designed to assemble students of various racial and economic backgrounds in a supportive, structured environment at Dartmouth. Cogut -- with help from education professors and the Tucker Foundation -- included classes in English, mathematics and computer science, along with recreational trips to outdoor locales such as Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in the two-week program. And in her work, Cogut explained, she not only found great satisfaction in helping the 29 SEAD participants, but found the experience one of personal growth. "I am not always the most spontaneous person," she explained.

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Carson Hall approaches completion

By Nathaniel Ward | April 16, 2002

Final touches are now being applied to Baker-Berry Library and Carson Hall, the future home of the history department and Computing Services, with full occupancy expected by the start of Fall term. The History Department will move in during August, and Computing Services will transition some of its offices -- most significantly the Computer Sales and Services department -- from the basement of Bradley and Gerry Halls over the summer. When finished in July, Carson will be connected directly with Berry, though access will only be allowed between Novack Caf in Berry and the ground floor of Carson. The top three stories of Carson -- the second through fourth floors -- will be occupied by history department offices and seminar rooms. In Carson, "we have seminar rooms, larger offices, more facilities for computers and printers," history department chair Mary Kelley said. The second and third floors both have seminar rooms with space for 24 students on the North Main Street side of the building.

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None want responsibility to address rental fraud

By Kaitlin Bell | April 16, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the final article in a series about local landlords who have escaped legal scrutiny of their questionable tactics. With fresh revelations about Hanover's poor and sometimes illegal rental housing conditions, neither town officials, students who rent those properties nor the College which controls most of the local housing market can agree on what if any action to take against fraudulent landlords. The problem boils down to one of legal responsibility.

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Honor society faces national criticism

By Megh Duwadi | April 16, 2002

Entangled in accusations of scandal, corruption and rampant over-commercialization, Golden Key International Honour Society's presence at Dartmouth continues to grow despite the society's alienation from its peers in the academic community. Golden Key, established nationally in 1977 to recognize college juniors and seniors in the top 15 percent of their respective classes, boasts an annual inductee count of over 120,000.

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Festivities reflect on Tucker Foundation's 1st half-century

By Katie Lieberg | April 15, 2002

The Tucker Foundation celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a broad array of speeches and festivities with the theme "Leadership for Social Change and Responsibility." It was 50 years ago that the College's trustees and then-President John Sloan Dickey established the Foundation to encourage and organize community service, religious life and students' decisions of conscience.

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'Digital library' to debut in Fall term

By Nathaniel Ward | April 15, 2002

Dartmouth students will soon have access to a world of information beyond the dusty stacks of Baker Library thanks to a "digital library" which will add a variety of digital multimedia and electronic publications to the over two million printed volumes. According to College Librarian Richard Lucier, the new resource -- set to debut this fall -- will combine scholarly resources with the Internet's ease of use. "Dartmouth has been a leader in technology and the application of technology to scholarship and education," according to Lucier, a tradition he hopes to continue with the digital library. Project coordinators compared the digital library to "an academic Google," referring to the popular Internet search engine. Associate College Librarian John James explained that the digital library, by working from a defined content base, would "help to narrow things somewhat more than Google does" with its thorough searches. Dartmouth is working with several other institutions and the Fretwell Downing Company to develop the digital library.

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Sororities gain 40 from second term of rush

By Valerie Silverman | April 15, 2002

The first second-term spring rush wrapped up last week, increasing the size of the 2004 pledge classes in sororities by about 40 new members total. Most fraternities saw a similar turnout in the second-round process as in previous years, except for Chi Gamma Epsilon and Gamma Delta Chi fraternities, who added 11 and 17 new members to their houses, respectively. Each of the 53 girls who attended preference-night parties received a bid, according to Christine Sebourn, vice president of the Panhellenic Council. While 36 participated in the second-term rush during Winter term 2001, 62 girls started in this spring's rush, with nine dropping out in the process. "This is an entirely new thing for us," said Sebourn.

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