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BLD serves up non-ideological writing

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BLD, a new College publication that aims to provide a non-ideological forum for student discussion, was distributed for the first time last Thursday. "We thought it was a good idea to have an outlet for things to get discussed that happen on campus," co-Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Hurst '98 said.


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Media-equipped classrooms win approval from faculty

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The program to update College classrooms with improved audiovisual and data display equipment is a success so far, according to faculty and project coordinators at Instructional Services. The renovated rooms are dubbed "media equipped classrooms," or MECs, and "smart" classrooms. The MECs and smart classrooms have VCRs, overhead projectors and slide projectors. The eight MECs are 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 109, 212 and 213 Dartmouth Hall. The smart classrooms have Macintosh computers with Ethernet connections, compact disc and cassette players, projection screens and the capability for other audiovisual sources, including laser disc players and CD-ROM devices. The three smart classrooms are 217 Dartmouth, 101 Fairchild and 28 Silsby Hall. "The classrooms have been heavily used this term for their features," said Andrew Faunce, assistant director of operations at Instructional Services. "The response to the program by the faculty has been very positive," Faunce said. Professors say they appreciate the convenience of having functional and easily-controlled equipment already integrated in the classrooms Earth sciences professor Naomi Oreskes, who teaches in 101 Fairchild, said she loves teaching in the smart classrooms. "I don't have to waste time fiddling with the lighting or blackboard control switches," Oreskes said. "I'm not distracted by things that don't work," she said. Government Professor Diederik Vandewalle, who teaches in 217 Dartmouth and 101 Fairchild, said he uses many of the features offered in the smart classrooms -- nearly on a daily basis. "I use the overheads, the slides, and audio equipment," he said.


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Freedman selected to receive award

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College President James Freedman received the fourth annual Gildna Radner Award from the Wellness Community of greater Boston last night for speaking publicly about his battle with cancer. Freedman said he is "very honored to be receiving the award." Freedman earned the award for "his willingness to speak publicly about his personal battle with cancer and his sincere desire to help others by doing so," according to a Wellness Community press release. According to the Wellness Community newsletter, the Gilda Radner award is presented to "honor an individual who has engendered inspiration in cancer patients through his or her fight with the disease." Gildna Radner, the famous comedienne, lost her battle with ovarian cancer in 1989. The newsletter mentioned Freedman's numerous public discussions about the diagnosis and his battle with the disease and his writings about his disease in a chapter of his new book, "Idealism and Liberal Education." Doctors diagnosed Freedman in the spring of 1994 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.


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'99 families arrive for weekend

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Parents and family members of the Class of 1999, arriving in Hanover today and tomorrow, can look forward to a busy '99 Family Weekend. More than 1,200 parents and family members of freshmen will participate in this year's weekend, said Director of Student Activities Linda Kennedy, who is supervising the events. "I think it's going to be a huge success," Kennedy said. Visiting family members can choose from a number of possible activities including faculty lectures, panels, performances, sports events and tours. The weekend begins with registration on Friday afternoon, and continues through Sunday afternoon. College President James Freedman will give opening remarks to family members at a reception Friday night at 5 p.m., and Dean of First-Year Students Peter Goldsmith will address parents at 10 a.m.


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Sexual Assault Awareness Week will begin Sunday

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In an effort to increase campus awareness about sexual abuse, the College will launch Sexual Assault Awareness Week on Sunday. Liza Veto, acting coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, said these events are an opportunity to "reach students we don't normally reach" thanks to "the expertise and resources of the speakers" and "the support shown by the campus in general." Veto said this year's SAAW planning committee "decided to focus more on issues of culture." She said some events would be "directed towards the general public," while others will cover specific areas like "Dartmouth culture, athletes, violence in the streets and the workplace." One of the central events in this year's SAAW is the "Clothesline Project," a display of t-shirts made by sexual assault survivors or friends of survivors, Veto said. Veto said these displays serve to "personalize the experience" and "remember there are actual people behind the numbers and the statistics." Shilyh Warren '96, a student who worked on this project, said the "Clothesline Project's purpose is to get an emotional response from the people." Cat Weiss '97, who was also involved in the project, said these kinds of displays are "witnesses to the violence some women have experienced." The College will display the exhibit in Collis Common Ground from 11:30 a.m.


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Shapiro: Bosnia has far to go: Mediation expert Gary Shapiro analyzes eyewitness account of area

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Gary Shapiro, the executive director of Conflict Resolution Catalyst, offered an eyewitness' perspective last night on the situation in Bosnia and said the region is far from peaceful. "While officially the war is over, in reality, peace has just barely begun," said Shapiro, who spent time in Yugoslavia and then four years in the Soviet Union training in conflict resolution. Approximately 20 professors, mediators and representatives of local conflict resolution organizations attended the lecture titled "Eyewitness in Bosnia," in the Rockefeller Center.


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Johnson describes triumph over censors

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Free speech activist Claudia Johnson discussed the five- year-long battle she waged to restore Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale" and Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" to a rural Florida high school in a speech she gave yesterday afternoon in Carpenter Hall. The speech was titled "Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story about Fighting Censorship," after her 1994 account of a court battle.




