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What does the future of the Dartmouth campus look like?
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Julia Levy
| January 12, 2001
College committee works to develop future architectural plans that maintain the classic look
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S & S investigates shower fiasco
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Kathleen McDermott
| January 12, 2001
Hanover Police and Safety and Security are both investigating after an unidentified middle-aged male was reported looking into an occupied shower stall in a Smith Hall women's bathroom Wednesday night. Crime alerts posted around campus have informed students of the incident, which was reported immediately to Safety and Security at approximately 9:30 p.m.
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Is Greek leadership in decline?
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Ithan Peltan
| January 12, 2001
Normally, the races for positions on the executive board of the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council attract a number of affiliated juniors eager to lead an organization representing more than half of the student body. Last January, there were four candidates for president and five for vice president.
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Upper Valley faces worker shortage
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Charles Gardner
| January 12, 2001
With the strong and nearly uninterrupted economic growth of the past eight years, the U.S. unemployment rate is hovering around its lowest level in 30 years and workers have been in increasingly short supply nationwide. This national trend towards a very low jobless rate, which held steady at 4 percent last month, has been reflected at both the national and the local level. "The local labor market in Hanover has shown less then one percent unemployment recently," said Assistant Professor of Economics Herbert Schuetze.
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Panhell expects 35 women to rush
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Tara Kyle
| January 12, 2001
Despite rumors that as many as 300 women had signed up for winter rush, sorority leaders are preparing to begin rush on Sunday with the much lower and more manageable number of 35 women planning to participate. Julie Calderon '01, who served as Panhell's vice president for 2000, said that they expect to offer bids to all of this term's rushees. "We're hoping to fit everyone in, though we can't guarantee anything," Kremer said. Each of the sororities contacted by The Dartmouth plan to take a pledge class this winter.
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Thayer receives $435K defense grant
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Kelly Cameron
| January 12, 2001
The Thayer School of Engineering has received a $435,000 grant from the U.S. government to perform research "critical infrastructure protection." Over the next two years, the grant will fund the research of two post-doctoral fellows as Sylvanus Thayer Fellows in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Assurance. The fellows will conduct research into information assurance, threat, vulnerability and risk assessment, as well as intrusion monitoring and response. Professor of Engineering Sciences George Cybenko noted that the fellowship would look at ways to protect critical infrastructure. The United States infrastructure systems, such as transportation, health services and telecommunications, often depend on each other, Cybenko pointed out.
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College-age smoking up, Dartmouth is not immune
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Victoria McGrane
| January 11, 2001
Recent studies show that college-aged Americans are smoking more than ever before. According to Llelwyn Grant, spokesperson for the Office of Smoking and Health at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, 27.9 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 can be identified as smokers. Not only is this number higher than in previous years, Grant noted, but it also indicates that college-age individuals are smoking as much as 25 to 44 year-olds. "Historically young adults have always smoked less than older adults, he said.
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Ashcroft's rocky road to confirmation
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Mark Bubriski
| January 11, 2001
With Linda Chavez pulling her own nomination for Labor Secretary after less than a week of protests from Democrats and civil rights groups, Democrats now turn their attention to another of Bush's Cabinet picks -- Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft. Ashcroft, the former senator from Missouri who lost his reelection bid to the late Gov.
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DHMC examines upswing of smoking on the screen
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Richard Lazarus
| January 11, 2001
A study by the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center found that tobacco's top brands still appear in popular movies, even after a voluntary ban on such product placement by the tobacco industry. The study, which was published Friday in the British medical journal, The Lancid, coded 250 popular movies made over the last ten years for the presence of cigarette brand names. The study found that brand names did not become less prevalent after a 1989 voluntary ban by tobacco companies on advertising. In fact, there was an increase in actor endorsement of specific brands, defined as an actor handling the product during the film. The study suggests three reasons for this.
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Members unfazed by Testa's decision
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Lauren Lafaro
| January 11, 2001
While Testa's resignation from the Greek Life Steering Committee, may have come as a surprise to some members of the Dartmouth Community, it did not shock many of those on the committee itself. "I wasn't too surprised," Megan Gleason '02 said, an unaffiliated member of the committee.
