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Alumn stay in touch

By Elizabeth Dziadik | October 18, 1996

As the Class of 2000 experiences their first Dartmouth Homecoming, they will join the ranks of upperclassmen and alumni who call Dartmouth home. But what brings alumni back to Hanover year after year for subsequent Dartmouth Nights?

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A Unified Community

By Holly Sateia | October 18, 1996

Given the recent discussions on campus about reviving the Indian symbol, I thought it might be helpful to share with the newer members of our community a statement former Dean of the Tucker Foundation Warner Traynham made regarding the Indian symbol.

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Editors' Note

By Jean Blackerby | October 18, 1996

Tonight, as the Class of 2000 takes its turns around the bonfire on the Green, they will be thinking many things, but the least of their worries will be where they are. But after the parties have discharged their last disoriented stragglers, and the bonfire is reduced a few smoldering beams, each Dartmouth student, faculty member and alumnus will have created a personal memory of this year's Homecoming. For the members of the class of 2000, it will be their first, and probably their most powerful, Homecoming experience.

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Examing the anatomy of a bonfire

By Jess Jacob | October 18, 1996

Crawling over a sixty-tier wooden tower, members of the Class of 2000 will have worked for two days on the Homecoming bonfire by the time it is set ablaze tonight. The structure, which looms over the Green, has come under restrictions in recent years. Ken Jones, the assistant athletic director who has overseen bonfire construction since the 1970s, said the restrictions are primarily for safety. The structure is made up of a 33-tier six-pointed star base which closes in to a 22-tier hexagon and tapers to a 7-tier square with class numerals on top, he said. The College regulates the shape and height of the bonfire and supervises its construction. Jones said the supervision of the bonfire creation was originally the responsibility of the First Year Office, but a former athletic director later accepted the responsibility. The shape of the bonfire structure may have originated in the Thayer School of Engineering, Jones said. "The structure of the bonfire is chosen for stability and is determined by the size and shape of the beams used," Engineering Professor Francis Kennedy said. "The goal was to build something tall without nails that can hold fill inside," he said.

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CUAD seeks return of Indian

By Elysa Jacobs | October 17, 1996

The Conservative Union at Dartmouth passed a resolution Monday night to back the Indian as the College's mascot in the name of tradition. CUAD passed its resolution with a 28-0 vote and two abstentions, according to a CUAD press release. Michael New '97, chairman of CUAD, said the resolution was passed in response to the recently instituted web survey requesting student suggestions for a new mascot for the College. "If it weren't for the survey, we wouldn't have brought the issue up," New said.

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'00 class officers named

By David Kung | October 17, 1996

The 2000 Class Council last night elected Peter Cataldo as its president when it elected its officers for the rest of the year. Catalado beat 10 other students for the office of class president.

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College to honor coeducation

By Elysa Jacobs | October 17, 1996

The College has planned several activities to commemorate the 25th anniversary of coeducation at the College and to encourage the Dartmouth community to reflect on changes at the College over the past 25 years. "I think the anniversary is the perfect opportunity to assess where [the College] has been and where we are now and begin to envision where we want to go next," Women's Resource Center Director Giavanna Munafo said. Munafo, who is chairing the 25th Anniversary of Coeducation Commemoration Committee, said she hopes the commemoration activities will also help the Dartmouth community look at the College has changed over the last quarter century. "One of the things we have been stressing is that this is not only the 25th anniversary [of coeducation]," Munafo said.

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Fraternity rush numbers released

By Maura Henninger | October 17, 1996

Fall rush provided the fraternity system with 29 more new members than last year, but pledge class sizes varied widely among the houses. According to numbers the Interfraternity Council released yesterday, 229 men joined houses this fall compared to last fall's 200. "All in all, I think we accomplished our goal as the IFC to increase the numbers of people who participated in the fraternity rush process," said Mike Armstrong '97, president of the Interfraternity Council. He said he thought "the distribution of the IFC Rush booklet and IFC helped increase awareness." But the size of the pledge classes of the 14 houses that held formal rush this term ranged from 31 to four . Alpha Delta and Chi Heorot fraternities each had 31 men sink bids.

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Caplan defends affirmative action

By Jake Elberg | October 16, 1996

Lincoln Caplan, senior writer for US News & World Report and one of America's leading observers of legal and public affairs, defended affirmative action last night in a speech titled "A Pragmatist's Case for Affirmative Action." Caplan spoke before more than 50 people in the Rockefeller Center. "Affirmative action was born of a national sense of duty," Caplan said.

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