Students to go to national bridge tournament in May

Four Dartmouth students defeated perennial powerhouses Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Northeast Intercollegiate Bridge Championships earlier this month and earned a free trip to Memphis, Tenn., for the national finals in May. Dartmouth beat Harvard in a tie-breaker at the annual card players' tournament, which was held Feb.

Basketballers shine during season

Lonergan hits 1,000 point mark by end of third season

Music dept. chair Jon Appleton composes electroacoustic music

Music Department Chair Jon Appleton said he has always been grateful to have been given the ability to compose music and the opportunity to teach students. Appleton has taught at the College since 1967. "I've always known that I wanted to teach music," he said. "I've given my professional life to Dartmouth and to my music and I have loved doing that," Appleton said.

Basketballers shine during season

Stamp '96 finishes four years of hard work on a high note

Rich '96 asks Assembly to focus on community

Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 asked the Assembly to focus on issues of community next term, during last night's Assembly meeting. Looking back on a "tumultuous" Winter term, Rich said he has found the campus "extremely combative." Referring to several incidents of racism and homophobia that have marred the term, Rich asked the general Assembly to return from spring break with "a fresh mind next term about how we can foster an atmosphere at Dartmouth ... where we have a common community, because right now we don't." Rich said the Assembly will "promote more positive discourse on campus ... But I hope for more tangible solutions." Rich also asked Assembly members to leave politics behind when carrying out their responsibilities for the Assembly, especially in light of next term's elections. "I sense that there are factions building on the Assembly," Rich said.

Women's Empowerment: What Is It Anyway?

Ok, so it's four years later. I am a senior, a soon-to-be graduate, and a woman. What do I want to do with the rest of my life?

College reflects on 1986 shanties

Mehta Misunderstands Role of Defense Attorney

To the Editor: Sachin Mehta '97 would apparently dispense with trials because he knows who is guilty and who is not guilty.

White '75 adjusts to life on Capitol Hill

After more than a year on Capitol Hill, freshman GOP Representative Rick White '75 R-Wash. said he is still surprised by his leap into the national political arena. With no prior political experience, the Seattle area lawyer ran for Congress in 1994 and, successfully taking advantage of a strong anti-incumbent mood among voters, was elected to the House of Representatives. "I sometimes think I haven't paid my dues," White said in an interview with The Dartmouth yesterday morning, after speaking to Director of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Linda Fowler's Government 3 class on the American political system about his experiences. A political start It was at the College that White first got involved in politics, when he worked for the 1972 presidential campaign of Democrat George McGovern. He said he was responsible for door-to-door campaigning in the nearby town of Enfield, N.H., and justified his involvement with a Democratic campaign by citing figures showing that one-third of the House GOP freshman class were former Democrats. "Dartmouth had a huge impact on me ... the sort of education you get here, the process you go through... has been hugely significant," he said of his years as an undergraduate French major at the College. In addition to acting in student plays and working on WDCR's broadcast team, he said he was "the worst member of the ski team for two years running." While White said the College has changed since his departure, most notably in the increase in female students, he said he found the campus "reassuringly the same in some ways." "I think the changes, by and far, were good changes," he said. After graduating, White said he worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for a year, then studied at the University of Paris and worked as a translator.

'Parker's Mood' CD fuses talents of three major jazz figures

The trio of Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride and Stephen Scott recently released "Parker's Mood," an impressive compilation of Charlie Parker favorites. For "Bird" lovers out there, the Trio provides interesting and creative interpretations of the original pieces, using only trumpet and flugelhorn, bass and piano.

Eilersten '99 is not the typical freshman

For international students, leaving home to go to school in the United States is a major, sometimes life-changing decision.

A Piece of Fluff

All right. So this is going to be a little fluffy. But what do they have against fluff anyway? Fluff-bashing is what I call it.

Anonymous Group Parallels Unabomber In Use of Press

To the Editor: One year ago, The New York Times and The Washington Post bowed to threats from the terrorist known as the Unabomber and printed his fringe political tract, ostensibly in the interest of public safety.

Fencing team places sixth in tournament

The Dartmouth fencing team finished its season two weekends ago as they traveled to UNH to compete in the New England Championships. The Big Green fencers managed to come away with a sixth place overall finish in the twelve-team field.

National Mythology

In North Korea, history textbooks used in schools teach that Kim Il-Sung, longtime Communist dictator of North Korea, single-handedly wiped out an entire battalion of Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Coverage of Heptagonals

To the Editor: I would like to comment on Monday's article concerning the men's and women's track team showings at the Heptagonal games.

Six declare Assembly candidacy

Jeremy Segal '97 has announced he will join the five other candidates who have announced they will run for Student Assembly president in April. Several students have also announced they will run for president an vice president of their class councils. Associate Director of Student Activities Linda Kennedy said she cannot release the official list of all candidates for Student Assembly, class councils and the Committee on Student Organizations until candidates are approved by the dean's office. Segal, who is an undergraduate advisor, and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Marching Band, said he wants to see the "Assembly actually do something." He said the Assembly has "enough committees and subcommittees to guarantee that it's going to be a bureaucratic nightmare.

Tracksters qualify for NCAAs

The women's track team finished in seventh place this weekend at the ECAC Championship meet, held at Northeastern University, their best finish in seven years. The distance runners again came through for the Big Green, as they racked up four provisional or outright qualifications for the NCAA Championships and scored 28 points to be the top Ivy League school in the meet.

New Dorms To Become More Desierable

To the Editor: Since ORL announced the decision to change the East Wheelock Cluster, making it an experimental "academic" dorm, I have heard countless students complain about what a horrible idea this is.

Flyer Represented Events Accurately

As most of you should know by now, in a flyer distributed last week, an anonymous group related a series of incidents that happened to me after I was quoted discussing Bob Dole's appearance at Alpha Delta fraternity earlier this term.