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Ivies cap number of recruits; Class of '08 affected

By Samantha Lane | August 12, 2004

Over the next four years, fewer student-athletes will be recruited to each of Dartmouth's 27 "Ivy Championship" teams, thanks to new recruiting limits instituted at the Council of Ivy Group Presidents' 2003 annual spring meeting. In addition to limiting the number of student athletes that each Ivy institution may enroll during any four-year period, the Council increased the minimum qualifications required for admission -- typically measured by secondary school rank and standardized test scores.

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Photo sleuth aids law in detecting doctored images

By Samantha Lane | July 29, 2004

When a picture of John Kerry and Jane Fonda speaking together at an anti-war rally appears on the Internet, who is to say that the event never took place -- that in reality the two speakers never shared a platform? Thanks to the pioneering research efforts of Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth, analysts are gaining access to technology that allows them to identify manipulated digital images such as the Kerry/Fonda collage. Just yesterday, Farid sent code he has developed for authenticating digital media to the forensics department of the FBI, in the hopes of helping them crack down on digital forgery -- a problem that has grown in the past few years thanks to technological advances in Photoshop and the Internet. According to Farid, there are a number of different tools that one might use to manipulate an image.

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Kappa shuts doors for the Summer term

By Samantha Lane | June 29, 2004

For possibly the first time in the history of Dartmouth College, a Greek house has temporarily closed its doors because of a failure to meet occupancy requirements. When the members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority came together this past Wednesday for their first meetings of Summer term, they were not in their usual meeting room at 24 East Wheelock Street.

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FSPs, LSAs face the threat of terror strikes

By Samantha Lane | February 18, 2003

As Americans prepare for war with duct tape and sheets of plastic, Dartmouth's study-abroad coordinators are attempting to determine what it means to be afraid while still proceeding with daily routines. Dartmouth is currently planning on running all Spring term programs and is not terminating any winter programs early, "but it is important to note that this decision could change in the next few minutes, days, weeks or months -- we just have no way of knowing," said John Tansey, executive director of Off-Campus Programs. On Feb.

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DREAM to hold pong benefit

By Samantha Lane | February 14, 2003

For area children, Dartmouth's unofficial sport is being played with an unconventional objective: an introduction to a new side of winter fun. Tomorrow, DREAM -- a campus mentoring organization -- will hold a Powerade pong tournament sponsored by several campus fraternities and open to all students on campus. Next week, on Feb.

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Speech dept. still struggles for support

By Samantha Lane | February 3, 2003

For the past eight years, Professor Jim Kuypers has been running a one-man show. As the sole director and professor of Dartmouth's College Office of Speech, Professor Kuypers receives very limited financial support from the College and is only able to offer students four speech courses. According to Kuypers, the current status of the speech department is not what was originally envisioned by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. Dartmouth College has always offered the study of rhetoric.

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Lou's founder Bressett dies at 85

By Samantha Lane | January 30, 2003

His large circle of friends and admirers referred to him as "Mr. Hanover." The founder and longtime owner of Lou's Bakery and Restaurant on South Main Street, Lou Bressett passed away Jan.

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GOP Speaker decries student participation

By Samantha Lane | January 16, 2003

Fearful of their potential power at the polls, a prominent New Hampshire Republican has questioned the right of college students to participate in state elections. "It is simply not right to allow college students to have any say in our elections in New Hampshire," New Hampshire House Speaker Gene Chandler (R) said at a public forum Jan.

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Chaboyer study: dark energy drives universe

By Samantha Lane | January 10, 2003

Just when it looked like cosmologists had a firm grasp on the fundamental laws of the universe, it turns out that they know far less about its workings than previously thought. Confirming earlier findings that the universe has the ability to expand indefinitely, Physics and Astronomy Professor Brian Chaboyer recently found that the universe is composed of a mysterious form of negative pressure energy -- dubbed "dark energy" -- that scientists have never been able to directly observe. Because dark energy is too dificult to view in a laboratory, scientists can only infer its presence based on how it has influenced the expansion of the universe. Chaboyer and his collaborator Lawrence Krauss, a physics and astronomy professor at Case Western Reserve University, published their findings in the Jan.

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