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Crime blights UPenn, Dartmouth stays safe

By Roy Lee | January 16, 1997

The recent surge in crime at the University of Pennsylvania has focused national attention on the issue of security at college campuses -- and has served as a marked contrast to the relative safety of the College and the surrounding Hanover area. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, 24 Penn students and employees were robbed last September, twice the number of reported robberies as September, 1995.

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Students discuss alcohol issues at CCAOD forum

By Lillie Ng | January 15, 1997

Students packed 105 Dartmouth Hall last night for a forum to discuss the 11 principles drafted by the College Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs Fall term. Members of the committee, re-established in winter of 1995 by Dean of the College Lee Pelton to examine the role of alcohol on campus, divided students into groups of 10 or 11 to discuss the principles.

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Shapiro speaks on state of EU laws

By Sarah Gerry | January 15, 1997

University of California--Berkeley law professor Martin Shapiro told an audience of about 60 people that European governments are creating laws without popular approval or public awareness. "Many of the European Union's laws are being written by commissions of technical experts who are elected by nobody," Shapiro told the crowd in the Hinman Forum at the Rockefeller Center.

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SA to vote on Kartalopoulos removal

By Erik Tanouye | January 15, 1997

The Membership and Internal Affairs Committee will decide whether to impeach Assembly Treasurer Bill Kartalopoulos '97 at a meeting Sunday, according to Assembly President Jon Heavey '97. Kartalopoulos was absent at last night's meeting, last week's general Assembly meeting and both of the two Assembly executive meetings this term. According to the attendance resolution passed by the Assembly last term, members are allowed three absences before being reviewed by the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee. "I was asleep," Kartalopoulos wrote in an e-mail message about last night's meeting.

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Freedman wins award for 'Idealism'

By Robert Isaacs | January 14, 1997

College President James Freedman was awarded the 1997 Association of American College and University's Ness Book Award last week for his book, "Idealism and Liberal Education." The Ness Award, established in honor of former AAC&U President Frederic W.

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CCAOD to discuss alcohol at forum

By Lillie Ng | January 14, 1997

The College Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs will hold an open forum tonight in 105 Dartmouth Hall to discuss 11 "draft principles" which the committee says should be foundation of alcohol policy on campus. The CCAOD, which is comprised of several students, administrators and faculty members was re-established by Dean of the College Lee Pelton last spring to evaluate the role of alcohol and other drugs on campus. Although the principles -- which were drafted last November -- are not official recommendations, in the committee's opinion they represent "guidelines" for College policy which "may or may not lead to certain changes" in the current alcohol policy, CCAOD Chair Sean Gorman previously told The Dartmouth. Tonight's forum was organized "to get some input from students as to how they view the principles," according to Gorman, who is also the associate college counsel. "The idea is to gather together and discuss certain issues that the committee feels are valid and hopefully act together to resolve any problems there might be in the alcohol use at Dartmouth," said Chris Atwood '98, president of the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council. Atwood said he has encouraged all the presidents of the CFSC system to attend the forum. Participants in tonight's forum will be placed in small discussion groups "instead of having a free-for-all atmosphere," Gorman said.

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Students, faculty honor Hachtel '96 at memorial

By Jake Elbert | January 14, 1997

A standing-room-only crowd filled the Thayer School of Engineering's Great Hall yesterday afternoon to celebrate and remember the life of Heidi Hachtel '96, a Thayer student who was killed last month. Hachtel, 22, and her father Stephen Hachtel, 47, died on Dec.

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SASH to investigate stalking on campus

By Elizabeth Dziadik | January 13, 1997

The Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Committee recommended in its annual report, released last month, that the College continue its investigation into stalking and work to increase the awareness of the issue on campus. SASH, established during the 1987-88 academic year, educates Dartmouth students and faculty in an effort to prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment. SASH created a Subcommittee on Stalking during the fall of 1995 in light of increased awareness of the issue, according to Women's Resource Center Director Giavanna Munafo, one of SASH's co-chairs. Although the stalking subcommittee was formed in part as a response to anecdotal evidence that there was stalking on campus, the results of a survey taken by the group last spring did not wholly confirm this anecdotal evidence, the report states. The survey had asked people to provide their own definition of stalking, along with examples of stalking on campus and suggestions of techniques to help deal with the problem. In response to the failure of the surveys to confirm the evidence of stalking, the report states, "We were not convinced that our surveys truly reflected the reality of stalking on campus.

