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From hate to love, and learning all the way

By Jarvan Shen | June 13, 1993

Before I matriculated at Dartmouth, I thought I knew the school pretty well. I thought either I would despise the rural environment and become completely bored with the College, or I would enjoy the serene country club lifestyle. Born and raised in New York City, I knew myself to be a subway rat and city-dweller.

News

Commencement rich in tradition and weirdness

By Justin Steinman | June 13, 1993

Throughout the years, Dartmouth's Commencement has been graced by the likes of United States Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and literary legends Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. It has also been attended by drunkards, auctioneers, gamblers and a Native American standing on the branch of a pine tree. Somewhere in there, the College managed to fit in a few graduates, an occasional faculty member or two and a couple of College Presidents. Like every other Dartmouth tradition, Commencement has evolved throughout its 223-year existence and certainly had more than its fair share of strange occurrences. The beginning There were only four graduates at the College's first Commencement in 1771, and these students only spent one year at Dartmouth having received the first three years of their undergraduate education at Yale. The ceremony, which included orations in Latin and English and began and ended with a prayer, occurred on Wednesday, August 28, 1771 in the location where Reed Hall now stands, according to a Commencement history written by the late College Professor Francis Lane Childs '06. These four young men were honored by College founder Eleazar Wheelock and New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth, who made the journey from Portsmouth to Hanover accompanied by 60 guests. To celebrate the first graduating class, Wheelock planned a large banquet and provided rum for his guests.

Opinion

Academic honor first

By House Editorial | June 1, 1993

"Fundamental to the principle of independent learning are the requirements of honesty and integrity in the performance of academic assignments both in the classroom and outside." The academic honor principle is a pillar which upholds the basic educational mission of the College.

Sports

One last look at spring sports action

By Ally Hyun | June 1, 1993

Baseball had a strong start but a slow finish, ending the 1993 season 14-19 overall, 8-12 in the Ivy League ... Women's lacrosse had one of its most successful seasons in recent history, finishing second in the Ivy League with a 4-2 record and earning a 11-4 record overall.

News

Doctors' salaries sky-high

By Maggie Lockwood | June 1, 1993

The College's 1992 tax forms show some medical school professors make nearly as much as the College's president because they moonlight in private practices to supplement their salary. College President James Freedman tops the list with $273,673 in salary for his full time position.

Arts

Spontaneous Combustion sings year's finale in Spaulding

By Brad Parks | June 1, 1993

It's 11:35 p.m. on a performance night and Spontaneous Combustion is on the serenading prowl. They've already made one hit, and they're looking for more helpless prey. The group's four current members, Lew Cirne '93, Bill Lapcevic '93, Norm Roye '93 and Dave Kaiser '93 bound down the steps of the Channing Cox apartment complex, filling the stairwell with the bops, bums and ba-das so typical of their 1950's doo-wop style of music.

News

Symposium topic for '94s picked

By Christopher Johnson | June 1, 1993

Next year's Senior Symposium will focus on social responsibility and the college generation, organizers said yesterday. The symposium is the senior class' intellectual gift to the College. Dan Garodnick '94, the class president, selected Julie Lane '94 and Tim Martin '94 to head a 25-member committee that will organize the two-day event.

News

Reserve reading on-line

By Alexander R. Edlich | June 1, 1993

A Student Assembly effort to make course reserve readings available over the College's computer network is running into legal barriers that are inhibiting the process. Four months after the Assembly's Project Committee began the task, three documents are available through the Online Library program that enables students to tap into a vast array of other database information from their computers. This term the Reserve Room has 2,600 photocopied documents -- and that does not include books, according to Ploeger. Most of the reserve readings are protected by copyright laws that prohibit the reproduction or electronic transmission of the document. Currently, only non-copyrighted materials can be put on-line, Circulation Services Librarian Pamela Ploeger said. Jeff Bell '96, the committee's liaison with Baker Library, said 20 non-copyrighted readings will be put on-line for the Fall term. Bell said laws restricting use of copyrighted materials on computer networks are untested and the legal implications are unclear. "In effect, we're waiting for someone to get sued," Bell said.

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Houses in jeopardy; Plagued by low membership, some fraternities look to fall rush

By Jennifer Sack | June 1, 1993

Some of the College's fraternities currently troubled by low membership are looking toward next fall's rush period to strengthen their houses. While there are fraternities with as many as 94 members, Kappa Chi Kappa, Gamma Delta Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon have 29, 28 and 18 brothers, respectively. Although low membership has caused two Greek organizations to dissolve in the past five years, the presidents of Kappa Chi, Gamma Delt and SAE do not foresee their houses following this course. In fact, two of the presidents said their fraternities are actively seeking to recruit new members and feel confident that their efforts will pay off in the fall. Gamma Delt President Todd Brackett '95 said the fraternity is having more parties this term and trying to involve members of the Class of 1996 in house activities. He said the fraternity is also urging some of the men who "hang out" at the house to become members. Although Gamma Delt is making a strong effort to recruit new brothers, Brackett said he would like to see membership remain somewhat modest. "We're working to up the size to tops 45," he said.

News

Two students receive teaching grants

By Amanda A. Amann | June 1, 1993

Two Dartmouth juniors, Lloyd Lee and Zola Mashariki, have received a national award that provides financial support to minority students who plan to teach in public schools. Each will receive up to $18,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship between the summer of their junior year and the start of their teaching careers.

Arts

'Black and White' film shows again

By Jennifer Skoda | June 1, 1993

"Politics of Love in Black and White," a student film on interracial relationships, is back by popular demand and in a newly edited version. The film by Edward Burley '92 and Christopher Weck '92 began in their documentary film class during the 1991 Summer term.

Opinion

Mugs keep the tradition

By House Editorial | June 1, 1993

The Class Day Committee, charged with choosing a ceremony to replace the century-old tradition of breaking clay pipes on the Lone Pine stump, came up with a new ritual that maintains all the symbolism of the old. This year, seniors will drink a toast to their class from clay mugs, and then break the mugs on the Lone Pine.

News

Nine profs to retire this month

By Joe Berger | June 1, 1993

When Dean of Faculty James Wright recognized nine retiring professors at the final faculty gathering this spring, he noted that together they had been teaching at Dartmouth for 278 years. Each of the nine taught at Dartmouth for twenty years or more. Professor Fred Berthold graduated from Dartmouth in 1945 and returned to teach four years later.

Sports

The olympian in the Class of 1996

By Ally Hyun | June 1, 1993

As the stroke of the Big Green heavyweight crew's first freshman eight, Max Holds '96, along with his teammates, recorded six wins and two losses during the regular season and finished seventh at the Eastern Sprints Championships.

News

Internet gains students global access

By Justin Steinman | June 1, 1993

Through Dartmouth's computer network, students can tap into computer systems all around the world, talk to their friends at other colleges from their computers, and search libraries across the country for research materials. The Internet, an interconnected computer network that will form the basis for the "information superhighway" that the Clinton administration espouses, allows students to connect to computers around the world from the comfort of their dormitory room.

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