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Strip for School Spirit

By Andrew Grossman | March 8, 1999

Avid readers of the Dartmouth may have noticed a pair of letters last week referring to an incident in which our own football team hired a stripper to entice a potential student.

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New poll shows 82 percent in favor of continuing single-sex system

By Brad Russo | March 8, 1999

Student support for maintaining the single-sex Greek system remains overwhelmingly high and has not slipped in the month since the announcement of the monumental Board of Trustee initiative which mandates the coeducation of the College's social system, according to a poll conducted this past week by The Dartmouth. Eighty-two percent of respondents to the poll indicated they support the continuation of the single-sex Greek system at Dartmouth, down just two percentage points from the days immediately following the bombshell announcement on February 9.

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An Alcoholic Image

By Catherine McCarthy | March 8, 1999

So you come to Dartmouth and what do you know about this place? Do you think of the beautiful mountains, the idyllic hamlet known as Hanover where the college exists or do you think of the movie Animal House or a pervasive drinking culture that has all of the students at the pong table every weekend?

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SA to focus on increasing student voice

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | March 5, 1999

Josh Green '00 told The Dartmouth yesterday his top priority during his last term as Student Assembly president will be to fight for the inclusion of student opinion in the College's decision making processes. In a crusade for greater institutional voice, Green said one of the "most difficult things this year has been getting answers to the challenges we pose to the administration, and hopefully spring term is the time we'll get some answers and win some battles." Green said he hopes his editorial column printed last week in The Dartmouth, which sharply criticized the administration and the Board of Trustees, will encourage students to help achieve his goal. Jorge Miranda '01, chair of the Assembly's academic affairs committee said, "The Assembly is tired of being administration's lap dog, and students want more power and voice and the SA will go for that." As a result of the Trustees' landmark social and residential life initiative that alluded to the end of the single-sex Greek system at the College, working groups were formed to address each of the five principles in the initiative. The Assembly will focus on the results of those working groups toward the end of Spring term. "I hope the Assembly will be an advocate for the students when the Trustees make their final decisions.

Opinion

Rising Reputation and Intellectual Mediocrity

By William C. Dowling | March 5, 1999

To the Editor: Having been at Dartmouth during the countercultural '60s, when fraternities were a negligible presence on campus, I've had no opinion about them one way or the other. In listening to the defenders of frats over the last few weeks, though, I've come to see that the controversy is masking a deeper issue. Dartmouth has always had -- we all know this is true: it's the wince in the night of every Dartmouth graduate -- a tradition of intellectual mediocrity.

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The World as it Ought to Be

By Brian Reilly | March 5, 1999

The world as it ought to be. Which is to say, upside down. "God I love to turn my little blue world upside down" (Tori Amos, "Upside down"). I'd like to tell you about a recent conversation between me and a woman of extraordinary, indeed I said "singular," beauty.

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Smoking making a comeback at Dartmouth

By Allison Robbins | March 4, 1999

Although an abundance of national anti-smoking campaigns have been directed at the youth of America in the past several years, recent statistics at Dartmouth show that smoking has made a comeback, confirming the results of a Harvard University study published last November in the Journal of American Medicine which found smoking has regained popularity on college campuses across the country. According to the study, co-authored by Henry Wechsler, Ph.D.

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Task force holds second meeting

By Hank Leukart | March 4, 1999

The Residential and Social Life Task Force met for the second time yesterday, and discussed the coordination of their efforts with other campus groups and the collection of student and College staff proposals. Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson told The Dartmouth yesterday that the task force plans to contact every campus organization to "encourage their participation in the process and their thinking about the five principles." Nelson hopes that every member of the College -- students, faculty, and staff -- will participate in discussion about the Trustees' initiatives. During the meeting, task force members decided to write letters to various campus organizations explaining how they can submit proposals to the task force.

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Potentialities

By Janelle Ruley | March 4, 1999

Would that I were an anthropologist. Or a sociologist. Or even a psychologist. What better way to understand the place our beloved College on the Hill has become of late?

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