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Early admit rate lower for 2005s

By Victoria McGrane | January 4, 2001

Despite a rise in the number of applicants for early decision compared to last year's pool, the College sent out significantly fewer acceptance letters this year. In total, 377 students were given an early place in the class of 2005, or about 33 percent of the early applicant pool, according to statistics recently released by the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid.

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Matthews relives the hot seat

By Kelly Cameron | January 4, 2001

Do you ever wonder what the hot seat feels like on the television game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Jim Matthews, Chief Programmer for Kiewit, knows what it's like firsthand.

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Jews, Muslims to dine together

By Ithan Peltan | January 4, 2001

College President James Wright approved plans early last month for a joint kosher-halal dining facility to be operated by Dartmouth Dining Services. DDS Director Tucker Rossiter said the new dining hall should be open for the beginning of Fall 2001, serving freshly prepared meals during the lunch and dinner hours. "It's very exciting.

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Freshmen end their first term upbeat

By Maggie Shnayerson | November 22, 2000

As the end of their first term at Dartmouth draws to a close, members of the Class of 2004 are breathing a sigh of relief -- they made it. Not only did students in The Dartmouth's focus group avoid getting Parkhursted -- a concern to a surprisingly large portion of freshman -- but they will bring home to parents and family members stories of an overwhelmingly successful beginning to their college experience. They will also be bringing home dark circles under their eyes as well as mismatched and holey socks from the washing machines in their dorm basements.

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Jette to leave DOC, but devotion continues

By Liz Bertko | November 22, 2000

"I hope that it will never die," said Earl Jette, commenting on Dartmouth's long lasting heritage in the Dartmouth Outing Club. Jette, who has been the DOC's director for the past 20 years, recently announced that he would retire at the end of this term.

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Tucker tries to provide a conscience for the College

By Kathleen McDermott | November 21, 2000

Looking beyond the lecture seats of Dartmouth Hall, William Jewett Tucker, Dartmouth's ninth president, saw the aims of the College as more than merely intellectual. "Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience or heart," he advised. One hundred years later, his words still resound, where the small white building that houses the organization named in his honor -- The William Jewett Tucker Foundation -- sits nestled between Thayer Dining and South Massachusetts Halls, lit from dawn to dusk for students and staff running from project to meeting to activity, working to further the moral and spiritual development of the College with every step. And while for many the Tucker Foundation conjures up images of reading to seven-year-olds or nailing roofing onto a Habitat house, Tucker encompasses a much broader mission, one involving the more than 20 campus religious groups, a College Chaplaincy, and an array of "Issues of Conscience" programs. "Dartmouth should be holistic, providing opportunities not only for students to grow intellectually, but to get a handle on their world view, grappling with some of those deeper issues," said Nicole Leonard '88, who is overseeing religious and spiritual life on campus for Tucker on an interim basis. Leonard oversees all campus religious groups, from Al-Nur, the Muslim Student Organization, to the Campus Crusade for Christ.

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Other colleges' orgs. make volunteering a focus

By Kelly Cameron | November 21, 2000

College campuses seem to be a center of volunteer activity. From the Big Brother Big Sister program, popular at Dartmouth and beyond, to opportunities to knit hats for the homeless and work with children, college students are being encouraged to get out and do their parts to help others. While Dartmouth is not unique in its focus on volunteerism, the Tucker Foundation's role as an umbrella organization for both volunteering and religious groups stands out. Amherst The Community Outreach Program at Amherst College was formally created in 1986 by students and has expanded since then to include a full-time paid project coordinator and a newsletter. Outreach offers "Amherst Against Food Waste," an organization that delivers leftover food on campus to local shelters.

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Students pitch in across the nation

By Rachel Osterman | November 21, 2000

Time is money. Or at least that is what the clich says. But for an increasing number of students at Dartmouth and beyond, time is volunteering. With more than 44 percent of the student body involved with the Tucker Foundation in some way -- and 30 percent of students included in the "hard core" category -- the College has seen a surge of interest in community service that has helped change Dartmouth's commitment to and perception of volunteerism. Notably, the new involvement in community service at Dartmouth corresponds with national trends.

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Tucker dean makes participation a priority

By Alice Gomstyn | November 21, 2000

Almost 50 years after its founding, the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, the organization charged with coordinating most student volunteer activities and overseeing religious life at the College, now finds itself in a period characterized by both transition and growth. Within the past year and a half, the Tucker Foundation has undergone a number of dramatic changes.

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Miranda moves SA on new path

By Rachel Osterman | November 21, 2000

As the Fall term draws to a close -- and with it Student Assembly President Jorge Miranda's first period in office -- Dartmouth's student government looks toward an active year in which the reenergized body will have to work hard to complete the unusually ambitious goals it has set for itself. Miranda '01 was elected last spring with a notably large margin of victory, promising to institutionalize student voice at the College while presenting himself as "five foot, seven inches of fury" in his campaign. Since then, the Assembly may or may not have adopted a posture of fury, depending on whom you ask, but it has certainly moved into previously uncharted areas. While furious in its resolve to change the perception of the sometimes ridiculed body and to give students more say in the College's decision-making process, the Assembly's strategy has nonetheless been anything but antagonistic. Under Miranda's leadership -- and perhaps with the help of his skill for winning instant friendships -- the Assembly has cultivated close relationships with key administrators, while simultaneously pushing the administration to listen harder to student concerns. Miranda meets with and blitzes administrators on a regular basis, mingles with them at formal gatherings, thanks them when he feels credit is due and voices concern when he determines it appropriate -- as when the College introduced its new cable package without making mention of the Assembly's behind-the-scenes work. Above all, Miranda has dedicated his first term to laying the groundwork for what he hopes will be an activist body that at the same time attends to the more traditional focus on student services. "Our Fall term has been unusually active," he said in a recent interview.

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Early applications up four percent from '99

By David Klein | November 21, 2000

Dartmouth saw two significant increases in the College's early decision pool, with the overall number of applicants and the number of students of color rising four percent and 20 percent respectively from last year's totals, according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg. Approximately 1,130 early decision applications have been received thus far for the Class of 2005, though Furstenberg anticipates this preliminary total to rise slightly.

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Residents oppose total HS purchase

By Rachel Osterman | November 21, 2000

It appears area residents are decisively against proposed plans negotiated between the College and local school district for Dartmouth to buy the entire property occupied by Hanover High and Middle Schools, but the community members who attended an open meeting last night expressed more enthusiasm for the possibility of Dartmouth buying a smaller portion of that property. Among the approximately 200 people who attended what was an occasionally hostile -- though more often informative -- meeting, the idea of Dartmouth buying and then converting the entire Lebanon Street property struck a particularly unpopular chord. A total buyout would remove the entire school and community base from the downtown area, according to many of those who attended. "We want it to be the Town of Hanover, not the Town of Dartmouth," said one parent. Following the gradual overcrowding of Hanover High, the Dresden School District -- which includes the towns of Hanover and Norwich, Vt.

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Tucker Foundation Pullout

By The Dartmouth Staff | November 21, 2000

Almost 50 years after its founding, the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, the organization charged with coordinating most student volunteer activities and overseeing religious life at the College, now finds itself in a period characterized by both transition and growth. Find out all about it in our Tucker Foundation feature.

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Ismail '02 to lead The Dartmouth in January

By Jen Tutak | November 20, 2000

The Dartmouth announced that Omer Ismail '02 from Karachi, Pakistan, will take over as the next president of The Dartmouth at their annual Changeover ceremony on Saturday evening at the Casque and Gauntlet. A government major studying at Oxford this fall, Ismail will begin his position with the rest of the new directorate on Jan.

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