Yaffe overcomes obstacles
(06/12/94 9:00am)
After recovering from a near-fatal accident, Lisa Yaffe '93 can proudly claim the distinguished honor of graduating twice from Dartmouth as an undergraduate.
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After recovering from a near-fatal accident, Lisa Yaffe '93 can proudly claim the distinguished honor of graduating twice from Dartmouth as an undergraduate.
The Class of 1994, like all classes, will be forever ensconced in the College's books, not only as names and faces, but as numbers and statistics.
Seniors Russell Martin and Marion Shonn will be heading to Germany after graduation on Fulbright scholarships to do research in engineering and biology, respectively.
In general, the only constant to college life is change, and Dartmouth is no exception to that rule. The Class of 1994 witnessed first-hand many events that would not only fundamentally change themselves but the College as well.
It all starts with the polishing of Baker Library's brass numbers.
The Class of 1994 revived an old tradition yesterday when they symbolically broke their ties with the College by placing pieces of a long cedar garland on the stump of the Lone Pine.
Valedictorians are normally imagined as people who never leaves the library, but this year's valedictorian Kamala Dansinghani has pursued interests outside classwork, such as tutoring children and volunteering at a hospital.
The College's 224th Commencement ceremony is part of a long tradition of graduation festivities that includes famous speakers, drunkards, jugglers and crazy alumni antics.
The College will award a playwright, a historian, an artist, a scientist and three distinguished alumni with honorary degrees at today's 224th Commencement ceremonies.
"Graduation is a time to tackle the world, to be red hot with ambition, to begin the challenge," Labor Secretary Robert Reich '68, the featured speaker at today's Commencement, told his class in 1968.
After the first free South African elections, as a sign of the beginning of the "New South Africa," we now have two national anthems -- "Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika" and "Die Stem."
Christina Dowding '94 recently received a $5,000 fellowship awarded by the Thayer School of Engineering to encourage women to pursue engineering careers by helping to fund their graduate education.
Welfare expert and author Charles Murray warned about how widespread illegitimacy has led to an emerging white underclass which will have dire social implications.
Columbia School of Journalism Professor Helen Benedict said in a speech last night that covering rape crimes is an essential duty of the press.
After more than eight hours of meetings, the Student Assembly's nominations committee remains unable to agree whether it will grant membership to Grace Chionuma' 96, who was appointed summer Assembly president two days ago.
After five years of planning and waiting, the first gay and lesbian studies course will be offered Winter term 1996.
After five years counselling sexual assault victims and educating the College community about sexual assault, Heather Earle will leave Dartmouth to pursue her doctorate in counselling psychology at the University of Wisconsin.
The 15 additional students who have enrolled in the Class of 1998 since the May 1 response deadline increased the percentage of minorities but did not affect the class's gender ratio.
The complexities of relationships between brothers, lovers and newly-met strangers will be explored in three unique, evocative student plays to be performed May 19 to 21 for this year's Eleanor Frost Festival.
Several employees at the Nugget Theater in Hanover have quit within the past week to protest the dismissal of Terri Macomber, who was formerly the house manager.