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Collis hosts third year of 'Vagina Monologues'

By Jenn Coffey | February 15, 2002

In hopes of raising campus awareness of violence against females, a group of Dartmouth women gathered yesterday to perform Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" for the third consecutive year. Seeking to become "vagina friendly," an overflow crowd packed Collis Commonground on Valentine's Day to see the performance, part of the Women's Resource Center's annual sex series. The crowd, consisting mostly of women, reacted warmly as over 30 Dartmouth students and alumni read monologues from on Ensler's award-winning play. Published by Ensler in 1998, the play came about as the result of hundreds of interviews she conducted with women who shared their stories of rape, incest, domestic violence and genital mutilation.

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Derecognized Zete still partying, recruiting

By Rachel Osterman | February 15, 2002

Nine months after being permanently derecognized by the College, Zeta Psi fraternity continues to function much like a sanctioned Greek organization, recruiting new members, housing some and hosting parties where alcohol is present. While the Office of Residential Life has heard rumors that Zeta Psi continues to exist and has discussed how to enforce the derecognition, the office has yet to confirm any activities in violation of College policy or take action against them, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said yesterday. Since the start of the academic year, Zeta Psi has recruited seven new members, all freshmen, sources close to and inside the organization said.

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Democrats await '04 pres. election

By Alison Schmauch | February 15, 2002

Although the 2004 presidential elections are two years away, potential candidates for the Democratic nomination have already started trekking through New Hampshire hoping to establish connections that will help them later in the race. Colin Van Ostern, communications director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, noted that Democratic hopefuls such as Sen.

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Inferior athletic facilities frustrate Dartmouth students

By Charles Gardner | February 14, 2002

Aging, undersized and overcrowded, Dartmouth's non-varsity athletic facilities lag behind those of most comparable institutions, but administrators say there is little prospect for significant improvement in the near future. The College's Kresge Fitness Center, popular among students, faculty, staff and town residents alike, regularly meets or exceeds its intended capacity on weekday afternoons, while general space limitations and the recent loss of several tennis courts have created difficulties in scheduling many of the College's physical education programs. "I've been to several other colleges, and they generally have much bigger gyms," one gym user, Vivek Menon '02, said.

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DMS teams with Maine hospital

By Nathaniel Ward | February 14, 2002

In a deal announced recently by Maine Governor Angus King '66, Dartmouth Medical School will enter into a long-term partnership with a Maine state psychiatric hospital. According to the deal, DMS will work to hire psychiatrists for AMHI, and the hospital will have access to College resources.

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Harvard Greek system rises from the ashes

By Devin Foxall | February 14, 2002

Recent changes to the undergraduate housing policy, complaints of a poor social life and an institutional crackdown on single-sex social clubs are the seeds for a new development at Harvard University: the Greek system. Hundreds have gone Greek at Harvard in the last two years, and the school now has five fraternities, two sororities and three all-female clubs.

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Bush budget is mixed for colleges

By Sarah Betts | February 13, 2002

President Bush's budget for the next fiscal year offers good and bad news for college communities, proposing increases in some types of aid but cutting funds for other programs and failing to offer increases in student grants. Significant increases were given to funds for educational research, and aid to historically black and Hispanic-serving institutions was raised by three percent. The Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) funds -- which matches state scholarship funds with federal money -- were completely eliminated in Bush's budget plan, however, and no move was made to raise the maximum Pell Grant available to students. Pell Grants are federal funds available to students who qualify as financially needy.

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Faculty ponder new distrib.

By Alison Schmauch | February 13, 2002

Dartmouth's faculty will discuss and possibly vote on a proposed new World Cultures distributive requirement entitled "Race, Ethnicity and Migration" at the Winter term faculty meeting this Monday. Under the current system, Dartmouth students must complete one course in European culture, one in North American culture and one in non-Western culture.

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Persico speaks on Roosevelt and WWII

By N.F.S. Knight | February 13, 2002

According to Joseph Persico, author and former chief speech writer for Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have had -- but was unable to act upon -- intelligence of an impending Japanese attack upon America prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Dec.

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Growing number of states require exit exams

By Bente Shoen | February 13, 2002

In response to a series of reports in the 1980s that found America's schools substandard, five states now require students to pass standardized tests, known as exit exams, in order to graduate high school.

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SA tables proposal for diversity amendment

By Matt Lewis | February 13, 2002

Concerned by insufficient support for a new constitutional amendment that would create a vice president and committee of diversity affairs, Student Assembly last night postponed voting on the amendment until next week's meeting. While no members spoke against the Assembly efforts to resolve diversity issues on campus, some viewed the amendment as excessively vague and opposed creating a new committee. The amendment, sponsored by Jonathan Lazarow '05 and Vice President of Academic Affairs Aly Rahim '02, proposes creating a diversity affairs committee to address general social issues including race, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic status. According to its supporters, the new committee would tackle these issues, currently under other committee's auspices, more effectively and sufficiently than the Assembly is currently capable of doing.

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Koop '37 discusses the way things are, were

By Rebecca Leffler | February 13, 2002

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop '37 met with students in an informal "fireside chat" last night to address concerns and uncertainties about entering the medical profession. Koop talked about the ways in which medicine has changed both positively and negatively in recent years, emphasizing the differences between the field he entered in 1941 and what medicine has evolved into today. Most doctors were family practitioners when Koop entered medicine.

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Hostages released at Conn. university

By Ithan Peltan | February 13, 2002

A former Fairfield University student claiming to have a bomb took 22 students and an associate professor hostage yesterday at the Connecticut school before releasing them late yesterday evening. The suspect, identified only as a recent graduate of the university, gave himself up peacefully about one hour after releasing the last hostage from the classroom where the students had been attending a religious studies class. WCBS-TV in New York City -- Roman Catholic Fairfield is 20 miles from the New York border -- reported that the suspect forced one of the hostages to call the station and demand that a statement be broadcast. The television station chose not to broadcast the statement, which spokesperson Karen Mateo described as "rambling and anti-Semitic." Five of the original 23 hostages were released shortly after the suspect took over the religious studies class.

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Prep schools question, and eliminate, the AP

By Alison Schmauch | February 13, 2002

Despite the growing popularity of the College Board's Advanced Placement program, which allows high school students to earn college credit for advanced work done in high school if they perform well on national exams, some elite high schools are becoming increasingly critical of the program. New York City's prestigious Ethical Culture Fieldston School took the widely publicized step last year to drop AP courses from its curriculum, setting off a debate at many similar high schools about the value of the AP curriculum. APs have escaped much of the controversy surrounding the College Board's other tests, such as the SAT, because they are based on a set curriculum and, watchdogs of the standardized testing industry say, contain fewer biases.

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