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College picks first members of '99 class: 173 women and 161 men selected

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For the first time in its history, the College admitted more women early applicants than men this year. According to a profile of students admitted early, the College admitted 173 women and 161 men out of a pool of 1,281 early applicants. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid compiled the profile. "It is noteworthy that for the first time the College admitted more female than male students," Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg said. This year's total of 173 women also represents the highest number of women applicants accepted early in the past five years. The larger number of women admitted early reflected the increase in the percentage of women who applied early to the College.


Sports

Hockey loses twice; tough games ahead

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While most Dartmouth students were just beginning to think about returning to Hanover for the Winter term, the women's ice hockey team was already back and in action. The team entered the new year with a 5-0-2 record.


Opinion

The 'Big Green' question

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How about the Lone Pines?" I asked my roommate. "Oh, that would be good. At football games we could do this," she proceeded to raise her arms above her head, clasp her hands and sway silently. "Okay, fine.


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Fowler appointed Rocky head

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A faculty panel yesterday approved Syracuse University Political Science Professor Linda Fowler's appointment as head of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences and as a tenured government professor. The Advisory Committee to the President met yesterday afternoon and decided to recommend Fowler's appointment to the College's Board of Trustees. Acting Dean of the Faculty Karen Wetterhahn, the agenda officer for the advisory committee, said Fowler accepted the College's appointment, effective this July 1. "The [College's Board of] Trustees will make the final decision, but I think she is such a strong candidate that everybody is delighted for her acceptance," she said. Fowler said from her home in Syracuse, N.Y.


Sports

Ski team tries to build on last year

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Since 1924, Dartmouth alumni have competed in each of the Olympic games and most of them began their successful careers as a part of the Dartmouth ski team. Last season was a challenging one for the Big Green.


Opinion

A foreign affair

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Perhaps it is self-indulgent, but today my column takes the form of a parable; it is a true story that raises important questions about the nature of social life at the College. Fifteen people -- six women and nine men -- set out for a distant country on a Foreign Study Program.


News

Cause of illness remains mystery

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A meeting yesterday between College Health Services officials yielded no new information about the cause of the mysterious illness that swept the campus at the end of last term. More than 100 students were affected by the illness that still has yet to be identified. "There really wasn't anything new to come out of [the] meeting," said Dr. Nield Mercer, assistant director for clinical affairs for College Health Services. Mercer said Health Services, the New Hampshire Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.



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Fowler appointment awaits final approval

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Syracuse University Political Science Professor Linda Fowler confirmed yesterday that she is likely to become the next head of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. "I have an offer from the Dean [of the Faculty] to be head of the Rockefeller Center with tenure in the government department, pending approval" by the Advisory Committee to the President, Fowler said in a telephone interview from Syracuse, N.Y. Fowler said if the committee, composed of senior faculty members and chaired by the College President, approves her appointment she will accept the five-year position and begin work on July 1. The Rockefeller Center has been without a head since Geography Professor George Demko decided not to apply for another five-year term last February. Assistant Dean of the Faculty George Wolford, who chaired the committee searching for a new head of the Rockefeller Center, said the advisory committee will likely meet this week and a decision on Fowler will "probably be finalized by Friday." In a typical decision the College's Board of Trustees makes a final offer based on the advisory committee's recommendations, according to Roxanne Waldner, the acting director for the Rockefeller Center. Fowler, who specializes in American public policy and the U.S.


Arts

Coming soon to Leede

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On Friday, Jan. 27, The Dave Matthews Band together with Big Head Todd and the Monsters will perform at Leede Arena.


News

Sculpture to reach old heights

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The 1995 Winter Carnival Council will attempt to break the pattern of lackluster snow sculptures by reviving a building method used more than 20 years ago that allowed for more elaborate designs. This year's planned sculpture of a wolf perched on a rock howling at the moon -- in fitting with the "Call of the Wild" theme -- will be constructed by packing snow around a frame made of wood and chicken wire, a technique used to build the towering sculptures of past decades. "Since the early '80s the snow sculpture has been built by packing down snow and building tiers," said Patricia Bankowski '95, who is in charge of building this year's snow sculpture. "When you build in tiers you have to go two inches in for every additional tier, and the process makes the sculpture seem more blocky." Bankowski said she researched the history of Winter Carnival looking for the reason why the tier technique replaced the frame technique. "It is only a rumor that the frame technique was abandoned because of safety reasons," Bankowski said.




