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Students arraigned on drug charges

By David Kung | April 25, 1996

Paul Manger '97, Peter Navarro '98 and Josh Winterhalt '97, the three Dartmouth students charged with marijuana possession, were arraigned yesterday at the Hanover District Court. Winterhalt pleaded not guilty, Navarro pleaded guilty and Manger pleaded no contest, said Hanover Clerk of Court Darcy Stearns. Navarro and Manger were fined $360 for misdemeanor possession. Winterhalt is scheduled to go to court May 22. Manger and Winterhalt were arrested April 2, after tests revealed the material seized from their rooms in Bones Gate fraternity over Winter Carnival weekend was marijuana. David Puritz '96, also a member of Bones Gate, was arrested for possession of marijuana and LSD. None of the students could be reached for comment. Hanover Police Captain Chris O'Connor said Puritz has hired a lawyer.

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Students arrested on two charges

By Charles Davant | April 25, 1996

Hanover Police arrested Peter Alphonso '96 yesterday on charges of possessing stolen property. According to a press release issued by the Hanover Police Department, the police received warrants to search Alphonso's dorm room in the Choates cluster and car on April 11. The police seized an Aiwa stereo system and an Apple StyleWriter II computer printer, both of which were reported stolen in a burglary at Russell Sage residence hall last May. After being arrested on the felony charge, Alphonso was released on $1,500 personal recognizance bail. Alphonso was arrested on separate charges of making a false report to law enforcement last Thursday. That charge was based on an incident in May, 1995, when Alphonso allegedly falsely reported having several pieces of sound equipment stolen from his car. After the first arrest, which is classified as a misdemeanor punishable by $1,200 to $2,000 in fines and up to one year in prison, Alphonso was released on $500 personal recognizance bail. Alphonso was arrested in his room in Brown Hall each time. He is scheduled to appear in Hanover District Court May 22 on both charges. Hanover Police Detective Graham Baines said the crime is a felony in New Hampshire. Alphonso declined to comment on his arrests last night. Baines said the police have completed their investigation of Alphonso. "It is not really going anywhere else," he said. Baines said the charges are the result of two separate investigations. "One is for false reporting, the other was an unrelated investigation that turned up this stolen property," he said. Baines said police discovered the allegedly stolen equipment in Alphonso's possession during their investigation of the other incident. Baines said people sometimes report materials stolen to collect insurance money. "Let's say you have a stereo.

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Group to advise on new stalking policy

By Kristy Jarosh | April 25, 1996

The Subcommittee on Stalking, a branch of the Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment committee, will make recommendations at the end of this term regarding how the College should address stalking on campus. The subcommittee's findings and recommendations as to whether the College should create a permanent committee on stalking will be included in SASH's annual report, said Liza Veto, co-chair of the subcommittee and acting coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program. Veto said SASH formed the subcommittee during Fall term in response to suggestions several groups of students made to Dean of the College Lee Pelton last spring and to anecdotal evidence that stalking exists on the campus. The recommendation for a new subcommittee to focus on the problem of stalking was one of the elements of SASH's annual report last year.

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Assembly discusses attendance issues

By Erin Loback | April 24, 1996

Lacking enough members to vote on a resolution last night that called for a constitutional amendment on meeting attendance, the Student Assembly discussed the resolution and committee activity. In order to ratify an amendment to the constitution, three-fourths of the voting members of the Assembly must pass it. Only 26 of the 29 members needed were present last night, so the resolution could not be brought to a vote. Sponsored by Ben Hill '98 and Case Dorkey '99, the attendance amendment was first presented three weeks ago and has been discussed and tabled every week since. The attendance amendment, which calls for members to lose their voting status on the Assembly if they miss a combination of three general or committee meetings each term, was altered again last week to gain more support among members. Dorkey presented changes he made to the attendance amendment and answered questions posed by Assembly members about the resolution. Changes made to the amendment include a call for attendance to be taken at the beginning and end of meetings, for an absence to be excused if the meeting's time has been changed and for members who lose their voting privileges due to absence to be allowed to retain their committee positions. Dorkey said he and Hill tried to address two sides to the attendance resolution with the changes. Dorkey said some members were concerned the amendment would take power away from the membership and internal affairs committee. He said the amendment, in its newest form, would add to the role of the membership and internal affairs committee by giving the committee the power to evaluate the status of members at the end of each term whose voting privileges had been revoked. The Assembly would retain its current rules governing removal of members which states that the committee must meet to review members and decide if a member may remain a part of the Assembly. The other issue of concern was the lack of incentive for members to attend meetings, Dorkey said. He said members will have an incentive to attend meetings if they know they will lose their voting privileges otherwise. "We are really trying to work on something the whole Assembly can vote for," Dorkey said.

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Student input in academic departments takes many forms

By Jodi Priselac | April 24, 1996

Ranging from student steering committees to informal communication between professors and pupils, student academic input at the College takes many forms. Annual events for majors, attendance at department meetings and involvement in the professorial recruitment process are the most common ways students can make their voices heard. Most departments, depending on their size and specialty, offer different combinations of venues for student input. A case study: the government department For the last 20 years, the government department has had a student steering committee whose mission is "to get as broad a sample of student opinion as possible," said Matt McGill '96, co-chair of the committee. Committee co-Chair Courtney O'Brien '96 described the student steering committee as a forum for students majoring in the department. "We provide an open arena for any government major to come and discuss what they think are problems in the department," O'Brien wrote in an e-mail message. "The committee is very necessary to keep faculty aware of student opinion," she added.

