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Festival of student performances draws heavy crowds

By Colin Grey and Colin Grey | April 11, 1994

Hundreds of students flocked to the Hopkins Center Saturday night for the second annual "Rock the Hop," a six-hour extravaganza of student performances and artistic displays. All throughout the center there were singers belting and crooning, a capella groups indulging in antics, light shows and displays dazzling the crowds, poets and actors reciting to enchanted audiences and of course, hordes of students milling around and taking it all in. "I thought it was great.

News

Shafer dead at 71

By Amy Semet | April 11, 1994

Chemistry Professor emeritus Paul "Dick" Shafer died Wednesday of cardiac arrest at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

News

Politicized SA helps Class Councils

By Scott Anthony | April 11, 1994

Critics claim the Student Assembly has done nothing this year except waste its time engaging in meaningless political bantering. But the political wrangling in the Assembly has at least one positive repercussion: the growth of the Class Councils. While Assembly members have debated impeaching their president, the four councils have been planning more activities, becoming more involved in policy matters and scoring a large increase in College funding. Senior Class President Dan Garodnick said the increasing presence of the Class Councils is directly tied to the public perception of the Assembly. "I think there's an increasingly negative perception of Student Assembly, and students tend to look to the Class Councils more for their representation," Garodnick said. As the councils have become more involved on campus, people have begun to take notice - Assembly presidential candidates this year have pledged to better integrate the Assembly and the councils. The Class Councils have three main functions: to sponsor and organize activities, to handle policy matters pertaining to their class and to try to create unity and class spirit. Class leaders say the councils are the perfect organizations for handling issues that relate to a specific class.

Opinion

Moore for President

By House Editorial | April 11, 1994

The decision students make in tomorrow's elections will speak volumes on what they value most in their years here and what they believe a better community should be. Much of the rhetoric we have heard from this year's candidates expounds on the virtue of student services.

Sports

Men's tennis evens record at 1-1

By Amy Hatch | April 11, 1994

The men's tennis team returned to Hanover Saturday night with a 1-1 Ivy League record after losing a close match 4-3 against Columbia University Friday afternoon and retaliating against the University of Pennsylvania in a 5-2 route Saturday. "We knew the match against Columbia would be tough," Holden Spaht '96 said.

News

Holocaust remembered

By Rebecca Siegel | April 11, 1994

Dartmouth's Hillel, the College's Jewish students' organization, held a series of events this weekend to recognize Yom Ha Shoah, the commemoration of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Mike Hauser '95 and Gila Ackerman '94 organized a reading of names of some of those killed in the Holocaust to begin Yom Ha Shoah events.

Sports

Pelton is at home on the court?

By Scott Anthony | April 11, 1994

He smiles when he gets on the court, the administrative worries of the day replaced by the need to stretch out muscles tense from hours sitting at a desk and endless committee meetings. "You're too tight Lee, you're wound up like a spring," a fellow player who comes over to help him stretch his 6-foot-3 frame says. Here the rhythmic clicking of computer keys in his Parkhurst office is replaced by the high-pitched squeaking of sneakers and the discordant clang of basketballs hitting the rim. The other players know him simply as "Lee," and he looks more comfortable in his green tank-top and blue gym shorts than in his suit and tie. As the minutes tick by, the administrative troubles melt away, replaced by the quizzical frown of a man who cannot determine why his shots are not falling today. Dean of the College Lee Pelton looks at home. The former high school basketball player says he tries to hit the hardwood at least two or three times a week.

News

Computer consciousness?

By Ethan Sawyer | April 11, 1994

World renowned author Robert Penrose gave the keynote address for a day-long conference Saturday in a filled-to-capacity Cook Auditorium, discussing the possibility of a conscious computer. The conference, titled "Of Apples and Origins: Stories of Life on Earth," was sponsored by the College and the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Penrose is the author of the 1989 book "The Emperor's New Mind," which fueled public interest in the interrelationship between artificial intelligence and the human mind. Among Penrose's major contentions is that computers will never be able to think as humans do. Daniel Dennett, director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University and author of the book "Consciousness Explained," presented the opposing viewpoint at the conference, contending that the creation of a conscious computer will be "the inevitable culmination of scientific advances that have gradually demystified and unified the material world." In addition to their speeches and workshops, Penrose and Dennett participated in a round-table discussion with Colin McGinn, a philosophy professor at Rutgers University, in New Jersey, and author of "The Problem of Consciousness." The speakers advanced their theories and predictions regarding the possibility of consciousness through artificial intelligence in a debate mediated by Eric Chaisson of the Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University. Chaisson empathized with the audience and set a light tone for the debate when he began the discussion by saying he was confused, and asking the speakers if they were confused as well. "The very fact that the mind leads us to truths that are not computable convinces me that a computer can never duplicate the mind," Penrose said in a news release. "It could well be that the way the universe actually operates is according to some non-computable procedure," Penrose said in the discussion. To demonstrate the ambiguity in determining consciousness, Dennett cited similarities in the physical construction of the human mind and the nervous system of a cockroach and asked "Is the brain of a cockroach non-computable?" Penrose responded that he did not know.

