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Instructional, Computing services merge

By Scott Anthony | August 9, 1994

The Office of Instructional Services and Computing Services recently merged to streamline planning for the next generation of classrooms and teaching. Deputy Provost Bruce Pipes, a key figure in the merger, said he does not expect there to be any big, short-term changes because of the merger. "This is the kind of merger that is planning for the future," Pipes said. The merger, which occurred in the beginning of July, was a result of Instructional Services increasingly being asked to do things related with computers, Instructional Services Director Mike Beahan said. "More and more, what people want is computer-based," he said.

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DOC picks leaders

By Maneesh Shrivastav | August 9, 1994

The Dartmouth Outing Club has successfully increased the diversity of its freshman trip leaders, according to Gen Kanai '95, director of the D.O.C.

Sports

Henley results mixed

By David Hemmer | August 9, 1994

The women's and men's crew teams had mixed results against strong competition and in fierce weather conditions at the Candian Henley last week in Ontario. The women's top performance was in the 500-meter-dash eights where they finished second in their heat, qualifying for the final. But one rower came off her seat during the final, forcing the boat to finish the race with only seven rowers, and it finished last.

Sports

Fiedler makes pro debut

By Scott Anthony | August 9, 1994

Jay Fiedler '94 donned a green-and-white jersey to play a football game for the first time in nine months Friday night. But instead of playing for the Big Green, Fiedler was making his professional debut for the Philadelphia Eagles. Fiedler, who rewrote the Dartmouth record book during his three years as a varsity starter, stepped onto Soldier Field in Chicago for the fourth quarter of the Eagles 12-6 preseason loss to the Chicago Bears. He had a fairly successful quarter, completing three of six passes for 40 yards.

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College to study housing situation

By David Hemmer | August 9, 1994

A College committee that looks at issues related to the Dartmouth Plan will recommend today that a committee of administrators, faculty and students study the Fall-term housing shortage. The recommendations, which remain subject to formal approval this morning from the enrollment committee, came out of a meeting yesterday afternoon, said Dean of the Faculty James Wright, who chairs the enrollment committee. Registrar Thomas Bickel, who is on the enrollment committee, said he expects the new committee to have its recommendations ready by November. But the committee's recommendations will not provide a solution to the immediate problem of the more than 180 people who still remain without housing for the Fall term. "I certainly am sympathetic with them," Wright said.

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Koop Institute gets $91,000

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 9, 1994

The Corporation for National Service recently gave $91,000 to the C. Everett Koop Institute at the Dartmouth Medical School to support a program that allows medical students to teach children at local schools. The program, Partners in Health Education, has operated as a pilot program for the past two years. Dr. Joseph O'Donnell, an associate dean for student affairs at the medical school and one of the project's directors, said the grant will help continue the innovative approach to doctor-patient relations. O'Donnell said C.

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Missing sophomore summer

By Scott Anthony | August 9, 1994

While most of the Class of 1996 was enjoying a leisurely afternoon floating down the Connecticut River during Tubestock two weeks ago, Sara McKinstry '96 was in Sturbridge, Mass.

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Office of Speech may be closed

By Alicia Jennings | August 5, 1994

This fall, a faculty committee will consider the future of the Office of Speech because the pro-gram's lone professor is retiring. Of the two professors teaching the program's three courses this past year, Goodwin Berquist retired at the end of the Spring term and William Brown is set to step down at the end of this coming winter, according to Mary Jean Green, associate dean of the faculty for Humanities. The committee, which will be formed by the Dean of the Faculty Office, will make its recommendations to Dean of Faculty James Wright by the end of the winter. The office is consulting with various faculty members this summer, Green said, including retired Professor Merelyn Reeve and former Speech Department Chair Herbert James. The Board of Trustees approved a faculty vote in June1979, which dissolved the Speech Department, but continued offering speech courses. Since then, speech courses have operated under the Office of Speech. Though Green said the Dean of the Faculty Office can not predict what the faculty committee will recommend, she said possible options include hiring new professors, dissolving the office or incorporating it into another department. "I'm sure a variety of options will be considered," Green said.

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Police end investigation

By Scott Anthony | August 5, 1994

Hanover Police after investigating Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Sigma Delta sorority will not file any charges against the houses. Hanover Police Detective Rick Paulsen said the police are currently investigating several other Greek houses, but declined to name them. In the SAE and Sigma Delt case, police were looking into the arrests of three underaged, non-Dartmouth students on July 21 for possession of alcohol. Paulsen said the investigation is closed because of "the unavailability of the witnesses." He said three students arrested are now "all over the country" and it is too much of a hassle to have them return to Hanover. "Basically this case is going to be closed because the county attorney is not going to fly them up here," he said. Sigma Delt President Lauren Currie '96 said Sigma Delt would continue to comply with state and College alcohol guidelines. Paulsen said he expected the town to file charges against at least one of the "other" houses within the next two months.

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ORL: First time housing denied

By David Hemmer | August 5, 1994

For the first time in Dartmouth's history, the College has turned away on-time applicants for on-campus housing, and there are few other housing options in Hanover. Due to the housing shortage and grim outlook for getting pulled off the waiting list, students may now have to change their Dartmouth Plans because they will have nowhere to live in the fall. The Office of Residential Life last week wrote to about 200 students tell them they would not receive College housing for Fall term. "For the first time, we cannot house all students who wish to reside on-campus for a Fall term," Associate Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty wrote in the letter.

