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Despite the recent release of solid evidence, motive still seems elusive

By Ithan Peltan | March 27, 2001

Exactly two months after Half and Susanne Zantop were found brutally stabbed in their home and over a month after arrest warrants were issued in the case, authorities still seem to be searching for a definitive motive explaining the suspects alleged murder of the Dartmouth professors. From all indications, that effort has yet to yield substantial results. Thus far, prosecutors appear to have only physical evidence implicating Robert Tulloch, 17, and James Parker, 16, both of Chelsea, Vt., in the crime.

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Chelsea close to blows as case drags on

By Mark Bubriski | March 24, 2001

CHELSEA, Vt. -- Fissures have erupted in the once tight-knit foundation of the tiny Chelsea, Vt., community, creating what appears to be a stark divide over whether to support two hometown boys accused of a brutal double murder. The controversy appears to center around a fund set up by DeRoss Kellogg, to support the families of teenage suspects Robert Tulloch, 17, and James Parker, 16.

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Grand Jury begins probe of Zantop murders

By Omer Ismail | March 20, 2001

A nineteen-member investigative grand jury heard testimony yesterday from two hometown friends of Robert Tulloch and James Parker " the two teens charged with two counts of first-degree murder of Half and Susanne Zantop. A friend of Tulloch and Parker, Gaelen McKee, 15, had little to say after the long grand jury session, which took place behind close doors. "Yeah, it was tiring," McKee said after leaving Grafton Superior Court in Haverhill with his father, Marc. New Hampshire Attorney General Philip McLaughlin, who attended yesterday's session in court, declined to comment about any of the proceedings or any aspect of the investigation. "I cannot make any comment on today's activities," McLaughlin said after the hearing. The investigative grand jury, which will reconvene for a second day this morning, apparently questioned at least one of the witnesses about the suspects' familiarity with knives. Tim Courts, of Chelsea, Vt., who received a subpoena in the case, did not testify yesterday, but his son Zack, 17, was questioned for about 45 minutes about his friendship with the suspects. Tim Courts told The Boston Globe that his son was asked repeatedly about whether Tulloch and Parker owned different types of knives. Tim Courts also said his son was asked whether Parker or Tulloch ever had mentioned the Zantops to him.

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Dartmouth plans to continue using SATs

By Kelly Cameron | March 7, 2001

While the President of the University of California, Richard Atkinson recently announced his proposal to end the use of ACTs and SATs as a requirement for admission, Dartmouth College does not plan to follow suit anytime soon. "I don't see Dartmouth moving away from the SAT in the short run," Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said.

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Snowstorm closes College

By Richard Lazarus | March 7, 2001

Dartmouth College shut down yesterday for the first time in at least 15 years due to a blizzard said to rival the great storm of 1978. Students trudged to classes Tuesday afternoon as six more inches of snow joined that already on the ground.

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From a miner to a president

Cramping his six-foot frame under a low-lying rock overhang, the young miner splits a stick of dynamite down the middle with a knife and packs it into the wall 300 feet below ground. Cold water drips from the ceiling onto his head and he is grateful for the rubber slicker and heavy shirt he wears as protection in his job as a powderman. After the ex-Marine has left the mine for the day, a muted rumble emanates from the caverns below as his explosive charges are set off, shattering the solid rock into manageable fragments. The chilled and damp zinc miner is a young James Wright, working his way through a regional college at $2.35 an hour in the early 1960s in Galena, Illinois. Not many college presidents, let alone professors, remember a youth like this one. "I got hit a few times by falling rock, not enough to take me off a shift, but enough to leave a few scars," he remembers, flexing his large hands in search of a physical reminder. "Age takes care of these things," Wright says, giving up. Wright said his three years as a miner didn't have much influence on the thirty that proceeded as a professor and administrator at Dartmouth.

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Campus religious leaders wait to assess Bush's plan

By Julia Levy | March 7, 2001

George W. Bush's idea of giving federal subsidies to faith-based organizations probably would not affect Dartmouth, but that doesn't mean that campus religious leaders aren't analyzing the plan and forming their initial impressions. Most of the religious leaders who talked to The Dartmouth indicated that they wouldn't fully form their opinions until they knew what Bush's plan entailed. "This idea is an exciting idea but it needs a lot of careful thinking," the Tucker Foundation's Program Coordinator for Religious Life Suzanne Semmes explained.

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Provost Prager says she won't take Hawaii post

By Ithan Peltan | March 7, 2001

Despite reports that she is one of two finalists for the Univ. of Hawaii presidency, College Provost Susan Prager says a move to the Aloha state is not in her future. Prager -- who announced her resignation as Dartmouth's chief academic officer in mid-January --said that she is not considering taking the job in Hawaii when she leaves the College in July. "It's always flattering to be considered, but I'm not a candidate," Prager told The Dartmouth. However, she declined to elaborate further on the subject, including whether she had applied or been interviewed for the position. Honolulu television station KHON reported Monday that the Univ.

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RU-486 causes debate on campuses

By Tara Kyle | March 7, 2001

While officials at Dartmouth and many other colleges have made the decision not to carry RU-486 on campus for medical reasons, this decision has been taken out of the hands of health care providers at the University of Pennsylvania. Physicians at Penn Student Health Services were recently informed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health that the state's Abortion Control Act prohibits distribution of RU-486 at any site not already registered to provide surgical abortions. The enforcement of this law does not, however, appear to have created an uproar at Penn Student Health Services. "I am less enthusiastic about [RU-486] for a Penn population ... because we have excellent access to competent surgical-abortion providers.

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Should prof. pay be merit based?

By Kelly Cameron | March 6, 2001

Vanderbilt Professor, John Lachs, has asked the school to consider allowing students to allocate between five and 10 percent of their tuition to their professors based on merit, triggering discussion and questions for Dartmouth. Recently the Student Assembly also adopted a program to recognize outstanding teachers.

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Napster taxes College network

By Will Meland | March 6, 2001

The excessive use of Napster by students has considerably strained the Dartmouth College network, forcing Computing Services to limit the popular program's traffic. According to Computing Services spokesman Bill Brawley, Napster related traffic on the Dartmouth network typically consumes two-thirds of the College's total bandwidth -- causing excessive network congestion and crowding out other College Internet services like email and web browsing. And while Computing Services does not plan to totally block the use of Napster on campus, it has decided to curtail the bandwidth available to Napster users.

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