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Winter Carnival to go medieval

By Robert Isaacs | November 13, 1996

Getting an early start this year, the Winter Carnival Council will announce today the theme for this year's Winter Carnival -- " 'Twas a Cold and Snowy Knight: A Medieval Carnival." Winter Carnival will run from Feb.

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Woodwell discusses environment

By Jean Blackerby | November 13, 1996

George Woodwell '50 discussed yesterday the potential impacts of several current environmental problems and said it is the scientific community's responsibility to defend the public interest in the environmental arena. Woodwell, an environmental scientist who is the founder, president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Mass., is this term's second Montgomery Fellow. Woodwell gave a speech to a 70-member audience, titled "The Co-Evolution of Science and Democracy: Has Anyone Seen the Public Interest Recently?" in which he discussed potential impacts of overpopulation, biotic impoverishment and global warming. "This series of environmental transitions has the potential for shaping the world and bringing major changes in civilization, even reducing the level at which it can proceed," Woodwell said. He said overpopulation is one problem currently changing the nature of the environment. The global population, which stands at 6 billion people, has doubled since 1960 and is expected to double again before 2050, he said. Increasing immigration pressures on already-pressured Western nations will be the initial effect of this rise in population, Woodwell said. The long-term consequences involve the population's exceeding the earth's carrying capacity, he said. Woodwell also identified the "progressive biotic impoverishment of the earth" as a major problem facing the global community. "There is an accumulation of land that has fallen out of the economic system, reducing the capability of the earth to support people," he said. Global warming was the the third major environmental problem Woodwell addressed.

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Garber: Legal policies do not affect abortion stances

By Eun Lee Koh | November 13, 1996

University of Maryland Government Professor Mark Graber '78 said legal policies do little to change people's stances on abortion in a lecture last night. Graber delivered his lecture, titled "Rethinking (Everything but) Abortion: Constitutional Law and Reproductive Politics," to approximately 60 people in 3 Rockefeller Center. "The democratic notion is that people can best judge for themselves what is right for them," Graber said.

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Assembly starts rolling membership

By Erik Tanouye | November 13, 1996

The Student Assembly last night amended its constitution to allow new members to join the Assembly on a rolling basis, and it prepared letters that explain refund possibilities for Dash card accounts. Case Dorkey '99 proposed a constitutional amendment, which will negate a rule that prohibited membership petitions after the third Sunday of a given term. With the new amendment, the constitution now reads, "All petitions may be received on an on-going basis." "It really opens the door for a lot more flexibility," Assembly Vice President Chris Swift '98 said, because it makes the Assembly more open to students who wish to participate. "It's continuing the theme that we want to improve the internal structure," Swift said. The letters, addressed to freshmen and transfer students, inform students that they can receive refunds for money they deposited in discretionary accounts because they believed it could be used to purchase books. In addition, money students had intended for dining options, which they had mistakenly placed in discretionary accounts, will be refunded. "Transfers are not normally permitted," according to the letter, "and these are the only two exceptions which will be made for this term only." The Assembly prepared the letters for distribution at last night's meeting, and they should appear in students' Hinman boxes today or tomorrow. The Assembly did not have a parliamentarian at last night's meeting, but it hopes to have one by next week.

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Freedman discusses Thurgood Marshall

By Erik Tanouye | November 12, 1996

College President James Freedman explained why former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was one of the four most important African-Americans in this century in a discussion last night in the Cutter-Shabazz Hall lounge. "I think his standing ... when history gets a little distance ... is going to be very high," Freedman said. Freedman discussed Marshall and the current status of civil rights with about 12 students and Assistant Dean of the College Sylvia Langford. Freedman served as a law clerk under Marshall in his first year out of law school.

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Woodwell blazes environmental path

By Jake Elberg | November 12, 1996

Montgomery Fellow George Masters Woodwell '50 fondly recalled his days in the Dartmouth Outing Club as he sat in the sun-lit living room of the Montgomery House. Woodwell's involvement in the DOC and his studies in botany built upon his interest in environmental issues -- an interest which eventually led him to found the Woods Hole Research Center. Now, as president and director of Woods Hole, an institute for global environmental research, Woodwell has returned to Dartmouth to share his passion for the environment. "I don't get a chance to do things like this regularly," he said.

