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Hurlin brings famed editor's life to the stage

By Steven Wilson | April 1, 1996

Recreating the career of Depression-era conservative newspaper publisher William Loeb, Dan Hurlin performed his solo piece, "NO (thing as powerful as) TRUTH" this weekend. Hurlin, a New Hampshire native and the recipient of a 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Solo Performance, treated a mostly older crowd to a multimedia presentation in the Moore theater at the Hopkins Center. The performance combined events from Loeb's life as a muckraking, "print now and check the facts later" newspaper publisher with stories from his own life and references to Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane," to examine the role of the media in shaping social truth. "There is a rule in journalism which states that if anything is repeated three times it becomes true," Hurlin said three times at the climax of the show. A montage of images from the show and literary works such as Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass," presented in the flickering light of a movie camera highlighted the climax of the performance. Dan Froot, composer, saxophone player and recipient of a 1991 New York Dance and Performance Award for the creation of his music/theater work "17 Kilo's of Garlic," provided the music for the performance. Hayes' lighting effects, which included printed word displays on a screen behind Hurlin and the use of Hurlin himself as a movie screen, punctuated Hurlin's message about the constructed nature of the truth in media. Hurlin's message about the media seemed to come across for Dartmouth students who attended the event. "I'm not sure if he was representing a real historical figure, but it seemed he was making a statement about the media and its influence ... especially the references to 'Citizen Kane,'" said Kyle Ancowitz '98.

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New generation of professors changes face of academe

By Jodi Priselac | April 1, 1996

A new generation of professors that includes more women and minority professors has entered the ranks of higher education in the United States, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education survey, and the College's faculty composition parallel this nationwide trend. The College's 1995-1996 Affirmative Action Plan indicates that the percentage of women and minority faculty in the Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth posted a 100 percent increase in the past 20 years. Since the College turned coeducational, the number of women and minority faculty has increased gradually.

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Reeder '96 takes the helm at DRA

By David Kung | April 1, 1996

The Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance elected Scott Reeder '96 as its new male co-chair last week after the former male co-Chair, Mario Martinus '98, announced his resignation. The DRA's female co-Chair Herlena Harris said the DRA always has a male and female co-chair.

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ORL uses questionnaire to pick students for cluster

By Jacqueline Rose | April 1, 1996

In an effort to create a diverse mix of residents in the East Wheelock supercluster in the fall, the College will not select the cluster's residents based on their current housing priority numbers. In addition to its regular housing application, ORL will provide one questionnaire which students who wish to live in the supercluster must fill out, Associate Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty said.

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Panhell opts to start new sorority

By Jacqueline Rose | April 1, 1996

At the Panhellenic Council's meeting today, members will begin making plans to promote another sorority, Panhell President Jess Russo '97 said. At its first meeting of the term on Thursday the Panhellenic Council voted down the rush proposal formed last term and decided instead to focus on the formation of a new sorority, said Russo, who is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. The rush proposal combined elements of the traditional rush process with a random lottery system. Russo said the vote reflected Panhell's belief that the formation of a new sorority was of greater importance than changing the rush process. "The vote decided what needed to be done, not whether the proposal was good or bad," Russo said.

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Students support new billing plan

By Jacqueline Rose | April 1, 1996

While some students feel a new billing system that divides student expenses into two separate bills unnecessarily complicates the billing process, most students are supportive of the changes which the College hopes to implement by Fall term. Under the new system, the College will send parents a bill that includes "cost of attendance charges" including tuition and room and board and the College will send to students' Hinman boxes a separate bill for miscellaneous expenses such as fines and College ID charges.

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College rules out speech code

By Erin Loback | April 1, 1996

While students proposing a hate speech code in response to recent incidents of hate crime on campus have made little progress, the student effort to create a mandatory class on tolerance and diversity has prompted new ideas for multicultural training. Reactions to recent hate crime incidents, students circulated two petitions at the town meeting on Feb.

