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DHMC city services trust fund may soon be empty

By Sarah Gerry | November 13, 1996

The fund established by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to help pay for the city services it uses and its impact on the community will be exhausted by 2003 if current spending patterns continue. According to DHMC's Vice President of Regional Planning Steve Marion, the $2-million trust fund had been growing until last year when Lebanon city officials saw the fund as an opportunity to fund public works projects.

News

Freedman discusses Thurgood Marshall

By Erik Tanouye | November 12, 1996

College President James Freedman explained why former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was one of the four most important African-Americans in this century in a discussion last night in the Cutter-Shabazz Hall lounge. "I think his standing ... when history gets a little distance ... is going to be very high," Freedman said. Freedman discussed Marshall and the current status of civil rights with about 12 students and Assistant Dean of the College Sylvia Langford. Freedman served as a law clerk under Marshall in his first year out of law school.

Sports

Men's tennis concludes season

By Hondo Sen | November 12, 1996

The Big Green tennis team was in action for the final time this fall as it headed down to Princeton University for the Rolex Eastern Tennis Championships.

News

Woodwell blazes environmental path

By Jake Elberg | November 12, 1996

Montgomery Fellow George Masters Woodwell '50 fondly recalled his days in the Dartmouth Outing Club as he sat in the sun-lit living room of the Montgomery House. Woodwell's involvement in the DOC and his studies in botany built upon his interest in environmental issues -- an interest which eventually led him to found the Woods Hole Research Center. Now, as president and director of Woods Hole, an institute for global environmental research, Woodwell has returned to Dartmouth to share his passion for the environment. "I don't get a chance to do things like this regularly," he said.

News

Women discuss early College memories

By Jess Jacob | November 12, 1996

Banners strung across dormitory halls proclaiming, "Co-hogs go home!" welcomed Mary Ellen Colt '76 to Dartmouth in 1972. In an interview last week in the Hanover Inn, two members of the Class of 1976, Colt and classmate Pamela Gile said the 1971 Board of Trustees' decision to coeducate the College did not immediately lead to warm welcome for women arriving at Dartmouth. Although the College had accepted female transfer students for years, men who were acclimated to the male-dominated student scene were not ready to allow women to violate their space, Gile said. Colt and Gile said they found their own space on sports teams and other women found theirs in all-female residence halls.

Sports

Men's soccer ties Columbia in OT

By Brian Fleming | November 12, 1996

When the Dartmouth men's soccer team stepped onto a muddy Chase Field on Sunday, it knew it was out to earn some respect from its Ivy League foe, Columbia, and salvage the remains of what has been an up and down season with a victory. The Big Green certainly did earn some respect on Sunday grinding out a gritty performance, but they fell short of the win, settling for a 1-1 tie with the Lions. With the tie Dartmouth now stands at 6-7-2 overall and 2-2-2 in Ivy League play.

News

Trustees to discuss activities fee raise

By Jake Elberg | November 12, 1996

The Board of Trustees will discuss a possible increase in the student activities fee when they meet to discuss the budget in February. Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia said the proposed increase would be the first increase of the fee since the late 1980s. "There is a proposal on the table and I know the Trustees are going to be looking at that and a variety of other things" when they look at the budget, Sateia said.

Opinion

Debt Again

By Jamie Bedrin | November 12, 1996

My last Visa bill included various charges for books, both from Wheelock Books and the Dartmouth Bookstore.

Arts

Hosmer's 'Medusa' piece transcends traditional disciplines

By Kelly Sidley | November 12, 1996

Mythological legend recounts that Medusa's gaze turned her admirers into lifeless stone bodies. Harriet Hosmer's marble neoclassical bust of "Medusa" (1854), a recent acquisition for the Hood Museum of Art, captures in stone her perplexing demeanor before Medusa metamorphoses into a Gorgon. Medusa is both a creator and destroyer, seductive and cruel in mythological history.

News

Pundit Cook enjoys his place in politics

By Jacqueline Rose | November 12, 1996

Never in his wildest dreams did political pundit Charles Cook imagine he would one day attend private meetings with the Vice President or be accosted in airports by Congressmen eager to lobby him. Beaming, Cook, the editor of The Cook Political Report and author of a twice-weekly column for the political newspaper Roll Call, exclaimed, "It's neat to be known as an expert." Cook also appears weekly on the Cable News Network and is a veteran of "Meet the Press" and "The David Brinkley Show," which he called "the granddaddy of shows." "The TV stuff is fun," he said.

News

Cook: both parties have no regrets

By Sara Burch | November 12, 1996

Political analyst Charles Cook explained yesterday why the Democrats, both the President and members of Congress, have no regrets about last week's elections. Approximately 50 students and faculty members attended Cook's speech, "Winners and Losers: Analysis of the 1996 Election." in the Hinman Forum of the Rockefeller Center. Cook said winners and losers go hand-in-hand in an election.

News

COC approves new engineering-physics major

By Joseph C. Scott | November 12, 1996

The Committee of Chairs voted unanimously to adopt a new engineering-physics major, which will go into effect next fall, and discussed grade inflation at its meeting yesterday afternoon. The new major is designed for those students "who want to sit on the fence" between physics and engineering, instead of focusing on either one, Physics and Astronomy Chair Mary Hudson said. This major would differ from a modified major or major and minor combination in that engineering and physics would each make up half of the requirements, she said. "Several students are enthusiastic" about the new major, Hudson said.

Arts

'Mother Courage' production lacks cohesion of original

By Jess McCarter | November 11, 1996

The stage setting looks like footage of the recent civil war in Bosnia. A guard tower is manned by a bearded soldier, and the background is a gray and black curtain, torn and dirty. No raising of the main curtain, no trumpet fanfare, not even a dimming of the house lights opened the Saturday evening performance of this term's mainstage play, "Mother Courage and Her Children." The soldier simply walks on stage and begins one of the typical narrative monologues that Bertolt Brecht uses between scenes. It is minimal theater.

Opinion

Problems with 'PC'

By Meylysa Tseng | November 11, 1996

I'm writing in response to the many harsh things I have heard said against political correctness, a phrase I believe has been abused for too long on college campuses.

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