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Birdie Kim sinks 30-footer to capture Women's U.S. Open

By Ben Zimmerman | June 28, 2005

History was in the making at last week's U.S. Open. Everyone knew it. Annika Sorenstam, who had already collected the first two majors of the year, would most likely dominate the field in similar fashion, coming one step closer to the ever-elusive Grand Slam. If that didn't work out, golf enthusiasts could always fall back on the army of ultra-talented teenage amateurs, each looking to become the youngest champion in the Open's 52-year existence. Either way, the little town of Cherry Hills, Colo., was guaranteed a Sunday afternoon to remember. And then, in truly spectacular fashion, a golfer named Birdie Kim ruined it all. Manufacturing a little history of her own, Kim lived up to her name and holed an improbable 30-foot bunker shot on the 18th hole to win the 2005 U.S.

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Ultimate Frisbee plays host to White Mountain Open

By Matthew Mackey | May 27, 2005

Dartmouth Ultimate Frisbee hosted the White Mountain Open last weekend, with some of the best club teams in the region coming up to Hanover for some high-level competition. Dartmouth's teams all had productive weekends, with the women's A-team making a second-place showing as they tuned up for Nationals. Princess Layout, which lost to Brute Squad 15-8 in the finals, had a number of dominant performances throughout the tournament.

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Speights, Bashelor dominate Big Green baseball awards

By Kate Mulley | May 24, 2005

Dartmouth's baseball team celebrated its successes last Wednesday evening, as Jeff Speights '05 and Will Bashelor '07 each garnered two Dartmouth baseball awards. Speights, who led the team with 14 doubles and 33 RBIs this year, won the Teammate of the Year award and the James Henry Cooke award, which is given to the member of the squad who has done the most for the Big Green. Speights drove in 133 runs during his four years at Dartmouth, tying him for third on the team's all-time list. The graduating superstar picked up an All-Ivy honorable mention this season, as well. Not to be outdone, Bashelor picked up the Most Valuable Player and Best Offensive Player awards. In a record-breaking season, Bashelor led the team with a .352 batting average, 35 runs, three triples and a .547 slugging percentage.

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Lady laxers end record-breaking season at Final Four

By Grace Crandall | May 23, 2005

Dartmouth women's lacrosse ended its record-breaking season Friday after an 8-4 loss to No. 1 ranked Northwestern (20-0) in the NCAA semifinal round at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium at the U.S Naval Academy. The trip to Annapolis, Md., marked Dartmouth's first Final Four appearance since 1998 and its third in history. Though head coach Amy Patton fell short of notching her 150th career win, she could not help but praise her players. "This is probably one of the greatest teams I've ever coached at Dartmouth," Patton said.

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Bush administration creates Title IX 'loophole'

By Phil Salinger | May 23, 2005

This March, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights added to Title IX, the 1972 law aimed to provide women and men equal opportunities to participate in collegiate varsity sports, what many are calling a loophole for those schools who already do not want to add female sports teams. This "clarification" to the law gives schools the ability to not add female sports teams if inadequate female interest in sports is expressed in campus-wide internet surveys. Since the inception of Title IX, schools that receive government funding could satisfy the requirements of the law in any one of three ways, called prongs: The school must make the number and quality of athletic opportunities for men and women proportionate to the relative enrollment of men or women. The school must demonstrate continued progress toward achieving prong one. The school must show that the underrepresented group, in most cases women, has insufficient interest in sports to justify the addition of more female sports teams. Before this adjustment, surveys, especially internet surveys, were not allowed as a sufficient measure to demonstrate girls' disinterest in athletics.

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'Fight Night' draws over 900 fans

By Jennifer Yu | May 23, 2005

The oft-maligned and controversial sport of boxing has been making headlines as of late. In the world of reality television, Sugar Ray Leonard and Sylvester Stallone's "The Contender" and Oscer de la Hoya's "The Next Great Champ" have been grabbing ratings, and in Washington, D.C., the Senate has recently approved the development of a United States Boxing Commission, designed to strip boxing moguls such as Don King of the power that they so recklessly wield. But boxing may be closer to home than what many Dartmouth students think. Last Saturday, five Dartmouth fighters took to the ring in front of a wild crowd of 900 Big Green fans for eagerly anticipated "Fight Night 2005." The event, sponsored by the Programming Board, sought to raise funds for the College's very own Dartmouth Boxing Club. The only female Dartmouth fighter to compete on Friday, Kendri Cesar '08, defeated her opponent by decision. Simon Trabelsi '08 won by technical knockout after he severely blooded his opponents, and the referee decided to stop the fight. "Trabelsi and Kendri dominated their fights, showing greater skill and toughness than their opponents," Phil Klay '05 said. Hernan Ortiz '05 had a slightly tougher time than his fellow classmates, taking on an opponent who preferred to grab rather than box.

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