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Reports of genital warts exaggerated

By Michael Posey | February 24, 1995

Women's Health Program Manager Jan Sundnas said reports of cases of genital warts on campus have been exaggerated by students. According to a pamphlet published by the American College Health Association, genital warts are a kind of lesion caused by human papillomavirus, or HPV. Genital warts can be found on the shaft or head of a man's penis or on a woman's vagina, vulva or cervix, the pamphlet stated.

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Moore details regulations

By Rebecca Siegel | February 24, 1995

Director of Student Activities Tim Moore told a small group of potential candidates the guidelines for next term's student elections. "Election guidelines are designed to facilitate the election process," Moore said.

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Meyer speaks on assisted suicide

By Mary Ellen Moore | February 24, 1995

William Meyer, a Connecticut man convicted of second-degree manslaughter for helping his terminally-ill father commit suicide, defended his decision in a panel discussion last night. Yesterday's discussion, titled "Compassion -- or Murder: When is Assisted Suicide Homicide?" in 105 Dartmouth Hall was attended by about 75 people. At his father's request, Meyer fixed a plastic bag over his father's head with rubber bands and held his father's hands away from the bag so he would not remove it before the large dose of sedatives he had ingested took effect. "My immediate response was to talk him out of it," Meyer said.

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Capital campaign nears $400M

By David Pichler | February 24, 1995

The College's Will to Excel capital campaign has raised $396 million as of the end of January and is fast approaching its goal of $500 million by June 1996, according to Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Stan Colla. The campaign has now raised 79.2 percent of its goal in about 76.4 percent of the time. Last October, the directors of the campaign increased its goal from $425 million to $500 million.

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Local residents take on College over expansion

By Charles Davant | February 23, 1995

When the College tried to place the Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth on Occom Ridge Road last year, the Occom Pond Neighborhood Preservation Society protested to the Hanover Planning Board. When the College tried to move the Dragon senior society from its current location next to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity to an empty lot behind Delta Delta Delta sorority, the Occom Pond Neighborhood Preservation Society challenged the College in court. The society, which has existed in its present form for about 20 years, has been a perpetual thorn in the College's expansion plans.

Opinion

SA Resolution Is A Step Forward

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 23, 1995

The Student Assembly has made the right decision by supporting the motion to hire a full-time health care professional to serve the needs of Dartmouth's gay, lesbian and bisexual students. The new position would create "a health professional at Dick's house with special training on gay, lesbian and bisexual psychology to provide counseling and guidance." The creation of this position would not give gay, lesbian and bisexual students any special privileges.

Opinion

Housing Policies Inconsistent

By Brian Sung | February 23, 1995

Lately, a lot of conversations, community meetings and even newspaper editorials on this campus have centered on the recent report of the Committee on the First-Year Experience.

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Societies tap members

By Jeffrey Beyer | February 23, 1995

The College's six senior societies tapped and inducted new members this weekend. Phoenix and Cobra are the secret women's societies, and the secret men's societies are Sphinx and Dragon. The College also has two open coed senior societies -- Casque and Gauntlet and Fire and Skoal. Members of senior societies nominate or "tap" members of the junior class for entrance into the society.

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Student charged with wiretapping

By Rebecca Siegel | February 23, 1995

Hanover Police arrested Kimberly Akers, a student at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, yesterday afternoon for allegedly placing two voice-activated tape recorders on a telephone in a Hanover apartment without the owner's consent. Akers is charged with two counts of interception of oral and wire communications. Both charges are Class B felonies. Akers declined to comment on her arrest. According to a press release, Hanover Police investigated the apartment after the victim located one of the recording devices. Akers was released on $1,000 bail and her court date was set for April 12. Possible penalties for a Class B felony include jail time of one to seven years and any other sentence a judge deems appropriate.

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Kritzman speaks on French

By Karen Rose | February 23, 1995

Chair of the Comparative Literature Department and French Professor Lawrence Kritzman said it is necessary to rethink the way French is taught at the college level in a speech before a faculty-dominated audience yesterday. Kritzman gave his speech, entitled "Identity Crises: France, Culture, and the Idea of the Nation," in a filled auditorium in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Rather than speaking about his new book, "Horizons of Despair," Kritzman said he preferred to talk on a subject that has dominated his intellectual life: the study of French. "My greatest pleasures are the nurturances I have received from my students," he said. Kritzman said France is currently undergoing an identity crises.

Arts

Powells joins Barbary Coast rhythm sedtion at Lone Pine

By Aditya Dutt | February 23, 1995

The Barbary Coast jazz ensemble's vocalist, Neisha Powells '95, joined the Coast's rhythm section last night at the Lone Pine Tavern for an evening of standards and ballads. Backed by pianist Luis Scheker '95, bassist Todd Miller '95 and drummer Rob Roses '97, Powells began the set with Cole Porter's classic "You'd be so nice to come home to," a medium-tempo number.

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