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Mascot backers plan another survey

By Elysa L. Jacobs | January 13, 1997

The Big Green Backers, the coordinators of a search for a College mascot, will send an e-mail message to students this week asking if they support finding a mascot to accompany the Big Green nickname, according to a press release issued by the group. Big Green Backer Hank Brier '98 said the BlitzMail survey, to be sent to all students at the College, will ensure everyone has the opportunity to have a say in whether they want a mascot. The Big Green Backers set up a survey on a World Wide Web page last term to solicit suggestions for the mascot from students, but the survey is no longer on the Internet. The moose emerged as the most popular potential mascot in the web survey, having garnered the votes of 30 percent of the approximately 500 people who took part in the survey. "We got a great response [to the web survey] but we don't think we reached the entire campus," Brier said.

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Thayer students to enroll in law classes

By Michelle Gregg | January 13, 1997

An agreement signed last week between the Thayer School of Engineering and the Vermont Law School will soon allow students at either institution to take courses in environmental issues at the other school. Thayer School Dean Elsa Garmire said the agreement, which begins with the 1997-98 academic year, will continue for five years. Vermont Law School Dean Kinvin Wroth said he anticipates more law schools entering into such exchange agreements "as resources grow tighter for every institution and subjects become more specialized." The two schools expect students to take an average of three courses at the other institution, but no one is permitted to take more than three courses at the other school over a two-year period, Garmire said. Not every student interested in taking classes at the other school will have the opportunity to enroll -- students must apply to a committee of administrators and faculty from both schools and receive permission to enroll in the courses, Garmire said. "We want to make sure the students that take courses here are qualified and will pass," she said.

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Warm weather melts skiway profits

By Jake Molland | January 13, 1997

After last year's record-breaking season of financial success at the Dartmouth Skiway, unseasonably warm winter temperatures have gotten this season's ticket sales off to a slow start. According to Dartmouth Skiway Manager Don Cutter, December 1996 was the warmest December on record, hindering snow-making tremendously. Dartmouth Ski Patroller Rosalind Prabharasuth '99 said skiing conditions "are not looking real good." Only three trails are open on the quad-chair-lift side of the Skiway, Prabharasuth said. Cutter said Holt's Ledge, the other portion of the skiway, will remain closed until a solid base of snow is established. "We like to make a lot of snow on a few trails rather than a little on a lot of them.

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Construction proceeds as scheduled

By David Kung | January 13, 1997

The conversion of Webster Hall into the new Special Collections Library, the first phase of the College's plan to expand the campus northward into the 21st century, could begin as early as April. Planning for the Special Collections library -- renamed the Rauner Special Collections Library after Bruce Rauner '78 -- had been on hold for a few months, Director of Facilities Planning Gordon DeWitt said.

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Alumni telethon to begin Sunday

By Beth Duncan | January 10, 1997

The 21st annual student telethon to raise money for the Alumni Fund begins this Sunday, and organizers are hoping to match last year's more than $500,000 in receipts. The telethon, which will take place at the Top of the Hop Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, helps the College pay for general operating costs, according to Alumni Fund Intern Sam Keating '97, one of the telethon organizers. For the first time organizers will allow donors to specify whether their donations will go towards current-use or financial aid. "The Alumni Fund accounts for about 10 percent of operating costs," funding such programs as Foreign Study Programs and Language Study Abroad programs, Keating said. Assistant Director of the Alumni Fund Christopher Buffoli said the telethon is very important to the College's finances. Dartmouth student volunteers will telephone alumni who gave money to the College in previous years to ask for donations. "Alums are generally fun to talk to," Keating said.

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Career Services aids job-hunters

By Sarah Gerry | January 10, 1997

More companies are coming to Dartmouth to recruit every year, and Dartmouth seniors seem more stressed-out than ever. The number of companies recruiting Dartmouth students increased by 186 percent last year and 137 percent the year before last, Associate Director of Career Services Kathryn Hutchinson said. Hutchinson said Dartmouth is a favorite with recruiters. "Employers are really thinking through what level of candidate and what kind of school they want to do business with," she said. Seniors have discovered that looking for a job after college is a lot of work.

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Panel discusses who runs Washington

By David Horowitz | January 10, 1997

None of the four participants in yesterday's political panel discussion "Who's in Charge?" could agree on who holds power in Washington after the 1996 elections. Answers from the panelists ranged from the American people to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to no one. Government Professors Thomas Nichols, Catherine Shapiro, Constantine Spiliotes and Republican political Advisor Tom Rath '67 speculated about the current direction of Washington politics before 75 people in 2 Rockefeller Center. Although the panelists disagreed on who is in charge of Washington, they said whoever is at the helm will make few daring moves. Spiliotes said that with a cautious president governing from the "sensible center," a Speaker of the House "who just received a public spanking" and a narrowly elected Congress, he is concerned about a lull in creative policy making and "furtherance of the status quo." Nichols also said he expects no dramatic action from Washington, because the citizens of the United States are not looking for change. "The group in charge is the American people," Nichols said.

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