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Brits find yankee Dartmouth dandy

By Devin Foxall | August 10, 2001

One if by land, two if by sea, three if by university exchange programs. As part of an ongoing partnership with British universities, four Oxford University students and three students from the University of Edinburgh are studying at Dartmouth this Summer term. The heat, small town atmosphere, scholastic freedom and 21-year-old drinking age were all noted differences between college life in Hanover, USA and the cities of Britain. "The social life is completely different because not only do we have an 18 drinking age but we're in the center of the city, so our social stuff tends to revolve around going clubbing and going to bars," Victoria Markland, an exchange student from Oxford, said. "So it was pretty weird when we first got here because I kept wanting to go out all the time, and then I was like, 'there's no where to go but to frats to play pong,'" she said. Terence Holden, an exchange student from Edinburgh, has a similar view of Hanover social life.

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Congress gives College millions

By Alice Gomstyn | August 10, 2001

Tens of millions of dollars have flown from the coffers of Congress to the hands of Dartmouth researchers since last October, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. A study released by the publication last week reported that Congress awarded a staggering $1.668 billion in earmarks to American universities and colleges, including Dartmouth, during the 2001 fiscal year, which ends Sept.

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Lebanon blocks rugby clubhouse

By Jennifer Thomas | August 10, 2001

The Lebanon Zoning Board rejected a College request to build a rugby clubhouse at Sachem Field at Monday night's meeting, deciding that the proposed facility was not necessary to playing the sport. After 30 minutes of debate, the board voted 3-2 to deny the College's club rugby team the special exception it needed to build a one-story clubhouse off Route 10. According to Lebanon Coding Enforcement Director Carmela Hennessy, the board felt that the plan "went beyond the scope of the ordinance" already granted to the rugby team for the use of their outdoor facilities. The proposed clubhouse would have included a kitchen, a team meeting and dining area, lockers, bathrooms and equipment storage space.

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Bush limits fed. stem cell research

By Alice Gomstyn | August 10, 2001

After over a month of consultations with colleagues, experts and friends, President George W. Bush reached a decision regarding the federal financing of embryonic stem cell research: he supports it, but on his terms. The President appeared on national television last night to announce his decision to the American public.

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SA Chair promotes leadership, service

By Sabrina Peric | August 8, 2001

For Mike Perry '03, interacting with other students on campus is nothing new. Involved with student government at Dartmouth since his freshman fall, Perry is currently serving as Summer Chair of the Student Assembly. "I got involved right away when I got to Dartmouth," Perry said.

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N.H. suffers from teacher shortage

By Tracy Landers | August 8, 2001

While the average Hanover High teacher receives $52,000 per year, less affluent New Hampshire school districts often pay salaries of less than $32,000, a rate at which many schools around the state are having difficulty finding and retaining enough teachers to fill their classrooms. Despite ranking as one of the top-ten per-capita wealthiest states, New Hampshire is currently suffering from one of the worst high school teacher shortages in the nation. This year the New Hampshire Department of Education has put sixteen subjects -- including math, science, technology, special education, music and world languages -- on its annually published list of fields experiencing critical shortages of teachers.

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Greeks, faculty discuss image

By Tracy Landers | August 8, 2001

Faculty members and administrators recommended that the Greek system combat what they perceived as a negative campus image by promoting its involvement in community service last night at a panel discussion entitled "Take Action." The event, which brought together five faculty and administrators and approximately thirty affiliated and unaffiliated students in Silsby Hall, aimed to discuss and improve the currently-strained relationship between Greek houses and Dartmouth faculty and administration. In a question and answer format, students and faculty alike discussed the reasons for the Greek system's negative image on campus. The faculty both cited excessive alcohol use and ignorance of the positive things done by the Greek houses as contributing to that image.

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CS dept. struggles to find new faculty

By Jeremy Skog | August 8, 2001

All across the country, as college graduates in fields such as computer science and economics are being lured into the workplace with attractive salaries, universities are struggling to find faculty and graduate students to continue teaching these highly popular disciplines. Yet although the shortage has grown severe at the national level -- covered in both The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Dartmouth remains only slightly affected by a lack of teaching faculty, according to Professor of Computer Science Scot Drysdale. "Over the last few years we've been fairly lucky compared to other schools," said Drysdale, who has coordinated recruitment efforts and chaired the department in the past, adding that the department had gotten a number of its top choices to fill positions. However, this past year the department was unable to fill one of its positions, although last year it managed to make two successful hires, Drysdale said. The market for such positions has involved much turnover and hiring over the past 10 years, he explained. As the job market fluctuates, the availability of positions and the speed at which they are filled likewise varies, said Drysdale.

