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Topside limit sees student disapproval
By Samantha Ackah | February 27, 2006Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series focusing on the proposed DDS changes next year.
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College professors help NASA 'Stardust' project
By Samantha Ackah | February 21, 2006Courtesy of Dartmouth News Two Dartmouth professors will soon have the honor of participating in NASA's ground-breaking $168.4 million Stardust project to analyze interstellar dust particles collected from the Wild 2 comet. Susan Taylor, professor of Earth Sciences and scientist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory facility, will work with Charles Daghlian, director of Dartmouth's Electron Microscope Facility to examine the particles gathered from the comet. The Stardust project began with the 1999 launch of the Delta II spacecraft, which made two solar orbits and flew past the comet's nucleus.
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COS hearings often mystify students
By Samantha Ackah | January 30, 2006Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff "Parkhurst" is one of the scariest verbs in the Dartmouth lexicon.
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Homecoming traditions: sprinting, parties, fire, football
By Samantha Ackah | October 21, 2005Fall term's biggest weekend has arrived and the College will play host to a football game against Columbia University as well as the traditional bonfire as part of this year's Homecoming celebrations. While parties are already underway, the main focus of Homecoming will be Friday evening's bonfire.
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Tuck grads employ former Contras
By Samantha Ackah | July 28, 2005Two Dartmouth graduates are serving up coffee with a conscience. Tom Kilroy Tu'05 and Ryan Myers Tu'05 joined forces recently to found Contra Cafe, a new coffee business that uses beans grown by former Nicaraguan freedom fighters known as Contras. So far Contra Cafe is causing a stir, drawing both criticism and praise for its political ties.
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Friends of slain '07 charged in killing
By Samantha Ackah | July 26, 2005In a move that shocked the Berkeley community, police named two close friends of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 as suspects accused of the former Dartmouth sophomore's murder.
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'Tragic death' sends ripples through College community
By Samantha Ackah | July 19, 2005Two days after the murder of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, the Dartmouth community is struggling to come to terms with her death.
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Willis-Starbuck killed early Sunday
By Samantha Ackah | July 17, 2005WEB UPDATE, July 18, 12:06 a.m. Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 was gunned down early Sunday morning in Berkeley, Ca., outside her apartment. Willis-Starbuck was shot by an unidentified man who exited a vehicle, fired multiple gunshots at Willis-Starbuck and a group of friends and then drove away, Berkeley police said.
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Low turnout hampers annual sophomore trips
By Samantha Ackah | July 12, 2005For the past seven years, the Dartmouth Outing Club's sophomore trips have been an integral part of the sophomore summer experience, giving students the chance to wander the outdoors and relive freshman year DOC trips.
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'09 stars on reality TV show 'The Scholar'
By Samantha Ackah | July 5, 2005The Class of 2009 has some extra star power thanks to an incoming freshman who secured a role on a new ABC reality television show.