Opinion

Moments of greatness

By Monica Oberkofler | August 5, 1994

Late one night, just before summer term started, a friend and I randomly went for a walk. Climbing the hill at one end of the golf course, we settled on a spot overlooking the valley.

News

Tremaine to leave

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 5, 1994

Phyllis Tremaine, who has successfully handled the Amos Tuck School of Business Admin-istration's $35-million capital campaign, will leave soon to become the director of development at the University of Indiana Business School. Tremaine, who is Tuck's director of development and has been there for six years, said she will start her new job on Sept.

News

Government needs reform

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 5, 1994

But speaker says it is not easy to reinvent government Paul Light, a professor at the University of Minnesota, said in a speech Wednesday afternoon that the American government may need more, not less, reform. Speaking on "Surviving Reinvention: The Hunt for Reform in Government" to an audience of 25 in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, Light said the federal bureaucracy has gotten thicker in the last few decades and that it resists change. He said the problem of this "thickening" is not one of costs but one of "diffusion of accountability." Light, one of the final candidates to succeed the center's former director, George Demko, said "past reforms leave a remarkable residue that has an incredible effect on reform." Of 35 policy reforms recently instituted in Minnesota, 40 percent perished or were ineffective, Light said. The research came from the Surviving Innovation Project, a group that Light heads that does research into reforming and improving governments. Light cited the group's study as proof that many policy reforms and reinvention of governments do not last because of insufficient funding or political pressure. Light added that often new administrations do not fully overhaul the bureaucratic hierarchy when instituting new reforms. "Within the administration, from regime to regime, it fails to kill off reforms of former occupants of whatever regime was in play," he said. In the past 50 years, Light said, there has been an increased infusion of fear into government which has created a situation where "bureaucrats don't take action and don't take risks." He said the "residue" of former reforms undermine new ones.

Opinion

The trouble with 'Forrest Gump'

By Chris Kelly | August 5, 1994

I finally got around to seeing "Forrest Gump" this past weekend. I emerged from the theater two and a half hours later with a goofy grin plastered on my face and a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.

News

Rwanda forum held

By Kate Forbes | August 5, 1994

Five speakers at a lunch-time forum on Rwanda yesterday said political upheaval in the East African country is often ignored by the Western media as a reason for the slaughter of nearly one million people. More than 50 Dartmouth community members attended the forum on the terrace of the Collis Center. Government Professor Gene Lyons, who also directs the Dickey Center's United Nations Institute, mediated the forum. He began the forum by listing the three things that would be discussed: the Rwandan land and people, the obligation of the interHe said there are two elements of the tragedy: the genocide of the Tutsi people and the two million refuges fearfully remaining in Zaire while an indeterminate number still exist inside the country. "We need to arrange conditions in some sense so that people who are outside will feel safe in coming home," he said, "at the same time emphasizing that as an African problem, it's the Africans who are going to solve it." Kasfir said the crisis was not caused by an on-going ethnic quarrel between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes.

Arts

Hood puts artwork on DCIS

By David Hemmer | August 5, 1994

The Hood Museum recently indexed about 30,000 of its art objects, including most of its fine art collection, on the Dartmouth College Information Service. "All of the artwork is on, the whole Fine Arts collection," Questor Project Manager Deborah Haynes said. Questor is the name of a computer program used at the Hood Museum. Plans are in place to eventually have pictures of the artwork available on the network. The works are separated into two different indexes on DCIS, Fine Arts and Anthropology/History, although a few pieces are in both. Users can search the indexes by subject, artist, date, materials and nationality. Professors can use to index to obtain lists of works by certain artists or of certain types for students in their classes to use, said Kathy Hart, the museum's curator of academic programming. Then they can request certain works be pulled for their students to view. "The DCIS probably will be more and more useful with classes that use the collections," Haynes said. The next step for the museum is to scan in pictures of the artwork, but that project is awaiting funding. "We're working on money to do that and we've done a little test file," Haynes said. About 20 to 30 pieces have been scanned into the computer to use as demonstrations for obtaining funding from different sources, according to DCIS Project Director Robert Brentrup. Brentrup said the major costs in the project are the scanning equipment, labor to photograph many of the works and computer storage space for the scanned pictures.

News

Ryan Carey: a 'progressive'leader?

By Yvonne Chiu | August 5, 1994

Maybe it's because Zeta Psi Summer President Ryan Carey '96 is called a "progressive Greek leader" that he felt compelled to voluntarily explain why a picture of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model was on his wall. "That was bequeathed to me by my older brother," Carey said matter-of-factly. But these are the days when Greek and non-Greek imply pro-Greek and anti-Greek.

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Carnival tomorrow

By T. Anne Tamaroff | August 5, 1994

The Programming Board will sponsor this year's Summer Carnival tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 4 on the Green. With the way this summer has been going, the event's title, "Hot and Sticky" is appropriate enough. Since the start of the term, the Programming Board's Summer Carnival Committee has been planning the event.

Opinion

Women should create new traditions

By Erika Meitner | August 3, 1994

Wednesday nights at Dartmouth are for Greek house meetings. I learned that Freshman year when my residence hall would empty out on Wednesday nights as upperclassmen and women made the trek to Webster Avenue. Fraternities began this long Greek tradition of weekly meetings at Dartmouth in the mid-nineteenth century and coed houses and sororities have perpetuated it. The first sorority at Dartmouth was Sigma Kappa, formed in 1979.

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