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Nine profs to retire this month

By Joe Berger | June 1, 1993

When Dean of Faculty James Wright recognized nine retiring professors at the final faculty gathering this spring, he noted that together they had been teaching at Dartmouth for 278 years. Each of the nine taught at Dartmouth for twenty years or more. Professor Fred Berthold graduated from Dartmouth in 1945 and returned to teach four years later.

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Two students receive teaching grants

By Amanda A. Amann | June 1, 1993

Two Dartmouth juniors, Lloyd Lee and Zola Mashariki, have received a national award that provides financial support to minority students who plan to teach in public schools. Each will receive up to $18,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship between the summer of their junior year and the start of their teaching careers.

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Houses in jeopardy; Plagued by low membership, some fraternities look to fall rush

By Jennifer Sack | June 1, 1993

Some of the College's fraternities currently troubled by low membership are looking toward next fall's rush period to strengthen their houses. While there are fraternities with as many as 94 members, Kappa Chi Kappa, Gamma Delta Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon have 29, 28 and 18 brothers, respectively. Although low membership has caused two Greek organizations to dissolve in the past five years, the presidents of Kappa Chi, Gamma Delt and SAE do not foresee their houses following this course. In fact, two of the presidents said their fraternities are actively seeking to recruit new members and feel confident that their efforts will pay off in the fall. Gamma Delt President Todd Brackett '95 said the fraternity is having more parties this term and trying to involve members of the Class of 1996 in house activities. He said the fraternity is also urging some of the men who "hang out" at the house to become members. Although Gamma Delt is making a strong effort to recruit new brothers, Brackett said he would like to see membership remain somewhat modest. "We're working to up the size to tops 45," he said.

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Reserve reading on-line

By Alexander R. Edlich | June 1, 1993

A Student Assembly effort to make course reserve readings available over the College's computer network is running into legal barriers that are inhibiting the process. Four months after the Assembly's Project Committee began the task, three documents are available through the Online Library program that enables students to tap into a vast array of other database information from their computers. This term the Reserve Room has 2,600 photocopied documents -- and that does not include books, according to Ploeger. Most of the reserve readings are protected by copyright laws that prohibit the reproduction or electronic transmission of the document. Currently, only non-copyrighted materials can be put on-line, Circulation Services Librarian Pamela Ploeger said. Jeff Bell '96, the committee's liaison with Baker Library, said 20 non-copyrighted readings will be put on-line for the Fall term. Bell said laws restricting use of copyrighted materials on computer networks are untested and the legal implications are unclear. "In effect, we're waiting for someone to get sued," Bell said.

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Symposium topic for '94s picked

By Christopher Johnson | June 1, 1993

Next year's Senior Symposium will focus on social responsibility and the college generation, organizers said yesterday. The symposium is the senior class' intellectual gift to the College. Dan Garodnick '94, the class president, selected Julie Lane '94 and Tim Martin '94 to head a 25-member committee that will organize the two-day event.

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Doctors' salaries sky-high

By Maggie Lockwood | June 1, 1993

The College's 1992 tax forms show some medical school professors make nearly as much as the College's president because they moonlight in private practices to supplement their salary. College President James Freedman tops the list with $273,673 in salary for his full time position.

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Fishing season; Upper Valley area offers many prime spots

By Ethan Sawyer | May 31, 1993

Students and local fishing enthusiasts have already taken to river, pond and stream despite a fishing season that has started slowly, and with a little help from the weather, fish should soon be jumping at hooks all over the Upper Valley. Harley McAllister '94, co-president of the Bait and Bullet Club said the club has begun its fly fishing road trips on the weekends. The best fly fishing in the area is in Vermont, according to McAllister, who recommended that people interested in fishing in the area buy a Vermont fishing license rather than a New Hampshire license. Roger Lowell, who works for Mink Brook Outfitters Inc. in West Lebanon, said if the weather gets warmer, the season should pick up within the next week. Lowell recommended the Baker, Mascoma and White Rivers for trout fishing in New Hampshire.

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Rumors of unsafe water prove untrue

By Alexander R. Edlich | May 31, 1993

Apparently false reports of lead contamination in the water at Kappa Chi Kappa fraternity sparked a flurry of false rumors this weekend that water on campus was not safe to drink. Town and College officials said yesterday that contrary to several Blitzmail messages that circulated this weekend, water on campus was not poisoned and is safe to drink. At least three different messages sent around campus said a lead pipe had fallen in the reservoir of the Hanover Water Company, shedding dangerous levels of lead into the College's water supply. But Carl Brink, the recently-retired superintendent of the company, said even if a lead pipe had been thrown into the main reservoir, which contains 217 million gallons of water, the pipe would not contaminate the water for at least several months, if at all. Ed Brown Jr., the executive vice president for the water company, said there is no reason to be alarmed.

