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Hanover sees business changes

By Allison Robbins | January 21, 1998

A walk down Main Street in the next few months will reveal several new developments -- from restaurants to retail stores, as proprietors adjust to the ever-changing Hanover business scene. Molly's Balloon, a restaurant on Main Street, is beginning extensive renovations in its dining room and bar area.

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Assembly to meet with Palaeopitus

By Sarah Gerry | January 21, 1998

The Student Assembly discussed plans last night to meet with Palaeopitus and the Presidential Search Committee to examine traits the groups are looking for in the College's next president. The Assembly and Palaeopitus, a senior honor society that offers suggestions to the administration, will present ideas to the Search Committee about what to look for in presidential candidates, according to Case Dorkey '99, Assembly vice president of administrative and faculty relations. In the meeting, scheduled for Sunday, the Assembly and Palaeopitus will expand on issues they introduced in a fall discussion with the Search Committee.

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Top administrators are 'lame ducks' until July

By Nicole Tsong | January 20, 1998

The planned resignations of three top administrators at the end of the academic year leaves the College in a state of transition without the ability to carry out new initiatives. College President James Freedman, Provost Jim Wright and Dean of the College Lee Pelton will all leave their posts in less than six months. The knowledge that replacements will soon be taking over all three posts means each of the three lame duck administrators has little time to maneuver outside the present direction of current College policies and projects. According to Pelton and Wright, proposing new policies at the moment would be very difficult. Unfinished business "I can't start any new projects," Pelton said.

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Finding Freedman: The last search

By Edward Thomas | January 20, 1998

When Dartmouth last instituted a presidential search in 1987, the entire ordeal remained shrouded in secrecy for six months. Throughout the process, the Presidential Search Committee refused to release a time-table of when the next president would be selected and progress was only vaguely described to the Dartmouth community in a series of news briefs. The search committee began work in November of 1986, a month after former President David McLaughlin announced his resignation on October 6. The 18-member committee -- composed of seven faculty members, seven trustees, three alumni representatives and one student -- reviewed 615 candidates who either applied for the position or were recommended by an outside source.

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Dartmouth's own astronaut prepares for space odyssey

By Edward Thomas | January 20, 1998

While hundreds of students will embark on exciting leave terms at the start of spring, one Dartmouth Medical School professor will find himself on an entirely different type of foreign study program. On April 2, Medicine Professor Jay Buckey will blast into orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia as part of a 16-day mission to determine the effects of zero-gravity on humans and animals. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration chose Buckey as a payload specialist for the mission last April. He will work with three other scientists to complete 26 experiments as part of Neurolab, the name given to this series of investigations. Buckey hopes to determine how life forms adapt to space, and to find answers to questions such as why astronauts suffer insomnia in space and why they often have problems standing upright after returning to Earth. "All life evolved under the force of gravity ... we learned to do everything -- walking, talking, breathing -- under that force," Buckey said. "When we have gone to space our brains have had to do a lot of quick thinking about how to adapt to these environments," Buckey said.

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Guinier: Minorities tested like canaries

By Michelle Chui | January 19, 1998

Lani Guinier compared minorities in America to sacrificial canaries used to detect poisonous fumes in mines at a speech before a packed audience in Moore Theater last night. Guinier, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, told how miners used to take canaries into the mines with them to test the atmosphere. If the canary died, she said, the miners knew that there was a problem with their environment.

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Publications face COSO politics

By Jennifr Hickey | January 19, 1998

Recent controversies regarding pieces that ran in two College-funded publications focused attention on who is ultimately responsible for campus journals. The Jack-O-Lantern -- which is funded by the Committee on Student Organizations -- came under fire last term when it printed a feature titled "Eskimo Pick Up Lines" and a satire of The Dartmouth Review that contained racial slurs. The Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine avoided COSO derecognition at the end of Fall term, but its editors need to fulfill certain criteria for the publication to continue to receive money from the student activities fund, COSO decided in November. When they apply for funding during Winter term, the Jack-O editors will need to demonstrate that they have a faculty advisor with a "high level of involvement with the publication," according to a statement Director of Student Activities Linda Kennedy released at the time. The COSO statement also indicated that an apology should be included in the next issue of the Jack-O in addition to "some serious reflection of [the editors'] understanding of the impact [their] previous attempts at satire and humor have had on the community." Similar censorship issues involving Uncommon Threads -- also sponsored by COSO -- were raised at the end of last term by The Beacon and The Dartmouth Review when the literary magazine published a graphic short story about a teenager's first lesbian experience. "We knew it was a risk to publish 'awakening,' but we decided there needed to be a place for that kind of creative writing," Uncommon Threads member Leah Fergenson '98 said. COSO has not yet received any formal complaints about the story. The legal responsibility for articles written in College-funded publications depends on the context of the article, College Counsel Sean Gorman said.