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Hanover police continue to investigate Lodge thefts

By Jacqueline Rose | April 24, 1996

The Hanover Police Department is still investigating two burglaries that occurred over spring break in the Lodge residence hall, but is not yet prepared to make any arrests, Hanover Police Detective Sergeant Frank Moran said. "We are looking into a couple of different things," said Moran, who is conducting the investigation.

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College offers rape assault defense class

By Kristy Jarosh | April 24, 1996

In conjunction with Safety and Security, the College has decided to offer a course in rape assault defense this term as a physical education class. Safety and Security Sergeants Rebel Roberts and Mark Lancaster are currently teaching four classes to female students and employees of Dartmouth. The course is based on the Rape Aggression Defense system and teaches women to use their personal weapons, like their hands, feet and heads to defend themselves against attack, Roberts said. "We looked at this program for what it was and looked at the need at Dartmouth, and thought it connected very well," she said. RAD was developed in 1989 by Lawrence Nadeau to empower women through self defense; this empowerment is taught through education, dependency on self, making decisions and realization of one's own power.

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Historian searches for vivid texture

By Michelle Gregg | April 23, 1996

A self-described people person, historian Jane Carroll is perhaps best known for her vibrant personality. "Jane has a wonderful personality and she knows that the oral history project is not simply about putting a microphone in front of somebody," Dean of the Faculty James Wright said.

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Oral history project will record recent College events

By Michelle Gregg | April 23, 1996

Historian Jane Carroll will begin conducting an oral history project this month, which will examine the changes on Dartmouth's campus during the 1970s and 1980s. Dean of Faculty James Wright provided the impetus for the project, and began organizing it last year while he served as acting president during President James Freedman's six-month sabbatical. "As a historian, I know that an institutional record is important, and a part of that record is oral history," Wright said.

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Student Assembly elections, take two

By Erin Loback | April 23, 1996

Students will virtually head to their computers and vote for the second time in a week today after a glitch in the new on-line ballot system resulted in the need for a supplementary election for Student Assembly vice president. The computer problem, discovered in the midst of last week's student elections, caused an unknown number of votes for Assembly vice president cast by the freshman class to be lost. Students will be able to vote from today until 8 p.m.

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Baker bells survive winter to ring again

By Jacqueline Rose | April 23, 1996

For most of Spring term, the Baker Tower bells have tolled for no one. The bells, which have been silent since the first week of this term, began ringing again on Thursday and will continue to ring for the remainder of the term. Peter Yoo '98, who is responsible for programming and maintaining the bells, may win the "No-Bell Prize" for this year. He said the bells stopped ringing last term because the hammers that strike the inside of three bells were not functioning properly. One bell did not ring at all, another did not ring consistently and a third rang too quietly, he said. "There were problems that needed to be dealt with," he said. The damage to the bells probably occurred during the winter when cold weather caused the bells to continuously freeze and thaw, Yoo said. But the bells were up and running again this weekend, just in time for '99 Family Weekend, when many freshmen and their parents climbed the stairs of the bell tower to see the view. "It was important the bells be fixed" for the weekend, Yoo said. While some students did not notice the bells had ceased ringing, others said they missed hearing the bells. Stacey Keating '98 and Daniel TenPas '97 said they did not notice the bells had ceased ringing. But, Sally Dickenson '99 said she missed not hearing the bells. "I was annoyed, because I liked them when they rang," Dickenson said.

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Chairs approve major proposal

By Jean Blackerby | April 23, 1996

Yesterday evening the Committee of Chairs voted unanimously to approve the creation of an Environmental Studies major, and discussed the increasing number of Dartmouth applicants who are interested in the sciences. The committee, comprised of the College's departmental chairs, debated a proposal prepared by the Environmental Studies Department regarding the feasibility of an Environmental Studies major.

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Katz talks on violence against women

By Jacqueline Rose | April 23, 1996

About 50 people gathered in Collis Common Ground last night to hear former all-state football player Jackson Katz discuss the importance of dispelling social constructs that encourage men to perpetrate violence against women. "Our society is producing millions of men who grow up and assault women," he said.

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Sororities hope to promote unity

By Jess Jacob | April 22, 1996

In an effort to promote unity within the sorority system, the College's sororities decided last week to cosponsor programming events with each other on a weekly basis. Local sororities also plan not to sponsor parties at other Greek houses this term. Promoting unity Jess Russo '97, president of the Panhellenic Council, the self-governing body of the College's sororities, said the new programming system "points to a change that has come over the Greek system.

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Kiewit sleuths thwart Blitz break-ins

By Jake Molland | April 22, 1996

Responding to recent incidents of password theft, Dartmouth Computing Services has created and distributed a new version of BlitzMail that will prevent future break-ins. Computing Services installed the new version of BlitzMail on nearly every public computer on campus over the weekend, said Bill Brawley, director of communications for Computing Services. Two weeks ago, 16 BlitzMail accounts were hacked and all the mail from the accounts was forwarded to a Kiewit staffer, he said. He said Computing Services contacted the affected users immediately and accelerated efforts to complete a new version of BlitzMail. On April 17, Jennifer Parkinson '99 discovered her BlitzMail account had been tampered with.

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