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Poll: The Dartmouth's Duty is to Report the News, Not Influence or Create It

By Dave Gacioch | April 17, 1997

To the Editor: With Tuesday's front-page article "Eilertsen '99 leads on election eve," The Dartmouth once again demonstrated its insatiable appetite to exert influence over the leadership of the Dartmouth student body. The response rate of 13.8 percent on the newspaper's poll rendered the study useless for any prognosis of election results, yet The Dartmouth considered it news.

Sports

Athlete of the Week

By The Dartmouth | April 17, 1997

Freshman Brian Nickerson provided the offensive punch behind the baseball team's 6-0 week by batting .545 (12-for-22) with five extra-base hits (4 doubles, 1 HR) and eight RBIs. Among the rookie's biggest games were a 4-for-5 performance against UMass-Lowell, and a 2-for-3 game against Cornell that included two walks, a double, a homer and four RBIs. For his stellar stats, Nickerson was named the Ivy League's Player of the Week.

Opinion

Not My Dartmouth

By Laura Mannix | April 17, 1997

You know, I've heard that Dartmouth is like the date rape capital of the world." So said Karen as we walked down the hall of our all-girls high school in April of 1993. "And where did you hear that?" I asked defensively. I had a reason to be defensive; in the four days since I'd been accepted to Dartmouth, I'd already heard that there were no women here, that the Greek system was so big and all-powerful that if you were not a member of a sorority or a fraternity you had better resign yourself to having no friends and that there were no Catholics here.

News

Winners propelled by personality

By Erik Tanouye | April 17, 1997

In an election campaign season that featured little disagreement and candidates that many felt were hard to tell apart, the results in the presidential and vice-presidential races could hardly have been more disparate. Frode Eilertsen '99 won the Student Assembly presidency in a runaway, while Nahoko Kawakyu '99 took the vice presidency in a nail-biter. But while their margins of victory were different, both Eilertsen and Kawakyu share one very important thing -- they were propelled to victory in large part because of their personalities. Not much variety Many of the issues were the same -- for example, reforming the Assembly, making it more representative and increasing its influence over the administration. Furthermore, a lot of the candidates for Assembly president and vice president had worked closely with each other in the past, and may have been reluctant to engage in aggressive campaigns against one another. As current Assembly President Jon Heavey '97 put it, there "wasn't a whole lot of variety on the ballot." There was a clear separation between presidential write-in candidates Unai Montes-Irueste '98 and Kathy Kim '00 and the two candidates on the ballot, Eilertsen and Scott Jacobs '99. The write-ins combined for just over 12 percent of the total, while Jacobs and Eilertsen combined for almost 80 percent of the vote. Perhaps the biggest mystery of the election is how Eilertsen and Jacobs -- who orchestrated campaigns of similar proportions and ran on many of the same issues -- were separated by more than 600 votes and 40 percentage points. "I'm shocked that it was so lopsided," Jacobs said.

Sports

Softball late score

By The Dartmouth | April 16, 1997

The Dartmouth softball team continued to struggle yesterday afternoon as it fell in a double-header against Vermont, 4-0 and 6-4. The loss dropped the Big Green to 5-17 overall. In the first game, the Catamounts secured the victory with four runs in the sixth inning. In the second game, Vermont took an early 3-0 lead with two runs in the first and another in the third.

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