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Prospectives from the Class of 2000 descend onto campus

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About 500 high school seniors descended on Hanover this week to decide whether they want to spend the next four years at Dartmouth. The students, who have been accepted to the Class of 2000, said they came to the College to learn more about it. "I'd already visited the College before prospectives' week," said Sarah Yadeta, a prospective from Scarborough, Maine.


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Students are selected for COS and Green Key

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While candidates in the Student Assembly elections will be forced to wait another week for the results of their campaigns, candidates in the class council, Green Key Honor Society and Committee on Standards elections were all able to find out the results of their races last night. All the incumbent class council presidents and vice presidents were re-elected by their classes. Frode Eilertsen '99 and Rex Morey '99 were re-elected to serve as class president and vice president respectively.


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Trustees hold Spring term meeting at Yale

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The College's Board of Trustees held its Spring term meeting last weekend at Yale University, but declined to release details about the meeting. College President James Freedman told The Dartmouth last week that it was "likely" the Board would announce who will replace E.


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DDS may undergo massive changes

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Full Fare will be replaced by a cafeteria that serves mostly chicken, Collis Cafe will lose its salad bar and entrees and gain a larger selection of baked goods and Food Court will be thoroughly renovated under a proposal suggested by Dartmouth Dining Services Director Peter Napolitano last night. Napolitano told students of the proposed changes to DDS at the fourth of a series of "roundtable" discussions, in which students meet with DDS administrators to discuss the future of food on campus. Seven students attended last night's dinner discussion with Napolitano, DDS Associate Director Tucker Rossiter and Full Fare Manager Pete Shanahan. "Collis, Food Court and Full Fare need new blood," Napolitano said.


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Professor talks on 'absolute truth'

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Harvard University Philosophy Professor Robert Nozick told about 100 people in the Rockefeller Center he believes in absolute truth that transcends culture, race and gender. In his speech, the 22nd annual Francis Gramlich Memorial Lecture, Nozick defined this truth as the apparatus by which human beings make decisions which lead to their desired goals.



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College continues search for two administrators

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The College has started to sift through applications in its quest to find a new assistant dean of first-year students and a director of public affairs. Dean of First-Year Students Peter Goldsmith said during Winter term, a search committee narrowed the pool of applicants for the assistant dean position to a short list of candidates.


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Students for Choice gets a new start

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Students for Choice, a reproductive-rights organization, attracted 12 students to its meeting last night -- its first meeting since it became inactive a year ago. Leading the efforts to awaken the group from its three-term dormancy is Amy McLean '96, the present chair of the group who has been an active member since 1992. McLean said the group fell apart after the former chair graduated last spring.


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Rush to polls overloads secure server

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As the "polls" virtually opened yesterday, many more students than anticipated took the opportunity to vote all at once and forced the server to go down for a couple of hours, but other students have decided not to exercise their vote despite the ease of doing so. The server went down "for an hour or two" Kiewit consultant Michael Pryor '98 said. Pryor said the secure server is something the systems administrators at Kiewit had not used much. "There are bound to be bugs and things we didn't foresee when you use something for the first time," he said. Pryor said the systems administrators raised the maximum number of connections available after students connect to the server. Several students said they have made an effort to inform themselves about the Assembly candidates so they could vote intelligently in the election. Christine Chung '99 said she voted yesterday afternoon. She said she read articles about the candidates and talked to people who heard the candidates speak. Chung said she was "kind of disappointed" because upperclassmen told her the Assembly "didn't affect their lives, so they didn't have to pay attention." She said upperclassmen told her the elections were just a yearly routine and they had no motivation to find out about the candidates. "That made me wonder if I should spend the time researching something that won't affect me," she said. But Stephen Jackett '99 did not wonder if he was wasting his time. Jackett said he is going to vote in the election because "every individual vote can make a difference." Jackett, who attended Monday night's debate in the Fayerweathers, said he attended with an open mind to get to know the candidates. Other students have not taken the same care to research candidates. Brian Amsbary '98 said he "probably will vote" in the elections. He said he hasn't gone to hear the candidates speak, he has only seen their posters. "The best ads are definitely for Carlos [Osorio '99] and Corby [Kelly '99]," Amsbary said. He said a project he would like to see the Assembly continue with is the on-line course guide, but "all the candidates are talking about it, so it won't influence my decision." Other students said they will vote for more personal reasons. Dan Perkins '97 said he plans on voting because he knows presidential candidate Jon Heavey '97 well and feels "he will listen to the things I tell him and he's going to look out for my best interest." Some students remained undecided about whether they will vote. Peter Lee '98 said yesterday he had not yet decided if he would vote. "The candidates all seem to be the same," he said.



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Koop oversees videos' production

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Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is supervising the production of a series of medical videos for patients diagnosed with a serious disease that he says "may change the way medicine is practiced." The "At Time of Diagnosis" series, produced by a subsidiary of Time Life Medical, will provide information from medical experts about common medical conditions. Koop, former U.S.