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Governor gets introduction to College at Trustee lunch

By Elysa L. Jacobs | April 14, 1997

New Hampshire Governor and ex-officio Dartmouth Trustee Jeanne Shaheen attended lunch with the Board of Trustees on Friday afternoon in an attempt to familiarize herself with the College and involve herself in higher education in the state. In an interview with The Dartmouth before the lunch at College President James Freedman's home, Shaheen said, "I am really here to learn today and see how I can be helpful." She said her visit springs from her dedication to education at all grade levels in the state. "I have made education a priority in my administration," Shaheen said.

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Candidates appear in second debate

By Erika Patrick | April 11, 1997

The candidates for Student Assembly president and vice president appeared last night in a public forum that, much like the discussion at Collis Cafe on Tuesday night, lacked contentious debate. About 20 students attended the forum, which was hosted by La Alianza Latina in the Zimmerman Lounge in the Blunt Alumni Center. While most of the candidates primarily reiterated their platforms as presented in Tuesday's debate and responded to individual concerns of those in attendance, the most noticeable difference was a slight change in the stance of Scott Jacobs '99 and the addition of presidential write-in candidate Kathy Kim '00 to the forum. The debate, moderated by La Alianza president James Gallo '99, was attended by Assembly presidential candidates Frode Eilersten '99, Jacobs, Kim and Unai Montes-Irueste '98 and vice presidential candidates Dave Altman '99 and Nahoko Kawayku '99.

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FSPs: They're not just for undergrads anymore: Alumni study with profs around the world

By Sarah Gerry | April 11, 1997

These days, earning a Dartmouth diploma does not necessarily signal the end of a Dartmouth education. Thanks to the Alumni Continuing Education program, some graduates of the College take classes from Dartmouth professors in classrooms in Kenya, Montana or Switzerland. The program pairs alumni and College professors for travel and classes on subjects ranging from Mozart to the book "A River Runs Through It." "Just because you're out of school doesn't mean you want to stop being educated," Program Manager Joyce Greene said. The trips vary from year to year, but tours in Tuscany and Alaska are often repeated due to their popularity, Green said.

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College leads Ivies in alcohol arrests

By Charlotte Bednar | April 10, 1997

Almost 70 students were arrested for alcohol violations in 1995, nearly twice as many as the previous year and many times more than the rest of the Ivy League combined. Eleven students were charged with alcohol violations at Cornell in 1995.

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Freshman enter SA election as write-ins

By Jake Elberg | April 9, 1997

Freshmen Kathy Kim and Ben Oren announced they will run for Student Assembly president and vice president on an informal ticket, citing a lack of firm positions on specific issues by the current candidates as their reason for joining only a week before the election. "We looked at the candidates and saw the platforms they presented, or the lack of platforms in some cases, and we decided we would be able to implement the ideas people want," Oren said. Kim said the race lacks diversity and specific issues because the candidates all agree on the issues. Oren said the specific issues they would like to address include greater priority for students for tickets to Hopkins Center events, reforming the Committee on Standards and fighting plans to relocate the Special Collections library to Webster Hall. "We don't have enough student space as it is," Oren said. The candidates announced their candidacy too late to appear in last night's presidential and vice-presidential debates, but their absence is not the only disadvantage they face.

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Assembly to suggest COS appointees

By Jean Blackerby | April 9, 1997

The Student Assembly passed a resolution last night to nominate up to 12 students for consideration by Dean of the College Lee Pelton in the selection of members of the Committee on Standards. The COS resolution does not give the Assembly the power to appoint students to the committee, which hears and adjudicates cases of students accused of violating the College's rules.

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Students plead guilty to thefts

By Eun Lee Koh | April 9, 1997

Geraldo Cadava '00 and Ross Fenderson '00 plead guilty and were fined $480 in Lebanon District Court yesterday for the theft of a guitar and three portable stereos from Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity during Winter term. Cadava and Fenderson were arrested in March for removing a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar and the stereo equipment from the Sig Ep basement Saturday Feb.

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'Year 2000 problem' is not a problem at College

By Joseph C. Scott | April 8, 1997

While universities and corporations worldwide are scurrying to avoid massive computer system failures in the year 2000, College computer administrators say Dartmouth is well-prepared for the coming millennium. The "year 2000 problem" that many systems operators are struggling to correct arises from a small programming defect in a computer's capacity to handle dates. If the computer reads the year as two digits, the advent of the millennium will cause failures because "00" is not greater than "99." This illogical progression, as computers see it, from "99" to "00" is expected to cause systems to behave unpredictably, in some cases, shut down altogether. The College, for the most part, expects to avoid the year 2000 problem, according to Director of Administrative Computing Bill Barry. Barry said the College is taking two steps to ensure its computers avoid problems at the turn of the century -- regularly buying new systems which have been programmed to deal with the century change and implementing "in-house developed software," programmed by the College to fit its special needs. But there are still some older systems on campus which could be affected by the coming of the new millennium. For example, the D1 system, Dartmouth's original time-share system, was set up in the late 1960s and could be affected if it is not phased out. Though there were plans to shut down this system several years ago, there are still some programs run on the system, Barry said.

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