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Police investigate the Choates

By Neil Desai | April 16, 1996

The Hanover Police Department is currently conducting an investigation in Brown Hall in the Choates cluster, Detective Sergeant Frank Moran said yesterday.

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Panhell offers seventh sorority membership

By Michelle Gregg | April 16, 1996

Panhellenic Council representatives and sorority presidents said last night that prospective members of the proposed seventh sorority will not have to go through the formal rush process, but will be able to join on a first come, first serve basis. Members of Panhell, the governing body of the College's six sororities, discussed the rush process and the formation of the new sorority with a group of about 40 freshmen women last night. A formal sign-up will be held on April 24 for all women interested in becoming members of the new sorority. "The first 50 or so women to sign up will be invited to form the sorority," said Panhell Vice President Marcie Handler '97. Panhell President Jess Russo '97 said 50 members is just an arbitrary number, based on the number of members who signed up to form Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority three years ago. "The number of women forming the sorority will be based on how much interest there is," Russo said. One of the sorority's first decisions will be whether to apply for local or national recognition, Russo said. The new members will also have to find a permanent location for their sorority next fall. The six existing sororities have pledged their support of the seventh. "We will allow the new sorority to have activities and programming at our houses," President of KDE Joanna Whitley '97 said.

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Freshmen plunge into campus politics

By Erin Loback | April 15, 1996

After examining the candidate pool for this year's Student Assembly elections, freshmen Carlos Osorio and Corby Kelly decided to try their hands at campaigning at the beginning of this term. Osorio and Kelly are running as write-in candidates for Assembly president and vice president, respectively. "We have an unconventional, different vision," Kelly said.

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Assembly voting to be conducted over Internet

By David Kung | April 15, 1996

On Tuesday and Wednesday, courtesy of the Dartmouth computer network and the Internet, students will vote from the privacy of their roomsand the electronic ballots they fill out may even include each candidate's platform. Linda Kennedy, associate director of student services, said today students will receive a card in their Hinman boxes that explains the World Wide Web page location for the elections and give instructions as to how to vote. By accessing the page at http://www.dartmouth.edu/projects/election, students will connect to a secure server that can exchange information without other sources tapping in Kennedy said. All election materials can be retrieved from this page where students can cast their ballots for next year's officers for the Class Councils, Committee on Standards, Green Key Society and Student Assembly, she said. Kennedy said the electronic voting and tallying system will drastically reduce the amount of time necessary to count individual paper ballots. "This will be so simple -- I'll just push a button and the results will be done," Kennedy said. Tom Caputo '96, who helped create the electronic medium for voting, said the "polls" will close at 8 p.m.

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Maynard Street to close for the week

By David Kung | April 15, 1996

Effective today, the Town of Hanover has ordered the closing of Maynard Street, a stretch of road passing in front of the old Mary Hitchcock Hospital, for this week. Keith Southworth, the assistant director of public works in Hanover, said the road will be closed because the town will be installing a storm drain and a new sanitary sewer line. "These are part of the Dartmouth project involving the old hospital site," Southworth said. According to a College News Service press release, the installation of the 12-inch sewer main will service Dartmouth College facilities in that area -- including the future Berry Library. "The project is not difficult but the sanitary sewer line is 22 feet below the ground," Southworth said. The work in that area has already necessitated the depavement of the road, Southworth said.

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Campaigns gear up for final days

By Erin Loback | April 15, 1996

While some candidates are turning to more conventional methods of campaigning in these last days before the election, others are running more hi-tech campaigns or are just trying to be different. Taking the hi-tech route, presidential candidate Unai Montes-Irueste '98 and vice presidential candidate Bill Kartalopoulos '97 are asking students to navigate the Internet to learn more about their campaigns. Kartalopoulos said he thinks he is the first candidate to present his platform on a World Wide Web page. "I think it is a creative way for candidates to get information out without spending a lot of money," Kartalopoulos said. He said students can access his Web page to find out about his experience and ideas.

