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Hockey sets goals

By Jennifer Wulff | November 2, 1994

After a disappointing 1993-94 season, the men's hockey team is looking to improve last year's 5-21-1 record starting this Saturday when Dartmouth takes on Boston College. This year's team is made up of eight top 10 scorers from last year, including co-captains Dion Del Monte '95, a center, and Trevor Dodman '95, a defender. Both players have been key members of the team.

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Need-blind: how long can Dartmouth close its eyes?

By Siobhan Gorman | November 2, 1994

At a time when colleges and universities across the country are scaling back or eliminating their need-blind admissions policies, administrators say the College can maintain its policy in the near future despite the increasing burden it places on the College's budget. During the last fiscal year, the College spent about $27 million on financial aid, representing 17.4 percent of its total budget, according to statistics from the Vice President and Treasurer's Office. In 1990, the College spent 14.9 percent of its budget on financial aid and the percentage has increased steadily since then as more students have required more aid. The College is projecting that financial aid will cost $40 million by the year 2000, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg said. "Financial aid is the fastest growing category in the budget," College Trustee Dick Page said in an interview earlier this month. But the extra burden of financial aid is not unique to Dartmouth and other schools have been forced to modify their policies. Furstenberg said the College is one of about only 12 that maintain a true need-blind policy, in which the Admissions Office evaluates candidates without looking at their financial aid information and guarantees to meet all of an accepted student's demonstrated need. A high priority Maintaining need-blind admissions has been the College's top budgetary priority, Vice President and Treasurer Lyn Hutton said, leaving the College committed to the policy despite the increased burden.

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Phi Beta Kappas inducted

By Rebecca Siegel | November 2, 1994

The 20 seniors with the highest grade point averages were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society in a ceremony yesterday afternoon at College President James Freedman's house. Phi Beta Kappa is a national honorary society consisting of students whose grades place them within the top 10 percent of their class. The 20 seniors inducted yesterday on the basis of their grades at the end of last spring, are known as "Junior Phi Beta Kappas." Other students who meet the requirements will be inducted between the end of this spring and graduation. "Most chapters elect students at two different times, once in the fall and once in the spring," said Margot de l'Etoile, secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. This year, the cut-off cumulative GPA for membership is a 3.70, calculated from the GPAs of the top 10 percent of students in the prior two classes, according to the Organization, Regulations and Courses book. All students who achieve at least a 3.7 GPA are invited to become members of the society, even if the number of students exceeds 10 percent, de l'Etoile said. She said students must complete eight terms at Dartmouth in order to receive membership into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. "I was very proud of those 20 students.

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Lyons: protect resources

By Jack Vaitayanonta | November 2, 1994

Environmental activist and acoustic artist Dana Lyons yesterday urged an alliance between members of the environmental movement and indigenous peoples in order to combat the current destruction of the earth's resources. Lyons delivered his speech, titled "The Ethics and Philosophy of the Radical Environmental Movement," to about 30 students in 13 Carpenter Hall. He pointed out that the land upon which Dartmouth lies was seized by white colonists from the Abenaki Native American tribe without a proper treaty and joked that tuition might go up if the College were to pay the rightful owners of the land to use it. Lyons said a common misconception of the modern environmental movement is that it is solely composed of middle-class whites.

Opinion

Salary Discrepancies, Sexism the Cause?

By Brian Sung | November 2, 1994

Recently, The New York Times reported that two separate studies had shown that, on average, men whose wives stayed home and didn't work received more pay raises and substantially higher salaries than men whose wives did work. The first study, of 348 men at 20 Fortune 500 companies, found that over a five-year period, single-earner husbands received 20 percent higher pay raises than men with working wives.

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Dining plan proposed

By Siobhan Gorman | November 2, 1994

A task force charged with evaluating campus meal plans has recommended replacing the mandatory freshman meal plan with a system that gives students the option of paying a $70 fee to have only a declining balance account. If the plan is approved, beginning next Fall term, all students would be required to purchase a minimum dining plan of $400, only $330 of which would be usable as a declining balance account, said Michael Anderson '96, a member of the task force. The other $70 would help subsidize Dartmouth Dining Services and make up for income currently raised by the freshman meal plan, which requires first-year students to pay $938 each term for a combination of meal "punches" and declining balance. The Meal Plan Task Force, created last winter, will present its proposal at a public forum at 7 p.m.

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Baker Tower bells take requests

By Anne Renna | November 1, 1994

So integrally a part of daily life at Dartmouth, the familiar presence of the Baker Tower bells can often go unnoticed -- until you find yourself humming "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones ..." as you walk across the Green. James von Rittman '95 is the man behind the machine.

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Freedman tells faculty his goals

By Charles Davant | November 1, 1994

In his annual address to the faculty yesterday, College President James Freedman set goals for the coming years and identified positive and negative trends in the composition of the student body and faculty. Freedman touted the merits of the Class of 1998, citing that median scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests have risen 50 points in four years and that the percentage of women is greater than ever before. "Dartmouth will be a better, livelier place when parity [between the sexes] is reached," Freedman said during his speech, which lasted about 45 minutes. According to Freedman, student matriculation statistics indicate that the gap between Dartmouth and some of the other top schools has narrowed during the last seven years. In 1987, 85 percent of students accepted to both Dartmouth and either Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford or Brown chose not to attend Dartmouth, Freedman said.

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Availability of 'morning after pill' goes unnoticed

By Rebecca Siegel | November 1, 1994

While many women remain unaware of its availability, the "morning after pill," a form of oral contraception used after sexual intercourse, has been available at the College for approximately 10 years. If administered within 72 hours of unprotected sex, the pill prevents pregnancy from occurring.

Arts

Pinkas plays with drive, drama

By Aditya Dutt | November 1, 1994

In a tribute to modern music, Sally Pinkas performed the world premiere of Kathryn Alexander's progressive composition "A Moment, A Kind of..." Thursday night in Spaulding Auditorium.

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Class of 1994-in the real world now

By Allison Groff | November 1, 1994

Statistics about career choices made by the Class of 1994 seem to refute the notions of the disorientation and tumultuous behavior characteristic of Generation X. Career Services recently released a study reporting that out of the 85 percent of graduates who responded to a survey last June, 62 percent sought full-time employment, 24 percent planned to attend graduate school, 1 percent intended to travel, 6 percent expressed other interests, and the remaining 6 percent were still undecided. The Career Services report showed that these statistics are consistent with those of previous classes.

Sports

Field hockey to host ECACs

By Kate Shanahan | November 1, 1994

Although it did not win Ivy championship, the Dartmouth field hockey team will have a chance at the Eastern College Athletic Conference, which, as announced last night, will be held at Chase Field this weekend. Last Saturday in Cambridge, the team demonstrated its usual unyielding toughness and defeated Harvard with a score of 4-1. Dartmouth dominated the game from the beginning.

Opinion

Change Dining Punches

By Andy Schader | November 1, 1994

This past weekend I traveled to Harvard to visit a friend. Since it was the first time we had seen each other since going off to college, we naturally conversed on the various positive and negative aspects of our respective schools.

Opinion

Students' Right to Speak at Public Forum

By Rosalind Lee | November 1, 1994

To the Editor: I was disheartened to see the column by Allison Krasnow (Oct. 27, 'Listen to be Heard') criticizing Dartmouth students who spoke at a forum on sexual harassment charges at the elementary school in Hanover.

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