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Online dating sites unite Ivy graduates

By Ryan Samuels | February 5, 2002

Although the Greek gods regularly assumed the guise of mortals to seduce regular men and women, Dartmouth graduates concerned with such things will never have to settle for mates beneath their intellectual caste thanks to online dating services catering to an academically exclusive clientele. For the low price of $70, The Right Stuff -- located at rightstuffdating.com -- offers six months of access to pages profiling website members of the opposite sex, whom the new member may contact as suits his or her interest. The service is "an international introduction network for single graduates and faculty of a select group of colleges and universities," according to its founder and president, Dawn Touchings. In addition to the introductory fee and a photograph, prospective members must provide proof of graduate or faculty status at one of the schools listed on the official website.

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Mental illness transforms into rights movement

By Ryan Samuels | January 30, 2002

Although Americans have long kept depression and other psychological disorders as dirty secrets, a growing popular movement hopes that politicians, insurance companies, and ordinary citizens will soon view mental illness as they would any other health affliction, such as a toothache, that could qualify an individual for insurance coverage. Analysts say the work of activists such as Tipper Gore and mental health advocacy groups, along with a generation of baby boomers less hesitant to talk about issues formerly considered too personal, has led to the de-stigmatization of psychological illness. The result has been a popular mental health movement that, among other things, has politicized mental health care coverage. "Formerly, mental health was pushed off into a different realm which people did not want to talk about.

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IFC will address 'mutual distrust'

By Ryan Samuels | January 24, 2002

The newly elected Inter-Fraternity Council will work for the next year to maintain a united Dartmouth Greek system in order to improve public relations with the administration and community, according to IFC President Sunil Bhagavath '03 and Vice President John Lawrence '03. Bhagavath, Lawrence and the other members of the IFC -- a representative body for all fraternities on campus -- began their terms of office on Tuesday. Bhagavath, who has served in the past as Social Chair and Summer President of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, said that the IFC, in conjunction with the Greek Leaders Council and the Greek community as a whole, must work to overcome a "feeling of mutual distrust between the administration and houses." Lawrence, a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, said that "the Greek system stands at a really tricky -- and I would say vital -- point in its existence." "The Greek system does a lot of things that a lot of people don't know about," such as community service projects and "a very real commitment in many houses to academic excellence," he said. "The attitude toward the Greek system has suffered due to the Student Life Initiative and events at certain houses." He referred to the revelation at the now derecognized Zeta Psi fraternity last spring of the "sex papers," a weekly newsletter which promised "patented date rape techniques" and named female Dartmouth students in association with the alleged sexual exploits of individual brothers. "The Greek system has come under a lot of fire and has largely gone unappreciated by a decent segment of the population," he said. He added, "there are some people that will tell you that the system is exclusive, and I think that that needs to be addressed." In terms of communication between Greek houses and the administration, Bhagavath said that the IFC "needs to address a lack of dialogue between the Greek system and the administration." He attributed controversy over the summer about the implementation of walkthroughs by Safety and Security to a breakdown in communication. "Some of the guys that were here last summer were a little bitter and distrustful of the administration.

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Mission statements mirror college's history

By Ryan Samuels | January 16, 2002

From promoting the education of Native Americans to stressing the love of learning in everyday life, Dartmouth's mission statements and proto-mission statements offer telling windows into the College's changing face throughout its more than 200-year history. Signed by King George III of England on December 13, 1769, the Dartmouth College Charter was the first document associated with the institution and, despite predating the modern concept of a mission statement, fulfilled the same goal-setting objectives. The charter characterizes the premises behind the new institution as "the laudable and charitable design of spreading Christian knowledge among the savages of our American wilderness" and "civilizing and Christianizing children of pagans." Though the charter corresponds with the myth of its author Eleazar Wheelock's dream of bringing liberal education, "civilization" and Scripture to Native Americans, Wheelock had given up on Christianizing Native Americans before he even penned the document, according to history professor Jere Daniell, who has written considerably on the history of the College. "Funds were only available for him for education of Native Americans, so he pretended," Daniell said. In fact, Wheelock never made much of an effort to conceal his non-interest in educating the Native American population.

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Floods, Great Depression tested '31s

By Ryan Samuels | June 10, 2001

A little older and a lot wiser, the Class of 1931 will return this weekend to enjoy their 70th reunion and help the '01s celebrate their graduation. Asked what notable characteristics marked his class, William Walsh '31 \responded, "I suppose those of us who are left are unique because we are still alive." In their younger days, however, then-Director of Admissions Gordon Bill called them the smartest Dartmouth class ever. "For many months I have felt that the material from which the Class of 1931 was chosen was much superior scholastically to that of any previous year," he wrote in The Dartmouth after their freshman fall.

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Racist attacks hurt other minorities

By Ryan Samuels | May 2, 2001

Along with racism and controversy, two perennially intimate bedfellows, Dartmouth College has found itself party to a less than holy trinity in the eyes of other minority communities in recent decades. Take, for example, the infamous 1986 shanty affair.

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Walesa discusses post-communist era

By Ryan Samuels | April 24, 2001

The world is on the threshold of "The Era of the Earth," according to the Polish Solidarity leader and ex-president Lech Walesa, who addressed a capacity crowd in Spaulding Auditorium yesterday. "I am glad that the Communist era is all over," Walesa said.

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