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Students match ethics skills in Bowl game

By Jennifer H. Lee | January 19, 1998

For most students, dealing with ethical problems is far from the ideal extracurricular activity. But for the four members of the Dartmouth Ethics Bowl team, answering questions about medical, social and business ethics is not a dilemma. This willingness to make decisions on some of life's messiest questions has earned Alisa Davis '01, Dave Dookeeram '99, Brandon Garcia '99 and Ritika Nandkeolyar '01 the chance to compete in the National Ethics Bowl, in Dallas, Texas this year. On February 26, the Dartmouth team will vie for the national title with 19 other college teams. "As a team, we want to win," Dookeeram said.

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Wilson says evidence of slavery still exists

By Andrew Allport | January 16, 1998

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson said last night that although slavery has been abolished for over a century in America, evidence of slavery is still present in this country's culture. Wilson, the Winter term Montgomery Fellow, focused on slavery and its aftermath in black theater today when he addressed a packed Moore Theater. Wilson told the hundreds in attendance -- including College President James Freedman, Dean of the College Lee Pelton and English Department Chair William Cook -- that the "lack of viable communities" and the "blunting of aspirations" by policies that exclude blacks are both signs that blacks are still "in servitude." And nowhere is this disparity more prevalent, Wilson said, than in the arts.

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Donations down for Alumni Fund drive

By Hollis Von Summer | January 16, 1998

The Alumni Fund student phonathon is pulling in fewer donations than it did last year, and fewer students are volunteering to solicit money from alumni. Alumni Fund Assistant Director Christopher Boffoli, who organized the phonathon, attributes the lower turnout rate this year to winter rush and NFL games, which are taking place at the same time. In addition, he said, a large number of members of the Class of 1999 are currently off campus.

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College plans MLK Day events

By Charles Gussow | January 16, 1998

The College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with a series of events and speakers next week from Sunday to Wednesday. Dartmouth's 20th annual celebration of King's birthday will include a keynote address by University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Lani Guinier.

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Patent office markets inventions

By Brad Russo | January 16, 1998

If you are a professor at the College and you have genetically engineered a plant which removes hazardous materials from soil and water, you would probably want to take a trip down Rope Ferry Road. There, you would find the Technology Transfer Office, where Dartmouth faculty members can obtain patents for their creations. Biology Professor Mary Lou Guerinot discovered the technique to genetically alter plants so they can weed out hazardous waste, and the TTO is currently seeking licenses for it. Engineering Professor Victor Petrenko is also waiting for a patent on his latest invention -- a de-icer which can be used on airplanes.

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Collis Cafe records financial upswing

By Kathrin Weston | January 15, 1998

Although it continues to lose money, Dartmouth Dining Services is doing significantly better financially than it did in the past two years and is close to breaking even. DDS Director Tucker Rossiter said strong sales performances in the Summer and Fall terms are coinciding with increased the popularity of DDS among students. "Collis is beginning to come back as a really popular place," Rossiter said.

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Winter rush numbers remain even for men

By Jay Krehbiel | January 15, 1998

The number of men joining fraternities this winter stayed about the same as last year, although the number of men rushing rose. While the majority of eligible men choose to rush fraternities in the fall, some choose to wait until winter before rushing or sinking their bids. Psi Upsilon fraternity's rush chair, Adam Dietz '98, said winter rush gives men who were off campus in the fall a chance to join a fraternity. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity president Paul Killebrew '99 said a few more men rushed SAE than at this time last year, but there was not a significant rise in men who actually sank bids, with four men sinking this winter. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity received the most visitors for winter rush this year with 11 men visiting.

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Study links smoking, products

By Maura Henninger | January 15, 1998

One third of local children in grades six through 12 own promotional gear from cigarette companies, according to a study released by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in December. The study of 1,265 youths in New Hampshire and Vermont also found that five percent were wearing clothes bearing the name of a tobacco company at the time of the survey and 50 percent had seen some sort of promotional gear that day. In addition, children who own such gear are four times as likely to be smokers than those who do not, according to the study. Dr. James Sargent, the leader of the study at the DHMC's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, defined a smoker as a person who has smoked more than 100 cigarettes in his or her life. Kids who are not legally allowed to smoke, yet wear these items are sending a "highly visible message that smoking's okay," Sargent said.

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