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Board may select new chair over weekend

By Neil Desai | April 12, 1996

The College's Board of Trustees convened yesterday afternoon at Yale University for its Spring term meetings, and during this weekend's meetings, the Board may choose its new chair. College News Service Director Roland Adams said the meeting's agenda is confidential but the Trustees will hold general discussions with select administrators of the Yale corporation as well as a few faculty members.

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Pivin denounces slashing of welfare

By Alfonso Montero | April 12, 1996

Frances Fox Pivin, a political science professor from the City University of New York, denounced the rise of political deals that promote tax cuts at the expense of social programs, in a speech she gave last night in Carpenter Hall. About two dozen people gathered to hear Pivin's speech, titled "Welfare Reform and the Transformation of American Electoral Politics." Pivin said congressmen are "slashing welfare" rather than reforming welfare. "American politics used to be pristine, and now they have turned into big money mass advertising," she said Pivin attributed the rise of "money politics" to the pressure that business leaders exert on government officials to cut social programs in an effort to balance the federal budget. She said since the majority of the four million people currently on welfare are single mothers who receive an average of $367 per month, "politicians are campaigning to make people -- namely single mothers -- worse off." Pivin said politicians wrongly claim welfare reform "has perverse consequences" such as increasing poverty and giving incentives to mothers to have sons out of wedlock. While that argument is not "completely illogical", Pivin said, the consequences of welfare reform would be "four million desperate women joining the labor force at once" which would cause "wages to go down by at least 11 percent." Pivin also said economic inequality and job insecurity are two key problems that politicians have failed to sufficiently address. Twenty years ago, the top 1 percent of workers in the United States accumulated 79 percent of the total income, she said. But today, corporate chief executive officers in the U.S.

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Psychologists visit to discuss stress on campus

By Karen Rose | April 12, 1996

After meeting with many students and administrators over the past two days to examine the stresses of student life at the College, Psychologists Belinda Johnson, head of counseling at Brown University and Ilene Rosenstein, head of counseling at University of Pennsylvania left the College yesterday. In the wake of four Dartmouth student suicides in the past year, the College Health Services asked Johnson and Rosenstein to come to Dartmouth to explore how stress levels on campus can by minimized and to examine the resources the College offers to help students deal with stress, Director of College Health Services Dr. Jack Turco said. "The program was a response to the series of suicides at the College," Turco said.

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Heart surgeon achieved the impossible

By David Kung | April 12, 1996

Renowned heart surgeon William DeVries, who performed the first successful artificial heart replacement 14 years ago, described the challenges of overcoming adversity to an audience of about 50 people last night in Collis Common Ground. DeVries said many reputed doctors told him artificial heart replacement was impossible, in a speech that was part of this year's Senior Symposium titled "They Said It Couldn't Be Done." "It was difficult for me to accept this until I realized that I knew more about the replacement than they did," DeVries said. DeVries described the problems he encountered while performing artificial heart replacement surgery on animals and the difficult nature of finding someone who was willing to undergo the procedure. Even the first recipient of the replacement, Barney Clark, who suffered from imminent heart failure, was uncertain of the procedure, DeVries said.

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Series to examine Northern Forest

By Lillie Ng | April 12, 1996

Steve Trombulak, a professor of biology and environmental studies at Middlebury College, stressed the importance of protecting biodiversity in the Northern Forest in a speech last night that kicked off a term-long series of talks on the Forest. "The Northern Forest has a strong ecological value and a strong cultural identity," Trombulak said.

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Miller returns from German competition

By Erik Tanouye | April 11, 1996

Although his animated film won no awards, judges at an international animated film competition in Germany last week told Chris Miller '97 that his work had unofficially placed among their 20 favorite animated films. Miller and his five-minute Sleazy the Wonder Squirrel film returned recently from a week in Stuttgart, Germany, where they competed with animated works from around the world for a $30,000 prize. Miller's entry competed at the week-long Stuttgart International Animation Festival with approximately 70 other international works in the young animators section which included six entries from the United States. Miller said his film was well-received by an audience of approximately 500. "They laughed at all the right places," he said. The Sleazy film played on a large screen after a spotlight introduced Miller to the audience, Miller said. Miller said seeing the international audience reaction to his film and seeing all the other entries was educational. "I learned what makes a successful animated film, which could help me if I make another one," he said. Noting that his film was better received when it played at a similar exhibition New York, Miller explained that English was a second language for many audience members. Miller said he spent much of the animation festival watching other entries in the competition. "Basically they showed films in three buildings continually from 3 p.m.