Arts

'Revels' celebrates 20th year

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While most students returned home over interim, the Hopkins Center hosted "Revels North", a Christmas celebration of story and song, for the local community.


Arts

New Hampshire, Vermont compromise on bridge: After months of controversy, the two states decide the new Ledyard Bridge will be 59 feet, 10 inches wide

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New Hampshire and Vermont officials reached a compromise last Friday on the width of a new, $10 million Ledyard Bridge, finally ending a lengthy standoff that threatened the entire project. Leon Kenison, assistant commissioner of New Hampshire's Department of Transportation said, "We hope to award a contract [for the construction of the bridge] next September or October, and I expect it will take two years to construct." Under the terms of the compromise, the new bridge, which will span the Connecticut River between Hanover and Norwich, Vt., will be 59 feet 10 inches wide. New Hampshire officials originally planned to make the bridge 68-feet wide, but after battles with New Hampshire and Vermont residents and Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the two states agreed to the new width. "The Ledyard Bridge is extremely important to the Connecticut River communities and it must be replaced," New Hampshire Transportation Commissioner Charles O'Leary told the Associated Press last Friday after the decision was announced. "We could not accept the possibility of canceling the project," O'Leary said. Kenison said the current bridge is safe to drive on but is deteriorating. Construction crews will build half of the replacement bridge and allow traffic to pass through and then dismantle the old bridge and finish construction on the new bridge, Kenison said. Last year New Hampshire officials planned to make the bridge 68-feet wide, but they reduced this width to 62-feet last Sept., after Hanover residents pushed for a 55-foot span. On Dec.


News

SA to elect new vice president

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Early next week, the Student Assembly will hold an internal election to select a vice president to replace Rukmini Sichitiu '95, who took over as Assembly president when Danielle Moore '95 resigned in November. At this point, most Assembly members are reluctant to name themselves as candidates.


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College investigates outbreak

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College health officials will meet today to discuss the mysterious illness that swept the campus at the end of last term, afflicting more than 100 Dartmouth students just before final examinations. Dr. Nield Mercer, assistant director for clinical affairs for College Health Services, said although the illness has yet to be publicly identified, Health Services Director Dr. Jack Turco will meet with his staff this morning to discuss the investigation into the sickness. The most common symptoms of the illness experienced by students were nausea and vomiting, according to Mercer. Health Services and the New Hampshire Department of Health launched investigations into the illness after the outbreak occurred during the first week of December. Both organizations sent out electronic mail questionnaires to students who had said they were ill that asked students to recall what they had eaten up to three days prior to the outbreak and asked them to list their symptoms. The New Hampshire Public Health Service also took blood samples from both sick and healthy students during the outbreak and two weeks after, Mercer said. The illness struck Matthew Silvia '96 at 3 a.m.


Sports

Basketball off to slow start

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The men's basketball team finished its vacation schedule with an 82-70 loss to the Vermont Catamounts Monday night in Burlington. After falling behind by as many as 16 points and fighting back several times, the Big Green took a 48-46 lead with 13 minutes to play. But it was all Vermont from there, as the Catamounts dominated the remaining minutes. "Once we got ahead we stopped doing what got us there.


News

Amtrak may take Montrealer off White River tracks

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Dartmouth students may soon lose the option of taking the train to and from the College if Amtrak follows through on its plan to eliminate the Montrealer train line on April 1. Despite local efforts to save the train in Vermont, Amtrak maintains it cannot keep the line unless state governments foot the bill. "If the states want to pick up the costs, we will be willing to listen," Amtrak Public Affairs Spokesman Steven Taub said. But New Hampshire Transportation Commissioner Charles O'Leary said the train's cancellation seems imminent. "It's pretty clear to me that Amtrak is in a fairly tenuous situation and could only be convinced if the full operating costs [of the Montrealer] were picked up by the benefiting states," O'Leary said. "I don't think it likely that all routes Amtrak has decided to cancel can be saved by a ground swell of local initiative unless that ground swell comes cash in hand," he said. The elimination of the Montrealer, the only train that stops at the White River Junction, Vt.