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Women discuss early College memories

By Jess Jacob | November 12, 1996

Banners strung across dormitory halls proclaiming, "Co-hogs go home!" welcomed Mary Ellen Colt '76 to Dartmouth in 1972. In an interview last week in the Hanover Inn, two members of the Class of 1976, Colt and classmate Pamela Gile said the 1971 Board of Trustees' decision to coeducate the College did not immediately lead to warm welcome for women arriving at Dartmouth. Although the College had accepted female transfer students for years, men who were acclimated to the male-dominated student scene were not ready to allow women to violate their space, Gile said. Colt and Gile said they found their own space on sports teams and other women found theirs in all-female residence halls.

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COC approves new engineering-physics major

By Joseph C. Scott | November 12, 1996

The Committee of Chairs voted unanimously to adopt a new engineering-physics major, which will go into effect next fall, and discussed grade inflation at its meeting yesterday afternoon. The new major is designed for those students "who want to sit on the fence" between physics and engineering, instead of focusing on either one, Physics and Astronomy Chair Mary Hudson said. This major would differ from a modified major or major and minor combination in that engineering and physics would each make up half of the requirements, she said. "Several students are enthusiastic" about the new major, Hudson said.

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Cook: both parties have no regrets

By Sara Burch | November 12, 1996

Political analyst Charles Cook explained yesterday why the Democrats, both the President and members of Congress, have no regrets about last week's elections. Approximately 50 students and faculty members attended Cook's speech, "Winners and Losers: Analysis of the 1996 Election." in the Hinman Forum of the Rockefeller Center. Cook said winners and losers go hand-in-hand in an election.

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Pundit Cook enjoys his place in politics

By Jacqueline Rose | November 12, 1996

Never in his wildest dreams did political pundit Charles Cook imagine he would one day attend private meetings with the Vice President or be accosted in airports by Congressmen eager to lobby him. Beaming, Cook, the editor of The Cook Political Report and author of a twice-weekly column for the political newspaper Roll Call, exclaimed, "It's neat to be known as an expert." Cook also appears weekly on the Cable News Network and is a veteran of "Meet the Press" and "The David Brinkley Show," which he called "the granddaddy of shows." "The TV stuff is fun," he said.

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Trustees to discuss activities fee raise

By Jake Elberg | November 12, 1996

The Board of Trustees will discuss a possible increase in the student activities fee when they meet to discuss the budget in February. Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia said the proposed increase would be the first increase of the fee since the late 1980s. "There is a proposal on the table and I know the Trustees are going to be looking at that and a variety of other things" when they look at the budget, Sateia said.

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ORL to form committee on dorm life

By Joseph C. Scott | November 11, 1996

Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco and her student intern Yun Chung '97 are in the process of organizing a student committee to improve residential life at the College. The formation of the committee is in response to the "series of racist, sexist and homophobic incidents" that occurred in 1995 and during Winter term. The committee will be responsible for gathering student input and keeping the ORL "up-to-date" and in contact with students' perspectives, Chung said. That way, Chung said, if any incidents reach a "crisis" level, action can be taken by the Office. The goal of the committee is to take the information gained from students and forward it to the ORL, so the office can work towards helping Dartmouth students "feel safer" in what is effectively their "home away from home" for four years, Turco said. The idea for the committee originated in a meeting that several Asian-American students held with members of the Office of Residential Life staff shortly after the racial slurs appeared on doors during the 1996 Winter term. ORL realized it had little idea that such incidents were occurring on campus, and so the idea of a committee of students designed to inform them came about, Chung said. Turco and Chung are "in the process of meeting with various groups on campus" to get students' opinions and suggestions about how various problems on campus such as racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia can be resolved, Turco said. Turco and Chung are in the process of meeting student groups.

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Students talk about adjusting to America

By Eun Lee Koh | November 11, 1996

Students discussed the experiences students of African or Caribbean origin face when first moving to the United States and integrating themselves in a panel discussion Friday night at the International House. Rodrego Byerly '98, who moderated the discussion with about 20 students, said, "It has been my experience that black students who haven't grown up in the United States have different cultures and different traditions." The three student panelists, Isha Archer '97, Nana Ashong '99, and Dinsie Williams '97 discussed the prevalence of stereotypical images in American society. International Office Director Guilan Wang said one reason why stereotypical images persist is that American people have been raised to make assumptions. Panelists said many Americans think of Africa as being one country rather than a continent with separate countries and different people. Ashong, who was born in Ghana and lived part of her life in the Middle East, said most people don't view Africa in the same context they view Europe or Asia. Most people fail to recognize the vastly different cultures and traditions that exist within in the continent, she said. Even schools like Dartmouth or Harvard make this same generalization by offering courses like "Women in Africa," said Risana Zitha '99, a student who attended the discussion. "If you were to study [this topic], you would first have to ask 'Which women in Africa?'," Zitha said. "Even within the same tribe there are so many differences," he said. Ashong said she blames the media in part for this problem. "When you see images of Africa on television, you see people starving or anthropologists looking at monkeys.

