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Local bands ready to rock at Jamfest

By Kelly Swartz | February 8, 2002

With only sporadic fraternity appearances and weeknights at Lone Pine Tavern, performance opportunities for campus bands are limited. Hours from Boston and Burlington, Dartmouth sacrifices the existence of energetic venues and clubs to maintain its sheltered, small-town college feel. So this Winter Carnival, instead of spending obscene amounts of money for a one-night stand from a famous band, committee members decided to stage Jamfest, a concert featuring Dartmouth student bands, in an attempt to raise interest and support from students for Dartmouth's waning music scene. This Saturday night from 6 p.m.

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Other Ivies' Greeks are more cordial with administrators

By Kaitlin Bell | February 7, 2002

At other Ivy League schools, relations between the administration and campus Greek systems have been less charged than at Dartmouth since the announcement of the Student Life Initiative in 1999. At both the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell, leaders of Greek organizations work closely with the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

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Trustees set to meet as finances top agenda

By Alison Schmauch | February 7, 2002

During a Board of Trustees meeting set to be held during the upcoming Winter Carnival weekend, Trustees plan to discuss various financial issues, including possible hikes in tuition fees and ways to fund the construction of new facilities. The Board will also meet with the Student Affairs Group -- a representative body comprised of various undergraduate and graduate students -- to discuss gender and intergroup relations on campus. Trustee Chair Susan Dentzer said that, due to the economic downturn, the Board has "new realities to take into account" when they evaluate the College's financial plan for this year. Thus, the Board will examine options for financing the construction of the proposed North Maynard St.

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Chittick '70 wanders globe to teach on AIDS

By John Karl | February 7, 2002

Over the past two years, Dr. John Chittick '70 has "walked" around 40 countries on six continents leading a grass-roots effort to teach 75,000 teens how to protect their friends and themselves from the AIDS epidemic.

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Vise delves into the mind of Russian spy

By Tara Kyle | February 6, 2002

Speaking yesterday to a capacity crowd, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist David Vise detailed the deleterious career of Russian spy Robert Phillip Hanssen, framing it within the context of challenges facing the intelligence community in the war on terror. Vise covered Hanssen's exposure in early 2001 while working the FBI and Justice Department beat for The Washington Post.

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RIT survey: 'Net cheating is rare

By Matt Lewis | February 6, 2002

Students use the Internet to cheat much less than previously thought, according to a new study previewed in this February's edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The survey, conducted by a pair of professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology, compared the extent to which students plagiarized material from online and traditional sources while gauging their opinion on how often their peers plagiarized. 24.7 percent of students admitted they "often," "very frequently," and "sometimes" did not acknowledge Internet sources while a comparable 27.6 percent did the same with books and other printed resources. A large percentage of students believed cheating is much more widespread than the results reported.

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SA takes new steps to save Ivy Council

By Charles Gardner | February 6, 2002

In a bid to save the Ivy Council, Student Assembly last night unanimously voted to have Dartmouth host the spring conference of the organization, which brings together student representatives from Ivy League schools. The resolution allocated $2,500 toward the hosting of the event, and it followed last week's strong affirmation of support for the troubled Council, which recently witnessed the resignation of much of its executive board. Joshua Marcuse '04, who succeeded resigned Ivy Council President Michael Brown of Cornell, felt the decision to host the conference was a necessary step after last week's decision to maintain ties to the Council. "It's a stopgap measure with long-term goals," Marcuse explained.

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Black History Month kicks off

By Alison Schmauch | February 6, 2002

To commemorate Black History Month this February, a diverse assortment of student groups have collaborated with faculty members, administrators and curators at the Hood Museum of Art to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans. "The overarching purpose of the series of events this year is to recognize the achievements of African-Americans and pay tribute to them," said Desmond Nation '02, president of the Afro-American Society. Assistant Dean of Student Life Dawn Hemphill, an adviser in the Office of Black Student Advising, hoped that students of all racial and cultural backgrounds would attend Black History month events. Nation was pleased with the level of collaboration among diverse campus groups that planned Black History Month events together. "We have historically black Greek organizations, the Afro-American society and members of the faculty all working together," he said. For example, Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will sponsor screenings and discussion of films including Spike Lee's "Four Little Girls" on Feb.

