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Hill '01 not new to campus service

By Brian Potter | May 9, 2000

Student Assembly Vice President-elect Chance Hill '01 has been active on Dartmouth's campus since his freshman fall when he was elected the Ripley/Woodward/Smith cluster representative. Hill has been very involved with the Assembly for most of his tenure at Dartmouth, with his only period of absence coming during his sophomore year when he spent two terms in Argentina. Hill was fortunate enough to land a job with an insurance company in Argentina last Winter term, and then met up with other Dartmouth students for the FSP last spring. After being away from Dartmouth and the U.S.

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Schools use different types of judiciary committees

By Alice Gomstyn | May 9, 2000

With last term's Computer Science 4 cheating scandal and this term's Initiative announcements by the Board of Trustees, the makeup of the College's judicial board is now in the spotlight. While Dartmouth may soon have a two-part judicial system, with one committee -- the Committee on Standards -- overseeing cases of individual misconduct while another, yet-to-be-created body handling cases involving all organizational misconduct, other schools have found different ways to handle disciplinary matters. Of the schools interviewed by The Dartmouth, only one did not have students involved in its judicial system. Harvard University has one undergraduate judicial body -- the Administrative Board of Harvard College, according to Thurston Smith, the secretary of the board. The board, which hears "everything from extremely routine petitions for variations of the rules ... or disciplinary cases of all kinds," consists of 30 deans and administrators -- and no students, Smith said. "There has been a movement among students from time to time to have students incorporated into the administrative board, but since it's a faculty committee, it's not allowed by the college rules," Smith said. Smith stressed, however, that such movements are rare and that Harvard's judicial system serves the college well. Many other schools use the two-part system that Dartmouth is examining. Princeton University has a two-part judicial system.

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Join an NPR reporter on Hillary's campaign trail

By Alice Gomstyn | May 9, 2000

Hillary Clinton is "a tough nut to crack," according to National Public Radio correspondent Andrea Bernstein, who shared stories from her latest assignment -- trailing the campaign of the first lady-turned-New York Senate hopeful -- with a crowd of students, faculty and community members at the Rockefeller Center Friday afternoon. Bernstein's coverage of the Hillary Clinton campaign began last summer, when Mrs. Clinton first revealed that she was considering a bid for the Senate seat -- an office soon to be left vacant by retiring Democratic Senator Patrick Moynihan. In July, New York City reporters traveled upstate to the town of Davenport, New York, just to hear Clinton confirm what political pundits had been speculating for months. Standing in front of a small farmhouse with Moynihan by her side, Clinton essentially said, "Here I am, and I'm going to explore the possibility of running for U.S.

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Greeks close party door more often

By Rachel Osterman | May 8, 2000

Partly because of financial constraints and partly out of new concern for College penalties, Greek houses have been hosting fewer campus-wide parties during the past few terms. Though the phenomenon corresponds with the Trustee Initiative's stated purpose of reducing the Greeks' dominant role, it may be adding a level of exclusivity rarely seen in the era of more frequent open events. The recent discipline exercised over Psi Upsilon and Phi Delta Alpha fraternities, some Greek leaders said, as well as a perceived need to direct funding toward programming and co-sponsorship of activities, has discouraged many houses from holding more frequent parties. "I think that there's an increased awareness associated with having parties and much more enforced punishment," president of Chi Heorot fraternity Jeff Davidson '01 said.

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Busby '01 pleads guilty to assault

By Wendy Yu | May 8, 2000

In a negotiated deal with the Grafton County Attorney, former student Sean Busby plead guilty last Monday to three acts of simple assault involving two College students and a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in a dramatic series of events last year. Busby, who was a member of the Class of 2001, was sentenced to one year in a house of corrections, but will have his sentence suspended for one year in which time he must comply with a list of behavioral conditions. In 11 months, Busby must submit a petition making a case for why his sentence should be suspended indefinitely.

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College cracks down on terrorism

By Sara Connolly | May 8, 2000

Dartmouth has become home to a high-tech antiterrorism initiative, and the timing couldn't be better. One of only two in the country, the Institute for Security Technology Studies opened in Hanover this past December, with its main mission being to combat cyber-terrorism. This week's official announcement of the Institute's opening comes as the world still is reeling from the Love Virus, the most disabling attack ever by a computer hacker.