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Francis '02 elected Panhell pres.
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Alison Schmauch
| January 10, 2001
This years' Greek leadership was finalized last night with the election of a new slate of Panhellenic Council officers. Tasha Francis '02 of Delta Delta Delta sorority was elected President of Panhell and Melissa Heaton '02 of Alpha Xi Delta sorority will serve as Vice President. Francis said she looks forward to working with the executives of various Greek houses and hopesto create a more unified sorority system. Heaton said that, as vice president, she will concentrate primarily on organizing rush, particularly on logistical issues raised by next year's change from fall to winter rush. Heaton plans to continue working to oversee rush through winter of 2001, even after her term has technically ended, she said. Following Interfraternity Council elections last month, Eric Powers '02 of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and Andrew Fishman '02 of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity were recently elected President and Vice President of the Interfraternity Council, respectively. As Powers and Fishman are both off campus this winter, former IFC president Michael Johnson '01, together with Leo Pollock '03, Duncan Maclean '03, and Kyle Chambers '03 plan to work "as a team", according to Johnson, to fill the IFC's executive positions during this term. Priorities for the term include organizing winter rush, which will probably be held January 17th and 18th as well as finding ways for fraternities to become more involved with Winter Carnival, Johnson said. He added that they also plan to review the IFC constitution, including evaluating hazing policies, job descriptions,and forms for co-sponsorship, as well as to establish a leadership training program for interested underclassmen. According to Johnson, IFC does not plan to make any changes to rush. Additional new members of the Panhellenic Council include Secretary Anne Cloudman '02, Treasurer Maureen Ellimwood '03, Programming Chair Katie Sholly '03, Ali Kelly '02 as representative to the Judiciary Committee and Laura Grip '03 as head of publicity. Others elected to the IFC include Ryan Mahoney '02, treasurer, Rush Chair James Judah '02, Programming Chair Beau McCoy '02, New Member Chair Pete Stern '02, Secretary Bill Young '03, and Webmaster Josh Stabiner '03.
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Taking aim at Hollywood
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Jennifer Thomas
| January 10, 2001
Experts blame TV and movies for violence among youth
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Gun Control Pullout
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The Dartmouth Staff
| January 10, 2001
In an era when school shootings are no longer "the unthinkable," most students here remain far from the line of fire, tucked away in supposedly safe communities.
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Ed. Dept. conducts closed faculty search
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Jennifer Thomas
| January 10, 2001
Despite the Student Assembly's resolution last term calling for a more open process in hiring new faculty for the Education Department, Assembly President Jorge Miranda '01 said he thinks too much is going on behind closed doors. Although Dean of the Faculty Ed Berger had previously assurred Miranda that a student would be incoporated into the hiring committee, Miranda said that Berger later retracted his promise. "I feel like [Berger's] going back [on his word] takes us back in terms of the Student Assembly-administrative relationship," he said. The process has remained secretive and student input has been systematically ignored, Miranda added.
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Schools combat potential violence in their halls
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Sabrina Peric
| January 10, 2001
The only reminder of problems walking through Hanover is the occasional police officer telling a car to stop for pedestrians.
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Do guns kill? Or are people to blame?
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Lauren Lafaro
| January 10, 2001
Legislators slog through obstacles in search of solutions
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Dartmouth kids and guns don't mix
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Kathleen McDermott
| January 10, 2001
In an era when school shootings are no longer "the unthinkable," most students here remain far from the line of fire, tucked away in supposedly safe communities. But even Dartmouth students have not remained totally unaffected by the widely-publicized acts of gun violence that have shocked the nation time and time again over the past few years. Right after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colo., in April 1999, Elysa Goldman '02 said, "It's affecting the whole Denver community.
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Assembly begins Winter term
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Tracy Landers
| January 10, 2001
During the first Student Assembly meeting of the term last night, Melissa Oliver, the Chair of the Administration/Faculty Committee resigned and Stephanie Pensa '03 was elected unanimously to the post. Tara Maller '03 was also elected to the MIAC Committee for the winter term.
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Testa quits SLI committee
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Lauren Lafaro
| January 10, 2001
Prof. says College is not committed to serious changes