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Nine Months

By Kevan Higgins | September 20, 1999

What's that you say? You're a freshman? Oh that's great! Good for you. But what about me?? What about my rights?

Opinion

A Dean's First Term

By James Larimore | August 25, 1999

Thank you. Those words might strike some as an odd way to begin a column, but they are the first words that come to mind as I look back upon my first term as dean of the College.

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Govt. Professor Wendt leaves College this fall

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | August 25, 1999

Government Professor Alexander Wendt, one of the leading thinkers in the "constructivist" branch of international relations, is passionate about his work. "I don't really have many hobbies or outside interests," said Wendt, who is leaving the College this September to assume a post in the University of Chicago's political science department. However, when asked about his theories or academic life here at the College, Wendt has much to say. "Constructivism argues that international politics is socially constructed and can be changed, unlike the popular neo-realist theory, which argues that war and conflict is natural," Wendt said.

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Panel addresses land purchase

By Kathrin Weston | August 25, 1999

Dean of the College James Larimore, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, College Vice President and Treasurer Win Johnson and Director of the College Real Estate Office Paul Olsen will hold an information session today at 4 p.m.

Opinion

Crying Wolf Again

By Emmett Hogan | August 25, 1999

They're back. And crying wolf ... again. So many of us had hoped for a summer free from the strife of relentless protesting and endless bickering which seems to have plagued the Dartmouth campus in recent terms.

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Averitt battles AIDS, App. Trail

By Jen Taylor | August 25, 1999

For the last two months Dawn Averitt, a leading activist in AIDS treatment issues, has hoisted a 50-pound pack and joined the approximately 1,500 others who step onto the white-blazed path of the Appalachian Trail. While other hikers face the daily struggle of climbing peaks and facing the 2,160-foot long hike, Averitt adds the extra burden of the daily struggle of living with AIDS. Averitt spoke candidly with students, presenting herself as a picture of health, hope and humor, yesterday at the Tucker Foundation. Although most hikers begin their Appalachian Trail trek in Georgia and head North, Averitt and her party began at Mount Katxhadin in Maine and are heading south -- homeward bound for Averitt, a Georgia native. She and her brothers talked about thru-hiking the trail since they were children. In addition to hiking equipment, Averitt also carries along a substantial drug regiment, taking 28 medications a day in order to keep her immune system healthy. The 15 mile-a-day hike had to be carefully planned to accommodate mail drops every seven to 10 days to pick up medications. "I get up in the morning and shove in four chalk sized pills ... and think 'everyone doesn't do this,'" she told students.

News

College profs. study NH primaries

By Deborah Bernstein | August 25, 1999

With the field of candidates narrowing for the 2000 presidential race, a new Dartmouth study shows that New Hampshire voters do not get the level of personal interaction with candidates that is widely assumed. The study, conducted by government Professors Linda Fowler, Constantine Spiliotes and Lynn Vavreck and based on data collected from the 1996 presidential race, shows that only 2.5 percent of voters receive three or more contacts from any candidate. Contacts are defined as meeting a candidate, seeing him or her at a rally, receiving a phone call from a campaign or receiving literature from a candidate in the mail. Candidates who engage in close contact with the voters are practicing "retail politics," and Spiliotes said there is a longstanding political science belief that voters in New Hampshire, the first primary state, make up their mind through meeting candidates. However, Spiliotes said, "In reality, most voters don't go out to meet the candidates to decide who to vote for." Spiliotes said the people who go to rallies to meet candidates are often those voters who are already partial to that particular candidate. According to the study, most New Hampshire voters had no contact with a presidential campaign between October 1995 and February 15, 1996. Fifty-six percent of voters never received a phone call, mailing or handshake from a candidate.

Arts

Tricky's new album moves to straightforward sound

By Nathan W. Chaney | August 23, 1999

In common offhanded fashion, Beck managed to describe with ironic clarity the nature of his goal as an artist in the recent premiere of Talk Magazine. "I'm not interested in making any millennial statements," he said, "I just want to make a dumb party album to have sex to." Tricky -- who, like Beck, is a member of the short list of avante-pop icons of the '90s -- probably would not want his music reduced to its most superficial elements, despite its prevalence both in bedrooms and smoke-filled dens across the world.

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College tours do not focus on Initiative

By Hank Leukart | August 23, 1999

Despite the recent release of the Social and Residential Life Task Force Report and the continuing work of the steering committee, the College's summer admissions tours still do not cover the Initiative in detail -- and most prospective students on the tours attended by a reporter for The Dartmouth seemed more interested in the dormitories' lack of air conditioning than in the Initiative. "It's a sticky subject," tour guide Jessica Grabarz '01 said.

Opinion

Where Is the Aloha Spirit?

By Sarah Dahl | August 23, 1999

Being 'off' this term, and spending a few weeks here at home in Hawaii, I heard of the unfortunate events surrounding the planning of a 'Hawaiian party' through the grapevine.

News

Students to intern on Marshall Islands

By Kascha Semon | August 23, 1999

Seven Dartmouth students will fly to the Marshall Islands this winter to teach in the local public schools through an internship program sponsored by the education department. The interns will be the first to work in the public schools on Majuro, one of the major islands, but several Dartmouth graduates have spent the last year working in private schools on another Marshall Island, Kwajalein. The seven undergraduate interns are Diandra Benally '00, Michael Holmes '01, Chung-Yu Hsieh '01, Jessica Souke '01, Matthew Shaffer '01, James Sitar '01 and Mara Tieken '01. Amber Morse '98, who was an environmental studies major while at the College, now lives on Kwajalein, working for minimal pay at the Catholic high school on the island. In an interview with The Valley News, Morse said that she lives in a trailer infested with flying cockroaches, sporadic electricity and minimal drinking water.

Opinion

Buying Solutions

By Craig Colfelt | August 23, 1999

I thought for more than a moment that it was the joke issue of The Dartmouth. But Jen Taylor's comprehensive article, "Architects Present Proposals" (8/19/99), was all too real. Apparently, some outfit called Centerbrook Architects has been hired by the Trustees to turn the notorious Social and Residential Life Initiative into lots of new recreational buildings for students.

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Trustees discuss Initiative at retreat

By Hank Leukart | August 23, 1999

At its annual retreat at the College's Minary Conference Center, the Board of Trustees was briefed about the progress of the steering committee but made no decisions about the Social and Residential Life Initiative and did not alter the Initiative's timetable. "I don't see anything that's going to knock this in some substantive way off the schedule that we're on," Chairman of the Board of Trustees William King '63 said. In November, the steering committee plans to report its findings to the Board.

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