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Fit to speak?

By 32 Robinson | August 20, 1993

The College is making a mistake by allowing retired English Professor Jeffrey Hart to give a speech entitled "How to get a Decent College Education, Even Today" to the Class of 1997 during Freshman Week. Last spring, Hart embarrassed the College by openly flouting Dartmouth's academic honor principle when he acknowledged cheating in his English 68 course and refused to do anything about it. While Hart's 30 years teaching experience qualifies him to discuss a liberal arts education in a general sense, his disregard for the honor code is inconsistent with Dartmouth's educational policies. The honor code is a pillar which upholds the basic educational mission of the College.

Arts

David's House joins hospital's location

By Jennifer Sack | August 20, 1993

David's House, a non-profit home-away-from-home for families with children receiving treatment at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, announced it will build a new facility within walking distance of the hospital. "David's House in Hanover is no longer close enough.

Sports

Students chase baseball games across continent

By Yvonne Chiu | August 20, 1993

Lured by dreams of fields, Brent De Riszner '96 and three Princeton juniors are touring across America to see all 28 baseball teams in 28 days. Despite the hectic pace, the road trip did not encounter difficulties until this past Monday, when they reached New York City to see their 19th game of the summer. That night the game scheduled at 7 p.m.

News

Untamed Shrews live up to name

By Kristen King | August 20, 1993

Some felt offended. Others felt empowered. Regardless, the shock value of the Untamed Shrews' guerrilla theater performance in Food Court Tuesday has more people on campus thinking about this women's theatrical group than ever before. At about noon, Shrew member Sally Rosenthal '95 shouted from the balcony overlooking the eating area, "If God had meant women to give blow jobs she wouldn't have given us teeth." Then she bit off the end of a cucumber and spit it over the railing. Next, she and seven other members of the group read a poem about a woman who altered her looks to please a man and ended with the words, "Hey you, fuck off." The goal of the performance was to "get people to come to our show who wouldn't normally see it," Rosenthal said in a later interview.

News

COS review complete

By Steve Hoffman | August 20, 1993

Asserting faith in the College's disciplinary system, a review committee has recommended only minor changes designed to clarify and simplify the operations of the Committee on Standards. Most of the Disciplinary Review Committee's recommendations are geared toward boosting student confidence in COS by educating the community about the system's role and making the process easier to understand. The report, available at Baker Library's Reserve desk, also suggests several specific changes regarding COS's handling of sexual abuse cases. The committee recommended the College expel both students found guilty of rape and repeat offenders of other types of sexual misconduct. "Expelling repeat offenders, rather than pretending we can change their compulsions, seems to be the wisest course and the course that will offer other students the most protection," the report states. In addition, the committee recommended that students re-admitted following a suspension for sexual abuse be required to meet with a College official to review expectations about subsequent behavior. COS came under fire from students last spring in three rallies which protested the way the system handles sexual assault cases. The 19-page report addresses the factors the committee thinks contributed to apparent student mistrust of the system. "The report doesn't call for a large-scale overall restructuring of the system," said Dan Nelson, senior associate Dean of Students and review committee chair. Dean of Students Lee Pelton formed the review committee last spring to address the apparent erosion of confidence in the College's disciplinary system, the report states. Pelton said he first suggested a review of the system when he arrived at the College in 1991. The committee, comprised of an equal number of students, faculty and administrators, invited student input in three open meetings during the revision process, but few students attended. "We were puzzled and frustrated by the lack of response because we understood that part of the reason for our committee's existence was in response to perceived student dissatisfaction with the system," the report stated. Nelson said the committee interpreted the apparent lack of student interest as a sign that widespread dissatisfaction with the system does not exist. Pelton said he agreed with Nelson and added that he has seen student confidence in COS rise during the past year. "In reviewing the system and various concerns that had been raised concerning it, we came to the conclusion that the system itself is not broken," the report states.

News

Prof researches floods

By Michelle Mooradian | August 20, 1993

Geography Professor G. Robert Brakenridge spent the past week in the Mississippi and Illinois valleys gathering data in flooded regions to test the ability of a new satellite to view the ground through cloud cover. In the "ground truth" project, Brakenridge and James Knox, geography professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, are correlating photographs and direct observation with recent radar images of the Midwest flood area taken through cloud cover by the satellite. They are supported by a $3,800 emergency grant from the National Geographic Society. The European Remote Sensing Satellite, known as ERS1, is considered a technological breakthrough in the study of floods because it uses an imaging process that can capture water and land through cloud cover, something difficult to do with photography and other kinds of optical images, Brakenridge said. Brakenridge and Knox traveled on August 12th to the Midwest to help in the interpretation of the satellite radar images. The professors stayed for five days, concentrating their study on the Davenport, Iowa area and on the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers north of St.

Arts

Wheelock travels downstairs

By Kristen King | August 20, 1993

Wheelock Travel, Inc. will move downstairs from its current location on Main Street to a street level space above Peter Christian's Tavern by the end of this month. Wheelock, now located on the second floor of the building, signed a year-long sublease with Redpath & Co. Commercial Realtors approximately three weeks ago, Wheelock Travel Co-owner Nancy Johnson said. A gift shop, Trillium, occupied the space until about a month and a half ago, a representative of Redpath Realtors said. Wheelock, one of four travel agencies in Hanover, outgrew its 400 sq.

