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(05/19/99 9:00am)
After months of meetings following the announcement of the Trustees Five Principles, the student-led Working Groups are now preparing their final proposals for social and residential change that they will submit to the College.
(05/19/99 9:00am)
The final members of the Trustees' influential Steering Committee were announced yesterday, signaling the beginning of the powerful committee's work of weeding through proposals on the controversial Five Principles and presenting a recommended implementation plan to the full Board of Trustees.
(05/14/99 9:00am)
Don't look for a two-hour rally to replace the annual Alpha Delta fraternity lawn party or a protest march to the Green to start off this big weekend.
(05/13/99 9:00am)
With 444 votes or 28 percent of the votes cast, Meg Smoot '01 won yesterday's close run-off election for the Trustee Steering Committee and secured a seat as one of four undergraduate student representatives on the committee that will help shape the future of social and residential life at the College.
(05/12/99 9:00am)
The Student Assembly soundly passed a resolution last night condemning the College's moratorium on new Coed, Fraternity and Sorority organization recognition, saying the decision hinders self-improvement efforts by the Greek system and sends the wrong signal to the student body.
(05/11/99 9:00am)
The Student Assembly announced last night that the result of yesterday's much talked about student vote on the College's soft-drink supplier will not be released to the campus for some time.
(05/10/99 9:00am)
The Dartmouth Action Network has named its Executive Student Committee which will coordinate its on-campus recruiting efforts toward its larger goal of increasing the Dartmouth community voice in College decision-making.
(05/07/99 9:00am)
Dean of the College-designate James Larimore is busy completing his doctorate dissertation in Stanford, Calif., but is closely watching the proceedings surrounding the Board of Trustees' Five Principles in anticipation of assuming his position as dean on July 1.
(05/07/99 9:00am)
The College has imposed a moratorium on the formation and recognition of any additional Greek houses - stymieing efforts by the Panhellenic Council to form a ninth sorority and a similar plan to form a new coed house.
(04/27/99 9:00am)
The Dartmouth Action Network, a group focused on increasing student and alumni voice in College decision making and on renewing attention to the Board of Trustees social and residential life initiative, was officially launched to the campus yesterday. The Action Network, founded by alums Steven Sugarman '97 and Richard Yeh '97 and current student Steve Hawkins '99, all members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, hopes to "make the Trustees accountable to the opinions of the greater Dartmouth community." The group was announced to the campus through an advertisement in The Dartmouth yesterday and through a mass BlitzMail message. Sugarman told The Dartmouth the group hopes to give students and alumni a greater voice in College decision-making in general, but that the Greek initiative will be the first item on their plate. "What drove us to form was a system-wide problem where students and alumni have repeatedly been frustrated and in a state of dismay over the decisions the administration has made recently," Sugarman said. The student and alumni group plans on soliciting opinions on campus through informal surveys and then relaying that information to the administration. "The Trustees have asked the community to respond. That's exactly what we're going to do but in an organized way," Hawkins said. "Our fear is that the Trustees are going to receive so many different opinions" that the common thread of support for the Greek system will be missed. Sugarman also said the Action Network has talked with academics about studying the effects of the single-sex Greek system on campus and what Dartmouth would look like and how it would function without them. While the group has hired professional political consultants to advise the organization on public relations issues, Sugarman said he hopes the Action Network's strength will spread their message. "Once we've basically consolidated an alumni group we'll become a force they'll honestly have to recognize. Even though they don't agree with everything we say, they'll have to sit at the table with us." Sugarman dismissed assertions made by many members of the administration and Board of Trustees that the social life issue is not open to debate. "Obviously the easiest thing for the Trustees is for those in the Dartmouth community who are upset with what they have done to sit back and listen to what they are saying that this is not a referendum and that [the Trustees] own the College and then do nothing," Sugarman said adding he thinks the Trustees "can be convinced otherwise." "The philosophy of the organization is not to be a fist-waving, angry organization that says the College and the administration are evil and we're going to fix it and watch out," Hawkins said. "We want to work with the College and we don't want an adversarial relationship ... the goal of the organization is to make the Trustees accountable to the opinions of the greater Dartmouth community." If we can come at them with a concrete, documented, supported argument that is convincing then that is the best possible way to affect their ultimate decision," Sugarman said. Initial funding for the group came from approximately six alumni. Sugarman said about a dozen alumni in total were influential in forming the group. The group will be soliciting donations for future activities. Sugarman declined to give specific information on the amount of support the Action Network has received thus far but did say the group has received e-mails "in the hundreds" and said detailed information on support would be released "in the near future." Names of those alumni and students serving in leadership positions of the organization were not released last night. Sugarman said that information would be announced in the coming weeks. One student who already has said she is on the Action Network's student executive committee is Coed Fraternity Sorority Council President Jaimie Paul '00. She told The Dartmouth she was approached about serving on the committee Winter term but the group's leaders wanted to present the organization in a concrete form which was the reason for the delayed announcement. "There are plenty of committees that do a lot of talking. Hopefully this will do some acting as well," Paul said.
(04/26/99 9:00am)
The public debates, platforms, posters and mass BlitzMail messages were only part of campaigning for this year's Student Assembly presidency. In the closing days of the campaign, closed-door deal-making was on at least one candidates' mind in a last-ditch attempt to pull off a victory.
(04/19/99 9:00am)
The Board of Trustees announced stage two of their controversial social and residential life initiative at a town hall meeting today -- the creation of a Trustee steering committee which will recommend to the full board a proposal on changing the College in accordance with the Board's goals.
(04/13/99 9:00am)
Another case of an anonymous offensive mailing was discovered yesterday afternoon in the Hinman Box of the Students for a Free Tibet organization. The anti-Buddhist pamphlet was designed in the same, cartoon strip-style as the other mailings sent earlier this term and depicted a philanthropic Buddhist tycoon sent to hell for not believing in Jesus.
(04/13/99 9:00am)
The activist atmosphere on campus created by the Trustees' controversial social life initiative has had several far reaching effects -- including the cancellation of all Winter Carnival parties and the delay of a decision on door locks -- but one area which has yet to see that influence is Student Assembly elections.
(04/12/99 9:00am)
Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, the first candidate in the 2000 presidential race to come to Dartmouth, spoke to students yesterday about campaign finance reform, the war in Kosovo and Vice President Al Gore.
(04/09/99 9:00am)
Democratic Presidential candidate and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley will be the first candidate in the 2000 presidential race to come to the College this weekend when he arrives to discuss his campaign with students and community members at a forum sponsored by The Dartmouth and WDCR.
(04/08/99 9:00am)
Angry rallies from the Psi Upsilon fraternity porch, bitter protests during Winter Carnival and biting posters hanging from fraternity windows characterized the immediate aftermath of the Trustees' surprising social and residential life initiative announcement last term.
(04/06/99 9:00am)
More recipients and administrators reacted yesterday to the hate mailings sent to at least six people last week, condemning the action and calling for the sender to reveal him or herself.
(04/05/99 9:00am)
Nearly a year after the campus debate over locking residence hall doors first erupted, no decision on the controversial action has been made -- and a recent announcement has made it clear that none will be made anytime soon.
(04/05/99 9:00am)
During a week which is supposed to be marked by the observance of important religious holidays by many campus groups, two hate-filled pamphlets depicting offensive messages directed at Jews and homosexuals were mailed to campus leaders by an unknown person or group in the past few days.