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UFC determines funds

By Micheal Posey | November 23, 1994

The Undergraduate Finance Committee decided last week to allocate roughly the same amount as last year to each of the nine campus-wide programming organizations funded by the $35-per-term student activities fee. The allocations came in the form of a recommendation to Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia, who was in charge of the UFC's proceedings, about how to split up the $430,000 that will be collected this year in activities fees.

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Teaching assistants aid in a variety of ways, departments

By Amy Semet | November 23, 1994

A wide range of classes in a variety of departments rely on students as teaching assistants but their role differs greatly from the role played by their counterparts at many other top-ranked schools. Whereas many colleges rely on undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants to play an active role in the classroom, TAs at Dartmouth are utilized more in the background. Teaching assistants are used most heavily and regularly in the sciences to help with lab sections, but they are also employed in humanities and social science courses. In Education 20, Educational Issues in Contemporary Society, TAs are used to grade papers, lead discussion sessions and do reading checks under the guidance of the professor, Professor Andrew Garrod said. "If there were no TAs, we would need to dramatically revamp Education 20," Garrod said.

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Bollinger praised

By Jeffrey Beyer | November 23, 1994

Of the three goals College Provost Lee Bollinger set out to accomplish two terms ago when he came on board Parkhurst Administration, the one he is most passionate about is enhancing the College's intellectual life. "It's the pursuit of knowledge that's the most exciting part of an institution," he said. In his excitement to work on the institution's intellectual life, he realized he may have hastily committed himself to teaching too much too soon.

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Students help plan changes to government dept.

By Nick Gansner | November 23, 1994

The Government Department's steering committee provides students with a unique opportunity to interact with professors and administrators and to control changes made within the department. Chaired by Sabrina Serrantino '95, the steering committee is reviewing candidates for three new faculty positions, working to improve the department's advising system and analyzing the causes for the recent decline in the number of female government majors. The committee allows "[government] students to articulate their concerns" to professors, Serrantino said.

Arts

Booking big acts is no small feat

By Jackie Rose | November 23, 1994

This term the College hosted two giants of the recording industry. The Pretenders played in Leede Arena last month and Natalie Merchant, formerly of the 10,000 Maniacs, performed in Webster Hall last weekend. In the past few years, Billy Joel, the B-52s, 10,000 Maniacs, Phish and Ziggy Marley have performed at the College. Despite this plethora of popular music acts, Hanover doesn't strike one as a cultural mecca, probably because attracting big-name singers is a complicated process involving the coordination of logistical details and a lot of luck. According to Linda Kennedy, the coordinator of student programs and adviser to the Programming Board, the Programming Board can only bring a band to campus if the band is on tour and will be performing in the Hanover vicinity. Kennedy explained that when a band decides to go on tour, agents representing the band try to sell gigs to promoters.

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BUTA stages satire on black life

By Micheal Posey | November 23, 1994

The Black Underground Theater Association captivated its audience this weekend at Collis Common Ground with its presentation of another funny and thought-provoking production titled "As Yet 'Untitled" and directed by Natalie Herring '95. As the lights darkened and the BUTA cast took the stage, the audience knew that "As Yet 'Untitled" would be something different.

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Early applicants up

By Karen Rose | November 23, 1994

The Admissions Office received 14 percent more early decision applicants this year than last year although statistically the overall applicant pool is relatively similar. The College received 1,281 early applications, slightly more than 300 of whom will receive acceptance letters by the middle of December, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg said. Furstenberg described this year's applicant pool as "very similar to last year." But while academic credentials and minority and geographic percentages have stayed about the same, the percentage of female applicants has increased. Forty eight percent of this year's early applicants (610) are female compared to 43 percent last year (487), according to a comparative profile of the early applicant pools from the last five years. According to the profile, the academic statistics have remained relatively constant over the past few years. Average SAT scores of this year's early decision applicants vary little from last year.