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Vieques protests reach College

By Kathleen McDermott | May 5, 2000

Puerto Rican activists urged students to protest the U.S. Navy's exploitation of the Puerto Rican island Vieques, in a panel discussion last night. "We've been fighting for our lives, our health," said Carmen Valencia, a Puerto Rican community organizer and panelist. "We are not there just because we like to protest," she said, but because the U.S.

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Former exile says friendship in decline

By Jeremy Skog | May 4, 2000

Professor Preston King, a former American exile, of England's University of Lancaster spoke on the "Decline of Friendship in Modernity," Tuesday in Dartmouth Hall. King recently returned to America from a 39-year exile, after being pardoned by President Clinton for draft evasion -- a charge against the African-American scholar that King claimed was racially motivated. King, the 1999-2000 Wilson Lecturer, summarized his current writing project , a four-volume work that argues that ancient cultures used friendship as the main ideal in organizing societies. King said historical eras are not defined by "temporal makers," such as the end of a century or millennium, but by different philosophies. The modern world is defined by a focus on liberty and sciences, but the ancient world focused greatly on friendship, King said. Evidence is found in the literary works of the time, King said, such as those by Thebes, Socrates, Plato and Cicero.

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Room draw improves but criticisms continue

By Victoria McGrane | May 4, 2000

Many seniors still had complaints about the room draw process after its first real run on Monday and Tuesday, but there was evidence that some wrinkles are being ironed out after what was described as a chaotic and trying East Wheelock trial last week. "It was a crazy, crazy mess," said Jessica Webster '01. She said it seemed that both the students and the people running the event "didn't know what was going on." Masachika Akashi '01 described the room draw Monday night as an "inefficient process." Even with priority number 74, he said, it took him and his roommate an hour and a half to get through the line. "We were really glad to get out of that place," he said. Students were also upset by confusion surrounding the policy concerning '01s blocking with active olders. Mike Bayer '01, who blocked with a "super senior" for a river apartment, said he checked with ORL before the room draw and was told that "it wouldn't be a problem." Monday night, however, he said he talked to students who had done the same and gotten both positive and negative responses. "I guess it just depended on who you talked to in the department," he said. Some seniors with good priority numbers were angry because they didn't get the "good rooms," Webster '01 said. Director of Housing Services Lynn Rosenblum admitted that it was hard to predict how many students were going to show up the first night, which was designated for active olders and regular seniors holding priority numbers between 1100 and 1600. "The first night we had a few hundred people" or about 75-80 percent of the rising senior class in need of housing, she said. They were able to get through everyone, Rosenblum said, with the last person finishing at 9:30.

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Yahoo! College jumps in wired list

By Wendy Yu | May 4, 2000

Dartmouth College was featured as the fifth most wired university in Yahoo Internet Life Magazine's annual "America's Most Wired Colleges" survey this month. In 1998, at the height of Dartmouth's glory, the College came in first place, but fell to the 26th position last year.

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Census counting starts

By Jeremy Skog | May 3, 2000

Although census forms were due April 24 it will be several weeks before the results are tabulated and any information available, according to officials from the Census Bureau. While most students had no problem filling out and returning the form others had problems because they didn't have enough time or simply forgot. Kansas Henderson '02 said that the form was "really straightforward," although he mentioned that some people who were out of town when it was distributed might have had time problems. Adrian Hartline '03 said that the instructions from the College were unclear and that, although he spends much of his time here, he doesn't really identify Hanover as being his home. Students received the forms only recently because Dartmouth was in one of the later distribution groupings, according to Cathy Henault, of the Office of Residential Life, who coordinated the distribution of the forms with the Bureau. She said that she was optimistic about the response, but had no information as to exactly how many students had returned their forms. College students are considered residents of the area where they attend school, and parents were instructed not to include students living away form home on their own forms. Census form distribution began Thursday, April 20 at the College, although some residences received their forms up to a few days later.

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