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Kosher facility delayed till Nov.

By Allison Stuntz | September 25, 2001

The much-awaited opening of the new Kosher/Halal dining facility has been delayed another two months because of a summer construction crunch, tentatively pushing back the opening date to Nov.

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ORL scrambles to end housing crunch with 'tree houses'

By Tara Kyle | September 24, 2001

Last year's unexpectedly high yield among accepted students left authorities at the Office of Residential Life scrambling to lodge homeless sophomores; six "tree houses" occupying the lawn in front of the River apartments are the problem's most visible solution. Plans for the makeshift dormitories came together when an ad-hoc enrollment committee made the decision in July, according to Director of Undergraduate Housing Lynn Rosenblum.

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Greek issues dominate summer

By Jeremy Skog | September 24, 2001

While most students consider Summer term a chance to relax, the news in Hanover this past term was as busy as ever. The College continued its tradition of using the summer as a time for enacting new rules for the Greek system with the announcement of two new policies at the beginning of the term. The first was a ban on outdoor consumption of alcohol at all Greek houses.

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State delays Tulloch trial until mid-March

By Alice Gomstyn | August 22, 2001

The trial of Robert Tulloch, the older of the two Vermont teenagers charged with the brutal stabbing deaths of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop, will be postponed until March 11. Grafton Superior Court Judge Peter Smith approved the prosecution's motion to delay on Monday to allow time for further forensic testing.

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College lets Phi Delt lease lapse

By Sabrina Peric | August 22, 2001

After a year of renting Phi Delta Alpha fraternity's property for graduate student housing, the College will not renew its lease with the house's national corporation. Leaders of the organization could not be reached for comment and College officials said they do not know how the fraternity will use the space from now until the fall of 2002, when Phi Delt will be eligible once again for College recognition. "I do not have any information from the Phi Delta Alpha Corporation ...as to their intended use of the facility," Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said. Though the Office of Residential Life did not explain why the lease was terminated, Neema Ganju, co-president of the Graduate Student Council, believed that "the maintenance of the house was a big problem." "I wasn't aware that they weren't putting grad students up there anymore," Ganju added.

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College tops in admissions, beer

By Craig Elbert | August 22, 2001

In the latest annual college rankings compiled by The Princeton Review, Dartmouth moved up significantly in the areas of academics, beer consumption and difficulty of admissions, while falling slightly in the quality of life category. The recently released rankings are based on a survey of 65,000 college students and will be published in The Review's "The Best 331 Colleges," a guide for prospective college students and their parents. This year, according to The Review's survey of 331 of the best colleges in the country, Dartmouth is ranked in the top twenty schools in four categories out of sixty-two.

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Tucker responds to SCF controversy

By Ithan Peltan | August 22, 2001

A Tucker Foundation investigation found that the Summer Christian Fellowship did not deny a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participation in the group based on her faith.

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Brett '00 serves on Green Party body

By Kathleen McDermott | August 20, 2001

This past fall, John Brett '00 was member of a rag-tag yet committed coalition of students at Dartmouth campaigning for Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election. A year later, he is now one of ten students from across the nation charged with building the Green Party at the national level. As Brett explained, the Green Party itself became a national political party only following Nader's candidacy, and the Campus Greens -- the leg of the Green Party comprised of college and high school campus members throughout the country -- quickly followed suit. The ten-person committee of which Brett is member -- the National Campus Greens Steering Committee -- represents the Campus Greens' first attempt at a steering committee and was elected just two weeks ago at their first national convention, held August 9-12 at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Brett himself is fairly new to the Green Party, and became involved only last summer after conversations with several Dartmouth Green Party activists. "The positive energy amongst campus peers in struggling for a platform they could fully support and believe in" excited him, he explained. Brett was particularly attracted by the party's emphasis on social justice and community-based economic development, and thus began campaigning for Nader over the 2000 summer. At that time, Nader's name was not even on the New Hampshire presidential ballot. So along with Charlie White '02 and Nikolaus Stein '02, Brett helped circulate petitions throughout the Hanover area to get Nader on the state ballot, according to White. By the fall, Brett was co-chairing the campus Nader campaign.

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Graduation rates fall across nation

By Will Meland | August 20, 2001

Reacting to news that national college graduation rates have plunged below 42 percent, College officials expressed confidence that Dartmouth is isolated from the forces -- notably the lack of money and student motivation reported in a national study -- that appear to be causing the nationwide decline. While he called the national statistic "frightening," Larry Litten, director of Dartmouth's Office of Institutional Research, said Dartmouth and similarly selective colleges are "holding strong" at 90-95 percent graduation rates after five years. In fact, although he said that graduation statistics on the national scale are very important, Litten said that raising Dartmouth's graduation statistics further "would not [necessarily] be a good sign," since a proportion of students may in fact benefit from leaving the College to pursue other options. The national survey, conducted by ACT (formerly the American College Testing Service), reported financial constraints as a key factor in leaving college before graduation.

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