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Football team looks to tackle title

By Oliver Prichard | August 14, 1996

The lazy days of summer are quickly becoming numbered. It will not be long before the leaves turn, there's a chill in the air and the crowds flock to Memorial Stadium on early Saturday afternoons. That's right.

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All wait-listed students will be given fall housing

By David Kung | August 14, 1996

The Office of Residential Life last week notified all 153 students who were originally placed on the wait list for Fall-term housing that they will be able to live on campus next term. However, 62 more students -- 20 with provisional status on their Dartmouth Plans and 42 late applicants for housing -- still have not been guaranteed on-campus rooms for the fall. Associate Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty said he was pleased ORL was able to provide housing for everyone on the original wait list, even though it took longer than expected. Beatty said the delay in assigning students off of the wait list was "because the size of the entering and transfer classes were much larger than expected" and because of the traditional popularity of the Fall term with upperclass students. "Housing is always tight in the fall," he said. Beatty also said the 62 students still awaiting housing are not necessarily guaranteed an assignment. "With the provisionals and late list we are more than happy to house them," he said.

Sports

Orr hired as coach of women's soccer team

By Eric Petitt | August 14, 1996

The Dartmouth College athletic department finally filled the void left by former women's soccer Head Coach Steve Sampson -- at least temporarily. The College announced on Tuesday that it had signed former professional soccer player and coach Neil Orr to a four-month contract as head coach of the Dartmouth women's soccer team. "After a long and extensive search, we feel very fortunate to have landed on our feet with an outstanding player and coach to lead us in 1996," Josie Harper, Dartmouth's associate athletic director, said in a release. "We are excited to have a coach the caliber of Neil Orr make the four-month commitment he has made to the Dartmouth women's soccer program." Orr, a Scottish native who is also an avid two-handicap golfer, retired from a professional soccer career in Great Britain which spanned three decades in 1995. Orr also is also no stranger to the Upper Valley area -- he has coached in a number of camps, including the Lightning Soccer Camps held at Dartmouth in the summer. "Through our camps, Neil has become familiar with the coaches and players at Dartmouth," Harper said. She added that Orr's primary mission will be "sustaining and raising the team's already-high level [of play], and leading the women to more national prominence." Following the end of the 1996 soccer season, the college athletic department will reopen its search for a permanent Head Coach of the women's soccer team.

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Doctor says less can be more

By James M> Hunnicutt | August 14, 1996

Dr. Gil Welsh, who teaches a course at Dartmouth Medical School, said doctors should treat fewer low-risk people than currently treated in a lecture Monday evening. Nearly one dozen students, many of them planning to be doctors, attended the lecture, which was held at the Zimmerman Lounge in Blunt Alumni Center. Welch, a general internist by training, teaches a course at DMS on managed health care and practice patterns. In 1993 he published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Advances in Diagnostic Imaging and Overestimation of Disease Prevalence and the Benefits of Therapy," which he repeatedly cited during the lecture. Focusing mainly on heart illnesses, Welch talked about common measures of disease prevention, especially early testing. Welch began by explaining the different "risk groups," susceptible to a given disease and to what degree the medical community should focus on each group. Using heart disease as an example, Welch said the group of people with the highest risk of developing heart disease usually receives the most medical attention. He also asserted people with moderate amounts of risk deserve significant attention, because this moderate-risk group includes the greatest number of members. "Will it cost more?

Opinion

Search for Continuity with the D-Plan

By Michelle Kraemer | August 14, 1996

With one week left in the term, I find myself ready for a familiar ritual: packing my life into Xerox boxes, locating homes for my fridge and futon and bidding farewell to a room I have known for only ten short weeks.

Sports

Two sailors honored with trips to Japan

By David Kung | August 14, 1996

Dartmouth sailors Casey Hogan '99 and Heather Melanson '97 and Dartmouth sailing coach Brian Doyle have been chosen to participate in the 1996 U.S./Japan Goodwill Regatta. This annual regatta, which began in 1990, pits the best sailors from the U.S.

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Students gather for community dinner

By Karen Rose | August 14, 1996

Administrators brought concerns about decision-making and student-administrator relationships to the Programming Board's third Community Dinner last night in the Collis Common Ground In keeping with the dinner's theme of decision-making, nine administrators brought problems to the podium seeking student input. Among the administrators present were Dean of the College Lee Pelton, Director of College Dining Services Peter Napolitano and Director of Career Services Skip Sturman. Summer Programming Board co-Chair Karen Lefrak '98, who organized the dinner with Associate Director of Student Activities Linda Kennedy, said, "The purpose of the dinner was to bring together students and administrators in a setting where they don't ordinarily get to interact and foster discussion between the two groups." Some of the topics that students and administrators discussed over dinner were self-segregation of groups on campus, the sense of community at Dartmouth, social space and programming and the role of mediation at the College. The dinner was open to all students for a two dollar charge and about 40 students attended. Focusing on relationships between administrators and students, Pelton spoke informally for 15 minutes before the dinner. "The purpose of the dinner was to create an opportunity for interested students and administrators to make a better community," he said. The job of an administrator is to "provide care for the long-term welfare of the institution." Pelton went on to make some observations about relations between administrators and students. "Not all decisions administrators make require input from students," Pelton said.