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Trustees celebrate capital campaign

By David Kung | November 11, 1996

The College's Board of Trustees concluded a quiet Fall term meeting Saturday. Public Affairs Public Information Manager Rick Adams said the Trustees did not produce any action items from their meetings. "The fall meeting does not tend to be a big one for business transactions," he said. Action items are produced whenever the board decides to alter or create school policy -- such as the tuition increase last Spring. "This meeting there wasn't anything," Adams said.

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Trustees arrive for Fall-term meeting

By David Kung | November 8, 1996

The College's Board of Trustees arrived on campus for its annual weekend of Fall-term board meetings and a celebration of the successful Will to Excel capital campaign yesterday afternoon. The Trustees' agenda is confidential, according to Public Affairs Public Information Manager Rick Adams said. Adams said the Trustees will conduct regular meetings starting tomorrow for most of the weekend with other activities going on around the meetings. The Trustees will celebrate the Will to Excel campaign in a private dinner tonight with the developmental staff and donors to the campaign, Adams said. Tomorrow morning the Trustees will attend a breakfast with students. "This is a standard thing," Adams said.

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Minor ignites gas fire at local FoodStop

By David Kung | November 8, 1996

A 17-year-old male accidentally started a gasoline fire that caused more than $10,000 of damage at the Exxon station outside Foodstop yesterday afternoon. Hanover Police Officer John Kapusta said the suspect caused the fire by igniting gasoline fumes with a cigarette lighter. Kapusta said he can not release the name of the 17 year old until completion of the case because of the suspect's juvenile status. Kapusta said he doubted the fire was intentional. Fire Chief Roger Bradley said the fire was immediately extinguished by Foodstop's automated heat-detecting safety equipment. Bradley said the firefighters covered the entire gas station with dry white bicarbonate soda powder to put out the flames. Kapusta said nobody was burned during the incident but a female passenger in one of the two vehicles at the station hurt her hand when her husband pulled her from the driver side of their car.

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College celebrates coeducation

By Erin Loback | November 8, 1996

College President James Freedman said "Dartmouth did itself a favor 25 years ago" when the Board of Trustees decided to admit women to Dartmouth. "Women have enriched this College tremendously," Freedman told students, alumni, administrators and faculty who gathered in the top of the Hopkins Center for a gala reception held to mark the 25th anniversary of the Trustees' decision to admit women to the College. Freedman and Trustee Kate Stith-Cabranes '73 addressed the guests and a student jazz group played as hors d'oeuvres and wine were served. Freedman said he thinks the decision to admit women was the result of the courage of many people -- former College President John Kemeny, the Trustees and "the women who came here and found an environment not always friendly and congenial and welcoming." Stith-Cabranes said she came to Dartmouth as an exchange student in 1971 as a junior after spending two years at the University of California at Berkeley. She said Dartmouth was a diverse place at that time in terms of student backgrounds and student activities, "yet there was something terribly askew -- there were no women." Stith-Cabranes said when she came to Dartmouth the College was debating whether to admit women. "Could Dartmouth admit women and still be Dartmouth?" was the question everyone was asking, she said. But in 1971, she said, women were already beginning to "move in from the periphery" as members of the faculty and administration and as exchange students. "Kemeny had put women in the classrooms when no one was looking and without a vote," Stith-Cabranes said.

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Shipler '64 speaks about black/white issues in U.S.

By Erin Loback | November 8, 1996

Dartmouth Trustee David Shipler '64, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, said he feels the "black/white encounter is the most vexing issue in this country," during a speech delivered to about 75 people in Loew Auditorium yesterday afternoon about race in America. Shipler said his research of race is "limited to black/white issues" so the issue of race for him "is very sharply focused." Shipler spoke about three "silences that prevail in America -- silences concerning race." He said the first silence is one "that surrounds history." Shipler said most people in the United States do not seem to see the power of history has in shaping events and its significance to the present.

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