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April 25, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Abigail Drachman-Jones
The Setonian
News

A Tale of Two Togas

I am 21 years old, and I admit, I still like to play dress-up. When I was little, I would twirl and prance around in ballerina gowns, play princess, pretend to be in fairytales.

The Setonian
Opinion

A Vermont State of Mind

I gave up my Ethernet connection. I had to buy my own toilet paper (until I realized that "borrowing" it from various places worked just as well). I lived in a room that had just a few too many bugs and spiders for my liking.

The Setonian
News

What do you want in future library?

The world of Dartmouth libraries is on the brink of change. With the current construction of the Baker/Berry Library, Dartmouth is in the midst of its largest library building project since the late 1920s, when Baker itself was originally erected. In addition, as of the fall of 2000, Dartmouth will say goodbye to Margaret Otto, the Librarian of the College. As a result of all this change, the Council on the Libraries -- a committee made up of faculty members from the arts, sciences and professional schools, undergraduates and graduates, as well as administrators -- surveyed undergraduates, graduates, professional school students and professors to gain a better insight into the effects, usability and resources of Baker. The survey was conducted the first half of this month and was designed "to gain a greater understanding of graduate, undergraduate and professors' needs," Kevin Kunzendorf, a member of the Council on the Libraries, said.

The Setonian
News

Columbia honor scandal leads to student suicide

While Dartmouth grappled with its own cheating questions Winter term, Columbia University was facing the fallout of a much larger, eight-month-long honor code scandal involving lies, expulsion and court intervention. The debacle ended in suicide on Thursday, April 20, 2000, when 21-year-old Puneet Bhandari, a senior at Columbia, was hit and killed by an Amtrak Metroliner train in Iselin, New Jersey. The roots of the case, however, stretch back to the fall of 1998 when Bhandari was enrolled in the "Contemporary Civilizations" course. A transfer student from Rutgers in 1997, Bhandari was pursing medicine at Columbia and was an advisor in the New Student Orientation Program and an undergraduate tutor. According to Judge John G.

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