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Pelton, after requests, joins school board race

By Jacqueline Rose | March 2, 1995

Dean of the College Lee Pelton recently announced his intention to run as a write-in candidate for the Hanover School Board. Pelton, who told the Valley News people have been asking him to run for the school board for several years, said he is running for the position because he feels a sense of civic duty to the community. Pelton's daughter currently attends the Bernice A.

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More parking facilities recommended

By Rebecca Siegel | March 2, 1995

A planning board subcommittee recently submitted a proposed chapter for Hanover's master plan recommending increased parking facilities to nurture commercial development. The planning board will review the chapter, titled "Business and Economic Stability," on March 21.

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Shrews stage thought provoking show

By Melanie Gustin | March 1, 1995

Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society hosted the dynamic Untamed Shrews last night. Self-described as a collaborative women's performance group, the Shrews' production was an absorbing and unique collection of excerpts from a variety of women's written work. The Untamed Shrews consist of 16 talented and outgoing women.

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Esteve's poetry focuses on identity

By Aditya Dutt | February 28, 1995

Former producer of the African-Caribbean poetry theater and a dynamic poet, Sandra Maria Esteves, delivered a powerful reading of her works last night at the Rockefeller center. Esteves, who is Puerto Rican and Dominican, first started writing at the age of 25, after attending an art school.

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Glee Club plays Mozart

By Michael Posey | February 27, 1995

The Dartmouth College Glee Club perfomed Mozart's "Requiem" this weekend to a captivated audience at Spaulding Auditorium marking yet another dazzling and powerful performance by the talented ensemble. Performing a capella favorites and selections from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem Mass in D minor, K.

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Wind Symphony performs with MIT

By Nicole Mallement | February 27, 1995

As an ode to the student who sits down to a blank sheet of paper with the task of writing an essay, John Corley, the conductor of the MIT Concert Band opened Friday evening's concert with "Essay for Band," by William Maloof.

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Powells joins Barbary Coast rhythm sedtion at Lone Pine

By Aditya Dutt | February 23, 1995

The Barbary Coast jazz ensemble's vocalist, Neisha Powells '95, joined the Coast's rhythm section last night at the Lone Pine Tavern for an evening of standards and ballads. Backed by pianist Luis Scheker '95, bassist Todd Miller '95 and drummer Rob Roses '97, Powells began the set with Cole Porter's classic "You'd be so nice to come home to," a medium-tempo number.

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Local residents take on College over expansion

By Charles Davant | February 23, 1995

When the College tried to place the Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth on Occom Ridge Road last year, the Occom Pond Neighborhood Preservation Society protested to the Hanover Planning Board. When the College tried to move the Dragon senior society from its current location next to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity to an empty lot behind Delta Delta Delta sorority, the Occom Pond Neighborhood Preservation Society challenged the College in court. The society, which has existed in its present form for about 20 years, has been a perpetual thorn in the College's expansion plans.

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Village Voice music editor lectures on feminism in music

By Holly Eaton | February 22, 1995

The last thing that Ann Powers said to me after a long day of lecturing, was: "I think the girls at Dartmouth should pick up their guitars and start rockin'." The title of Powers's speech, "How Rock and Roll Invented Feminism and Feminism Re-Invented Rock and Roll" only scratched the surface of a day-long experience with Powers, having had her speak to my music seminar prior to the speech and having dinner with her, along with several faculty members, directly after. Powers began writing about music bands in high school and has been involved with music since then.

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Weekend acapella concerts attract large audiences

By Aditya Dutt | February 21, 1995

A host of acapella groups took part in perhaps two of the largest concerts of the winter term this weekend. The third annual "Rock the Rivah" festival hosted The Aires, The Dodecaphonics, The Decibelles and newcomers Final Cut on Friday night while a Saturday night in Brace Commons featured The Aires, The Dodecs and The Decibelles. The Aires were their usual energetic selves on both nights, adopting a decidedly lighthearted approach to singing.

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Powells '95 stages 'Beauty in Black'

By Michael Posey | February 21, 1995

From music, poetry, dance, and drama, Neisha Powells '95 left no creative medium unexplored as she presented her senior thesis "The Beauty in Black: A Historical Revue," to a captivated and highly energetic audience in Collis Common Ground this Sunday. Powells, a woman sporting many hats, wrote, directed, and starred in numerous scenes which composed the production. "A dream come true ... this revue was to encourage everyone to see the history of Blacks in America from a different perspective," Powells said. "Often Black History programs are centered around remembering famous Black leaders" Powells said. "While these leaders are noteworthy and have made significant contributions to the African-American culture, far too often the everyday people who embody and determine Black History get overlooked," she said. Appropriately timed during Black History Month, "Beauty in Black" presented the beginnings of Afro-American culture from "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson to a Oprah-esque mock talk show addressing the controversial hip-hop of such artists as Snoop Doggy Dogg and Ice T. In the brief vignettes, Powells showcases not only the feelings of the time period she's attempting to explore but also the costumes and music of that era.

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Novelist Tobias Wolff to read at Sanborn tonight

By Aditya Dutt | February 16, 1995

After featuring such illustrious poets as Kathy Acker, Kathryn Davis, Lane Von Herzen '84 and most recently, Professor Lev Loseff, the English Department will close off Dartmouth's poetry and prose winter series with writer Tobias Wolff. Wolff's latest work, "A Pharaoh's Army," recounts his experiences as an army advisor in Vietnam, striking a fine balance between fiction and nonfiction.

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Libre and Barbary Coast perform with energy, excitement

By Aditya Dutt | February 15, 1995

In one of the finest jazz performances of the year, the Barbary Coast and New York-based Latin jazz band Libre gave a spirited, energetic and electrifying performance on Saturday night before an enthusiastic audience. There are quite a few jazz bands which can gather up the energy to perform one or two fast numbers, but what set Libre apart was their incredible stamina to play several tunes at blazing tempos with a high level of intensity.

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Russian poet Lev Loseff reads at Sanborn library

By Nicole Mallement | February 14, 1995

For the first time in sixteen years as a Dartmouth Professr of Russian Language and Literature, the renowned Russian poet, Lev Vladimirovich Loseff, read his poetry to an audience of nearly sixty students, professors, and community members last night in the Wren Room of Sanborn library. Highly respected by all of the students in the Russian Department, Loseff intrigued and perplexed, moved and inspired those who gathered to hear his poetry. Reading in Russian, the poet shed the skin of the man who quietly attends to business around the department, and powerfully emerged with a heightened expression of his experiences. His own vigor was well matched by that of his student, Eric Waters '95, who dovetailed the poet's Russian rendering with literal English translations. Loseff describes the time before his emigration to the United States as his "former life," a time during which he wrote many of his poems.

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Moliere's 'Tartuffe' opens tonight

By Charles Davant | February 14, 1995

Moliere's "Tartuffe," a 17th century comedy that explores hypocrisy and social dynamics, will open in the Hopkins Center tonight. The drama, which will run through Sunday, will be the first student production in the newly renovated Moore Theatre.

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