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Journalists discuss future of publications, media, Internet

By Jeremy Skog | April 10, 2000

Prominent journalists discussed the nature of media at the start of the millennium during the 2000 Senior Symposium panel "Media Revolutions: A Reflection on Society" on Saturday. Journalists Chris Wren '57, a reporter and editor for The New York Times; Matt Storin, Editor of the Boston Globe; and New York Times National Education Correspondent Jacques Steinberg '88, discussed how recent changes in technology -- especially the Internet -- and culture have affected the news industry. Steinberg said that many people no longer require newspapers for much of their information, since primary sources could now be found online.

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Seniors add diversity to Symposium

By Heidi Ellenbecker | April 7, 2000

Several graduating seniors spoke yesterday at the Top of the Hop about their experiences as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at Dartmouth as part of the 2000 Senior Symposium. The talk, entitled: "Out Loud: Reflections of Queer Life at Dartmouth," contributed an aspect of diversity to the Symposium, which typically tends to focus on academic issues, said Andrew Thompson '00, co-chair of the Senior Symposium Planning Committee. Peter Jacobsen '00, Ezra Cooper '00 and Jane Peachy '99, along with Pam Meisner, LGBT coordinator, all shared their Dartmouth experiences and provided insight into a community outside of the mainstream. Jacobsen began by referring to the Alma Mater, saying that the "granite of New Hampshire" is restricting, and represents a rigidity and strictness that doesn't fit him.

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'Greed' skips College in Ivy tour

By Ithan Peltan | April 7, 2000

Planners of "Greed," the Fox Television Network's big money game show, have passed over Dartmouth in their search for Ivy League students to compete in a series of college tournaments to be aired in May. Contestant coordinators for the show, the top prize of which is $2 million, have been travelling to universities across the country for the past month in their search for student contestants. The show's coordinating producer Laura Chambers said there were probably several reasons that Dartmouth students did not get a chance to try out.

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Trustee report will signal direction of Initiative

By Omer Ismail | April 6, 2000

During their upcoming visit to Hanover from April 13-15, the Board of Trustees will spend a considerable amount of time discussing the Student Life Initiative. Sometime after their deliberations, the Trustees are expected to issue a report with the direction of where the Board and the College see the implementation of the Initiative heading. "Our goal is from a directional stand point to make it clear where we are heading" with the Initiative, William H.

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Koop disapproves of tobacco ruling

By Regis Ahern | April 5, 2000

Former Unites States Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, resident Senior Scholar of the Dartmouth institute bearing his name, was disappointed in the recent ruling by the Supreme Court that the Food and Drug Administration does not have the authority to regulate the tobacco industry. "I was disappointed in the ruling, but it did not surprise me.

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SA allocates campaign funds

By Mike A. Hamilton | April 5, 2000

In an effort to eliminate campaign financial concerns for students running for Student Assembly president and vice president in the upcoming Spring term elections, the Assembly passed a resolution last night that allocates up to 900 dollars of the budget to subsidize these campaigns. According to the resolution, the current spending limit of 125 dollars -- which will remain the same -- for a student running for Assembly president or vice president "could deter qualified candidates from running." The 900 dollars will be divided among up to 10 students, ensuring that no candidate has to spend more than 35 dollars of his or her own money on a campaign.

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Haverford permits coed on-campus housing

By Rachel Osterman | April 5, 2000

Haverford College has decided to let students of the opposite-sex share suites and apartments that have single bedrooms, following complaints from the gay and lesbian community that mandatory single-sex housing was discriminatory. The move corresponds with Haverford's gradual policy of allowing housing to become increasingly coeducational. Although the decision has excited the national press, it will not likely have any immediate impact at Dartmouth. After a long tradition of co-ed bathrooms, last year Haverford allowed students of different genders to share suites that contain separate bedrooms for all suite residents.

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Internet Ethics Feature

By Sarah Rubenstein | April 5, 2000

Sitting alone in a dorm room and downloading information seems pretty benign. If nobody is watching, how could you get caught? The Computer Science 4 scandal of Winter term, however, was a rude awakening to students that our use of the Internet can be traced to a certain degree -- a sitting alone surrounded by four walls does not guarantee privacy. Find out more in our Internet Ethics feature.

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Is Big Brother watching?

By Jennifer Thomas | April 5, 2000

Sitting alone in a dorm room and downloading information seems pretty benign. If nobody is watching, how could you get caught? The Computer Science 4 scandal of Winter term, however, was a rude awakening to students that our use of the Internet can be traced to a certain degree -- a sitting alone surrounded by four walls does not guarantee privacy. According to Bill Brawley, Kiewit Computation Center's director of user communications, Big Brother is not watching over students at the College -- but that does not mean the Orwellian force is completely absent either. Brawley said owners of BlitzMail accounts receive exclusive access to their e-mail messages -- even if they are suspected of a crime.

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