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Minority groups

By David Hemmer | July 29, 1994

The College has numerous organizations dedicated to act as a support network for minority students and to foster understanding of minority cultures. The groups provide campus-wide social and cultural programming and a supportive environment for many of their members.

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College has more than 270 student groups

By Jason Casell | July 29, 1994

The question on the minds of many freshmen as they arrive on campus in September will probably be "Now that I'm here, what do I do?" While Dartmouth may be remotely located in rural New Hampshire, the College offers a multitude of activities for all students to participate in. According to Director of Student Activities Tim Moore, there are more than 270 campus organizations and that number is always growing. With the re-opening of the Collis Center last winter, students have a place to congregate and work on organizational projects. Many freshmen choose to become involved with Freshman Council in the fall.

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SA continues work

By Scott Anthony | July 28, 1994

The Student Assembly is working to combat the College's Fall term housing shortage by creating a BlitzMail bulletin to help students find off-campus roommates. Summer Assembly President Grace Chionuma '96 said she is going to invite representatives from the Admissions Office, the Office of Residential Life and the Registrar to discuss the reasons for the housing shortage at the Assembly's next meeting. Chionuma said one problem is there is a lack of communication between the three offices and each one is blaming the other for the problem. She said ORL says "there's not much they can do," because of the limited physical space on campus.

Opinion

College violated freedom of speech

By John Strayer | July 28, 1994

Upon reading the news that Ludwig Plutonium, the famous campus revisionist scientist, has been suspended from Dartmouth's computer network, I came to the conclusion that the College needs to alter its statement on "Freedom of Expression and Dissent" so that everyone in the College community can understand what it really means. Readers of this paper probably recognize the name, Ludwig Plutonium, from both his classified and full page advertisements. For years Ludwig has been trying to hammer home his wacky theory that the structure of the plutonium atom is the secret to the structure of the universe. I suppose I might suggest the same thing if my name were Plutonium. Others might not recognize the name, but certainly know the man. He is marked by a distinctive fashion sense which frequently features orange neon,although this summer he has opted for a more earthy green look. Ludwig, who works for the Hanover Inn, uses his status as a College employee to research his theories in Baker Library. It seems that he also uses that same status to spread his message over computer bulletin boards. Ludwig got in trouble with the College when he posted a message on a bulletin board which referred to the New York Times as the "Jew York Times." Back home the various nuts are content to open their trench coats in front of little girls.

Sports

Betsy Gilmore '94 to return

By Scott Anthony | July 28, 1994

Ivy League Player of the Year Betsy Gilmore '94, who scored 8.5 points a game last year, will use her last year of eligibility and return to the hardwood next year. Gilmore did not play basketball during her sophomore year, so she still had one year of eligibility left. "Betsy will be returning next year," Coach Chris Wielgus said. Gilmore was the emotional leader of the women's basketball team that finished with a 16-11 record, good for a first-place tie with Brown University. The team lost a playoff game to Brown that determined which team would represent the Ivy League in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. Gilmore's return will make the Big Green likely favorites next year.

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More women than men support gays

By Yvonne Chiu And Laurel Smith | July 28, 1994

Women at Dartmouth are about twice as likely to accept homosexual behavior and to support gay, lesbian and bisexual political agendas than men, according to a recent survey gauging attitudes toward homosexuals. Of the 800 surveys evenly distributed last fall to randomly selected members in the four classes by the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Study Committee, 608 surveys were returned.

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Alumni return to study at College

By Christopher Kao | July 28, 1994

More than 200 alumni will visit Hanover in mid-August to study the "Riddles of Creation" and "Great Literature" as part of this year's Alumni College. The Alumni College, a program that allows alumni and parents to spend a week at Dartmouth studying a specific topic, is in its 31st year.

Arts

Clough leaves Walt and Ernie's, opens her own salon

By Charley French | July 28, 1994

Though Big Green Cuts may be the newest haircutting place in town, its owner is certainly no stranger to the Hanover barbering scene. Trudy Clough said she saw a business opportunity and took it, leaving her former employer, Walt and Ernie's Barber Shop for her new store on Main Street. "There were no hard feelings" Clough said of her decision to leave her four-year employer.

Arts

Vases on display at Hood

By Elizabeth Nolan | July 28, 1994

If you are one of the school of skeptics who thinks art is largely inaccessible and pretentious, think again. Think and then go to the Hood Musuem to see its latest exhibit -- "Grueby Pottery, a New England Arts and Crafts Venture: the William Curry Collection." Consisting of more than 100 original works of pottery, the collection demonstrates that art need not be avant-garde to be appreciated. The collection, acquired by William Curry '57, is probably one of the best known examples of New England art pottery. The pieces are carefully-crafted works, meant to be functional, as well as beautiful. The collection of vases, bowls and architectural tiles produced by the Grueby Faience Company represent what Adrienne Hand, director of public relations for the museum, calls "a focused look at the Arts and Crafts movement." Its works typify the guiding philosophy of the movement that rejected the elaborate tendencies of the Victorian era as well as the factory-produced products popular at the turn of the century in favor of a more honest style. Susan J.

