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Grants allow students to pursue research

By Jess Jacob | May 14, 1996

Many Dartmouth juniors and seniors have been awarded national and College scholarships this year and will be using their awards to do research on everything from thyroid disorder and cancer research to anthropological field work in Iran. Fulbright Grants Holden Spaht '96 and Alexander Edlich '96 will travel to Europe on Fulbright grants to do research in Germany and France. Spaht, an economics major, plans to spend the next year conducting a case study of a West German firm that bought out an eastern-based firm. Spaht said he hopes the scholarship will enable him to investigate the effects of the buy-out on the work force and social conditions within the firm. Spaht, who said he has always had a knack for foreign languages, studied German at the College and spent his sophomore summer on the Language Study Abroad program in Mainz. After his year abroad, Spaht will work in investment banking for Morgan Stanley in New York. "It will be hard work and crazy, but I'll learn a lot," he said.

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COSO reduces its funds to some publications

By Elysa Jacobs | May 13, 1996

The Council on Student Organizations has revamped its funding procedures in order to subsidize more student publications, and the changes have caused some student journals to undergo budget cuts and format changes. According to COSO's new funding policy the council "will fund completely one 'bound' journal per year at a rate not to exceed $2,100.

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More than 1,000 gather at pow-wow

By David Kung | May 13, 1996

Hailing from cities across the nation, more than 1,000 people attended the College's 24th annual pow-wow this weekend to witness the largest performance in the College's history. This year's pow-wow, held in Thompson Arena, "had many more dancers and a few more vendors than previous years," said Native Americans at Dartmouth President LaWanda Johnson '97. She said the caliber of the drum groups attracted more performers. In a celebration of Native American culture, many participants wore traditional Native American dress and danced in the center rink of Thompson Arena. Vendors of Native American jewelry, trinkets and clothing set up booths around the upper level of the rink.

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DAPA to begin education Fall term

By Jess Jacob | May 13, 1996

Students who have questions about alcohol use will soon be able to turn to a new resource -- the Dartmouth Alcohol Peer Advisors. This group of 10 students just finished their year-long training session and will begin counseling students next fall. Lisa Stigler '96, the Health Services administrative intern who spearheaded the program, said the idea began last summer. The goal of the group is "to help disseminate information in a nonthreatening way and to establish a support system that has not been here in the past," said Monica Oberkofler '96, who is a member of DAPA. Stigler said she worked with Assistant Coordinator of Peer Education Programs Bart Bingenheimer, Director of Health Resources Gabrielle Lucke and members of the Student Alcohol Education Network to develop the program. Bingenheimer said DAPA will add another component to College alcohol education programs. "Alcohol abuse education needs to stress both prevention and treatment and DAPA can help on both of those ends," he said.

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Rosenbaum reviews state of journalism

By Erin Loback | May 13, 1996

David Rosenbaum '63, a senior writer for The New York Times' Washington bureau, demystified some criticisms of media bias for about 30 students Saturday afternoon. Rosenbaum spoke about "What's Wrong With Journalism in America Today -- and What's Right With It," in the library of Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society. Rosenbaum analyzed several public conceptions of the media. He said newspapers and the press "come under a lot of fire," especially in election years. The first criticism Rosenbaum addressed was the notion that reporters and editors are all liberals, and consequently, conservatives do not receive fair news coverage. Rosenbaum stipulated that reporters and editors tend to be liberal and said surveys have shown a vast majority of reporters and editors are liberals. The belief that "journalism should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable," attracts people of a leftist ideology, he said. He said the stories the press covers reflect its liberal tendencies.

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Marston brings cloak and dagger to class

By Michelle Gregg | May 10, 1996

Chris Marston '96 was interested in governmental intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency -- so he decided to create a class about it. Marston is teaching Student Initiated Seminar 1, "Interdisciplinary Approach to Intelligence," this term.

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Students defend education dept

By Charles Davant | May 10, 1996

More than 300 students packed 105 Dartmouth Hall to discuss and question the Social Science Council's recommendation to abolish the education department. About 40 of the students present pelted Associate Dean of the Faculty George Wolford with criticisms of the council's decision, questions about the future and praise for the beleaugered department. The Social Science Council, comprised of the chairs of eight academic departments, recommended the department be eliminated, citing administrative problems and a lack of high quality programs within the department.

