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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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College offers Asian-American studies

By David Horowitz | January 9, 1997

For the first time in its history, the College will offer Asian-American studies classes, and some students and administrators say racist graffiti discovered last winter may have contributed to the courses' adoption. Asian-American Studies I and II, being taught Winter and Spring terms by Visiting History Professor Vernon Takeshita, will examine the Asian-American experience before and after World War II.

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Internet link to become much faster

By Jess Jacob | January 9, 1997

Those who think the Internet is too slow will be happy to learn that Dartmouth is getting a new one. In November Dartmouth became a charter member of Internet Two, a collaborative effort among 76 universities, federal research and development agencies and private firms to develop a new Internet for research and education. Director of Computing Larry Levine said the new Internet will be many times faster than the existing Internet and will be dedicated solely to educational purposes. "The Internet today is very overloaded.

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Assembly to focus on finance in coming term

By Erik Tanouye | January 9, 1997

The Student Assembly will focus this term on giving students a voice in the College's financial policies, as well as expanding student input in other policies, such as the College's minimum wage and the future of the Dartmouth Plan. "Budget concerns are the top priority," Assembly President Jon Heavey '97 said.

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Hoffman brings new vision for Collis Center

By Lillie Ng | January 7, 1997

Mark Hoffman, selected unanimously last November as the new director of the Collis Student Center and Student Activities, started his new position yesterday. Hoffman replaces Tim Moore, who left the position last January to become director of the student center at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Hoffman comes to Dartmouth from Connecticut College in New London, Conn., where he was the director of student activities for six-and-a half years. Raring to go Hoffman said he wants to be a very visible campus figure and he hopes to "make Collis a place to hang out, a destination, as opposed to a place to stop and go on the way somewhere." He said he plans to meet with a variety of campus organizations, faculty and students to help him gain a perspective on the campus and the role of the fraternity and sorority system. Hoffman said he will spend the first few weeks getting to know students and staff members and becoming familiar with the campus. "I'd like to discover, to understand and to get a feel for student life at Dartmouth," Hoffman said. He said he feels that will involve "trying to get out and about as much as possible." "I think it's important to know the campus culture.

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Survey reports rise in binge drinking

By Jess Jacob | January 7, 1997

The numbers of binge drinkers and alcohol abstainers at the College has increased among freshmen according to the Core Institute survey administered to undergraduates for the sixth time last spring. The percentage of freshmen students reporting binge drinking rose from 33 percent in 1995 to 41 percent in 1996.

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