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Gottlieb '95 awarded

By Rena M. Chicklas | November 22, 1994

Dartmouth senior Owen Gottlieb has become a familiar face in U. Magazine, a colorful national magazine that is freely-distributed every month on college campuses across the country. After appearing in a profile in last month's issue, Owen's name appeared again.

Arts

Gospel Choir gives spirited concert

By Daisy Alpert | November 22, 1994

The Dartmouth College Gospel Choir makes you feel so good, it would be almost impossible to walk out of one their concerts not singing or pledging to join. The choir's fun is infectious.

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Nuestras Voces dramatizes issues of Latino identity

By David Lelesi | November 22, 1994

The Latina theatrical group Nuestra Voces captivated its audiences this weekend with its presentation of "Nuestra Latinidad" in the Warner Bentley Theater. Performing four short plays consisting mostly of monologues, the group addressed issues relevant to Latino-Americans, including ethnic heritage, sexuality, religious persecution and racism. Underlying all these themes lies the subtext of personal identity -- an issue particularly resonant for Latino-Americans because they face unique obstacles.

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College courses approved

By Jason Casell | November 22, 1994

Last week, the Committee on Instruction approved seven interdisciplinary courses to be offered in the 1995-96 academic year. The classes, which will be listed as "College Courses" in the book Organization, Regulations and Courses, were created specifically for the College's new curriculum. Under the new degree requirements, students beginning with the Class of 1998 must take one interdisciplinary course, defined as a class taught by members of at least two departments or programs. The approved courses span a range of interests from "Health Care in American Society: Problems and Solutions" to "Virtual Gender: Popular Culture and the Construction of Gender." Professors submitted syllabi for the proposed courses to the College Course Steering Committee.

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Wind Symphony to perform

By Susan Zieger | November 22, 1994

The theme of the Dartmouth Wind Symphony's concert tonight, "Variations," provides a tantalizing musical feast, a sort of smorgasbord of composers and styles. Under the direction of conductor Max Culpepper, the symphony will play such diverse works as "Variations on a Korean Folk Song" by John Barnes Chance, "Variations on America" by Charles Ives and "Theme and Variations, Opus 43" by Arnold Schoenberg. The symphony's guest artist is Michael Coburn, euphonium soloist, who will be featured on Ponchielli's "Concerto per Flicorno Basso" and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee." Coburn, who began studying the euphonium at age 10, is the principal euphonium with the U.S.

Opinion

Yes to First Year Plan

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | November 22, 1994

To better the sense of community that is fundamental to Dartmouth's academic setting, the recommendations of the Committee on the First-Year Experience released last May should be approved by the Trustees for implementation. The report recommends that three residential clusters, including the River and the Choates, be dedicated to freshmen; that a senior faculty member reside near the freshmen clusters to "stimulate intellectual exchange;" residence assignment so that students in the same First-Year Seminars and English 2/3 and 5 classes live within the same cluster; that the seminar leader be the faculty adviser for students taking the seminar; and lastly, that 100 additional beds be constructed. Currently, freshmen and sophomores comprise over 70 percent of the dorm population -- interaction between juniors, seniors and freshmen is already minimal.

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COSL supports first-year report

By Siobhan Gorman | November 22, 1994

The College's Committee on Student Life announced its formal endorsement of the recommendations made in the "Report of the Committee on the First-Year Experience." The report, issued last spring, proposes changes designed to improve the first-year experience by restructuring the College's residential system, enhancing intellectualism and revising the orientation program. The Report's recommendations include creating freshmen clusters and permanent residence hall affiliations for upperclass students, constructing 100 additional beds, correlating freshmen seminars and English 5 enrollments with residence assignments and altering the format of orientation week. The Committee on Student Life endorsed the Report last week "with great enthusiasm," said English Professor Don Pease who chairs COSL, an advisory body to the Dean of the College composed of professors, students and several deans who do not have voting power. The First-Year Report is currently still in the discussion stage.

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