Weekend conference examines motherhood

A conference on motherhood hosted by the College this weekend began Friday evening with a panel discussion on the role of motherhood in feminist politics. The three-day conference called "Redefining Motherhood: Mothers, Politics and Social Change in the 20th Century" involved women speakers from across the country and around the world. This opening panel discussion, entitled "Theorizing Radical Motherhood," sought to examine "how motherhood has affected our ability to act collectively in a wide range of social contexts," according Dartmouth English and Women's Studies Professor Ivy Schweitzer, who moderated the panel. In a speech called "Some Thoughts on the Uneasy Relationship of Feminism and Motherhood," French Professor Marianne Hirsch said, "The conference places mothers in the context of radical politics." "We live in a culture that romanticizes motherhood and idealizes children," Hirsch said.

New honor society inducts 142 students

A new honor society last week inducted 142 students in an Alumni Hall ceremony. The group, called the Golden Key Honor Society, is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors who have a minimum 3.5 grade point average. Golden Key, a national organization represented at 182 schools, is targeting Ivy League institutions beginning with Dartmouth as sites for new chapters, according to Brenda Edison, the chapter president here. Members pay a $45 fee which contributes to scholarships, conventions, a publication called Concepts and the salaries of the national organization workers who start chapters and work through the red tape. But some students who were invited to join the group said the $45 membership fee was too burdensome. "After reading the literature, it didn't seem worthwhile to pay $45 for a society that was essentially honorary in nature," said Steve Fagell '95 who was asked to join but refused. "I questioned what the student gets out of it," he said.

Campus po' kept busy

Hanover Police made only two arrests on campus over the Green Key party weekend, but College Safety and Security officers were kept busy with other minor incidents. Proctor Robert McEwen said it was a "very active Green Key Weekend" with more than the usual litany of noise complaints and inebriates. Two non-Dartmouth students were arrested Thursday for underage drinking and for possession of marijuana, Hanover Police said.

AD's party is the weekend centerpiece

Weekend bands bring former brothers, current students to lawn event

The History of Green Key Weekend

Weekend begins with a bash and a crash

Motorcycle crashes in on party before the music even starts

Running, jumping and dancing

Banquet! at the Hop is feast of outrageous theater

Green Key Society redefines its role

Since its creation 72 years ago as a hosting group designed to welcome visiting athletic teams, the Green Key Society has undergone dramatic changes, and is still struggling to fully define its new role. The junior class honor society now dedicates itself to providing services to the College, but to do so effectively it must be able to make its true purpose clear. The History of the Society Green Key originated in response to an experience Dartmouth football players had when they went to Seattle in 1920. When the football team went to play the University of Washington that year, students of the University's service organization, the Knights of the Hook, greeted them at the train station. The group provided transportation to the football players' lodgings, served as guides and, according to later reports by the players, introduced them to several Washington-area women. "Six of the seats in each car were filled with the prettiest co-eds a bunch of clunks from a men's college could honestly say they'd ever seen," football player William Cunninghman '21 wrote when recalling the game in an article for The Boston Herald in 1951. The next year Dartmouth announced the creation of the Green Key Society, composed of about 50 sophomores. The society had three responsibilities: to entertain guests of other institutions, to act as a permanent "vigilance committee" to keep freshmen in line, and to select men to act as cheerleaders and ushers. The day after its birth, the editors of The Dartmouth called Green Key a "rather striking innovation, the worth of which must wait upon time to tell." The society chose Green Key as their name because "it symbolizes Dartmouth in the word Green, and hospitality in the word Key," The Dartmouth reported. Two years later, the society's membership became all juniors, and the society was responsible solely for meeting visiting athletic teams. In the next 20 years, Green Key, while retaining its primary function as a welcoming group, became more service oriented.

Women's crew in season finale at Eastern Sprints

The season finale for the Big Green women's crew will come Sunday at the Eastern Sprints Championship on Lake Waramug in New Preston, Conn. During the season, the league's coaches ranked the Big Green as high as fifth, which is a dramatic improvement over years past. But the squad enters the weekend as the eighth seed in the varsity and second varsity event, after both boats lost to Cornell two weeks ago in Ithaca, N.Y.

Everyone but Harvard celebrates spring

Spring festivals are not unique to Dartmouth -- most colleges and universities around the country, and all of the Ivy League schools with the exception of Harvard, host some kind of spring celebration. The main feature of most of these traditional weekends is drinking and fraternity/sorority parties, but at many schools the weekend has become a lot more than just drinking. How does Green Key Weekend stack up against the spring festivities at other schools? Well, it is mild in comparison with Columbia's annual spring festival.

Japan-U.S. Relations are in transition

Consul General of Japan Toshio Mochizuki described the current relationship between the United States and Japan and forecasted the path Japan will take in the future to a crowd of about 50 people last night. Mochizuki expressed concern that President Clinton's trade policies are beginning to reflect what he termed the "traditional Democratic party's inclination towards protectionist policies." He said the Japanese government is taking a more activist role in opening its markets by reducing customs duties and removing many unseen barriers to trade such as burdensome government regulations and weak enforcement of Japanese anti-trust law. Still, he said, the U.S.

Plaque marks the trail; 2,144 miles from Maine to Georgia

During the summer, College students often see hikers wandering through campus, outfitted with enough gear to make the trek across the Green look like a trek across New Hampshire's White Mountains. The hikers are not lost -- just following the Appalachian Trail. A plaque commemorating the Appalachian Trail's path through Hanover was dedicated last weekend by officers of the Class of 1954 and the Dartmouth Outing Club. Hanover is one of only 12 towns the footpath passes through on its 2,144 mile route from Mt.

Dean awaits education department response

Three weeks after an internal faculty review committee recommended the termination of the education department, the committee's report remains secret and the department continues to work on a response. But Professor Faith Dunne, the department chair, said the response may not come until Fall term. The report cited internal strife as one of several reasons for closing the department, according to administrators and professors who have seen the document which was submitted to Dean of Faculty James Wright. The Student Assembly has made repeated requests to see the report while students and faculty across campus can only speculate about the future of the College's teacher certification program. Wright said each member of the education department has a copy of the report and he is now awaiting a response. "I do not expect to hear from them before the end of the term," Wright said. According to Dunne the report will not be released until the department formulates a response.

Barksdale may quit as AAm leader

The executive board of the Afro-American Society, the College's black students' organization, will hold a special meeting tonight to discuss the future of AAm President-elect Amiri Barksdale '96 who has said he might resign. The AAm usually holds general meetings on Thursdays but cancelled this week's meeting. Barksdale was elected Winter term to lead the AAm this summer and next year.

Vermont limits smoking

The Vermont State Legislature recently passed a law which will ban smoking in all buildings open to the public, possibly the toughest law of its kind in the country. The first stage of the law, which will ban smoking in government-owned buildings and buildings open to the general public, is scheduled to go into effect July 1.

Transferring from Dartmouth

Despite high student satisfaction, some choose to leave College

Flanders to help native New Zealanders

Professor will teach Maori tribe to manage its natural resources

Newspaper now available on-line

Back issues of The Dartmouth join myriad of resources on network

College bond rating jumps

Change means Dartmouth can borrow money cheaply

Meadow appeal denied

The Hanover zoning board Monday night rejected an appeal of its decision to allow a facility for people recovering from mental illness to move into town. Merry Meadow Farm received zoning board approval last month to establish a seven-patient facility at 1 Prospect Street, a house located at the intersection of Allen and Prospect Streets two blocks west of Everything But Anchovies. Hanover attorney William Clausen filed an appeal last week for Anne Johnson and Deborah Johnson Pyles, owners of the neighboring house.