Arts

Hanover-Hartford television station goes on-line

By Charles Davant | August 14, 1996

In an era when people shop on the Internet, conduct research on the Internet and communicate on the Internet, it makes sense that they would watch television on the Internet. Well, almost. The local NBC affiliate, WNNE-TV Hartford-Hanover has started a World Wide Web page, which includes local weather, television listings and links to other web sites. WNNE Account Executive Wally Caswell, who is in charge of the website, said the studio is promoting the site as "a link to a lot of other great places." "We are a place to start your browsing day," he said. On the page, station meteorologist Tom Hoyt's weather forecast is frequently updated and presented in an easy-to-read manner.

News

Beta apologizes for June incident

By Jeffrey Beyer | August 14, 1996

Beta Theta Pi fraternity saw its request to hold Fall-term rush denied at a judicial hearing last Tuesday, and the organization yesterday released a letter to the community apologizing for its involvement in an incident on June 26. The letter states that on the night of June 26, one Beta brother tackled a Sigma Nu fraternity brother on the lawn of The Tabard coed fraternity.

Arts

Although unfinished, 'The Mineola Twins' entertains

By Debbie Lee | August 12, 1996

Be warned: do not ever go to see "The Mineola Twins" on the supposition that it has anything at all to do with "The Venetian Twins." It may prove the vast potential for humor in the "mistaken identity" gag, staple fare of the Dartmouth entertainment scene this summer, but there the similarity abruptly ends.

Sports

N. H. scrapes out win in Shriners' game

By Eric Petitt | August 12, 1996

Dartmouth's own Memorial Field played host to one of the oldest sports traditions in the Upper Valley on Saturday, as the best high school football players from New Hampshire and Vermont lined up in the 43rd annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl. And in front of a near-capacity crowd of cheering fans on Dartmouth football's home field, the All-Stars didn't disappoint. Averting a major upset, New Hampshire squeaked by with a touchdown with just over four minutes to go to eek out a 13-7 win over the Vermont all-stars. Vermont had a chance to tie the game, but a fumble with two minutes to go inside the New Hampshire five-yard line ended the Green Mountain State's upset bid. New Hampshire, winner of the Shrine Bowl for the past eight straight years, upped their overall record to 30 wins, 11 losses and two ties against their neighbors across the Connecticut River. New Hampshire's game-winning tally came from the likes of Russell Massahos, a running back from Pinkerton High School, who galloped 72 yards past diving Vermonters to ice the win. For the last 40 years, Dartmouth has played host to the Shrine Bowl, a charity event staged by the Shriners Rotary Club, which raises money for children's hospitals across North America.

News

No Montgomery Fellow yet named

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | August 12, 1996

Dartmouth will not be hosting a Montgomery Fellow this summer, while Fall term's Fellow has yet to be chosen. The College did not host a Montgomery Fellow this term due to the ongoing renovation of the Montgomery House on Rope Ferry Road, executive director of the Montgomery Endowment Barbara Gerstner said. "I'm doing extensive work at the house," she said.

News

1998 President strives to create class unity

By Jeffrey Beyer | August 12, 1996

Although Randi Barnes '98 has been involved in student politics going back to her high school days, she is far from a one-dimensional "career politician." Barnes -- who has been president of the 1998 Class Council since Fall term of her freshman year -- also finds the time to play a sport and be an active member in her sorority in addition to fulfilling her duties as the leader of the Class of 1998. Sitting on the back porch of Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority yesterday afternoon, Barnes used a study break to discuss her time at Dartmouth so far, and where she thinks the Class of 1998 is headed in the next two years. Regarding her decision nearly two years ago to run for president of her class, Barnes said, "Coming here as a freshman, there are a lot of things about the College you don't know or understand.

News

Construction will block Collis walkway

By James M> Hunnicutt | August 12, 1996

Starting today, construction crews will be ripping apart the pavement between the Collis Center, Robinson Hall and Thayer Dining Hall, making most of the area inaccessible during normal working hours. Director of Facilities Planning Gordon DeWitt said the work will probably be completed by early October.

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