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The Official Homecoming Party Guide

By Joseph C. Scott | October 31, 1997

After the bonfire has gone out, it's party time on the Dartmouth campus. Whether you're searching for dancing, music or frothy beverages, Homecoming inspires some of the greatest parties of the term.

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Alumni and 'shmen sweep campus

By Jenn Taylor | October 31, 1997

Believe it or not, there is more to Dartmouth Homecoming than fraternity parties and football. On Halloween night, as ghosts and goblins emerge for their night of haunting, Dartmouth's hallowed souls will also emerge for the 102nd annual Dartmouth Night celebration. Homecoming festivities begin at 7:15 with the Freshman Sweep.

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Alumni and 'shmen sweep campus

By Bonfire Building 101: The | October 31, 1997

Every year, the freshman class takes a major part in defining the character of Homecoming Weekend by building, and then running around, a huge bonfire with the last two digits of their year on its top. According to tradition, the class year dictates the number of tiers the bonfire is constructed of, as well as the number of times the freshmen circle the blazing structure on Dartmouth Night. This year's Freshman Bonfire Committee was faced with a special problem when they planned the impressive structure now being constructed in the center of the Green. The problem: how many tiers for the Class of '01? Rather than erect one lonely tier which the freshman class would run around exactly once, the Class of 2001 is building 101 tiers, some of them made of popsicle sticks, in a two-day marathon construction process consisting of eight two-hour shifts from 8 a.m.

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College celebrates late Homecoming

By David Kung | October 31, 1997

Dartmouth's annual Homecoming celebration -- which usually takes place during mid-October -- was pushed back this year for one reason: to accommodate a better football game. Football games are scheduled almost a decade in advance by the Athletics Office, but Homecoming is scheduled by Alumni Relations. Director of Alumni Relations David Orr said his office tries to build Homecoming around "what appears to be the most important Ivy League game." Associate Director of Athletics Josie Harper said both offices try to coordinate a good match for the Homecoming game -- "either Yale or Harvard, generally speaking" -- although the final decision has more to do with scheduling dates than who is a good team to play. Harvard University was a good choice because Harvard is the closest Ivy to Dartmouth and "we have the best chance to have an exciting atmosphere and a good crowd," Harper said. Orr said choosing the date for this year's Homecoming was rather simple. "Look at the games we played," he said.

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Campus band's minds, music are lost in space

By Kathrin Weston | October 31, 1997

Ordinary bands are all about music. Dartmouth students Peter Sperger '98, Greg Neichin '99, Danny Gans '98, Eli Ridgway '97, Nick van Amburg '99 and Jonah Blumstein '98, the members of the band Space Station, are fascinated by a different theme -- space. "We rock," said Blumstein, as he goes on to explain that their style is not defined by any certain type of music, but by their shared interest in space.

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Some students provide another kind of warmth

By Andrew Allport | October 30, 1997

While the rest of the student body looks forward to the display of light and heat generated by the Homecoming bonfire tomorrow night, some Dartmouth students are sharing warmth in a different way. The members of Operation Insulation and the Tucker Woodcrew are providing weatherization and repairs to needy homes across the Upper Valley. Newly restarted two years ago, Operation Insulation seeks to call attention to the weather issues problematic for many New Hampshire residents, according to co-chair Courtney Jacobs '98. Operation Insulation was established in the Fall of 1991 as a joint effort of the Tucker Foundation and the Environmental Studies division of the Dartmouth Outing Club. Modeled after Habitat for Humanity, the organization travels throughout the Upper Valley repairing and insulating homes. "We want the community to know that we realize that the bonfire uses a lot of resources, " said the group's other co-chair, Nancy Bloomfield '99. This is not a protest against the bonfire, but rather a way of showing that students are aware of the incongruity of the event in light of the heating concerns facing many Upper Valley residents, Bloomfield said. Another student organization, Woodcrew, delivers heating fuel to homes in need.

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Architect calls for conservation

By Sarah Hood | October 29, 1997

University of Virginia Architecture School Dean William McDonough '73, one of the world's leading designers of environmentally friendly buildings, criticized society last night for failing to protect the environment and for wasting limited natural resources. McDonough, the winner of the 1996 Presidential Award for Sustainable Development -- the nation's top environmental award -- is renowned for designing ecologically intelligent buildings, including The Gap Corporate Campus and Nike's Europe Headquarters. But most of society, he told a crowd of more than 100 students and professors in 105 Dartmouth last night, is ecologically unintelligent. "Our system is badly designed," McDonough said.

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S&S van slammed by student car

By Sarah Gerry | October 29, 1997

A sport utility vehicle owned by a student ran into a Safety and Security van in front of Gile Hall, then drove off without leaving any identification yesterday evening, according to a Safety and Security complaint filed last night. New Hampshire state law requires that a person involved in a hit-and-run accident leave identification, like a note.

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Instruction Committee passes multiple minors

By Betsy Timbers | October 29, 1997

The Committee on Instruction unanimously passed a proposal yesterday to allow students to minor in two academic disciplines at the same time, the committee chair said last night. The proposal -- drafted last year by the Student Assembly -- still needs to pass the Committee on Organization and Policy, which could review the proposal within three weeks.

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Administrators frown on book's publication

By Eun Lee Koh | October 28, 1997

Former Assistant Director of Admissions Michele Hernandez '89 predicted she would not be "appreciated in admissions circles" once her new book, "A is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges," was published. She was right. All over the country, college-bound high school students as well as their guidance counselors are rushing to bookstores and are even special-ordering copies of her book, which claims to reveal many of the Ivy League's well-guarded admissions secrets. But within many Ivy League admissions offices -- including that of Dartmouth, her former employer -- Hernandez's book is causing an uneasy uproar. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg called Hernandez's book an "unfortunate and superficial view of the way admissions process works." "It just makes the whole process look like a game where you psyche out and beat the opponent -- in this case, admissions officers," he said.

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Folk store reopens in new location

By Allison Robbins | October 27, 1997

Three months after being forced from its original location by a Hanover restaurant, the Folk store has re-opened in the building across the street, according to owner Ted Degener. Degener said he likes the new spot at 6 Allen Street.

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