Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism.
SUPPORT THE DARTMOUTH
The Dartmouth
October 9, 2026
The Dartmouth
News
News

Trustees allocate expansion funds

By Tracy Landers | April 15, 2002

The trustees' participation in the Tucker Foundation's 50th anniversary celebration was the highlight of their spring meeting, which took place at the end of last week. While still finding time to meet with faculty committees, Student Assembly and Graduate Student Council leaders as well as receiving financial and facilities updates, the trustees attended poet Maya Angelou's keynote address and the following dinner reception. The trustees' reaction to Angelou's speech was overwhelmingly positive. "I thought it was spectacular -- a good kick-off to a weekend of fundamental importance to the College," trustee David Shribman said. President James Wright described the speech as "one of the most powerful lectures, though it was more than a lecture, I've ever seen." Although trustees had the opportunity to talk with many Dartmouth community members, this Spring's meeting held few surprises for trustees or those with whom they met, according to President Wright. "This was not a board meeting with a lot of action items on the agenda," he said. Nevertheless, the board did make financial decisions that will affect students and faculty alike.

News

Honored prof. readies to depart Dartmouth

By Karla Kingsley | April 12, 2002

It would be easy to mistake religion professor Darryl Caterine for a student. He often goes out for coffee with his students to talk, stays up late nights in the library and is surrounded by a youthful and enthusiastic aura. For Caterine, education and teaching have formed an axis around which his life rotates.

News

Students allege rental fraud

By Kaitlin Bell | April 12, 2002

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles about local landlords who have escaped legal scrutiny of their questionable tactics. Yet another local real estate company has broken tenants' rights laws by renting dangerously substandard housing to students, withholding security deposits and failing to adequately explain exorbitant damage charges, according to several students who have recently rented apartments from J&R Properties Unlimited. Students say that both company employees and its owner, Jerry Rich of Manchester, are deceitful and impossible to contact, complaints that come in the wake of strikingly similar revelations about two Hanover real estate companies owned by local orthodontist Fred "Dr. Sal" Salvatoriello. While some students who rented from J&R describe what they considered run-of-the-mill tenant frustrations, many pointed to questionable and sometimes illegal behavior that underscores the town of Hanover's general ineffectiveness at ensuring fair rental practices. Representatives from J&R maintain that they run an honest operation, deal promptly with maintenance requests and do not charge tenants unless they caused the damage, said property manager Steve Landon.

News

Group starts Zantop memorial fund

By Sarah Betts | April 12, 2002

A memorial fund in memory of Half and Susanne Zantop established through the Upper Valley Community Foundation has already received $20,000 in donations from around the nation.

News

Admission rates hit record low across Ivies

By Charles Gardner | April 12, 2002

Students applying to Ivy League institutions faced formidable challenges this year as admission rates at several schools dipped to record-low levels in the face of growing numbers of applicants. Dartmouth experienced a sharp drop in its admittance rate -- which fell from 22.8 to 20 percent -- while registering a five percent rise in total applications, the greatest such increase among its peer institutions. Harvard University was still the most selective Ivy, admitting only 10.5 percent of applicants and sending out over 17,000 letters of rejection. Following close behind was Princeton with a 10.8 percent acceptance rate.

News

Bill may expand drinking-age law

By Matt Lewis | April 11, 2002

A bill that would allow police to arrest underage drinkers for possession of alcohol even if they do not physically possess an alcoholic beverage is currently under review in the New Hampshire State Senate. The proposed revision would expand the scope of underage alcoholic beverage possession to include "constructive possession," defined as the intent or power to exercise control over an illegal substance.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

Trending
The Dartmouth