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By Liam Kuhn | October 22, 1999

Homecoming meant a lot to me last year. It was my first "big weekend" at Dartmouth, my first inoculation of the long-standing tradition in which Dartmouth is so famously steeped.

Sports

Men's soccer faces Ivy rival Sunday

By Kevin Allen | October 22, 1999

For the Big Green men's soccer team, Homecoming weekend could mean two things. It could be a turning point when the Big Green finally find the intangible they've been missing up to this point, and start to win.

News

Other schools have unique Homecomings

By Jennifer Thomas | October 22, 1999

As the Dartmouth community awaits its annual bonfire, the freshman sweep and Homecoming's enthusiastic alumni participation, students at several peer institutions continue with their regular routines. Although they may be steeped in tradition, many schools have few rituals that help them celebrate their respective homecomings, and with the exception of Dartmouth, the most lavish homecoming activities take place outside of the Ivy League. In fact, Princeton does not host a homecoming celebration.

News

Latin professor is the life of the party

By Jennai Williams | October 22, 1999

After lobbying in the 1970s, travelling around America as a magician and graduating from college in her 30s, Latin Professor Carla Goodnoh is now in her third year of teaching at Dartmouth. As a professor here, she sees bridging the gap between faculty and students as one of her key roles.

Sports

Small sports expect big crowds

By Regis Ahern | October 22, 1999

Every Homecoming, in addition to facing their opponents, Dartmouth's fall athletic teams have to compete for attention against Big Green football, which traditionally attracts the greatest number of spectators and the most fanfare. This weekend, in addition to football, Big Green volleyball, rugby, field hockey, women's and men's soccer will all have home games. In recent years, an effort has been made to decrease the number of teams competing at the same time as football, so more people can attend more games. "Within the league there was an attitude to move soccer and field hockey so that they were not competing with football," women's varsity soccer coach Kelly B.

News

Wright prepares for jam-packed Homecoming

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | October 22, 1999

As students anticipate another Homecoming weekend brimming with ritual activities, College President James Wright is preparing for a busy weekend of his own, participating in traditions, observing sporting events and meeting with alumni donors. Friday night Wright expects to take part in all of the conventions that embody the first night of Homecoming, such as the parade, the rally and the bonfire. The bonfire bears special significance for Wright, who clearly remembers holding the hands of his children during the ceremony years ago.

News

Panel discusses same- sex marriage laws

By Kascha Semon | October 21, 1999

"Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?" asked Susan Apel of the Vermont Law School, quoting actress Mae West. The answer is at least one gay couple and two lesbian couples in Vermont. Stan Baker, a partner in one of these couples, has decided to try to get inside the institution through the court system -- he and his partner Peter are challenging the ban on same-sex marriages in the case Baker v.

News

SATs criticized for adjusting criteria

By Regis Ahern | October 21, 1999

Educational experts and college admissions officers are sharply criticizing an experimental project that the Educational Testing Service, the group that administers the SATs, is conducting to label test-takers as "strivers" or "underachievers" based on their score and socioeconomic background. The project uses 14 different criteria, including socioeconomic background, race, ethnicity and the parent's employment status, to identify students who have overcome difficulties to score exceptionally well on the test.

Opinion

Really, I Do

By Nancy Lai | October 21, 1999

Why do I want to write for the D? It's because I'm an '03 isn't it? Still got that "go get 'em," "take over the world," "participate in activities 'til I drop dead" attitude.

News

DRA works to raise prof. awareness

By Rachel Osterman | October 20, 1999

In an effort to promote inclusiveness in the classroom, the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance has begun work on a program aimed at raising professors' awareness of issues that affect the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. The initiative, which is still in the planning phase, could take the form of a pamphlet, video, panel discussion, or other device that highlights the role of heterosexism in the academic sphere. "We've been doing a lot of programming and one of the areas we haven't hit is the academic area," DRA member Wendy Skelton '99 said. "So we thought of this as an educational resource and to show how the classroom can be either inclusive or non-inclusive to the GLBT community," she said. While no date has been set for program completion, the DRA has decided to emphasize ways in which language, course content, and classroom format can either promote or discourage a heterosexual bias. The program is intended as a teaching tool for professors that want to, but do not know how to, be more inclusive, and also as a mechanism for students to share classroom experiences in which homosexuality was approached in either a positive or negative light. "A lot of this reminds me of when the studies came out that suggested teachers call on boy students more than on girl students and teachers simply weren't aware of this," GLBT Programming Coordinator Pam Misener said.

News

APA students get first programming liaison

By Michelle Hogan | October 20, 1999

For Nora Yasumura -- Dartmouth's first programming liaison for Asian Pacific American students -- her interest in Asian American affairs stems from stories about her Japanese American father's internment in California during World War II. Yasumura said her father's struggles and the hardship of those interned during the second World War has taught her about discrimination on a national scale. "I was stirred to provide support for all people," she said. In her new role at the College, Yasumura serves as an advocate for the Asian Pacific American community, a group that has previously never had an advisor, addressing personal, social and academic issues surrounding Asian American life. Yasumura saw a great capacity to be of service and "to make a real difference" in the lives of the Dartmouth's APA students.

News

Princeton considers dropping A+

By Stella Maria Baer | October 20, 1999

A committee concerned with grade inflation at Princeton University recently proposed the abolition of the A+ and released new data revealing a quarter century-long trend of rising grades amongst Princeton's professors. Princeton's newspaper -- The Daily Princetonian -- reported that the average grade at Princeton has risen steadily from a 3.05 to a 3.34 over the last 25 years, and Nancy Malkiel, chair of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at Princeton, is making every possible effort to reduce grade inflation at the University. The committee's proposals are geared toward raising professors' consciousness of the grades they give with an eye towards a gradual deflation.

Opinion

Column in a Vat

By Eric Del Pozo | October 20, 1999

Since it seems like everyone on Earth, and even other planets, in fact the whole entire universe when it comes right down to it, is extremely concerned with the upcoming Trustees' Social Initiative, I figure it is only my duty to use this valuable space in our campus newspaper to talk about "The Matrix". In case you have been living in a place without movies for the past several months (for example a cave, without movies), "The Matrix" was last season's number one critically acclaimed Hollywood Mega-Blockbuster science fiction hit, narrowly edging out some of last year's other critically acclaimed Hollywood Mega-Blockbuster science fiction hits, such as "Milo And Otis Visit the Swamp". As one of my floormates so eloquently put it last week, "The Matrix" contains "the world's worst actor in the world's greatest cyber-action flick." But we are also quick to point out that this person refers to herself -- this is an actual fact -- as "Critter." (She's nice.) What makes "The Matrix" such a favorite of critics and fans alike is that it has many endearing qualities, the least of which being that most high school students cannot, for the life of them, complete any mathematical functions having to do with it.

Opinion

The Personal Touch

By Conor Dugan | October 20, 1999

A paradox of the present day is that technology is drawing us closer and closer together while we seem to be growing further and further apart.

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