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Harvard Bashing is Pointless

By Dan Hogins | April 13, 1995

As Experience Dartmouth (the College's week for introducing prospectives to our school) nears, I begin to wonder what qualities of Dartmouth will remain in the heads of prospectives.

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Commencement should be held on Baker Lawn

By Jonathan G. Belk | April 13, 1995

To the Editor I have many reservations about holding Commencement at Memorial Field. It is my feeling that commencement should be held at Baker's Grand Lawn. First and foremost, I believe that holding Commencement at Memorial Field detracts from the ceremony.

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Graduation move upsets '95s

By Jeffrey Beyer | April 13, 1995

One day after Acting College President James Wright announced the College will move Commencement ceremonies from Baker Library's front lawn to Memorial Field, seniors said they are disappointed with the decision and think the College should not move the ceremonies. Wright said Tuesday he decided to move the ceremonies because the space between Webster Hall and Sanborn Library will not be able to accommodate the expected huge crowds who will want to see U.S.

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Few reserve readings are on-line

By Chin Yoo | April 13, 1995

Two years ago, the Student Assembly initiated a project to eradicate one of the quintessential Dartmouth experiences: waiting frantically in line and fighting to check out a coveted reading in the Reserve Corridor of Baker Library. Now, legal, technical and other barriers have stopped the Assembly in its quest to enable students to obtain reserve readings on their computer screens from the comfort of their rooms. According to Circulation Services Librarian Pamela Ploeger, a fully functioning on-line database of reserve readings is not a strong possibility in the near future. "All the issues make me believe that it is not a good time to put many library resources towards this project," she said.

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Commencement relocation fails to honor Seniors

By Jeremy Katz | April 13, 1995

To the Editor: The Class of '95 has earned a wonderful distinction. We will be the first class whose Commencement exercises will be held in Memorial Stadium, breaking the 40-year-old tradition of commencement in front of Baker Library.

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College begins Poet-in-Residence program

By Jeffrey Beyer | April 13, 1995

Adrienne Su, a 27-year-old poet, will be on campus until the end of the term as the first participant in the College's new Poet-in-Residence program. David Samuel '67 established the program this year as a way to bring young poets to Dartmouth.

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People You Should Avoid

By Brian Deaner | April 12, 1995

With only a few thousand people on the Dartmouth campus at any one time, you may find that you run into some of the same people on a regular basis.

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Academic programs on the rise with the new curriculum

By Charles Davant | April 12, 1995

As the College continues to implement the new curriculum, which stresses increased interaction between departments, some professors say academic programs are the wave of the future. For instance, Women's Studies Program co-Chair Diana Taylor said she would like "to see more departments become like programs," because their diversity gives the curriculum "a much broader range of courses." The academic programs -- groups of classes that are of interest to multiple academic disciplines -- are important to the College's intellectual mission, Acting Dean of the Faculty Karen Wetterhahn said. The academic programs currently consist of African and African-American Studies, Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, Environmental Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Mathematics and Social Sciences, Native American Studies and Women's Studies. Students can major in all academic programs except for African and African-American Studies, Environmental Studies and Native American Studies. Wetterhahn said the programs are organized outside of traditional departments because they "tend to be very interdisciplinary in nature." The strength of programs Taylor said it is the interdisciplinary nature of programs that makes them an important part of the College's curriculum. "We could share more faculty and offer more creative courses," she said.

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Take Care What You Say

By Abiola Lapite | April 12, 1995

Anotable feature ofDartmouth culture isthe tendency tosqueeze all manners ofviews and opinions into a restrictive set of categories, namely left, right or (least often) center.Speaking out for or against anything is enough to get one branded a "conservative" or (more often) a "liberal." Quite apart from whether these terms are as deserving of scorn as they are made out to be, are such terms of reference the only ones there are? Confucius once said, "The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow."These are wise words indeed, and most of us would like to believe that we live by such a maxim. But how can this be true if we come pre-equipped to see the world from an ideological stance?

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