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Allen '79 stresses student input

By Jessica Spradling | April 24, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the second in a three part series profiling the platforms of candidates for the College's Board of Trustees. As opposed to having the Trustees hand down decisions without any consultation with the student body, trustee candidate Elyse Benson Allen '79, Tu '84 wants to emphasize the importance of student voice in directing the path of the College. "I think with any decisions that the College makes, they need to make sure they have been consulting with students and looking at general trends at what people are doing and where they are going," Allen said. Allen said she feels that the College needs to pay more attention to the needs of students, particularly the major national trends, so that Dartmouth can provide the programs and services students will most utilize. "We don't build for today's students, we build for tomorrow's students," said Allen of potential changes to the College's.

Opinion

The Wrong Focus

By Chris Moscato | April 24, 2003

To the Editor: In regards to the April 18 news story "Town may donate land for housing," I am really angry that there is talk about housing for employees, and that it gets coverage in the College papers, when student housing is never addressed any more. I think this should be a rally cause that students take up and address with the administration with drive.

Arts

Fleetwood Mac refuses to rehash

By Lindsay Barnes | April 24, 2003

On their 1977 sales-record shattering album "Rumours," Fleetwood Mac proclaimed, "I'm never going back again." Over a quarter-century later, that lyric holds true for the group.

Opinion

A Courageous Outcry

By Bruce Baker | April 24, 2003

To the Editor: Daniel Kay's April 18 column "Discrimination, Not Diversity" is an exceptionally well written, logical exposition of a very divisive and difficult social problem.

Opinion

Enduring Traditions

By Jefferson Barton | April 24, 2003

To the Editor: The April 16 article "In South Pacific, students aid ailing education system" describes an excellent program that reminds us of the old days when the U.S.

Sports

Yale deals a double heartbreak to Big Green softball

By Lisa Glassman | April 24, 2003

The Dartmouth softball team continued its Ivy League season this past weekend with home doubleheaders against Brown on Friday and Yale on Saturday. The Big Green split its Friday double-dip with the Bears (12-14, 3-2 Ivy League), winning the afternoon game 4-3, before losing the nightcap 6-1. Brown took the lead first in the afternoon game, scoring an unearned run in the third inning on an infield error. Dartmouth had an explosive fourth inning to gain the lead.

Sports

Radcliffe gets best of women's crew team

By Anne O'Hagen | April 24, 2003

The Dartmouth women's crew team fell to stiff competition at last Saturday's home races on the Connecticut River against Radcliffe and Syracuse. In first varsity action, top-ranked Radcliffe claimed victory with a time of 6:11.1.

Opinion

A Case of Contradiction?

By Judd Serrota | April 24, 2003

To the Editor: Andrew Hanauer's April 17 column "Now Is the Time" relating to the Bush administration's supposed lack of action on the Israel-Palestinian issue is at once nonsensical and contradictory. It is contradictory in its description of Yasser Arafat.

News

Politician and printer forged 'friendship'

By Robert Kimmitt | April 24, 2003

Dr. Roderick Cave, printing and book expert, recounted the history of author Somerset Struben de Chair, his publisher Christopher Sandford, and his printing company to an audience of community members and faculty yesterday in a speech entitled "The Politician and the Printer." The Golden Cockerel Press, de Chair's printing company, was a small but respected private publishing firm that printed limited-edition and ornate books.

Opinion

Berry Very Good

By Daniel Ng | April 24, 2003

Berry Library invites a narrow range of comments from students. Words like "functional" and "sanitized" tend to dominate.

News

Trustee candidate: College should be 'absolute best'

By Jessica Spradling | April 23, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the first in a three part series that will profile the platforms of candidates for the College's Board of Trustees. The future of the Greek system as we know it, the spending priorities that can determine the fate of our athletic teams and countless other decisions regarding the long-term direction of the College all rest in the hands of an elusive and notoriously tight-lipped group known as the Board of Trustees. This year, Dartmouth alumni all across the globe have a chance to affect this mysterious group by electing an alumnus to the Board of Trustees to serve for at least the next five years.

Opinion

Twenty Pounds of Headlines

By Jon Schroeder | April 23, 2003

This is a typical example of one song that your, uh, English music newspapers would call a drug song: " I go, I don't, uh, I don't write druuuggg songs " (slurring words), "You know like I never have, I wouldn't know how to go about it, but this is not a drug song [crowd claps]. I'm not saying it for any kind of defensive reason or anything like that.

News

Khrushchev, a 'jester' within Stalin's court

By Elise Dunphe | April 23, 2003

Did Nikita Khrushchev really bang his shoe on a table at the United Nations? Eyewitnesses each have their own recollections of the event, including accounts that the Soviet Premier did indeed exhibit a moment of unbridled temper, that he only brandished the shoe and that although he was holding his footwear, it was his fist that hit the table. "I'm here to tell you that history is complex and even eyewitnesses disagree.

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