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Committee releases library proposals

By David Kung | May 10, 1996

The Library Building Committee released its proposals for the renovation of Baker Library and the building of Berry Library which include a new student coffeehouse, more varied study space and administrative computing. The committee has worked for the past four months to transform the report of the Task Force on the Library of the 21st Century into a specified plan, said Director of Library Administrative Services and head of the Library Building Committee John Crane.

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Alumni urge students to network in job searching

By Jake Molland | May 10, 1996

Three Dartmouth alumni told students entering a the job market to take advantage of the networking opportunities in Dartmouth Alums in a panel discussion held last night in Silsby Hall. About 20 students and faculty attended the discussion titled "Diversity in the Workplace." The panelists included Garvey Clarke '57, the director of a non-profit company designed to provide career direction for young people of color; Gwen Pointer '90, who works for a transnational corporation specializing in sports marketing, and Pamela Ponce '85, a former corporate worker and entrepreneur. "Young people have a much more difficult time now," Clarke said.

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Superbarrio stimulates thought on U.S. policies

By Michelle Gregg | May 9, 1996

Dressed in red and gold superhero attire, complete with mask and cape, Superbarrio Gomez, a Mexican grassroots activist, spoke to 50 people last night about his campaign for the presidency and the unification of the United States and Mexico. The performance, organized by La Alianza Latina and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, was designed to stimulate thought about the effects of U.S.

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Hunt shares Washington insider's view with students

By Jacqueline Rose | May 9, 1996

Executive Washington editor for The Wall Street Journal Al Hunt's involvement in journalism began "almost accidentally" when he reluctantly accepted a job as a copy boy for the Chicago Bulletin after being suspended from Wake Forest University, in North Carolina. Settling into one of the couches in the living room of the Montgomery House, where he has been living for the past three days as the Montgomery Fellow, Hunt said he was forced to accept the job after he threw a party in a motel room with women -- an activity strongly condemned by the Baptist university. Although he had no previous exposure to journalism, Hunt said, "In a short time, I got hooked." "The minute I was really exposed to it, it was instant love," Hunt said. When Hunt returned to Wake Forest after his semester with the Chicago Bulletin, he worked for the school's newspaper and swiftly developed a taste for reporting. "I loved reporting from the very beginning," Hunt said.

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NAD to hold pow-wow at Thompson Arena

By Robert Isaacs | May 9, 1996

Native Americans at Dartmouth will hold its 24th annual pow-wow at Thompson Arena this weekend, after unsuccessfully lobbying for permission to hold the celebration on the Green. The event was originally scheduled to be held at the Bema, but the pow-wow committee, which organized the weekend's events, decided last Thursday to move the celebration to the arena.

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Hunt: journalists a target of cynicism

By Sarah Burch | May 9, 1996

Montgomery Fellow Al Hunt, the executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, analyzed the public's criticism of American media before an overflow crowd in 1 Rockefeller. Hunt said journalists are an easy target of a cynical American public. "Media bashing is as old as the Republic," he said. Hunt said the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal changed the public's healthy skepticism into mass cynicism.

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Susan Marine named new SAAP coordinator

By Erik Tanouye | May 8, 1996

Susan Marine, who currently works with the Victim's Assistance team at Colorado College, will replace Liza Veto at the beginning of Summer term as the coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program. The Victim's Assistance team is Colorado College's equivalent of the SAAP, Marine said. "Right now I do the same kind of thing at Colorado College [that I will do at Dartmouth]," Marine said. Veto, who has been the acting coordinator of the SAAP since August 1994, said the job is, "in a nutshell, doing the education and prevention work in sexual abuse at Dartmouth." Marine was one of 70 applicants for the position who were eventually narrowed down to three candidates, said Women's Resource Center Director Giavanna Munafo. Munafo said Marine communicates well with students and is easy to talk to. "I think she's a really good one-on-one kind of person," Munafo said.