News

Women's health center nears open

By Andrea Wetzler | August 20, 1993

The College will begin a Women's Health program, a special department at Dick's House, to educate the community onwomen's health issues and provide health services for female students. The new department, which will open next week, was announced Tuesday at a forum on sex and women's health issues sponsored by the Panhellenic Council. The College has set aside $78,975 for the new department for the current fiscal year, which started last month, according to the Dean of Students Office. Dick's House pushed for the program due to the increased importance and demand of women's health service at the College, according to Dr. Nield Mercer, the assistant director for clinical affairs at the College health service. The College hired nurse practicioner Janice Sundnas to head the program.

News

Hart to address '97 class

By Joe Berger | August 20, 1993

The Freshman Orientation schedule will include this year Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Hart's speech on the meaning of a liberal arts education. Accompanying his speech will be a newly published, nationally distributed pamphlet that recommends the reading of great works of literature to freshmen at all colleges and universities. It is the fourth year Hart has given his orientation week speech, but the first year it has appeared on the College's official schedule of events, where it is listed as an optional event. His speech will be similar to those he gave in previous years and will reflect the content of his new pamphlet. With outside financial support, Hart's pamphlet, entitled "What Is a College Education (And How to Get One)," will be distributed free to freshmen this fall on the campuses of about ten colleges and universities. In the pamphlet, Hart states that study of a traditional body of great works of literature is vital to the liberal arts education and to a well-rounded student.

News

An Apple for the teacher

By Nneka Landrum | August 17, 1993

Thirty-five high school teachers from around the country came to the College to submerge themselves in a world of computers for an intensive five-week camp sponsored by the College's Computer Learning and Information Program. Dartmouth is nationally renowned for its commitment to teaching computer literacy and familiarity to its students.

Sports

Climbers lobby ORL for an indoor wall

By Joe Berger | August 17, 1993

The Dartmouth Mountaineering Club is lobbying the Office of Residential Life for permission to replace a racquetball court in Maxwell Hall with an indoor climbing wall. The club presented its proposal to ORL two weeks ago and the office says it hopes to respond sometime this week. The indoor wall would allow Dartmouth climbers to practice and teach mountaineering skills year-round, during winter and bad weather. The Mountaineering Club, a division of the Outing Club, has been trying to gain approval for an indoor climbing facility for 15 years, according to Director of Outdoor Programs Earl Jette. The club's written proposal states that the availability of indoor climbing is important to the quality of a mountaineering program the size and scope of Dartmouth's. A question of where The club has secured funding for the wall and the proposal states that questions of safety, liability and administrative support have been resolved with the College. According to the proposal, only one issue remains: the location of the wall. Dean of Students Lee Pelton approved the proposal early this term, according to club member Chris Carson '95.

Sports

Three lacrosse players make All-American

By Abbey Neisius | August 17, 1993

On weekends throughout the next year, three Dartmouth students will attend All-American Lacrosse practices in the Baltimore area in preparation for a three-week-long world tour in June 1994. During the weekend of June 6th through 8th, two Dartmouth women and one graduate made the All-American Lacrosse Team.

News

Shepherd to Cambridge

By Marina Lakhman | August 17, 1993

Environmental Studies Professor Jack Shepherd will leave the College this fall to become the first director of the Global Studies Initiative at Cambridge University in England. A new part of the university's Global Security Program, the initiative will put Shepherd in charge of 24 senior fellows investigating conflicts in Eastern and Central Europe and Southern Africa. The fellows will focus on four areas in their home nations: the environment, conflict resolution, the economy and the migration of peoples. In his new position, Shepherd will spend one-third of his time teaching as a member of the Social and Political Sciences faculty in Emmanuel College, one of 31 colleges within Cambridge.

Opinion

To read or not to read: Mill's Mall

By Amiri Barksdale | August 17, 1993

I do not like to read books or newspapers. I think they are a form of intellectual cheating. I like to solve my own problems and pull myself up by my own mental bootstraps, but when I read magazines or newspapers, they swipe the pleasure of solving problems from my grasp. For instance, in one particular magazine from 1981 I found the words to express a general distaste I have been feeling.

Opinion

Avoid battle of the sexes

By Brian Kurlander | August 17, 1993

There has been a disturbing trend recently involving Dartmouth men harassing Dartmouth women. In the past couple of weeks, one male decided it would be neat to call many females in the Gold Coast and Hitchcock dormitory clusters at insane hours of the morning and whisper to them.

Opinion

Fraternities should fund Greeks Against Rape

By David Cohen | August 17, 1993

To the Editor: I am writing regarding the Greek system (the IFC in particular) and its refusal to grant Greeks Against Rape the money it requested for funding ("Greeks clash, compromise on rape awareness funding," The Dartmouth, August 13). The IFC cannot have it both ways: it cannot at once insist that Greeks Against Rape is a necessary organization (as it has in the past) and then refuse to fund it (as it is doing now). The Greek system is just digging itself further into a hole by not funding this group that originally was supposed to help address fundamental problems within the system. Furthermore, the burden of funding Greeks Against Rape should fall entirely on the Greek system.

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