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Task force to release report in winter

By Jean Blackerby | November 26, 1996

Dean of the College Lee Pelton will allow the Student Life Task Force, formed earlier this term in response to his call for an examination of undergraduate social life, to submit its final report Winter term instead of at the end of this term.

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Students give DASH card mixed reviews

By Elysa Jacobs | November 26, 1996

After one term of the new DASH card system, student reaction remains mixed but the College said it has no plans to change the system. Jeanette Montgomery DASH Program Administrator said there has been some student feedback but not a great deal. "That would indicate that there is some acceptance of the program on campus," she said.

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Police still investigating KKG incident

By David Kung | November 26, 1996

The Hanover Police are still investigating Summer term's vandalism incident at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, but do not think their search to find the perpetrators will be successful. In July, KKG was broken into and vandalized while most house members were away on an off-campus "sister overnight." Hanover Police Sargeant Frank Moran said the case may not be closed, but finding the perpetrators "doesn't appear to be terribly promising due to a lack of information or further evidence." Moran said the police have suspicions about the case but "it makes no good to arrest someone on probable cause and not have it proved beyond a reasonable doubt." Moran said the police have essentially stopped questioning students on campus although the case will remain open for six years. Moran said the police have not received enough cooperation from members of the Dartmouth community and said he encouraged any students with information to call him. "They can certainly remain anonymous if they choose to," he said.

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Class Council President Rex Morey '99: 'a man of action'

By Jake Elberg | November 26, 1996

As a senior in high school, Rex Morey '99 had no intention of coming to the College. But last week he described how he came to appreciate his decision to attend Dartmouth. "I went on my [Dartmouth Outing Club] trip and fell in love with the school," Morey said.

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Mike Wilson '97 dances, leads and finds national fame

By Jess Jacob | November 25, 1996

A walk across the Green with Mike B. Wilson '97 could take a while because he has to stop and hug and say hello to the all the people he knows. "He attracts people to him because of his magnetic energy," Marcie Handler '97, a friend of Wilson's said.

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Date rape drug emerges on college campuses

By Kyle Marchesseault | November 25, 1996

The "date rape drug" has emerged on an increasing number of campuses and may have been used at Dartmouth. The use of Rohypnol, widely known as the "date rape drug," has become a nationwide concern and may now be an issue on campus.

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CCAOD will hold forum in January

By Lillie Ng | November 25, 1996

The College Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs will hold a public forum in January to discuss College standards pertaining to alcohol and other drugs, the group announced at its meeting last week. Dean of the College Lee Pelton last winter reconstituted the CCAOD -- composed of administrators, faculty and students -- and asked it to examine alcohol use on campus and look for ways to reduce the role alcohol plays in campus social life. The CCAOD has drafted a set of 11 "principles" which the Dartmouth community will discuss at the forum, said Associate College Counsel Sean Gorman, who heads the committee. The principles "should be the foundation of alcohol policy on campus," Gorman said. "They are not rules or regulations or policy," Gorman said.

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Football seals first 10-0 season

By Kevin Demoff | November 25, 1996

The glow off of the smiling faces of the Big Green as they celebrated their 24-0 shutout of Princeton provided the final illustration to this year's fairy tale of a season, a 10-0 fairy tale that is possibly the greatest chapter ever written in Dartmouth or Ivy League history. If only Princeton had known last year that its game-tying field goal to spoil the Big Green's 1995 championship hopes would leave such a bitter taste in Dartmouth's mouth, the Tigers might have decided against kicking it.

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Dick's House aims to become more student-friendly

By Erin Loback | November 25, 1996

Director of Dick's House Jack Turco is creating a Dick's House student advisory board to obtain student input on issues such as the admissions policy for intoxicated students and making Dick's House of better service to students. Turco said the advisory board of seven to 12 students will provide student input from "a relatively small group of students with hopefully a wide spectrum of opinions." He said the advisory group will serve as "a way for student issues to be brought to my attention" as well as a "regular board to bounce issues off of." Turco decided to start the advisory board because "I have often struggled trying to find a way to get student input," he said.

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Students generally oppose Prop 209

By Jess Jacob | November 22, 1996

With this week's flurry of campus activity promoting discussion of California's Proposition 209, many Dartmouth students said they support affirmative action and the repeal of the measure, the California Civil Rights Initiative. Proposition 209, which Californians passed by a 54 to 46 percent vote on Nov.

