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Frost festival honors student playwrights

By Carolyn Collins | May 27, 1997

The Frost play festival showcased the works of Dartmouth undergraduate playwrigts. The series of plays, performed by randomly assigned actors and actresses, were well received by the enthusiastic audience who gathered to see the plays last week. "One Hundred Days," written by Kyle Ancowitz '98 and directed by Jo Weingarten '98, draws upon an ancient Chinese riddle to explore modern versions of love and devotion. "The Perfect Woman," directed by Ancowitz, is the portrayal of the final months in the life of an anorexic girl and how her friends deal with her life and death.

Opinion

A Wayward Glance

By Ryan Molde | May 27, 1997

Hale-Bopp comet is just an insignificant white speck in the sky, someone was quoted as saying in the Dartmouth.

News

LaValle's removal declared unconstitutional by Swink

By Erik Tanouye | May 26, 1997

The Student Assembly's parliamentarian, Simone Swink '98, declared last week's removal of Treasurer Dom LaValle '99 invalid Thursday night, and attempts to remove LaValle at last night's executive committee meeting proved unsuccessful. "I'm obviously relieved," LaValle said.

News

Academic Gala informs '00s, '99s

By Elysa L. Jacobs | May 26, 1997

Four seniors described their honors theses to about 80 underclassmen at the College's first ever Academic Gala, which organizers say they hope will become an annual event. Sarah Lenczner '97, who organized the event with the College President's Intern Theresa Ellis '97, said the event was "a great success -- not only in the number of people that attended but the comments that people made to me afterwards." Lenczner said the point of the event was to show members of the Classes of 1999 and 2000 "what seniors have done with their honors projects and to give them a sense of what they might like to do." Ellis said the gala also showed underclassmen that the College supports students' academic endeavors. One panel member, Phil Lord '97, animated a nine minute cartoon, titled "Man Bites Breakfast" as his senior honors project. Lord said he stressed the importance of the process of doing an honors project rather than the project itself. "The process is the most important thing," he said. Lord said his film was about a man whose cereal eats him alive, and the cartoon became an apt metaphor for his own life during its production. It was like entering the "Heart of Darkness and you don't come out," he said.

News

Seniors have varied opinions regarding speaker Lipponen

By Joseph C. Scott | May 26, 1997

Most graduating students seem content with the College's choice of Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen '64 as the keynote speaker at this year's Commencement ceremony, and almost all students said they were surprised by the choice. "I was surprised, but from what I understand he has the potential to be a very good speaker," Jessica Reiser '97 said.

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