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Online dating sites unite Ivy graduates

By Ryan Samuels | February 5, 2002

Although the Greek gods regularly assumed the guise of mortals to seduce regular men and women, Dartmouth graduates concerned with such things will never have to settle for mates beneath their intellectual caste thanks to online dating services catering to an academically exclusive clientele. For the low price of $70, The Right Stuff -- located at rightstuffdating.com -- offers six months of access to pages profiling website members of the opposite sex, whom the new member may contact as suits his or her interest. The service is "an international introduction network for single graduates and faculty of a select group of colleges and universities," according to its founder and president, Dawn Touchings. In addition to the introductory fee and a photograph, prospective members must provide proof of graduate or faculty status at one of the schools listed on the official website.

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U. of Cal considers elimination of SATs

By Nathaniel Ward | February 5, 2002

Despite a high-profile decision by the University of California to consider adopting its own admissions test, Dartmouth will not stop using the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the American College Testing examination in the near future. According to Dartmouth Director of Admissions Maria Laskaris, the College will only change its testing requirements "if it is appropriate for the Dartmouth admissions process." "On an annual basis, we evaluate how we make our decisions," she said, adding that though removing the SAT I requirement has been suggested in the past, no plans exist to drop it. As proposed last Wednesday to the UC Academic Council by the faculty-run Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, the new achievement-based exam would consist of a general three-hour test followed by two one-hour subject tests. The recommendation comes nearly a year after UC President Richard Atkinson announced that he would look to remove the SAT from the university's admissions requirements. Hanan Eisenman, Admissions Coordinator in the office of President Atkinson, said "getting away from vague notions of aptitude and getting more towards a curriculum-based test" was one of the reasons for this change. He stressed that "this is definitely the beginning of the process." The proposal must pass through numerous committees in the faculty-run Academic Senate before it is submitted for approval to the Regents, the controlling body of the university system. The new test could be approved by the Regents as early as July, though it would not be implemented until 2006 at the earliest, Eisenman said. The College Board, which administers the SAT I and II, claims that its assessments, in addition to a student's grade point average, should be the most important elements of a school's admissions decision. "Most of the really selective schools use both," said College Board spokesperson Chiara Coletti.

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Study: freshmen face depression

By Sarah Betts | February 5, 2002

The freshman year of college can take a serious toll on the well-being of students, according to a survey published in the February issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The study polled 3,680 students at 50 different colleges during orientation and again at the end of their first year, finding that while 52.4 percent rated themselves "above average" in emotional well-being at the start of the school year, that number dropped to 44.9 percent by the year's end.

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Groundhog predicts six more weeks

By Alison Schmauch | February 4, 2002

Unfortunately for frozen freshmen experiencing New Hampshire's winter wrath for the first time, groundhog Punxsutawney Phil's sighting of his shadow this weekend -- forecasting six more weeks of winter -- does appear to be consistent with long-range weather trends. Perhaps not surprisingly, however, some meteorologists expressed skepticism about the general accuracy of the groundhog's predictions. Mark Bacon, a forecaster for AccuWeather, noted that weather across the East Coast will be colder than usual throughout the month of February and that precipitation will be average. "We can't forecast weather much ahead of that, though," he said. Bacon tends to put little stock in the groundhog's predictions, he said. "The groundhog has seen its shadow 92 times and not seen in shadow 14 times," he said.

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Non-trad. piercings flourish

By Sabrina Peric | February 4, 2002

More than 50 percent of college students have non-traditional body piercings and 23 percent have tattoos, according to a study published in this month's issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. "Oh yeah, [piercing] is getting more and more mainstream," Bruce Bernier, owner of TLC Body Piercing in Fairlee, Vt., said.

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Rieser '76 discusses U.S.'s Colombia policy

By Richard Lazarus | February 4, 2002

Timothy Rieser '76, a senior advisor to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, spoke frankly Friday about the United States' involvement in Colombia, the making of foreign policy and how students and other citizens can influence it. Leahy, a Democrat, is chairman of the Senate's Appropriation subcommittee on foreign aid, and Rieser is the senior of his two foreign policy advisors.

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