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Students stunned by resignation

By Jake Elberg | September 29, 1997

Only hours after College President James Freedman announced to the press last Thursday that he would resign after Commencement, the news traveled quickly throughout the student body, mostly via electronic-mail. Students were surprised and many saddened as they were left to wonder and debate, what lasting impressions Freedman would leave on Dartmouth.

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CDs, pen, watch stolen from Lord

By David Kung | September 25, 1997

The Hanover Police are investigating a break-in through the ground floor room in Lord Hall that occurred sometime between last Saturday night and Sunday morning. Approximately $1800 was reported stolen to the police in the form of 80 to 90 compact discs, stamps, a gold plated pen and a watch case. Detective-Sergeant Frank Moran said the break-in was reported to have occurred between 11 p.m.

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Sometime-scientist Plutonium says science is 'gobbledygook'

By Joseph C. Scott | September 25, 1997

Since his arrival by bicycle in Hanover in 1988, the man now known as Archimedes Plutonium has become a fixture of the Dartmouth campus. Plutonium, a pot washer at the Hanover Inn, is best known locally for his extravagant dress and his theories about physics and mathematics. He also earned attention in 1994, when he became the subject of a free speech controversy. His "Plutonium Atom Totality Theorem," which has been printed in The Dartmouth and on the Internet, holds that the universe is actually one gigantic plutonium atom. Born Ludwig Poehlmann in 1950, Plutonium spent his earlier days as a mathematics teacher in Australia and a Naval officer. In 1978 he applied for a court order to change his name to Ludwig Ludwig.

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Erdrich speaks, but declines honors

By Maura Henninger | September 24, 1997

Distinguished author and College alumna Louise Erdrich '76 warned students not to be afraid of failure in her keynote address at yesterday's Convocation ceremonies, the 228th in Dartmouth history. The audience in Leede Arena, which included several hundred students and members of the faculty, also heard addresses by College President James Freedman and Student Assembly President Frode Eilertsen '99. Convocation is a Fall tradition and marks the official beginning of the academic year.

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Ex-Topside manager to plead guilty

By David Kung | September 24, 1997

The former manager of the Topside convenience store in Thayer Hall intends to plead guilty to charges he embezzled about $30,000 from the College, according to documents filed this month at Grafton Superior Court. Bob Jette, who was fired earlier this year, now awaits a court hearing.

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