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Phi Delt, Admissions settle on Dimensions weekend incident

By Matthew Abbott | May 25, 2006

At a May 11 hearing with a College dean, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity was found responsible for providing alcohol to persons under the legal drinking age and given one week of social probation which ended at midnight last Thursday. The charges stem from an incident over Dimensions weekend late on the night of April 19 when prospective students, who were in the presence of two admissions officers, were able to gain entry to the house and obtain alcohol.

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Kappa raises $2,000 for local cancer center

By Matthew Abbott | May 22, 2006

Roughly 30 people braved rain and mud Sunday afternoon to participate in Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority's fourth-annual Breast Cancer Walk/Run fundraiser to benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Participants in the walk/run followed a five kilometer course that started at the Collis Center, looped around Occom Pond and ended at Sanborn Hall.

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Few schools continue to require swim test

By Matthew Abbott | May 16, 2006

With commencement rapidly approaching, seniors who have yet to pass their swim test requirement are donning their bathing suits and heading to the pool in order to graduate on time. As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill becomes the most recent school to do away with the requirement, Dartmouth is one of the few remaining institutions in the United States that requires students to pass a swimming test in order to receive an undergraduate degree.

Chase Hogle '07, Adam Shpeen '07, and Evan Michals '07 (l-r) attend a rally in Washington, D.C. for the victims of the Darfur genocide. The rally urged American intervention in the ongoing genocide.
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Students march for Darfur

By Matthew Abbott | May 2, 2006

Eleven Dartmouth students converged on Washington, D.C. this weekend, joining thousands of activists who took part in a rally to urge American intervention in the conflict in Darfur. According to Hillel President Chase Hogle '07, the students, six of whom are members of the Darfur Action Group and five ...

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Website criticizes College's portrayal of undergrads

By Matthew Abbott | April 25, 2006

A website recently created by Dartmouth students claims that College officials have been misleading Dartmouth alumni about the student body's satisfaction level over issues such as the proposed changes to the alumni constitution and the recent Senior Executive Committee elections. Five undergraduates created the site, www.voxclamantisindeserto.org, earlier this month to reach alumni and voice student concerns over issues that they feel have not been adequately presented to Dartmouth students and alumni. "Unfortunately, many graduated sons and daughters of Dartmouth are under the impression, fostered by the College's public relations department and the Office of Alumni Relations, that all of its undergraduate student body is satisfied with its current state," a statement on the website reads. The idea for the site came when Nicholas Stork '06 and Andrew Eastman '07 attended a town hall meeting in Boston last March for Dartmouth students and alumni to discuss the alumni constitution.

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Students push for more lenient drug penalties

By Matthew Abbott | April 20, 2006

As part of a campaign to promote marijuana as a safer alternative to alcohol, groups of college students around the country are pushing for reduced penalties for marijuana possession. Last Thursday, students at the University of Maryland passed a referendum in their student government elections that advocates punishing marijuana possession on the same level as alcohol violations. While this vote is considered to be a message to administrators at the school, it does not actually change any of the current policies.

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Moussaoui trial impacts Hanover resident

By Matthew Abbott | April 7, 2006

As the sentencing phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial begins, one local resident will be paying particular attention to the proceedings. Blake Allison, a Hanover resident, lost his wife Anna during the terrorist attacks of Sept.

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Darfur Action Group to focus on aid and foreign intervention

By Matthew Abbott | March 31, 2006

Now that increasing numbers of colleges and universities are divesting from companies that do business with the Sudanese government, student activist groups working to end the genocide in Darfur are beginning to shift the focus of their mission. While the Darfur Action Group at Dartmouth will continue to track companies that could be complicit in the genocide for a divestment list, its members will also work to increase humanitarian aid and bring foreign intervention to the region. "The problem with Darfur now is basically an issue of political will," said Niral Shah '08, a member of the group's Advisory Committee for Investment Responsibility. Shah noted that the group will work with other student organizations such as Hillel, which will organize a trip to the Rally to Stop Genocide in Washington, D.C.

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Journalist lectures on Kurds' future

By Matthew Abbott | March 7, 2006

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff Members of the Kurdish minority in Iraq will likely form their own independent nation in the next several years, according to author and journalist Kevin McKiernan, who gave a lecture in Dartmouth Hall Monday afternoon. The talk, sponsored by the Dickey Center's War and Peace Studies Program, included a screening of McKiernan's award-winning 2002 PBS documentary "Good Kurds, Bad Kurds." This documentary derives its title from the apparent distinction made by some American policy-makers when dealing with the Kurdish people in the Middle East and is a central theme of the film.

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