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College offers wireless ethernet

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With prices for laptop computers falling and a new campus-wide wireless network being finished at Dartmouth, the prospects for student computing have never looked better -- especially outside in the Hanover sunshine. "It's great.



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Oldest college outing club opens up the outdoors

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For over 50 years, incoming Dartmouth freshmen have started their careers known not as students ready to tackle the world of college academia, but as "trippees" prepared to spend several showerless days in the woods. As the organizer of Freshman Trips, The Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) provides many students with their first glimpse of Dartmouth and the surrounding wilderness.



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dARTmouth is for the arts

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While Dartmouth is a small school, it has a generous range of arts facilities. The campus boasts countless organizations dedicated to the arts -- too many to cover here.



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Dartmouth dorms differ: from dreary to dazzling

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Dartmouth offers a wide variety of dorm options, from the luxurious to the cramped. Organized in clusters, these dorms can be the defining factor in how much you study, where you do it, and more. Luckily for you, the Office of Residential Life (ORL) has simplified the options recently, assigning nearly half the first-years to freshman-only dorms in the River and Choates clusters, continuing an experiment in freshman-only housing begun last year.



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Susan Dentzer leads Trustees

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The third woman to sit on the Board of Trustees in the College's 232 years, Susan Dentzer '77 moved up in rank this year to become the first female Chair of the Board.


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'D-plan' creates unique options

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At the end of her freshman year, as many of her classmates headed off to internships and camp counselor positions, Jennifer Cho '03 remained on campus, living with three fellow '03s and taking a full load of classes. "I had a lot of fun, and got to know a lot of the sophomores," who were on campus for their Sophomore Summer, Cho explained. Cho was able to take classes her freshman summer because of Dartmouth's "D-plan," the College's unique academic calendar which elicits both groans and praises across campus. Under the Dartmouth Plan, often referred to as the D-plan, the academic calendar runs year-round, with four ten-week quarters -- fall, winter, spring and summer -- during which students enroll in two, three or four classes.


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Greeks dominate social scene

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What do you do for fun in a town with six stoplights? Where do you go when the thrill of meeting new people and discovering where they are from fades?



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Many find stores tasteful but pricey

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Despite its limited length, a casual stroll down Main Street, the only part of Hanover that, at a stretch, might be referred to as "downtown," yields a variety of shopping options. On Hanover's busiest street, the diligent shopper can encounter most of the essentials of student life -- from school supplies to camping supplies, spirit wear to dorm decor. The College itself is a presence on the street that leads up to the Green.



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All-star football game will benefit sick kids

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The finest high school football players from New Hampshire and Vermont will face off this Saturday at Alumni Field in the 48th annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl, which organizers hope will raise over $200,000 for Shriners hospitals. David Orr '57, the organization's director of media relations, said the Maple Sugar Bowl and other similar athletic fundraisers bring in nearly $3 million to the Shriners each year, allowing them to operate twenty-two hospitals throughout the nation and provide children with free health care. The Hanover game is the third largest football competition the Shriners organize -- out of the forty that take place all over the country -- and has attracted up to 10,000 visitors to Hanover in past years. Over the past forty-eight years, the Hanover event has raised four and a half million dollars, Orr noted. The funds raised from the Hanover game, he added, will specifically benefit the Shriners hospitals in Springfield, Ill., Montreal and Boston. But the activities will begin before the kickoff. Approximately 3,000 Shriners from throughout the northeast will march down Main Street in a parade beginning at noon.



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Condit denies silencing mistress

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A high-ranking aide to Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., yesterday denied a report that he strongly cautioned a woman against disclosing an alleged affair between herself and the congressman to law enforcement officials. The aide, administrative assistant Michael Dayton, told the woman to "leave [the affair] in the past or it will ruin you," according to USA Today. Dayton called the allegation "absolutely not true." Condit is one of approximately 100 people being questioned by police in the investigation into the disappearance of former Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy.


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Whelan '03 scores big on class council

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Having hit a home run in the recent 2003 Class Council elections, Class President Tim Whelan is getting ready to load his bases yet again for another winning season at the College. When it comes to class council, Whelan said he has a "build it and they will come" attitude.


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Yeshiva couple sues for housing

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A lawsuit challenging Yeshiva University's policy of excluding same-sex couples from university housing would likely have little effect if similar lawsuits were filed in New Hampshire, the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union Claire Ebel said. Two lesbian students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which is part of Yeshiva, sued the university after they were denied housing set aside for married students of Einstein College. The housing rules discriminated against them, they argued, because, being gay, it was impossible for them to be married. The suit was dismissed by lower courts because housing benefits were also denied to unmarried heterosexuals.


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Many valuables found at Zantops'

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A week after the Associated Press reported that burglary may have been the motivation for the murders of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop, recent documents from the Zantops' estate -- indicating that many household valuables were left untouched -- now shed doubt on the theory. Half and Susanne Zantop were found stabbed to death Jan.