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2005s prefer PCs to Macs

By Jeremy Skog | August 8, 2001

Although in years past Macintosh computers have dominated the Dartmouth computing world, with 80 percent of the Class of 2005 opting to purchase PCs, that preeminence may quickly be fading away. While the just-graduated Class of 2001 was not even provided a PC computer package option, the '03s were not directly advised to purchase a Macintosh computer, and the majority of '04s -- 60 percent of the class -- chose PCs. "Apples are kind of fading out at Dartmouth," Computer Sales Supervisor William Corrette, who estimates that their popularity has faded by about ten percent each year, said. Speculating on reasons for the decline, he noted that "whatever [students] see in high school is what they're used to," and thus prefer to buy for college. In another significant shift, the popularity of laptops has skyrocketed, with 539 of the 768 '05 computer orders to date being for laptop models, according to Freshman User Assistant Dave Seidman '04. Many '05s, apparently, hope to take advantage of Dartmouth's recently installed campus-wide wireless Ethernet access. "The convenience of a laptop with wireless access is significant," stated a newsletter sent to all freshmen along with their computer order forms. Although freshmen were informed of the benefits of laptops, the overwhelming preference for PCs is surprising.

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'Sideways' play hits straight on

By Kathleen McDermott | August 6, 2001

In a dark Collis Commonground, over 100 Dartmouth students and community members watched Thursday evening as a simple stage decorated only with a blackboard and a dozen blue desks was transformed into a classroom at Wayside School, where students turn into apples, and pigtails sing and dance. The play -- "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" -- was the culmination of two months of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes work on the part of twelve students from the White River Junction Templeton Court Apartments, under the directorship of Sarah Stokes '03 and funded through the Tucker Foundation. Yet as Stokes explained, the idea for such a performance began years ago. While only freshman in high school she read an article about someone who directed a play with students at an inner city school.

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Summer Carnival attracts 500 people

By Kathleen McDermott | August 6, 2001

A 22-foot inflatable slide, moon bounce and fake tattoo artist were just a few of the attractions at this weekend's Summer Carnival, an annual event organized by the Programming Board. Approximately 500 people -- both Dartmouth students and local families -- gathered at the Green throughout Saturday afternoon for the various festivities, according to Programming Board co-chair Eric Ruben '03. A barbecue and live music by a student band -- composed of Andrew Allport '01, Derek Hansen '02 and Michael Lovett '03 -- were two of the most popular activities, Ruben said. Summer Carnival, Ruben explained, is one of the biggest events the Programming Board has coordinated this term, adding that the group hoped "just to offer students something fun to do." "It's been going on for a bunch of years now and is sort of a tradition," he added. Both the 2003 Class Council and Student Assembly also helped out with and volunteered at the event, Ruben said. Dunk tanks, speed pitch, jousting and a bungee run rounded off the fun and games, while the Class Council coordinated a tie-dye T-shirt booth. The Shriners parade and benefit football game -- both held earlier that day -- helped to draw many more members of the local community out, Ruben explained. Nearly 3,000 Shriners descended upon Hanover for a noon parade down Main Street before the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl kicked off on Alumni Field at 2:30 p.m. With the finest high school football players from Vermont and New Hampshire facing off, New Hampshire stole the game 21-0. Approximately 11,000 were in attendance at the game, David Orr '57 -- the organization's media relations director -- estimated, although they will not know until September how much the charity event raised for area Shriners hospitals.

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Study shows hook ups common

By Alice Gomstyn | August 6, 2001

Boy meets girl. Boy and girl engage in some sort of nebulous intimate activity. Boy and girl never speak again. It is a familiar scenario, played out time and time again in the dormitory rooms and fraternity basements of Dartmouth College -- an institution that, despite its reputation for academic excellence, has long been accused of embodying "Animal House"-style debauchery. Yet the practice of "hooking up" -- commonly defined as the act of engaging in any sort of sexual interplay ranging from kissing to actual intercourse with a person whom one is not dating -- is not a phenomenon limited to Dartmouth, according to a study published recently by the Independent Women's Forum. The study reports that of the 1,062 college women surveyed, 91 percent said that hook ups occur either "very often" or "fairly often" at their schools. That statistic yields little in the way of surprise, according to Director of Health Resources Gabrielle Lucke. "College is a time of huge sexual experimentation," she said. Such experimentation, Lucke clarified, does not necessarily involve actual sexual intercourse. "I know a lot of people who consider themselves sexually active who are not having genital intercourse," she said.

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Harvard paper caught in 'living wage' debate

By Rachel Osterman | August 2, 2001

The Harvard Crimson found itself at the center of a media controversy this week, following the 128-year-old newspaper's decision to outsource a major archival project to low-wage workers in Cambodia. The matter of dispute centers on whether the Crimson contradicted itself by supporting a "living wage" for campus employees while hiring inexpensive overseas labor to make electronic archives that go back to the publication's first issue in 1873. The Crimson and many of the same labor leaders on campus who staged a "living wage" sit-in at the administration building don't seem to think so.

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House bans human cloning

By Alice Gomstyn | August 2, 2001

The House of Representatives dealt a striking blow to proponents of human cloning on Tuesday. By a bipartisan vote of 265 to 162, the House voted to ban practices that involve the genetic replication of human embryos. Some supporters of the legislation hinted that its passage had implications for the government's approach to another controversial issue: federal funding of stem cell research. "It [the bill] clearly sends a message that there is a place we don't want to go, and that is the manufacture of scientific embryos for research," Congressman Dave Wedon, R-FL, the bill's primary sponsor, told The New York Times. President Bush, who has yet to announce his position on the federal financing of stem cell research, supported the human cloning ban and praised the House vote. The current tide against the cloning of embryos does not necessarily spell disaster for government funding of stem cell research.

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