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Palumbo '96 arrested

By David Hemmer | July 28, 1994

Dan Palumbo '96 was arrested early Monday morning for underage drinking, after Hanover Police found him asleep on the floor of a friend's room in Topliff Hall. Palumbo, 20, said he and a friend split a six-pack of beer late Sunday night.

Sports

Ruggers lose early, often last weekend

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 28, 1994

Despite winning its first game of the summer, the men's rugby club was pounded twice last weekend at the Acton Ten Good Men tournament in Massachusetts. After arriving late to its first match, the team of 10 players lost to the Amoskeag Men's Club in a convincing fashion. "They spanked us twenty-four to three," Dan Kalafatas '96 said. This summer, the club is playing in matches were the teams field squads of seven or 10 players. Ten's is primarily a passing game based on continuity and possession of the ball unlike the 15-member game played during the year when speed and strength play more of a factor. In the closing seconds of its second match last weekend against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Dartmouth team came from behind to win seven to five. After a scrum, Todd Aaron '96 raced down to mid-field, kicking the ball out to Chris McGee '96.

Arts

Mirror, mirror: local artist loans sculpture

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 28, 1994

Maybe it's fitting that a sculpture found two years ago which Student Programs Coordinator Linda Kennedy thought perfect for a student center when Collis was a mere skeleton, is now sitting in the entrance of the three-term old center. Jeff Sass, the creator the sculpture titled, "Rock Band," loaned it to the student center which opened in the Winter term. Kennedy said, "A few years ago, I saw a sculpture that I thought was delightful.

Arts

Dartmouth graduate to release first album

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 28, 1994

After friends asked him for a recording of his music, Jud Caswell '94 decided to make a record of all the songs he has been playing around campus for three years. Caswell, a veteran of Hovey's and a regular at the Lone Pine Tavern, is in the final stages of putting together his first album that he will sell and send off to various music labels. The album, currently slated for release at the end of the summer, is currently a mix of 12 songs the music major wrote while he was at Dartmouth. "I didn't have anything of good quality around," he said in an interview while fiddling with his acoustic guitar on his lap.

News

DMS researchers funded by tobacco companies

By Christopher Kao | July 26, 1994

Although some researchers question the ethics behind accepting money from tobacco companies and the American Medical Association "strongly discourages" it, two Dartmouth researchers say it is just a matter of "personal choice." "Whether one feels comfortable or uncomfortable about accepting money from a foundation associated with tobacco smoke, and all the bad things and bad press associated with that, seems to me a very personal decision," Constance Brinckerhoff, associate dean for science and professor of medicine and biochemistry at the Dartmouth Medical School told the Associated Press Monday. Brinckerhoff and Aaron Barchowsky, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology, are both conducting studies funded by the council on Tobacco Research. The council is a private organization supported by the major American tobacco companies. Out of the DMS' $40 million research budget, $185,000 comes from the council. In recent months, the tobacco industry has come under fire from the government and the Food and Drug Administration over the possible falsification and concealment of nicotine research. The effect of the highly publicized Congressional investigations has led to examinations of research money provided by the tobacco companies.

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Leavitt '50 elected alumni president

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 26, 1994

Joel Leavitt '50, a former president of a consumer products company, recently took over as president of the College's Alumni Council after being elected by the 105-member group. On July 1, Leavitt replaced Curtis Welling '68 at the helm of the governing body of the College's alumni. The council elected Otho Kerr '79, a vice president at Deutche Bank Securities in New York City, president-elect.

Opinion

Some students dream of Dartmouth

By Suzanne Leonard | July 26, 1994

The whole thing started because I felt sort of guilty. Guilty because I had not done a special tour yet this summer when I knew that as a tour guide I should have volunteered long ago --we are expected to do special tours periodically in addition to our weekly ones. So when I got a blitz asking if I would conduct a special tour on Friday July 22 for a group from Connecticut, I eagerly signed up. They were called "The Dreamers", and the name was written all in capitals in the BlitzMail message.

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Classroom will have interactive computers

By Justin Steinman | July 26, 1994

The College hopes to complete construction on its first completely integrated audiovisual and computerized classroom by the start of Fall term 1994, according to Malcolm Brown, director of academic computing at the College. Dartmouth Hall Room 217 will be transformed into a teaching facility capable of displaying both multimedia and traditional audiovisual materials, according to an article written by Brown in Interface, the Dartmouth Computing Services magazine. "We are building the first classroom in the arts and sciences at the College to integrate both digital and traditional media capabilities," Brown said in an interview yesterday. "A number of classrooms have overheads and a number of classrooms have projectors for computer screens, but there are no classrooms with both types of projections," he said. "We have great ambitions for this new classroom," Brown added.

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