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Assembly discusses spring agenda

By Erin Loback | March 29, 1996

In last night's informal first meeting of Spring term, the Student Assembly elected Robin Nunn '99 as its new secretary and discussed its agenda for the term. Nunn, who ran for the position unchallenged, said she was "willing to take on the responsibility" of being Assembly secretary and "really excited about it." Nunn will replace Jim Horowitz '98, who is not on campus this term. Nunn, the Assembly cluster representative for Topliff and New Hampshire residence halls, was elected secretary of the Ivy Council last term. At the meeting, committee heads discussed their plans for the term. Laura Bennett '96, vice president of administration and faculty relations, said her committee is evaluating ways to improve the Academic Honor Principle and comparing Dartmouth's Committee on Standards to similar organizations at other Ivy League colleges. She also said her committee is trying to persuade the admissions and financial aid committee to allow students to be members and have a vote on the committee. Della Bennett '96, vice president of student life, said her committee is meeting with the Committee on Environmental Policies for College Operations soon to discuss conservation and environmental issues on campus. She also said her committee is trying to get intra-campus phones installed on the first floor of each residence hall. Vice President of Academic Affairs Dominic LaValle '99 said the on-line course guide, unveiled by the Assembly last term, should be completed in five to six weeks. LaValle also said he received permission from the economics department to make a presentation regarding offering the Non-Recording Option on more economics courses. The Assembly's newsletter came out on Tuesday, and Vice President of Communications Jonah Sonnenborn '99 said the Assembly would like to publish another one this term and to establish a weekly Assembly bulletin. Sonnenborn also said the Assembly plans to continue its study of the freshman advising system . Swift said the committee is still working with Education Professor Andrew Garrod to produce a survey for faculty and students about the advising system. Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 said the Assembly will work with administrators on the new proposal of the Dartcard Program, which would establish a declining balance account on College Identification cards. Rich said the Assembly will give feedback to administrators as well as help inform students about the Dartcard. The Assembly will have a Parliamentarian by next Tuesday's meeting after lacking an official one throughout Winter term, Rich said. Rich said the Assembly will try to organize two town meetings this term, hopefully before the Assembly elections on April 16 and 17 because they would serve as a "good forum for the candidates to speak." Sonnenborn said the Assembly plans to address Dean of the College Lee Pelton's new supercluster in the East Wheelock residence halls, since it is a "touchy subject" among students.

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Abaris may become eighth senior society

By Charles Davant | March 29, 1996

An anonymous group of more than 30 seniors announced yesterday that they have formed another coeducational senior society. The Abaris senior society, named after an ancient Greek mystic, will become the College's eighth senior society if it is recognized by the Office of Residential life.

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Conference on capitalism begins

By Lillie Ng | March 29, 1996

Richard Sklar, professor emeritus of political science at the University of California at Los Angeles kicked off a three-day conference on International Capitalism and the Future of Development last night when he spoke about "Postimperialism: Concepts and Implications." The conference includes 14 presentations from scholars from around the country concerning the concept of postimperialism, said Government Professor David Becker, who organized the conference. Becker said postimperialism examines the effect of international capitalism on the world. The conference will cover postimperialism in many areas of the world including Latin America, Africa, North Africa and Europe, he said. Increasingly, issues of development and change in every aspect of international political economy must be understood in the light of the form of an emerging international capital class, Becker said. "The most visible evidence of the existence of such a class is the tremendous growth of multinational corporations in numbers, size and countries of origination," Becker said.

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Wall speaks on Mid East peace

By Michelle Gregg | March 29, 1996

Harry Wall, director of the Jerusalem Chapter of the Anti Defamation League, spoke to about 40 students and community members last night about the future of the Middle East peace process. In addition to discussing the future of the peace process , Wall spoke about the effects of terrorism and the implications of the upcoming elections in Israel in shaping the peace process. Israelis and Palestinians began taking initial steps toward peace 30 months ago in Oslo, and Wall said the results have benefited both parties. "The peace process legitimizes all of the Palestinian's aspirations," he said.

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Borovoi describes communist agenda

By David Kung | March 29, 1996

Konstantin Borovoi, a member of the Russian Parliament and chairman of the Economic Freedom party, described economic hardship and the communist agenda yesterday to about 80 people at the Tuck School of Business Administration. Borovoi began his discussion by describing a recent vote by the communist party in the Russian Parliament. "They voted for a law to reconstruct the former Soviet Union," he said.

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Class sends students back to high school

By Heather Bell | March 28, 1996

It's rare to hear Dartmouth students say that wish they were back in high school, but about 100 students have shown that they are willing to return, signing up for a class this spring that will send them over to Hanover High School at least once a week.