News

Softball dominates

By Amy Henry | April 11, 1994

Dartmouth Softball dominated both games of a doubleheader this weekend against Amherst College, scoring 9-2 and 7-1 victories. Ericka Lee '95 struck out six Amherst batters for the day as she pitched a six hitter in the first game and two hitter in the second game. The Big Green attack also helped in Lee's effort with Co-Captain Jen Pitts '95 hitting two for five and freshmen Lauren McQuade and Jodi Priselac tallying two hits each in the victory. Amherst took an early lead in the first contest with two runs in the third, but Dartmouth rebounded with nine runs in the four innings. In the second game, pinch hitter Kelly Goodwin '97 began the Dartmouth scoring with a hit that put her in position to score the tying run off of a single by Pitts.

Opinion

Review Should Not Be Factor In Assembly Race

By Vijay Marpero | April 11, 1994

To the Editor: This letter is in response to Claire Unis' column "For the Next Assembly President," (April 8), and her misguided comments about certain Student Assembly presidential candidates. In her column, Unis attempts to ridicule and even dismiss, with the notable exception of those of Danielle Moore, the ideas of all of the Assembly Presidential candidates, but she especially attacks those of Jeremy Katz. Katz, who has served the student body as a judge on the Committee on Standards, an Assembly member, and SAE President, was one of the few Assembly presidential candidates that presented clear ideas for the benefit of the Dartmouth community, as opposed to generalities.

News

Female Cherokee chief to speak

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | April 8, 1994

Wilma Mankiller, the first female leader of a major Native American tribe, will visit the College later this month. Mankiller, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, will deliver a lecture on April 18 after spending most of the day with Native American students. She is widely credited with revitalizing the Cherokee Nation through her efforts in improving health and children's programs. In addition to receiving numerous honorary degrees, including one from Dartmouth in 1991, Mankiller was named Ms. Magazine's Woman of the Year in 1987. Mankiller's visit and her speech titled "Native America: Contemporary Issues in Historical Context," are being sponsored by the Native American Program and the Native American Studies Program, with assistance from the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. In 1985 Mankiller was appointed chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the second-largest nonassimilated tribe in North America. Mankiller announced Monday that she would retire and not seek re-election next year when her second four-year term expires. Mankiller participated in an occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 as part of a movement to reclaim land in the name of all "American Indians," which began her career in Native American activism. In 1981 she became director of the Cherokee Nation Community Development Department. She was elected deputy chief of Cherokee Nation in 1983, and two years later was appointed the nation's principal chief.

News

Fahey elected new Trustee

By Alexander R. Edlich | April 8, 1994

Alumni elected Peter Fahey '68, Th'70, a former partner at a leading international investment banking firm, to the Board of Trustees, the College announced yesterday. Fahey, 47, recently retired from Goldman, Sachs & Co. as head of its corporate finance division after 15 years at the firm.

News

Panel addresses education

By David Hemmer | April 8, 1994

A panel that included two Dartmouth graduates discussed educational equity, activism and Generation X as part of the Senior Symposium yesterday afternoon in the Collis Common Ground. The panel, which was attended by more than 70 people, included Crystal Crawford '87, a lawyer and College counselor; Daniel Porter, Teach for America president; John Ritchie '71, a high school principal; Sergio Quesada, University of Queretaro anthropology professor; and Robert Binswanger, acting education department chair. Porter said many young people feel disempowered.

Opinion

The Holocaust and Jewish Memory

By Mike Hauser | April 8, 1994

Today is Yom Hashoah, the holiday on which we remember the death of the six million Jews lost in the Holocaust. Note the term "remember," as it is common to view the Holocaust not from the standpoint of Jewish history, but rather Jewish memory.

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