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Assembly votes to print a new dining guide

By Erik Tanouye | October 23, 1996

The Student Assembly last night voted to contribute $700 to the production of this year's dining guide and announced that it will subsidize bus trips to New York and Boston for Thanksgiving. Assembly President Jon Heavey '97 said the dining guide should have been printed during the summer. Communications chair Jonah Sonnenborn '99 said the dining guide was not produced in the summer due to "miscommunication" within the summer Assembly. "The dining guide's extremely important," Sonnenborn said.

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Sax: land ownership not absolute

By Jodi Priselac | October 23, 1996

Montgomery Fellow Joseph Sax last night discussed the extent to which property owners control their land under new interpretations of United States property law. Provost Lee Bollinger introduced Sax as "the foremost legal and policy theorist of the environment of our time." Sax delivered a speech in 105 Dartmouth Hall titled, "The Owner as Steward: A Key to the Preservation of Our Heritage," to roughly 100 students, faculty and local residents. "We are beginning a period of change in property legislation that will have profound implications for preservation of natural habitats as well as objects important to our culture," Sax said. He said people's views about property began to change 25 years ago when questions regarding issues of environmental preservation arose. He said people began to ask questions like, "Does the owner of land that contains the last vestiges of a species have a right to destroy this species?" The idea of the land owner as a steward, who protects and preserves the land because it is in the public's interest, has been the greatest change in property law, Sax said. "With a few limited exceptions -- human beings, the sea, valuable works of art, [in addition to others] -- our laws permit routine property ownership of anything that can be" tangibly held, Sax said. Previously, he said, U.S.

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Committee meets to discuss fixing up Choates

By Erin Loback | October 22, 1996

The Office of Residential Life is forming a committee of students and administrators this term to suggest improvements for the common areas of the Choates residence hall cluster. Associate Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty said the Choates cluster has a lot of "underutilized common space," and he would like to see it "made more usable." Assistant Dean of Residential Life Mary Liscinsky said she and Beatty decided to create the committee after discussing the limited use of the common areas in the Choates, which include basement areas as well as two large, elevated lounges. "We weren't sure how much use the study spaces and the lounges were getting," Liscinsky said. Beatty said the committee has not yet been formed, but students have already been asked to join the committee and to help make suggestions. Beatty and Liscinsky said they recently sent a BlitzMail message to Choates residents explaining the purpose of the ad hoc committee and asking for interested students to reply. Beatty said any renovations or improvements made to the Choates would be on the common areas only -- areas which can be changed during the term. Changes made to bedrooms or bathrooms of residence halls would involve much more work, which would need to take place during the summer, he said. Liscinsky said the College does not have funds to finance large-scale renovation.

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Students can register to vote via Website

By Beth Duncan | October 22, 1996

Dartmouth students can now register for absentee voter ballots over the World Wide Web through a national program developed to increase voter turnout. Called Xballot, the program is the first of its kind and has already processed thousands of ballot applications since it was implemented the week before last, according to the program. This new website focuses specifically on college students, as many of them spend the school year residing outside of their hometowns, said Stephanie Thomas, the project coordinator for Xballot. College students across the U.S.

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Collis Cafe sales down 15 percent

By Erin Loback | October 22, 1996

Although overall sales in Dartmouth Dining Services are up by about 30 percent this term, sales at the Collis Cafe are down 15 to 20 percent from last year, following new initiatives instituted over the summer. While DDS Director Pete Napolitano said many changes in DDS eating establishments have been successful, statistics show that students are still not completely satisfied. Students complain less successful initiatives in the Collis Cafe have led to longer lines in Food Court and Home Plate where new programs have been better received. Napolitano said some of the new concepts offered by DDS have gone over well, such as Westside Buffet and the smoothies in Collis Cafe. "The changes are going over very well," he said.

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Alum critiques defense spending

By Natasha Oeltjen | October 22, 1996

Sanford Gottleib, a worker in the political peace movement, told about 20 people yesterday afternoon that America needs to stop spending so much money on the defense industry and look outside the military sphere to create new jobs and opportunities for Americans. Speaking in the Rockefeller Center, Gottleib, a member of the Class of 1946, said he finds no excuse for the U.S.

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Students work on national presidential campaigns from campus

By Jodi Priselac | October 22, 1996

Whether they are standing in the cold holding signs to increase their candidate's visibility or organizing bus trips to rallies in nearby cities, Dartmouth students working on political campaigns are gearing up for the final push. Former president of the Young Democrats Scott Burns '97 said his current time commitment to the Democratic campaigns varies from 10 to 25 hours a week. "It really is a lot of time," he said.

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Thousands visit Hanover for 101st Dartmouth night

By Erin Loback | October 21, 1996

Thousands of students, alumni and local residents flocked to the Green, spilling out into the streets of Hanover, for the 101st Dartmouth Night celebration on Friday. Before hearing the speeches given in front of Dartmouth Hall, the crowd witnessed a parade up Main Street that featured representatives from Dartmouth classes from as far back as 1932.