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New billing system proposed

By Jacqueline Rose | March 28, 1996

The College is planning to implement a new billing system, which could be in use as early as Fall term, that would divide students' expenses into two separate bills, according to Director of Financial Services Win Johnson. Under the new system, one bill that would include "cost of attendance charges" like tuition and room and board would be sent home, while another that would include miscellaneous expenses and fines would be sent directly to students' hinman boxes. Under the proposed system, which Johnson called the Dartcard Program, students would establish a declining balance account on their College Identification cards. Dartcard program The Dartcard program would be comprised of four accounts: an administrative fee account, a discretionary account, a dining account and a Dartalk account, that would be billed to students' hinman boxes. The administrative fee account would include fines for non-compliance with College regulations such as parking fines, late registration fees, alcohol policy violations, library fines and lost ID charges. The discretionary account would include charges for concert tickets, College publications, Dartmouth Outing Club rentals, alcohol purchases at the Lone Pine Tavern and Hanover Inn, game room charges, dining service charges in excess of the selected meal plan and fraternity and sorority dues. The dining accounts and Dartalk accounts will remain essentially unchanged. Students will be able to monitor the balances of each of the four accounts, by accessing a Dartcard program file through the Dartmouth College Information System, Johnson said. Deposits to all accounts will be made through the Dartcard Office, which Johnson said will be located in what is currently the Validine Office. Validine database manager Jeannette Montgomery said students will be permitted to exceed their credit on the discretionary account plan by $100. Montgomery said deposits can be made by check or credit card and a $100 credit is necessary to establish a Dartcard account. Montgomery said Dartcard use will be available to all students with an active Dartmouth Plan. For many reasons According to the proposal, the change to the billing system was made in part to address "new federal cash management regulations which have significantly complicated the manner in which Dartmouth must process student charges." The proposal states that under the new federal regulations, which affect financial aid, many charges that are currently processed on the student bill are "non-allowable." In addition, the proposal states that the changes will allow the College to offer more opportunities for students to make cashless purchases around campus. "Furthermore," the proposal reads, "it permits the College to extend these services without relying on its own working capital to underwrite each student's entire line of credit." Johnson said the current billing system was not adequate for day-to day living expenses. The current billing system has "no credit limit.

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Apple's losses do not affect College

By David Kung | March 28, 1996

Despite reports that Apple Computer, Inc. is experiencing financial difficulty, the College does not plan to move from its Macintosh computer platform anytime soon. Apple reported an operating loss of $69 million after taxes in the first quarter of 1996 to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Colors set to ratify its constitution on weekend

By Charles Davant | March 28, 1996

Colors, a new student group composed of the presidents and vice-presidents of eight minority groups, will meet this weekend to ratify its constitution and discuss possible goals for the Spring term. "We're going to meet sometime this weekend.

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Senior symposium plans nearly complete

By Michelle Gregg | March 28, 1996

They said it couldn't be done, but this year's senior symposium is in the final stages of planning with only minor details left to be worked out, according to Senior Class Vice President Tom Caputo '96. The senior symposium, first held in 1978 as an intellectual gift to the College from the senior class, will this year focus on that exact theme -- "They Said It Couldn't Be Done" -- and its planners have invited to the College a host of individuals who accomplished that which was thought to be impossible. Invitees who have accepted their invitations to the symposium, which will run from April 8 to April 13, include: keynote speaker Roger Launius, NASA Chief Historian; Jack Lemley, Chief Engineer of the Chunnel Project; baseball player Art Shamsky; Sir Roger Bannister, the first human to break the four-minute mile; and Virtual Reality Surgery expert Dr. Joe Rosen. Also speaking at the symposium are Dr. William DeVries, the first doctor to implant an artificial heart; Chief of Endangered Species, U.S.

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New Film course examines diversity

By Erik Tanouye | March 27, 1996

"Creative Video," a course offered through the film studies department as part of a national project that examines the issue of diversity on campus through documentaries, met for the first time yesterday. A program known as "--ism(n.)" is sponsoring classes like "Creative Video" at 12 colleges across the country, including Dartmouth, through funding by the Ford Foundation. All of the --ism(n.) courses will involve students making both individual videos and group videos that explore the effects of diversity on their lives according to a brochure published by --ism(n.). Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Mary Childers, one of the course's three instructors, said Creative Video will focus on technical aspects of the documentary process. Assistant Director of Media Productions Michael Murray and co-Director of Consultation and Multicultural Services Sandra Spiegel will also teach this team-taught course. Childers said she was pleased with the turnout for the first day of class. "A very good group of students showed up ... with a variety of interests," she said.

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