Candidates spar in SA debate
Student Assembly presidential candidates sounded off at the first debate of the election season, as Greek issues dominated a pointed, hour-long discourse at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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Student Assembly presidential candidates sounded off at the first debate of the election season, as Greek issues dominated a pointed, hour-long discourse at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Although attendance was low at Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting, members ploughed through a number of initiatives.
Looking to replace forceful personality Janos Marton '04 as student body president are four Student Assembly veterans: Jim Baehr '05, Ralph Davies '05, Julia Hildreth '05 and Dave Wolkoff '05.
In a nearly unanimous vote, the Student Assembly approved a resolution to fund the purchase of new gym equipment that will likely be placed at a location separate from the existing Kresge Fitness Center. Sponsored by Julia Hildreth '05, Dan Kurland '06 and the Student Life Committee, the bill allocated a maximum of $10,000 toward the purchase of gym equipment.
Matters of the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee, which reviews and recommends applicants for membership to College Committees, dominated Tuesday night's rather brief Student Assembly meeting.
Student Assembly committee chairs outlined their plans for new student services this term, including an enlarged fitness center and a redecorated Novack caf, at last night's meeting.
Building up social networks and tallying up friends has provided ample procrastination time for much of campus since Dartmouth's addition to the facebook.com database was launched Sunday evening.
During a short nine-week period that saw few upperclassman leaders on campus, the Student Assembly's winter focused on three projects that look to last far beyond this term and benefit the student body as a whole. Assembly members launched projects to expand Kresge gym space and instate a peer academic advising system, in addition to creating a student Bill of Rights and privacy cards.
Twenty-two Dartmouth students attended the Ivy Leadership Summit, an Ivy Council event that focuses on discussion pertinent to leadership, in New York City this weekend.
In just his second year at Dartmouth as a visiting professor in the government department, Douglas Edlin received the Student Assembly's Profiles in Excellence award at a packed dinner Friday night in the Rockefeller Center. The award was based upon multiple nominations from upperclassmen and freshmen alike.
Prompted by student input from a Student Assembly campus-wide BlitzMail survey, Student Body President Janos Marton '04 has joined forces with Dartmouth Dining Services and the Collis Center in an attempt to cater to students' eating demands.
Two major developments -- the foundation for a peer advising system to be implemented next fall and the endorsement of an "Undergraduate Bill of Rights" -- marked Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting.
College Provost Barry Scherr set up the Student Budget Advisory Committee last year so that a group of students could meet to discuss the College's budget priorities with administrators on a bi-weekly basis in an informal, cooperative setting.
Editors' note: Halfway through Winter term, The Dartmouth takes a midterm report of Student Assembly and its recent developments.
Reacting to what Student Assembly executives describe as the recent furor over student rights and privacy issues, the Assembly is reprinting student rights cards to be distributed before the end of the term.
Citing students' complaints of excessive force and privacy violations from Safety and Security and Hanover Police, the Student Assembly intends to publish cards listing students' rights.
Among Dartmouth students, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is expected to edge out retired Gen. Wesley Clark in today's primary election, a recent poll conducted by the Student Assembly and The Dartmouth has predicted.
The insular atmosphere of Hanover can sometimes seem thousands of miles away from a presidential campaign's frenetic scene. But for a handful of student political enthusiasts, politics --- and getting their candidate to win -- is life.
In an effort to reach out to student organizations, Student Assembly voted Tuesday night to allocate up to $500 to the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club for the maintenance of Daniels Climbing Gym.
The Big Green Bean, the popular campus nightspot whose closing last winter sparked a flurry of student protest, will reappear by the end of Winter term.