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Police arrest freshmen for rushing field

By Sarah Gerry | October 21, 1996

Although Safety and Security received about one half of the complaint reports it received last year over Homecoming weekend, activities at Saturday's football game kept Hanover Police busy when three students rushed the field and a band member was forced to leave the stands. Nicole Dielo '00, Alex Schultz '00 and Scott Snyder '00 rushed the field during half-time. The three students jumped over the railing separating the spectators from the field and ran across the 30 yard line, Snyder said. "I got about a fourth of a way out there and I could tell that everyone noticed us because a huge roar went up in the crowd.

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Jones, administrator, dies at 61

By Jess Jacob | October 21, 1996

Kenyon Jones, associate director of athletics, died last night of a heart attack at age 61. Jones worked in the College's athletics department for 32 years. Athletic Director Dick Jaeger said Jones had a heart attack Saturday morning while giving a tour of the College to a dean of a Chinese university. Jones was immediately taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where he died on Sunday at 9:35 p.m., said Deborah Winslow, the administrative director in the DHMC cardiac care unit. Dean of the College Lee Pelton said the loss will have an impact on students, colleagues and family members, according to College spokesman Rick Adams. "Ken believed strongly in the capacity of recreational sports to shape character and moral development," Pelton said.

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Sigma Nu wins national academic award

By Elizabeth Dziadik | October 21, 1996

The Dartmouth chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity won the Gallagher Cup -- a national honor awarded to the Sigma Nu chapter with the highest collective grade point average in the nation. The fraternity's 3.3 grade point average for the 1995-1996 academic year earned it the prestigious Gallagher Cup. "We are pretty proud of this award," said Brian Hickey '97, president of Sigma Nu. Sigma Nu beat out more than 200 other chapters, Hickey said. "I think a lot of people were surprised that a frat could do so well," he said.

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Administrators working to preserve ed. department

By James M> Hunnicutt | October 21, 1996

The controversy surrounding the future of the education department should be resolved by the end of this week, and administrators are working toward a solution that would preserve the department. Over the past several years, the education department has periodically come under fierce criticism--most recently last March when the Council of Social Sciences recommended eliminating the department. But due to student resistance and efforts to improve the department made by its members and new chair, it appears the education department will probably survive, although it may be altered Dean of the Social Sciences George Wolford said. Wolford said he and Education Department Chair Andrew Garrod have been negotiating what changes, if any, the department will undergo.

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Bollinger among Michigan finalists

By Jake Elberg | October 21, 1996

The University of Michigan's Board of Regents announced Friday that College Provost Lee Bollinger is one of four finalists in the search for a new Michigan president. Bollinger, who was a professor and dean at the Michigan Law School, said he was "obviously very pleased to be considered for the position." There are a great number of factors which Bollinger said he will consider if offered the job.

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Local citizens flock to campus for Homecoming

By Michelle Gregg | October 18, 1996

As students gather in the center of the Green, continuing the long-standing Dartmouth traditions of running around and touching the bonfire, they may fail to notice another group standing on the fringes, a group for whom the bonfire has become just as much of a tradition. They are the local residents, adults and children alike, who take part in the Homecoming activities alongside the Dartmouth students. "The College certainly does encourage people to come to the events that are public, such as the football game," said Rick Adams, the College's public information manager. Adams said the College does not advertise Dartmouth Night solely for the purpose of attracting more bystanders. "There's enough publicity for the alums, and combined with the students, that's enough people," he said. "We have done news releases in past about Dartmouth Night," Adams added.

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Students read during weekend

By David Kung | October 18, 1996

Not all students partake in the festivities of Homecoming. Even at Dartmouth there are those that find the weekend just like any other -- or perhaps far worse. With midterms just around the corner, some students cannot find the time to enjoy in the festivites of the weekend.

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Big Green football to battle Bulldogs

By Kevin Demoff | October 18, 1996

The Big Green return to Ivy League play this Homecoming Weekend when the Bulldogs of Yale come to Hanover to try and stop Dartmouth's 11-game unbeaten streak. Dartmouth, which is 4-0 for the first time since 1977 and received votes in this week's Division I-AA poll, has dominated the Bulldogs in recent years, winning the last seven contests.

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Charles Simic's poetry lights up Sanborn

By Kelly Sidley | October 18, 1996

With a distinctive blend of humor and gravity, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Simic delighted his audience with a poetry reading delivered before a full audience in the Wren Room of Sanborn Library yesterday. While speaking to a group of creative writing students before the public reading, Simic discussed the difficulty of making writing into a career, the poets and writers that have influenced his own work and the constantly difficult task of expressing the simplest ideas in clear, direct language. He includes Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, the Surrealists, and modernist authors of the 1950s and 1960s as his influences. When asked to offer advice to a young student interested in making writing into a vocation, Simic said, "You really can't make writing a career ... The chances of anyone succeeding in any art are pretty small." He said, "You spend a lot of time practicing and then find out you're not very good." He urged young writers to work steadily, to read literature voraciously, and to "do something else in life so you can eat ... There's no short-cut." While many of his poems seem like they were breathlessly written -- that Simic jotted the lines down on a scrap of paper while waiting for his morning coffee to brew -- he stressed that he constantly reworks and analyzes pieces. He said he rarely suffers from "writer's block" since his numerous folders of old poems and ideas always give him material with which to work. Simic began his reading with six unpublished works. "Mummy's Curse" evoked the style of a "horror movie made in the 1950s," Simic said.

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