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Search for new Latino Studies prof continues

By Jodi Priselac | April 11, 1996

The search for a new Latino Studies professor is still underway, Chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department Marysa Navarro said. "We are still in the middle of our search," Navarro said, "but we hope to have [the position] filled by next fall." The College decided to offer the tenure-track position in January of this year in response to students and faculty who wished to add a Latino Studies program to the already existing LACS Department. Last term, the Student Assembly, with the help of La Alianza Latina, passed a resolution to make Latino Studies a permanent area of study at Dartmouth. Associate Dean of the Social Sciences George Wolford said while "there is no official Latino Studies program" currently, "what I think they would like to do is join it officially with LACS." He added that this merger would allow for more administrative efficiency, but it has not yet been approved by the administration. "Anything like this requires official faculty approval," he said. Wolford and Navarro previously told The Dartmouth that they would like to see LACS renamed Latino, Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Visiting Mellon Professor Brenda Bright, who the College hired two years ago to teach four Latino courses, said she is applying for the new Latino Studies professor position. Bright added that the search "was a national search," but "they advertised it very late." Wolford admitted the search was begun late but said that in order to start it, "one of the prerequisites was to make sure we could follow all of the normal procedures." "We would like to have this person start on July 1st," he said. Two other departments recently added Latino Studies professors to their repertoire, Bright said. "The Spanish Department recruited someone to do Latino literature," Wolford said. The English Department was the other department to add a Latino professor after a search led by English Department Chair Bill Cook.

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Poster removal results in debate

By Erin Loback | April 11, 1996

A BlitzMail debate erupted yesterday between Student Assembly presidential and vice presidential candidates after a student notified them that he believed two candidates had removed others' posters from his residence hall. After discussing the ethics of such actions, some of the candidates concluded that lack of public discussion about their platforms had placed too much emphasis on their posters and resolved to hold a final debate before the elections. The removal and defacement of posters has been an issue of concern during this campaign, according to every one of the presidential and vice presidential candidates. Carlo Corti '98, an undergraduate advisor on the first floor of Mid-Fayerweather residence hall, said he saw two Assembly candidates, whom he refused to name, along with a third person taking posters down from a bulletin board in the residence hall at about 4 a.m.

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CFSC redefines its purpose

By Erik Tanouye | April 11, 1996

The Coed Fraternity Sorority Council voted unanimously to adopt a revised purpose statement, in addition to outlining plans for a new advisory committee, at its meeting Tuesday. The new purpose statement demonstrates the council's growing ability to work together as a unit, according to CFSC President Martin Dengler '97. "It's a big step because of how it came into being," Dengler said of the revised statement, noting the significance of the unanimous vote. The statement calls for the CFSC to be a group "that unites the leaders of Dartmouth's CFS system into a proactive and, if necessary, reactive body." The statement concludes, "the Council shall work to promote respect for all members of our Greek system and the Dartmouth community as a whole; the presidents sitting on the Council shall honestly commit themselves to this purpose in order to earn the respect of Dartmouth's students, administration and faculty, and of the Hanover community." The CFSC also voted in favor of setting up an advisory committee which would be separate from the current Coed Fraternity Sorority Judicial Committee. The advisory committee, according to Dengler, will provide a forum for problems to be dealt with in a confidential manner within the Greek system. "It's not antagonistic or a review board," Dengler said of the advisory committee, which is tentatively planned to include two fraternity presidents, two sorority presidents and the president of a coed fraternity. "Basically, its idea is to regulate activity within the houses of the Greek system," said Joanna Whitley '97, president of the Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority. Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority president Cai Boldt '97 said, "I think this is something that a lot of the houses have been interesting in doing for a while." The CFSC also discussed the possibility of a party during Green Key weekend that would involve all the Greek organizations. "If it's done well, it could be really successful and we're planning on doing it well," Whitley said.

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