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DG adviser complains of Panhell misconduct

By Erik Tanouye | November 22, 1996

Delta Gamma sorority's adviser has accused the Panhellenic Council of violating its constitution in its handling of Delta Pi Omega, which is currently working with the administration to become a new sorority. But Panhell claims all its actions have been constitutional. Celeste Viscardi, DG's adviser, said she addressed her concerns in a letter to Dean of the College Lee Pelton and Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco. Viscardi said the letter was not written specifically to protest Delta Pi Omega. "I know that it ends up being a problem because people think we're doing this" because DG is small and "'we're mad at everyone,'" Viscardi said. Viscardi said she and DG president Kim Papa '97 both wrote letters because they are "opposed to the way it's being handled." Papa declined to comment. "It was essentially focusing on the violation of the constitution bylaws by Panhell with regards to starting a new organization," Viscardi said. Viscardi said if Panhell violates its constitution, there will be serious repercussions "for the women involved in the new organization and the rest of the women." Viscardi said she pointed out the violations not because she is DG's adviser, but because of her obligation to the National Panhell. "It's a simple fact -- they have a constitution and they have to follow that," Viscardi said. But Panhell claimed it has violated no rules. "We are not violating anything," Panhell President Jess Russo '97 said of the formation of the new sorority.

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Alumni fund to raise goal 50 percent

By Elizabeth Dziadik | November 21, 1996

The Alumni Fund hopes to raise its annual goal to $20 million by the year 2000, an increase of almost 50 percent from this year's goal of $13.5 million. Next year's goal will be raised to $15.5 million, up 11 percent from this year's goal. "We have a long-term goal in the Alumni Fund to have sustainable growth over the next four years," Alumni Fund Director Jennifer Williams said. Williams said a new committee has been formed to help with the efforts to meet the $15.5 million goal. The committee is comprised of about 35 of Dartmouth's top volunteers, business leaders and community leaders, she said, including four College Trustees. To meet their more challenging goal, the group "will focus more energy than in the past on about 1 percent of the population--about 500 people--who are targeted based on their capacity to give," Williams said. Williams said that they were asking for large, four-year commitments to the fund. "The gifts that have been coming in are four-year gifts anywhere from a couple of thousand dollars to individuals who have pledged $300,000 over four year period.

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Student rally mourns Calif. Proposition 209

By Beth Duncan And Erik Tanouye | November 21, 1996

A group of students, faculty members and administrators, including Dean of the College Lee Pelton, denounced Proposition 209 to an audience that was at times as large as 200 people in front of the Collis Center yesterday. The "speak out" started at noon after about 50 students conducted a mock funeral procession marching around the campus carrying a coffin that had "Here lies affirmative action" painted on its side before arriving in front of Collis. A group calling itself the Dartmouth Coalition for Equal Access and Opportunity planned the event, which started with presentations by speakers followed by an open microphone. Pelton said he was speaking "as one who has proudly benefited from the American principle to act affirmatively." "Proposition 209 is neither social nor is it just.

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Ambassadorial legacy helps Bosworth smoothly guide the Trustees

By Jodi Priselac | November 21, 1996

Having just come from a breakfast with students with only a half-hour until his next meeting, a well-poised Chair of the Board of Trustees Stephen Bosworth took 20 minutes out of his schedule to discuss his role as "College custodian." A member of the Class of 1961, Bosworth took up his new position and its hectic schedule in June. The duties of the chair include helping the College's president to set the agenda for board meetings, in addition to serving as a facilitator between the board and the administration. A smooth transition to the chair The explanation behind Bosworth's smooth transition so far could lie in his 25-year career in the U.S.

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Posters attacking '99 put up in College buildings

By Jake Elberg | November 20, 1996

Between Monday night and yesterday morning, posters were put up across campus labeling a male member of the class of '99 a "rapist". Dean of the College Lee Pelton said no incident of sexual assault has been reported to the College involving the alleged assaulter; he has no knowledge of who is responsible for the posters, and it is unlikely the College will take action against those who put up the posters. Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone said no one has filed a complaint with Hanover Police regarding an incident of sexual assault that involved the student on the poster. "The College has not received, as of today, a complaint from an alleged victim of sexual assault," Pelton said yesterday.

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Trustees oversee critical College issues

By Elysa Jacobs | November 20, 1996

Since its inception in 1769, the College's Board of Trustees has encountered many issues that have defined its role and demonstrated the ways in which it has tried to act in the College's best interests. In the history of the board, there are a number of key Trustee issues -- the Dartmouth College case, coeducation, sex-blind admissions, the board's Committee on Student Affairs and investment in South Africa -- that illustrate the changing focus of the board and the interests it must balance in trying to ensure the long-term well-being of the College. Robert Kilmarx, who was a member of the Class of 1950 and a Trustee from 1972 to 1982, said the Board of Trustees is the guardian of the long-term well-being of the College. In fulfilling its charge as guardian, the board has often been forced to balance the College's financial interests with the interests of students, faculty and alumni.

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