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Twenty complete Moosilauke hike

By Jennifer Thomas | October 11, 1999

Blisters and bruises, hunger and hallucinations didn't stop 20 of the 24 official hikers from completing the annual 53-mile walk from Hanover to Mount Moosilauke on Saturday. Fervent enthusiasm pervaded Robinson Hall last Friday afternoon, where the zealous participants gathered for the start of their hike, and organizers called the trek "an absolute success." "I've been meaning to do this hike for four years now," said hiker Case Dorkey '99, who is in his fifth year at the College.

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Students to get limited answers in Tues. forum

By Deborah Bernstein | October 11, 1999

Although student representatives to the steering committee will be open to questions from the Dartmouth community at a forum tomorrow night, they are bound by the committee's confidentiality policy forbidding the release of details of deliberations and discussions at their meetings. As a preview to Tuesday's panel, the 2003 Class Council is sponsoring an information session in an effort to update first-year students on the Student Life Initiative tonight in Cook auditorium. The student representatives to the steering committee -- chemistry graduate student Jesse Fecker, Hillary Miller '02, Matthew K.

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Nuclear Politics

By Dan Pollock | October 11, 1999

The Dartmouth's October 5 article, "Students plan for 2000 New Year's," suggested that many Dartmouth students are opting out of a big gala affair for new year's eve, and instead are planning a celebration on a smaller scale.

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Dentzer reflects on Dartmouth life

By Jay Krehbiel | October 11, 1999

Trustee Susan Dentzer '77 never thought she would be a pioneer, but her Dartmouth experience indicates otherwise. Perhaps this pioneering spirit was what Dentzer -- a member of the second coeducational class at Dartmouth and the first female graduate elected by alumni to serve on the Board of Trustees -- clung to when she and other members of the Board decided in February to initiate proceedings to revolutionize the College's residential and social life. Into the wild When Dentzer first stepped onto campus in the fall of 1973 her freshman year, the male to female ratio was 8 to 1, and she, like many other women on campus at the time, felt the glaringly wide gender gap. Male students who were angry with the College's decision to coeducate Dartmouth in the fall of 1972, often took their frustrations out on women, she said. Late at night, some of these men, after they had been drinking heavily, would belt "a very loud rendition of Men of Dartmouth outside of the women's dormitories," Dentzer said. During the spring of Dentzer's freshman year, a "very loud hockey player" walked up to her with two beers, and proceeded to pour them on her head -- "one for being a coed and one for being at Dartmouth." Dentzer had also tried her hand at student journalism, but found the experience unpleasant. "I had written for The Dartmouth for one term, but at the time it was a pretty male dominated environment," Dentzer said.

Opinion

Exposing the Man

By Ben Rifkin | October 8, 1999

There is a traitor among us, dear friends. Something watches passively from a shadow where the wall meets the ceiling and slithers its way into our bedrooms, our stomachs, our minds, and our Visa statements (I don't think it takes American Express). It buys property and forces us to eat DDS, all the while supplementing our meager (besides the Cordon Bleu) but costly (cranberry juice has gone up thirty cents since I was a freshman) Hop rations with intermittent Steak Bombs, Original Bricks, Egg and Cheese Subs, ramen noodles, Easy Cheese, and other less healthy dining experiments.

Opinion

Life in a Green Bubble

By William Young | October 8, 1999

On the morning of September 9, 1999, I woke up at 3 a.m. after incessant poking on the part of my parents, stumbled blindly into the back seat of our rented van and forced my uncooperative eyelids to stay open so I could get just one last glimpse of my house. As the van backed out of the driveway where I spent hundreds of hours unsuccessfully honing my basketball skills, I could not help but thinking about all the things I was leaving behind: mom's delicious meals, my ancient 1988 Toyota Camry (hey, it got me from point A to point B), my private room, my dear PC computer (and the world of PCs), my friends (actually, they all left me gradually earlier in the month) and most importantly the sense of familiarity that I felt within my town.

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Loebner competition to test computers

By Amit Anand | October 8, 1999

Can computers think like humans? An upcoming contest to be hosted at Dartmouth in January will test that question, posed 50 years ago by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The Loebner Prize Competition -- part of a three-day conference focusing on the future of the Turing Test -- will likely see four or five computers competing against four of five humans in a contest to determine the ability of computers to think and act like human beings, Philosophy Professor Dr. James Moor said. The conference will discuss the "merits and problems of the Turing Test philosophically and scientifically," according to the contest's web site. The year 2000 is especially significant because Turing predicted that by the end of the century computers would have developed far enough that an interrogator would only have a 30 percent chance of correctly differentiating between a computer and a human. "What really interested me about the Loebner Prize was the prediction that was made for this year," Moor said.

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Tucker sends students to Jamaica

By Paul Wang | October 8, 1999

While many Dartmouth students typically spend Spring Break sunning themselves on the warm, relaxing beaches of Mexico and Florida, 13 Dartmouth volunteers will instead dedicate their time to help out various humanitarian organizations in Kingston, Jamaica. This group of 10 students and three co-directors will be volunteering through the annual Jamaica Volunteer Immersion Program sponsored by the Tucker Foundation. The participants will be working at four main sites over the period of a week.

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Proposal relocates DOC, baseball field

By Deborah Bernstein | October 7, 1999

Debates over relocating the traditional sites of both the Dartmouth Outing Club headquarters and the baseball field dominated much of yesterday's presentation by Centerbrook Architects of their plans for the College's new recreational and athletic facilities. Centerbrook architect Chad Floyd presented the proposed plan for a 200,000 square foot recreational facility -- housing among other elements the DOC, pools, basketball courts and fitness machines -- located where Memorial Field presently stands.

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New safety phones installed on campus

By Xia Lee | October 7, 1999

Nine new free-standing "Code Blue" emergency phones are being installed throughout campus this term, with plans to install up to 40 more over the next several years. According to Sergeant Rebel Roberts of Safety and Security, the recent installation of these new phones is not in response to any growth of crime at the school, but rather, a follow-up to a 1991 plan to increase the availability of safety phones on campus. The phones are housed in easily identifiable, slim black towers crowned with blue lights that glow at night and flash when the phone is in use.

Opinion

Senior Sentiments

By Margie DeWard | October 7, 1999

I'm a senior now. In theory, I guess that makes me the one who should have the wisdom, the words of advice that I am able to impart on the younger members of the Dartmouth community.

Opinion

Gore Campaign Coverage Neglected by The Dartmouth

By Alexander Shartsis | October 7, 1999

To the Editor: In light of the thorough nature of your interviewing and coverage of the campaigns of Senators Bradley and McCain, I was both surprised and disheartened by the cursory and second-hand commentary you tried to pass off as news about the Democratic front-runner, Vice President Al Gore ("Candidates prepare for visit to College." October 4, 1999). You printed statistics about how many times Bradley and McCain have visited New Hampshire, as well as how many students Governor Bush has signed up in the past week.

Opinion

Want to be a Member?

By Marcia Yablon | October 7, 1999

According to the Bible, in the beginning God brought every living creature to Adam and whatever Adam called it, "that was the name thereof." Apparently, God gave this power to the Trustees too. Last winter when the new Residential Life initiative was announced there was a lot of name calling on both sides, but one of the names flung repeatedly from the Trustee side was "exclusive." Ironically, it was only after they called the Greek system exclusive that it became dramatically so. This year's sorority rush is over and although most girls who wanted to join a house are now members; over 50 are not.

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