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English FSP killed

By Alexander R. Edlich | May 28, 1993

The Committee of Chairs' vote to kill the English foreign study program in London appears to be final. Professor William Spengemann who leads the foreign study program said last week there was a chance one of the department heads who had voted against the program would ask for a revote. But the professor has not come forward and the English department has begun discussing alternatives to the two-term London program. English Department Chair Louis Renza said the department met Wednesday with some senior English majors to discuss possibilities for replacing the terminated program. He said that Spengemann, as director of next year's program at University College London, would investigate opportunities for a one term program in London or elsewhere in England. Both Renza and Spengemann said that since the London program will not end until the 1995-96 academic year, the department has sufficient time to find a replacement to satisfy both the Committee of Chairs and the Office of Off-Campus Programs. Economics Professor Jack Menge, who is the vice chair of the Committee of Chairs, said the professor who was considering calling for a revote decided not to. "No one has come forward," Menge wrote in an electronic mail message.

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New sorority full; 40 women agree to join Kappa Delta Epsilon

By Will Lockwood | May 28, 1993

Fifty women from the Class of 1996 have informally committed themselves to a new local sorority that will move this fall into the Webster Avenue house currently occupied by the dissolving Xi Kappa Chi sorority. The Panhellenic Council voted earlier this month to dissolve Xi Kappa Chi because the sorority has been plagued by low membership and financial problems. Members of the new sorority, Kappa Delta Epsilon, will be almost entirely from the Class of 1996.

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Hayes to get degree

By Alexander R. Edlich | May 28, 1993

Brian Hayes '90, a student who died last August after a long battle with cancer, will receive a posthumous degree at this year's commencement. Several professors and students spearheaded a campaign with the College administration to award Hayes the bachelor of arts degree.

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Top faculty deans step down

By Diane Fernandes | May 28, 1993

Two top deans of the faculty will step down this summer after completing four-year terms. Bruce Duncan, the associate dean of the faculty for the humanities, and David Lindgren, who is the associate dean for the social sciences, are in charge of hiring and promoting professors in their divisions and determining how much money each department should receive. Duncan will hand over his post to Professor Mary Jean Green, who is currently the chair of the French and Italian Department.

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North campus plans finalized

By Christopher Kao | May 27, 1993

College officials and the architectural planners behind the northward expansion of the campus will submit their final plans to the Trustees at one of the Board's next two meetings in Hanover, according to Provost John Strohbehn. "We're down to the very last stages," Strohbehn said.

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James Hornig delivers inaugural lecture

By Paul Hung | May 27, 1993

Chemistry Professor James Hornig delivered an Inaugural Lecture honoring his endowment as the Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies yesterday. Speaking to a crowd of about 40 administrators, professors and graduate students in 13 Carpenter Hall, Hornig focused on the integral role of environmental studies in the global agenda and in the Dartmouth education. He said environmental studies is ideally designed for Dartmouth's liberal arts education.

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President pulling the purse strings

By Joe Berger | May 27, 1993

Fourth in a series of articles about James O. Freedman. In the shadow of a national economic slowdown, Dartmouth's finances under James Freedman proved strong enough to provide confidence in this President's ambitious hopes for the College. Colleges and universities across the country are facing smaller returns from endowments, reduced federal support for research and financial aid and education costs that are rising faster than inflation. At a time when many prestigious universities are experiencing budget deficit crises that have forced deep cutbacks of academic programs and neglect of maintenance needs, Dartmouth has maintained a balanced budget and is proceeding with several bold moves in financial planning: the new curriculum; a reaffirmation of need-blind admissions; a blitz of building construction and campus development; and -- to pay for it all -- the most ambitious fund-raising effort in the College's history. And though fund raising was not his top priority when he took over the President's office, the College's financial health is the key to the Dartmouth education of today and Freedman's hopes and goals for the future. Earlier this month, the College's bond credit rating was upgraded to the highest level possible shared by a group of ten universities considered most financially sound in the nation. Early in his presidency Freeman formed the Planning and Steering Committee, a group of administrators, faculty and students charged with charting the course for Dartmouth to enter the 21st century. The committee produced a 150-page report recommending substantial changes to the College, including major campus development north of Baker Library and a comprehensive review of the curriculum. Five years later north campus development construction is underway and the new curriculum has been approved.

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Video box in Topside

By Amanda A. Amann | May 27, 1993

The Topside social scene received a shot of excitement May 11 with the addition of a new, shiny video jukebox that can be programmed by touching its screen. The jukebox's musical selections run the gamut of student tastes, including such artists as Billy Ray Cyrus, Butthole Surfers, Lemonheads, Duran Duran, TLC and Lenny Kravitz. Dartmouth Dining Services acquired the machine after Pete Napolitano, the DDS director, was approached by the LaserVideo Network company.

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