News

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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News

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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News

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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News

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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News

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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News

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.

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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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News

Tours offer glimpse of campus life

By Scott Anthony | August 3, 1994

During the course of the summer, more than 4,000 bright-eyed 16- and 17-year-old students will get their first glimpse of the College through Admissions Office tours. Groups of prospective applicants eagerly gather at McNutt Hall and then are led on a planned route around campus by student tour guides. Anywhere from 10 to 30 students go on each tour, which last a little more than an hour. On the tour, high-schoolers get a glimpse of Dartmouth life as they look at Baker Library, dormitories and The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. Officials in the Admissions Office say response to the tours is overwhelmingly positive. Many prospective students and parents say they like the tours because tour guides are trained not to just rattle-off facts and give Dartmouth history. "We really try to not be focused on history and just plain facts," Assistant Admissions Director Michele Hernandez said.

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News

College to accept Common Application

By Christopher Kao | August 3, 1994

Starting in the fall of 1995, the College will accept the Common Application, a standard form used by more than 130 universities nation-wide, in an attempt to reach more high-school students and to make the admissions process more "egalitarian." The Common Application includes a personal section, a school report section and a teacher evaluation which an applicant can fill out once, photocopy and send to any of the 137 schools that accept the form. Mostly smaller, less-competitive schools use the form, but schools which accept the application, like Duke University and Amherst, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and Williams Colleges, directly compete with Dartmouth for students. Dartmouth is the second Ivy League school to announce it will accept the standard form.

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Opinion

Clinton and Haiti

By Jim Brennan | August 3, 1994

On Sunday afternoon, the United Nations Security Council authorized a military invasion of Haiti by the United States. The problems in Haiti have been in the news for at least three years now, when a military coup deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991. Former President George Bush and President Bill Clinton have each addressed the Haitian situation during their respective administrations.

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Sports

Women's volleyball will be varsity this fall

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 3, 1994

The women's volleyball team will be a full varsity team this fall, and the College's athletic department is getting ready to upgrade the women's softball team to varsity status next spring. The College announced the two club teams would receive full funding within 18 months last February after the teams complained to the U.S.

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Opinion

Why Dartmouth is called a college

By William A. Fischel | August 3, 1994

To the Editor: In the Aug. 1 issue of The Dartmouth, Tyler Newby '96 wondered why Dartmouth is called a college ("Dartmouth is a university, not a college"). One clue might be the famous case of Dartmouth College v.

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News

New telephone system purchased

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 3, 1994

The College will install a new telephone system this fall that will provide clearer service, eliminate crosstalk and possibly offer voice-mail options. The new system, which costs about $1 million, will be online by the Winter term Director of Administrative Services Marcia Colligan said. She said the system will support more telephone lines and "students will get a dial tone right away." The current AT&T system is outdated and overloaded creating probelms with crossed lines and students being unable to dial out at peak times. Colligan said 1,000 new lines will be added to the 5,000 already installed, which will improve service. The new state-of-the-art system is capable of handling 12,000 lines, 7,000 more than the AT&T system which was installed in 1981. Colligan said the money for the new system came fom the College's operating budget but would not say if Dartalk, the College's telphone service, would raise its rates or monthly service fee. Summer Student Assembly President Grace Chionuma '96 said she is happy the new telephone system will be installed because of the current system's faults. The telephone system has been a topic of debate with the Assembly during the past few years. The Telephone Services office began studying the different options and needs of telephone services last July and received proposals from different companies this March. The new system is also capable of call waiting, call forwarding and conference calling, Colligan said. She said although the new options "will not be added right away," the office will study students' needs and the cost of the features Spring term. Colligan said the installation of the special features might take a year. Chionuma said if the new features are not added, the $15 service charge should be reduced.

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