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SA passes resolution to distribute Mug Shots

By Erik Tanouye | October 2, 1996

In their first meeting of the term, the Student Assembly voted last night to purchase and distribute a copy of the publication Mug Shots to each of the freshman Residence Hall rooms. Low attendance forced the Assembly to postpone much of last night's agenda until next week's meeting. The resolution, sponsored by Assembly President Jon Heavey '97 and Assembly Vice President Chris Swift '98 estimated the action will cost the Assembly $3,000. The resolution will be partially funded by a sum of money bequeathed by last year's Assembly for use specifically in funding a publication like Over the Hill, which has not been issued since the 1994-1995 academic year.Mug Shots, like Over the Hill, features pictures of upperclassmen in addition to brief biographical sketches. "I'm really happy to see that resolution for Mug Shots go through," Heavey said. Assembly Treasurer Bill Kartalopoulos '97 presented the financial report at the beginning of the meeting.

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Students say drug use at Hanover High continues to be stable

By Tom Arnold | October 2, 1996

While recent reports indicate that drug use among teenagers is skyrocketing, students and administrators at Hanover High School say the drug problem on their campus has remained essentially unchanged. While they admit a drug problem exists, students and administrators at Hanover High say it is no greater than the drug problems facing other high schools around the country.

Opinion

De Gustibis

By Matthew Lubin | October 2, 1996

The pace of life at Dartmouth leaves time for very few lingering meals, of the sort good writers can render with such mouthwatering abandon.

Opinion

A Vote for Bill Clinton Is a Vote for E.T.

By Marc Mcdonald | October 2, 1996

If you watch television, you can definitely tell it is an election year. Instead of micro-Smiling Steve driving around the Lebanon Pharmacy in his Tyco Black Thunder four-wheeler, there's campaign message after campaign message telling the viewers who they should vote for. A vote for Bob Dolegingrich, according to ads paid for by Clinton/Gore '96, means cuts in Medicare, social security, education, and anything else the government helps fund, in order to pay for Dolegingrich's 15 percent across-the-board tax cut. In his ads, Bob Dole states that a vote for Clinton means ... well, he has trouble on this one considering the economy if flying.

Sports

Field hockey splits over weekend

By Ben Riefe | October 1, 1996

The path didn't get any smoother for the Dartmouth field hockey team when the Big Green rolled into Princeton on Saturday for the start of a weekend road trip. Going into the game with a 3-2 record -- including tough, overtime losses to Boston College and Northwestern -- the team was looking for an upset against the nationally ranked Tigers. But the Tigers weren't about to let the Big Green even make this game close, as they scored five goals in the first half in route to a 7-1 victory. The Big Green just could not find their rhythm, as Princeton kept the heat on Dartmouth's defense, unloading shot after shot from inside the circle and taking a 5-0 lead at the half. "We just didn't play very well," Lauren Scopaz '00 said.

Opinion

Topliff Renovations

By Aaron D. Klein | October 1, 1996

Over the summer, the Co- College invested over $1 million in renovating Topliff. I happened to get a single in the "new Topliff" and it became obvious that nobody had bothered to get any student input on the renovation process. How do I know this?

Sports

Women linksters finish sixth at Yale

By Sarah Hood | October 1, 1996

Undaunted by the reputation of Yale's golf course, the women's golf team traveled to New Haven last weekend and returned home from the meet with a sixth place finish and more confidence in their abilities. Competing on familiar terrain, Yale captured the title with an aggregate score of 646.

Arts

'Spitfire Grill' expands quality of roles for women

By R. D. Rees | October 1, 1996

Quality women's roles in Hollywood today are few and far between. In response to this dearth of female parts, independent films often feature believable, complex parts for actresses to really sink their teeth into. "The Spitfire Grill" is one such film, starring three powerhouse performances by women. After the film won the coveted Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, Castle Rock Entertainment bought the rights to "The Spitfire Grill" for a record sum, the highest for an independent film to date. In order to help defer the cost of the film, Castle Rock accepted an investment from a production company known as Gregory Productions, the for-profit arm of the Roman Catholic Church. Though not a religious movie per se, Gregory Productions certainly would approve of the themes of redemption and healing, as well as the subtle pro-life message. "The Spitfire Grill" is the story of Perchance Talbot, a woman just released from a Maine prison for manslaughter.

Opinion

Jagged Little Senior

By Sam Bonderoff | October 1, 1996

I was sitting in my room last night, a half-smoked Camel Filter casually dangling from my lips, wrapping up the evening's reading of "Richard III" for the next morning's Shakespeare class, listening to some Smashing Pumpkins album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Pretentiousness," I think feeling rather Edgar Allan Poe-esque, when I heard a knock on the door. "Come in," I bellowed, but it was a happy bellow, a come-on-in-and-suck-on-my-aura bellow. Two pointy figures poked in their young heads, one male, one female.

Opinion

College Shows Double Standard for Puppet Show

By Joshua M. Winterhalt | October 1, 1996

To the Editor: Funny how the Administration wouldn't allow the Pow-Wow to be held on the green last spring because the dancers' mocassin-clad feet would damage the tender grass, yet it seems to have no problems allowing a bus to be driven onto the green and puppeteers to dance about on stilts behind a small barricade of banners driven into the precious green by wooden stakes, while hundreds, possibly a thousand more spectators than the pow-wow draws, stood in rapt attention...

News

Pair of environmental experts will be this term's Montgomery Fellows

By Elysa Jacobs And David Kung | October 1, 1996

The Dartmouth community will have an opportunity to explore environmental issues in depth when Joseph Sax, a consultant to the Department of the Interior, and George Woodwell '50, founder and director of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, visit the College this term as Montgomery Fellows. The Montgomery Endowment was established in 1977 by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F.

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Gorelick blasts political extremism

By Aviva Moss | October 1, 1996

United States Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick last night criticized the growing extremism of the political debates in which government officials and the general population engage in a speech last night. Gorelick discussed "Political Rhetoric and Public Perception," with about 65 students and faculty in Collis Commonground. She said extreme rhetoric "dehumanizes and demonizes" the opposition rather than "illuminate[s] the issues." An ideal political debate is one in which people with opposing ideas can freely and equally discuss prevalent issues in a climate of respect "using democracy as a process to work together" to find solutions, she said. She said while Americans have the right to speak freely, with that right comes responsibility. Gorelick said the extremism of political debates both in the United States and internationally can sometimes lead people to carry out extreme actions . For example, she said, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin stemmed in part from the hateful rhetoric of the opposition.

Opinion

History of Hinman

By Jamie Bedrin | October 1, 1996

The other night as I waited in the Lone Pine Tavern for my dinner, I happened to glance around the room looking at the different artifacts from Dartmouth's history.

News

Garmire joins President's science medal committee

By Erik Tanouye | October 1, 1996

Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering Elsa Garmire is one of three appointees to the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science. Garmire, who has been dean of the Thayer School for one year, joins professors from Stanford University and Yale University on the Committee that will National Medal of Science recipients in November. "The medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering," according to the Valley News. Garmire said she believes recipients of the award receive "just a medal." "I don't think there's money involved," she said.

Opinion

Key to Fountain of Youth Lies in Worms

By Jennifer Dziura | October 1, 1996

Ever since human beings noticed that we have been dying -- and what's more, doing so permanently -- we have been searching for a fountain of youth. At last, we may have found our fountain in some curious mutant worms.

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