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College tops in admissions, beer

By Craig Elbert | August 22, 2001

In the latest annual college rankings compiled by The Princeton Review, Dartmouth moved up significantly in the areas of academics, beer consumption and difficulty of admissions, while falling slightly in the quality of life category. The recently released rankings are based on a survey of 65,000 college students and will be published in The Review's "The Best 331 Colleges," a guide for prospective college students and their parents. This year, according to The Review's survey of 331 of the best colleges in the country, Dartmouth is ranked in the top twenty schools in four categories out of sixty-two.

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Seniors face tightening job market

By Craig Elbert | June 10, 2001

As some members of the Class of 2001 prepare to enter the workforce, others are already feeling the pressures of the real world and the current economic downturn in the form of job offer retractions. If this year's graduating class is similar to last year's, almost three-fourths of the seniors anticipate employment as their principle activity next fall, while most of the remainder are heading to graduate school or taking a year off. At this time last year, 60 percent of those who said they planned on working had already accepted job offers. With the recent failure of many technology-based firms and continued uncertainty in the stock market, however, the number of employed graduates come this year's Commencement may decrease. Although a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers reported that employers planned to hire 18.8 percent more students in the upcoming year than in the past year, almost half of the companies surveyed have lowered their hiring expectations since August.

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Trumbull researches prostitution

By Craig Elbert | May 25, 2001

When students hear that Junior Charlie Trumbull flew to Cuba to study prostitution, they often ask him one question: So, did you do any first-hand research? "A lot of people had a misconception of what I was trying to do," Trumbull said. In reality, Trumbull's trip, sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, was an in-depth research project on the social, political, and economic ramifications of the rampant prostitution in post Cold War Cuba, the junior pointed out. Trumbull spent a month in Cuba this winter interviewing prostitutes, politicians and law-enforcement officials, among others, in an attempt to understand the conditions that allow prostitution to thrive in Cuba.

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Dartmouth professor discusses Bush tax cut

By Craig Elbert | May 8, 2001

As Congress moved closer this week to making President George W. Bush's promises of a sweeping tax cut a reality, agreeing to push through an 11-year $1.35 trillion reduction, economists on all sides of the ideological spectrum have scrambled to insert their views into the policy-making process. At Dartmouth, Economics Professor Jonathan Skinner has made the case that failing markets will dampen the projected surplus and people will receive less money in tax refunds than they may think. Skinner, who injected himself into the often bitter debate over Bush's tax cut in the April 12 "Christian Science Monitor," recently elaborated on his ideas in an interview with The Dartmouth. Although a common belief may be that the tax cuts are an effort to pull the country out of the current economic downturn, Skinner said that such an objective was not on the president's mind, nor is it a definite effect of the cuts. "The tax cut is backloaded, so that the bulk of the money comes later when we may be in a boom or a recession," Skinner explained. The President's logic, according to Skinner, is that the surplus of money during Clinton's administration was being spent on unnecessary projects. "If you leave money floating around in Washington, it gets spent," Skinner stated in clarification of Bush's view of the economy. As the President discussed the possible cuts Tuesday, he expressed his concern with Washington spenders. "I'm absolutely convinced we'll be able to fund the tax cuts," Bush said.

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2005 enrollment sets records

By Craig Elbert | May 4, 2001

Despite initial disappointment that Dartmouth was the only Ivy League school to see a drop in applications, the Class of 2005 could shape up to be the largest and among the most diverse in College history, according to preliminary enrollment figures released by the Admissions Office. So far, a record 1180 students out of the 2220 accepted have enrolled for next year, an unusually high 53 percent yield in which Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg seemed to take particular pride. "We've had a really strong response," Furstenberg beamed yesterday in an interview.

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Speech discusses violence

By Craig Elbert | April 19, 2001

A full auditorium of students turned out last night for a program and discussion presented by West Chester University's Fraternity Anti-Violence Project (FAVP) aiming to provide men with knowledge about the issues and causes of violence against women. An audience of predominantly men, many wearing fraternity letters, spilled into the aisles of 105 Dartmouth Hall as three West Chester fraternity brothers took turns explaining their backgrounds and the role that men and the Greek system can play in combating violence and abuse against women. The program opened on a personal note as Ric Winston, Lou Torres and Paul Stiefel shared experiences from their own past. Torres recalled the pain of crying himself to sleep as a child as his parents fought in the next room, while Winston explained his trouble dealing with the information that his girlfriend had been abused. The speakers then went on to emphasize that violence against women affects all men, even those that are not abusers themselves, and that action and the proper use of power is a responsibility that all men must understand. "Most men do not rape, but some men do, and because of that, it makes it a problem for all men," Winston explained. Careful not to alienate and attack the male fraternity audience with this message, Winston made it clear that these ideas are compatible with the Greek system. "I am a proud, card-carrying member of a fraternity," Winston repeated throughout the night.

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Students frustrated by Napster's speed

By Craig Elbert | April 19, 2001

Computing Services' network-wide restrictions on Napster, the popular music file-sharing program, began in March and along with the consequently longer download times comes a rise in student frustrations. Punch Taylor, director of Technical Services, explained that the decision followed a recent investigation into the extent of Napster traffic and its effects on the network's resources. "It was found that 50 to 60 percent of the Internet traffic on the college's network was Napster-related," Taylor said.

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