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WebBlitz to move to College web server

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WebBlitz, the student-authored program that allows students and alumni to access BlitzMail over the World Wide Web, will soon find a new home on a Computing Services server. The program, created by Dan Scholnick '00 and Dave Latham '01, debuted last spring and is run on a server in Latham's room in New Hampshire residence hall. It was originally housed on the Computer Science Department's server but was moved because it took too much computing time away from other processes, Scholnick said. Computing Services Special Projects Manager Rich Brown said WebBlitz may be moved as early as Winter term onto a secure server in the Kiewit Computation Center. WebBlitz does not currently encrypt passwords or messages.






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Police search at Tabard for 'illegal contraband'

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Hanover and New Hampshire State Police officers conducted a search at The Tabard fraternity on Friday afternoon for "illegal contraband in the form of controlled substances," according to a press release from the Hanover Police Department. The police force, which had a search warrant for three rooms in the house, searched for approximately two and a half hours with the help of drug-sniffing dogs.


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Demling '99 aims to teach in San Francisco

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"They think teaching is so easy, but it's scary." Kate Demling '99, who is hoping to teach in San Francisco next year, said she "didn't learn nearly as much in the classroom at Dartmouth" as she learned student teaching two days a week in West Lebanon this term. Teaching is not a typical Dartmouth graduate's occupation, but that does not mean students do not want to teach.


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Search committee named for VP/Treas.

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Nearly six months after former Vice President and Treasurer Lynn Hutton left her position, the College has named a committee to begin the search for candidates to fill the position of vice president and treasurer of the college. In addition to faculty and administrators, the Student Assembly will help choose one student to join the committee in its search. Hutton announced her resignation at the beginning of Spring term, when the College was still looking for a new president and provost to replace former President James Freedman and Provost James Wright, both of whom had announced their resignations. Associate Dean of the Social Sciences Jamshed Bharucha will chair the vice president and treasurer search committee, which also includes Acting Provost Constance Brickenhoff, Dean of the Thayer School Lewis Duncan, Vice President of Development and Alumni Affairs Stanley Colla, Professor of Economics Nancy Marion, and Michael Knetter from the Tuck School. To add a student to the committee, the Assembly will nominate several students to be interviewed by Bharucha, who will then choose one. A student's input will be important to the selection process because they will bring unique views to the committee, Bharucha said. Though the committee has yet to meet, there are already plans to publish advertisements in the Chronicle for Higher Education and other publications after establishing a formal job description. The committee will also send letters to well known educators across the country to ask them to recommend possible applicants. All applicants will be interviewed by the committee, which will present a short list to the president, who will make the final decision. The committee not only hopes to find a candidate who can carry out the basic duties of the position, but also someone who has proven experience working at an institution of Dartmouth's size and non-profit nature, in addition to being able to work well with the various constituencies and organizations of the College, Bharucha said. Bharucha said the committee tentatively hopes to present its choices to Wright by the spring. Hutton left last year to become the vice president and chief financial officer of the John D.



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Media can impact morals for good, bad

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A panel of entertainment executives discussed Hollywood's role in shaping America's moral agenda in Cook Auditorium last night. The panel was part of the continuing meeting at the College of the Association for Moral Education. All members of the panel agreed the entertainment media has at least some impact on morality and actions. Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Association Ted Baehr said entertainment desensitizes children to violence in the same way the military does to its new soldiers. Baehr said the influence extends to actions for only a small number of people however. "We know that 7to 11 percent of adults want to copy the violence they see in the media," Baehr said.



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Horizons brings friends to Hanover

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Two to three times a year, the College gathers prominent alumni, parents and other friends of Dartmouth in Hanover to encourage them to get involved with the College. In 1962, the College established the Horizons program with the goal of broadening the guests' understanding of a modern liberal arts education.


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Mascot forum draws hundreds of students

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A forum concerning Native American images in sports mascots on a local and national scope drew a diverse crowd of about 300 to the Hinman Forum in Rockefeller Center last night. Keynote speaker and Director of the national Native American organization the Morning Star Institute Suzan Harjo gears some of her activist efforts toward removing Indian depictions from sporting mascots and related imagery and spoke about her involvement last night. After both Harjo and Bruce Duthu '80, a law professor who was a part of the Native Americans at Dartmouth program while at the College, spoke, they and six other people spoke on a panel and fielded questions from the audience about the Indian as a mascot. Harjo filed a lawsuit six years ago against what she perceives to be the derogatory use of the Redskins football team name. "Native people are used as cartoons and team names because we're seen as a past era and not as human beings.