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Town residents reeling after deaths

By Kathleen McDermott | January 30, 2001

Although shocked and disturbed by Saturday's double murder of Dartmouth professors Susanne and Half Zantop, Hanover residents expressed faith in their police and community leaders to deal with the situation and return the town to its normal quiet calm. "We're all totally disturbed," said Hanover resident Barbara Allen in reaction to the weekend's turn of events.

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Community mourns the deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop

By Maggie Shnayerson | January 30, 2001

As cameras whirred and press trucks lined the Green for a second day in Hanover yesterday, some gathered together away from the eyes of the media to grieve the loss of Half and Suzanne Zantop. A gathering at President James Wright's house yesterday afternoon drew the attendance of around 50 members of the faculty and a few students who had worked closely with the couple. The event, guarded closely by Safety & Security officers, was closed to the press.

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Zantops' colleagues devastated by loss

By Ithan Peltan | January 29, 2001

Disbelief was the prevailing emotion yesterday among members of the Dartmouth faculty reacting to Saturday's double murder of Susanne and Half Zantop. Professors across the spectrum of departments and with varying levels of acquaintance with the deceased echoed each other in describing their reactions, using words like "stunned," "horrified" and "shocked" again and again. "The sudden loss is so shocking and the means by which we have lost them is even more shocking," said Jim Aronson, Half's close friend and departmental colleague in earth sciences.

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Alcohol campaign reaches students

By Kathleen McDermott | January 29, 2001

One year after the launch of a "social norms" campaign to change students' perceptions about alcohol use on campus, Alcohol and Other Drug Education Coordinator Margaret Smith and others are already seeing the impact of their statistic-laden posters. According to Smith, the campaign began in the fall of 1999 to provide students with factual information on which to base their drinking decisions. While in the past the health education field has relied on threatening messages and scary statistics to frighten students into abstaining from alcohol, the social norms campaign takes the opposite approach, Smith said. "Let's tell students what they're doing right," Smith said.

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College administration works to provide counseling

By Julia Levy | January 29, 2001

Dean of the College James Larimore said it was his experience working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the devastating 1989 San Francisco earthquake -- and not his long administrative career -- that most prepared him for the tragedy that befell Hanover over the weekend. With back-and-forth telephone calls Saturday night and meetings starting before 7 a.m.

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Prof. advises Bush

By Jeremy Skog | January 26, 2001

Many of Dartmouth's professors are nationally known, but few have a chance to see their research turn into a national policy. Assistant Professor of Economics Andrew Samwick, however, has a much more significant impact on policy issues -- his Social Security research forms the blueprint for President Bush's proposed reforms to the system. "It's something I've always been intellectually curious about," said Samwick of the Social Security issue. Historically, Social Security has been evaluated on a five-year cycle.

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Hospital initiates new facility

By Alison Piper | January 25, 2001

The Littleton Regional Hospital in Littleton, NH, just south of St. Johnsbury, opens the doors of its new $30 million facility today that will offer more efficient use of space and improved outpatient services. The expansion of the hospital focused on technology.

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