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Professors speak on Dr. Seuss

By Meri Triades | October 23, 1995

As part of the weekend's Homecoming festivities, English Professors William Cook and Donald Pease spoke about the life and writings of Theodor Geisel '25, also known as Dr. Seuss. Cook, in a speech titled "Geisel Hears a Hoot: Dr. Seuss Healer of Sick Minds," said the writings of Dr. Seuss rebelled against the standard forms of children's literature of the time and challenged conventional thinking on the role of women in society. Pease discussed Geisel's experience at Dartmouth and how it shaped his life and career. Speaking before a large crowd in Loew Auditorium, Cook said the aim of traditional children's books was to teach values and morals. The subject matter of children's books was designed not to offend any of its young readers and often misrepresented reality, Cook said.

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Big Green squashes Colgate in Homecoming game

By Eric Petitt | October 23, 1995

Neither the rain nor the 25 mph gusts of wind could stop the fate of the swamp fest Saturday at Memorial Field, as the Dartmouth football team added its own version of Big Green celebration on the centennial anniversary of Dartmouth weekend. Dartmouth, now 4-2 on the year, attacked early and decisively against a smaller and younger Colgate team, in the midst of its worst record [0-7] in school history. The Big Green built a 35-0 half-time lead and then coasted the rest of the way to take the Homecoming victory, and a little sweet revenge from the Red Raiders of Colgate, to the tune of a 35-14 shellacking in front of 6,021 drenched fans. "I think for a lot of people [this game] was personal.

Arts

Oppens shows mastery, versatility in concert

By David S. Guerrerio | October 23, 1995

Ursula Oppens is a pianist of incredible versatility, at her best when called on to reconcile disparate playing styles, whether in the same program, or within the same piece. In Thursday evening's concert, she provided the Spaulding Auditorium audience with a compelling demonstration of her mastery, presenting a program of music from the last two centuries which highlighted the breadth of Oppens' pianistic skill. According to Oppens, the pieces were meant to explore the different challenges offered by virtuosic and non-virtuosic piano compositions.

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Fall Fling packs Spaulding Auditorium

By Aassia Haroon | October 23, 1995

The Fall Fling was one of three acapella concerts of the weekend; Friday night the Dodecaphonics hosted a concert in Collis, which featured an impressive debut from the new all-female group Femme Fatale, and the evening culminated with an uproarious performance by The House Jacks, a California-based group already signed by Warner Brothers record company. In addition, Spontaneous Combustion, a group of five alums, performed late Saturday night in the Top of the Hop. The Decibelles hosted this year's Fall Fling, which took place Saturday night in Spaulding Auditorium.

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Sen. Snowe speaks on legislative life

By Aaron Lisman | October 23, 1995

At an informal discussion Saturday, Senator Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, told a small group of students about her 22 years as a legislator at both the state and national level, and what it means to be a woman with political power. Snowe, speaking in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences to about 20 students, mostly Women in Politics members, said she supports Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., for president in 1996. "The aggregate of his life's experiences would make him a great president," she said. Snowe criticized President Bill Clinton for ignoring moderate Republicans like herself. She said when Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush were in office, legislators of all political persuasions were invited to the White House to debate issues such as taxes and, in Bush's case, the Gulf War. Snowe, who was elected to the Senate in 1994, served in the U.S House of Representatives for 16 years, staring in 1978.

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College celebrates Homecoming: 100th Dartmouth Night

By Michael Ross | October 23, 1995

Crowds of students and alumni filled Hanover's streets and the Green Friday for the College's 100th Dartmouth Night celebration, the traditional beginning of the College's homecoming weekend. Francis Howland '57 called Dartmouth Night "a return to the source." "I do it for me," Howland said.

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Big Green teams to travel over weekend

By Erika Tower | October 20, 1995

While hundreds of people, alumni and alumnae, friends and family, flock to Hanover this weekend to take part in the traditional Homecoming festivities, several of the Big Green's teams will be moving in the opposite direction. Ten different teams, including the men's and women's teams of crew, cross country, soccer, sailing tennis and golf, will play away this weekend, missing out on the Homecoming support. "It's a shame that a lot of teams are away.

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Local businesses anticipate boost in sales this weekend

By Michael Ross | October 20, 1995

Each Homecoming weekend, Hanover businesses reap the economic benefits of the thousands of alumni dollars that flow into town. Restaurants, grocery stores and other local businesses deem Homecoming the most successful business weekend of the year. It "is one of the busiest times of the year for us," Matt Marshall, manager of the Hanover Inn, said. On Dartmouth Night, the Inn is responsible for running 15 different social events, according to Marshall.

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Homecomings at other Ivies and Colgate lack Dartmouth's pizazz

By Charles Davant | October 20, 1995

When students at other Ivy League schools and Colgate University go to sleep tonight, Dartmouth students will probably just be starting to celebrate. The traditions -- and parties -- of Dartmouth's Homecoming are far more extensive than those at our peer institutions. At Harvard's homecoming, "Not much happens," according to Cyrus Moody, a junior in the Harvard University Band. Senior Matt Bruce, an editor of the Harvard Salient, said "Homecoming, if we have any traditions, is laid back.

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hooks captivates audience with lecture on feminism

By Kelly Sidley | October 20, 1995

An educator and authority on feminist theory, bell hooks presented a brown bag lunch discussion and an evening lecture as part of the year-long series "What is Feminism," sponsored by the Women's Resource Center, the Rockefeller Center and the Afro-American Society. hooks, whose spells her name with lower-case letters to symbolize her belief that a person's ideas always supersedes the identity of the presenter, captivated the packed crowd in Collis Common Ground last night with her warm, relaxed demeanor and anecdotal presentation. Before opening the floor to student questions, she discussed the thesis of her latest book, "Killing Rage, Ending Racism," in which she asserts that an end to white supremacy and racism in society will not evoke the idyllic world Martin Luther King once aspired for. The author of the best-selling book "Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism" said that the patriarchal arrangement of society must be eradicated by the feminist movement before we experience the end of sexism. In relation to the black community, hooks has written, "Many black folks do not know what the word feminism means.

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Freshmen build 100th bonfire

By Erin Loback | October 20, 1995

Wearing hard hats and gloves to protect themselves from splinters, members of the freshman class worked all day yesterday to complete the 62-tier bonfire structure for tonight's Dartmouth Night Homecoming ceremony. The bonfire will be set ablaze tonight at the end of the Dartmouth night celebration. The Class of '99 will have fewer than two days to complete the structure. By 10 A.M.

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