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Baseball splits four with first-place Yale

By Eric Petitt | April 24, 1995

The Dartmouth baseball team laid its best hand on the table against Ivy League and Red Rolfe division leader Yale this past weekend. For the most part, the team played virtually errorless ball, scattered the field with hits, and the young staff pitched like veterans. Yale, champions of the Ivies for three years running, matched the Big Green's best offer, resulting split of the four games between the division rivals. "We have no regrets.

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Taj Mahal gives Dartmouth the blues

By Kyle Ancowitz | April 24, 1995

Taj Mahal electrified the audience in Spaulding Auditorium Saturday night with a inspired blend of straight-ahead blues and soulful ballads. Mahal, who is well known for his wide-ranging musical influences, performed original tunes, as well as blues standards infused with subtle West African, Caribbean, and zydeco flavorings. Playing with confidence and charisma, Mahal had the thrilledaudience dancing in the aisles. Mahal, performing solo throughout the concert, began at the piano pounding out loud, excited blues and stomping his feet as the audience warmed.Mahal flirted with danger with his slightly risque "Big-Legged Mama's are Back in Style," but his confident, energetic vocals had half of the crowd blushing and the other half laughing in spite of itself. Mahal turned to his guitar with the same energy.

Sports

Brown beats men's lacrosse 21-9

By Jeffrey Beyer | April 24, 1995

With a 7-1 record entering Saturday's game against the Brown Bears, the men's lacrosse team was looking to earn its place among the Ivy elite. But the Bears gave Dartmouth an education in lacrosse, and showed the Big Green they will have to wait a little while longer to be the best in the Ancient Eight. Brown thrashed the Big Green 21-9, running them up and down the field.

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Carter '94 calls for students to take action

By Jaime Bedrin | April 24, 1995

Christine Carter '94, speaking before about 100 people in Collis Common Ground on Friday, called for students to take action and start changing the way they think about sexual assault and the College's social system. Carter is the author of an anthology of personal accounts of date-rape survivors, titled "The Other Side of Silence." The book will be published next month. In her speech, Carter said the social system that worked for Dartmouth 50 years ago is no longer acceptable in the 1990s. "What people don't realize is that in defending the old, we prevent the improved," Carter said.

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Guy Dixon '95 charged with indecent exposure

By Rebecca Siegel | April 24, 1995

Guy Dixon '95 was arrested late Wednesday night and charged with indecent exposure and resisting arrest after he allegedly streaked the Green as part of a large group. According to a Hanover Police press release, Dartmouth's Department of Safety and Security reported at 11:37 p.m.

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Abzug speaks on environmental policy

By Kathryn Bieneman | April 24, 1995

Speaking on the weekend commemorating the 25th anniversary of Earth Day, former U.S. Congresswoman Bella Abzug said more women should be involved in helping determining the United Nations' environmental policy. Before a full house in Collis Common Ground on Friday evening, Abzug said since women do not own large-pollution creating companies, they do not have a vested interest in maintaining environmentally damaging policies. "Women are not superior to men," she said.

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Freedman says he is enjoying his sabbatical

By James M> Hunnicutt | April 24, 1995

College President James Freedman, in the final two months of his six-month sabbatical in Cambridge, Mass., said Friday he is in good health and is enjoying his time away from Dartmouth. "The sabbatical is going well," Freedman said in a telephone interview.

Arts

Ivory honored with film award, showing of 'Jefferson in Paris'

By A. Cate Avoes | April 21, 1995

The following is an exclusive interview between film director James Ivory andThe Dartmouth . Ivory was honored last night with the Dartmouth Film Award at a ceremony which included the Upper Valley premiere of his film "Jefferson in Paris." The Dartmouth: You began as a documentary filmmaker.

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Lightfoot '92: Author of hate mail or just 'a decent person?'

By Jeffrey Beyer | April 21, 1995

While some acquaintances describe Anthony Lightfoot '92 as angry and impulsive, others say the 25-year-old student who is currently in police custody in connection with a hate mail incident is a "decent person" with a strong worth ethic. On Friday, the Hanover Police Department named Lightfoot a suspect in the case of a hate letter sent to Morris Whitaker '74, the treasurer of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association. According to criminal complaint filed by the FBI in U.S.

Sports

Baseball faces twin twin-bill at Yale

By Eric Petitt | April 21, 1995

A chance. That is what the youthful Dartmouth baseball team has earned this weekend, a chance to rip first place from the hands of powerhouse Yale on the Bulldog's own turf. It is a long shot, to say the least, but it is all the players can ask for. This weekend, the Dartmouth baseball team makes the long trek to New Haven for a four-game series against the leader of the Red Rolfe Division, Yale. All signs point towards a fourth consecutive title for the Bulldogs, who are 9-3 in the Ivies, three games ahead of second-place Dartmouth.

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Rich holds meeting of new Assembly

By James M> Hunnicutt | April 21, 1995

Just one week after student elections, next year's Student Assembly met last night to elect officers and hear Assembly President-elect Jim Rich '96 present his agenda. James Horowitz '98 beat out Class of 1998 Vice President Tom Franks to become next year's Assembly secretary.

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