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Whitmire: It's time to look at cities

By Elizabeth Tedesco | May 8, 1996

Former Houston Mayor Katherine Whitmire spoke last night about the need for cities, suburbs and "edge-cities" to work together to meet the challenges that face 20th century urban America. About 45 people attended the speech, titled "The City: Preparing for the Next Millennium," in Room 2 of the Rockefeller Center. "As we approach this new millennium, open a new chapter in history, it may be time to take a look at what's happening in our large cities," Whitmire said. She said cities today are facing serious problems, including a crumbling infrastructure, crime and homelessness. "The deterioration that has occurred among major cities, the poverty and homelessness, the gang and drug related problems, raise questions about the value of continuing to invest in that kind of infrastructure," Whitmire said. She said the "flight to the suburbs" is a major factor in cities' deterioration. With further cutbacks in the federal programs that fund cities, a central question is how to develop investment for their recovery, she said. Local and regional organization and leadership are key, she said. "Edge cities," those cities located in areas on the outskirts of larger cities, are crucial to this development, she said. "The suburbs, the edge cities, and the central cities are all a part of the solution," Whitmire continued.

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Wesbury: taxes, regulation shoud be kept to minimum

By Alfonso Montero | May 7, 1996

Arguing that government intervention is responsible for the slowdown of economic growth in the U.S., Chief Economist of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee Brian Wesbury said government regulation and taxing must be kept at a minimum. Wesbury discussed the role of the government in the economy in a speech before an audience of approximately 60 people in Rockefeller 1 yesterday. He said it was important to dispel beliefs that "the government is the most important part of the economy and nothing can work without it." According to Wesbury, government intervention "creates an economy that is out of filter." He criticized government regulations on the basis that "artificial regulation of supply creates demand for more government intervention," which he said leads to an inflationary process. To support his claim, Wesbury showed figures correlating periods of high regulation with periods of low economic growth. Specifically, he referred to the U.S.

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Sanders discusses living standards

By Robert Isaacs | May 7, 1996

Congressman Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., the first Democratic Socialist in modern American politics, said yesterday that America's living standard is eroding and urged the public to fight the prevailing view that government is always bad. Sanders delivered his speech, titled "Democracy in Crisis," to a crowd of about 50 people in 105 Dartmouth Hall. Sanders said American middle-class workers face a bleak economic outlook, exacerbated by a disheartening political situation. Sanders, Vermont's only Congressman and the first independent in Congress in more than 40 years , said "the most important problem facing this country is that we don't discuss the most important problems." The first big problem, he said, is the nation's economy. "All over the country, we've been hearing about the booming economy," he said.

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Greene '59 helps students cut through admissions hype

By Charles Davant | May 7, 1996

In an address to the alumni class officers this weekend, Class of 1959 President Howard Greene said none of them would have been accepted to Dartmouth in today's competitive college admissions environment. Greene, an educational consultant from Westport, Conn., has made a career out of helping aspiring college students cut through the hype to find the right college and gain admittance. Greene was recently featured in an article in The New York Times, which described how he helped a Wilton, Conn., girl gain admittance to Dartmouth. The article shook the college counseling industry because it questioned whether counselors are enabling students to manipulate the college admissions process. Ben Mason, a Burlington, Vt., college counselor who recently went to a trade-meeting in Arizona, said the whole industry is aware of the article that featured Greene. "Everybody was talking about it," he said. The girl Greene helped, Elizabeth Morgan, acted on Greene's advice in order to get into the best college possible. She transferred to Choate Rosemary Hall boarding school upon Green's recommendation, according to the article. "During a third visit to Dartmouth, Elizabeth followed Mr. Greene's advice and visited the school's biology department, to demonstrate her initiative and interest," the article states. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Greene said he advised Morgan to stress her interest in science, because it would make her more attractive to the admissions office. "She didn't know as a female [interest in science] is very special," he said. Greene sent a letter to Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg, the article states.

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Education dept. under scrutiny

By Charles Davant | May 7, 1996

The Social Sciences Council has recommended the abolition of the College's education department, due in part to administrative problems and a lack of high quality programs. The council is comprised of the department chairs of the College's eight social science departments.

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