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Nurse speaks on women and alcohol

By Daisy I. Alpert | October 19, 1993

Arlene Halsted, a registered nurse at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, spoke to 10 women at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority yesterday afternoon about the effects of alcohol on women as part of Alcohol Awareness Week. According to a 1992 study of alcohol use here, 5.6 percent of Dartmouth women drink on a daily basis, an increase from the 1989 survey. While the amount of drinking at Dartmouth has increased in recent years, most disturbing is the increase in drinking among women, Halsted said. "Women are more easily intoxicated than men," Halsted said.

Arts

Profile: Chance Whitmire

By Jennifer Skoda | October 19, 1993

For Chance Whitmire '94, writing plays is a way to express the dynamics of relationships and choices facing people of our generation. He jokingly describes his plays as "after school specials gone horribly wrong." "I like writing about young people trapped between being young and growing older because that's where I am in my life," Whitmire said. A drama and English major, Whitmire began writing plays his Sophomore Fall when he landed a place in an advanced playwriting class. He is currently working on the one-act "The Beautiful People Die Twice," which is under revision and will be produced Winter term, with a staging in Center Theater possible. One of the highlights of Whitmire's Dartmouth career was his '93 win of the best play award in the annual Eleanor Frost competition for the one-act piece "Stay." Working with the New York Theater Company during the summer of his sophomore year was a turning point for Whitmire.

News

More students tested for AIDS

By Christopher Kao | October 19, 1993

A growing number of students are taking the free AIDS test offered by the College, a trend that health administrators say reflects increasing acceptance of the test as part of a regular health maintenance routine. According to Dr. Nield Mercer, assistant director for clinical affairs at the College Health Service, about 150 students each year are tested for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome at Dick's House. Mercer said slightly more males than females are tested each year. "I think the stigma is down for most people," said Neil Gillies, manager of the out-patient department at the Health Service. Gillies said people who are starting new relationships often want to be tested. Betsy Eccles, infectious disease nurse clinician at the DHMC said the number of people tested doubled in one day after Magic Johnson announced he had Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) in 1991.

Opinion

Rush is a perplexing process

By Mark Harrison | October 19, 1993

The most perplexing thing about rush is that it is taken so seriously. In the three years that I have gone to school here, I have seen people go on ridiculous diets to ensure that they can fit into the proper outfit for rush and I have also sat with my nervous friends who were waiting for a member of certain houses come by to tell them whether or not they got a bid.

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Harvard 'final club' to may become first to admit women

By Alexander R. Edlich | October 19, 1993

The alumni council of one of Harvard's elite all-male "final clubs" recently delayed a vote to allow admission to women after the measure had been unanimously approved by the society's undergraduate members. The council announced earlier this month that it will wait until a poll of the alumni members of the undergraduate student organization is finished by the end of the year. Last month undergraduate members unanimously approved the measure, which would make the Fly Club coeducational after more than 150 years. Approval from the alumni members would make the Fly Club the first of Harvard's nine all-male final club to admit women. The votes by the graduate and undergraduate members coincided with a boycott by a newly-created student group, Women Appealing for Change, which hopes to pressure the clubs into admitting women.

Arts

Don't hate them because they're beautiful

By Susan Zieger | October 19, 1993

The Dartmouth Players elicited much laughter and many poignant moments during yesterday afternoon's reading of "The Beautiful People Die Twice," a new play-in-progress by Chance Whitmire '94, in the Warren Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center. "The Beautiful People Die Twice" is the vibrant, trenchant and often hilarious story of fragrance saleswomen at the fictional department store Chandler's, particularly, the vituperous heroine Talon Kerideth, read by Heather Nolan '94. Talon is unconventional, anti-social and seemingly unbeautiful compared to her gorgeous co-worker, Saint Winter, read by Aliza Waksal '96.

News

Roommate quarrel may lead to arrest

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | October 18, 1993

A squabble between two freshman roommates early Sunday morning turned into an angry scuffle and now Hanover Police are investigating the incident as a possible assault. Police and Safety and Security officers responded to the fight in Topliff dormitory at about 5:30 a.m.

Opinion

Keep ROTC at Dartmouth

By Brandon Del Pozo | October 15, 1993

The U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps at Dartmouth, in conjunction with the Norwich Military Academy, comprises one of the oldest vestiges of the ROTC itself, being formed early in this century between the two schools. However, recently, the Trustees of the College vote every year whether to end the program at Dartmouth since it conflicts with the theory of equal opportunity: acts of homosexuals and bisexuality are not permitted in the Army's ranks. I will not look at the role of homosexuals and bisexuals in the military, as that is a separate though related issue: as a student here, I am concerned with the very survival of the ROTC. First, the Army will not wait for Dartmouth The five or six officers that we produce yearly is not enough to make a three-million person institution turn around and say "Oh -- well ... it's Dartmouth we're talking about ... let's change our national policy!" The issue of homosexuals in the military will not be resolved at this level because we want it to be.

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