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Mascot forum draws hundreds of students

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | November 20, 1998

A forum concerning Native American images in sports mascots on a local and national scope drew a diverse crowd of about 300 to the Hinman Forum in Rockefeller Center last night. Keynote speaker and Director of the national Native American organization the Morning Star Institute Suzan Harjo gears some of her activist efforts toward removing Indian depictions from sporting mascots and related imagery and spoke about her involvement last night. After both Harjo and Bruce Duthu '80, a law professor who was a part of the Native Americans at Dartmouth program while at the College, spoke, they and six other people spoke on a panel and fielded questions from the audience about the Indian as a mascot. Harjo filed a lawsuit six years ago against what she perceives to be the derogatory use of the Redskins football team name. "Native people are used as cartoons and team names because we're seen as a past era and not as human beings.

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Horizons brings friends to Hanover

By Jay Krehbiel | November 20, 1998

Two to three times a year, the College gathers prominent alumni, parents and other friends of Dartmouth in Hanover to encourage them to get involved with the College. In 1962, the College established the Horizons program with the goal of broadening the guests' understanding of a modern liberal arts education.

Opinion

Tibet is No J. Crew

By Nima Taylor | November 20, 1998

My grandfather was worked to death in a road gang for the crime of resisting the Chinese communists who invaded his country, Tibet.

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Media can impact morals for good, bad

By Brad Russo | November 20, 1998

A panel of entertainment executives discussed Hollywood's role in shaping America's moral agenda in Cook Auditorium last night. The panel was part of the continuing meeting at the College of the Association for Moral Education. All members of the panel agreed the entertainment media has at least some impact on morality and actions. Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Association Ted Baehr said entertainment desensitizes children to violence in the same way the military does to its new soldiers. Baehr said the influence extends to actions for only a small number of people however. "We know that 7to 11 percent of adults want to copy the violence they see in the media," Baehr said.

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Cook says elections lacked real issues

By Deborah Bernstein | November 19, 1998

Independent political analyst Charles Cook called 1998 "a rollercoaster ride" that carried voters up and down but ultimately deposited them in their original position in a speech yesterday in 2 Rockefeller Center. While even up to a year ago pundits were predicting outcomes similar to November's actual numbers, the Lewinsky scandal made differing predictions of voter results common throughout the last nine months. Cook called Nov.

Opinion

Please Dispose of Unwanted Copies of the Dartmouth Review to Clean Hallways

By Evan Hoffman | November 19, 1998

To the Editor: It seems that every time a certain publication, namely the Dartmouth Review, is delivered to students' rooms, many students who apparently don't like the paper simply leave it in front of their doors for days, sometimes weeks on end, I assume until the custodian of the building goes around and throws them all away. I understand and respect that many people do not agree with the views expressed by the Dartmouth Review, but that is no reason to litter the buildings with it.

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