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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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Videoconferencing goes on display

By David Kung | May 6, 1996

The College and the Hanover Inn began exhibiting a state-of-the-art videoconferencing system at the Hanover Inn this weekend to gauge its usefulness at the College. "It is not just a fancy picture telephone," said Director of Facilities Operations and Management Michael Getter. He said College faculty have expressed interest in using videoconferencing for their classes. "The faculty on campus have expressed interest in distance-learning opportunities," Getter said.

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Blunder knocks network down

By David Kung | May 6, 1996

Early Friday morning, network services to Burke, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Dartmouth Medical School, Fairchild, Steele, Sudikoff and Wilder went down when construction workers behind Baker Library destroyed buried network cables. Service was restored to all buildings except the DHMC and Sudikoff by that afternoon.

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COSL surveys students to appraise advising

By Robert Isaacs | May 6, 1996

About 1,000 randomly-selected students will receive a survey today from the Committee on Student Life, and their answers to this survey should help the committee to evaluate pre-major academic advising at the College. The committee hopes to make recommendations by the end of the term. The 25-question survey, produced in conjunction with the Student Assembly, asks students about their pre-major advising experiences, from the materials sent to incoming freshman to longer-term relationships with advisors, said Education Professor Andrew Garrod, who chairs the committee. Approximately 250 students from each class, will receive the survey in their Hinman Boxes today, Garrod said. A separate, 20-question survey will go to 150 professors, randomly selected from the College's three divisions -- natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, he said. In addition to the surveys, members of the committee will conduct half-hour interviews with 16 students and 12 faculty members -- all randomly selected. "The interviews should give us some qualitative data to complement the quantitative questionnaire data," said Garrod, who designed the interview format. The committee hopes to have some results by the end of Spring term, Garrod said. "We're aiming to have something by then," he said.

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Racism not a black versus white issue

By Jean Blackerby | May 3, 1996

Thoai Nguyen, director of the Committee Against Anti-Asian-American violence, described the continued persecution of Asian-Americans in this country to an audience of about 25 people yesterday in the Rockefeller Center. The speech was the College's first event in celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, which will feature various speeches and events throughout this month. Nguyen read a harrowing account of the brutal murder in January of a Vietnamese-American by white supremacists. The alleged murderers approached the victim as he was roller-blading on a tennis court and stabbed him repeatedly in the side, back and heart, Nguyen said. He said this sort of incident "typifies ... the brutal murder of Asians in the United States." White supremacists target not only African-Americans and Jews but also Asians, he said. Americans usually conceive of racism as a black versus white issue and ignore the prevalence of violence against Asian-Americans, he said. Nguyen said Asian-Americans are "seen as perpetual foreigners in this country," even those whose families have been in America for several generations. Nguyen described many ways Asian-Americans are terrorized, including murder, brutality and hate speech. He said the media contributes to these racist perceptions and acts by reinforcing stereotypes of Asian-Americans. The media "adds to the Asian-American violence psyche," Nguyen said. He said, "The media capitalizes upon already existing stereotypes" by portraying Asians as "geeks, gangsters or gurus." But he said Asian-Americans have not remained passive in the face of discrimination and hate crimes. They have "actively resisted against this kind of oppression," Nguyen said, giving numerous examples of their resistance. Nguyen offered many reasons to explain why Asians come to America, including war or oppression in their native countries, the availability of education in America and the need for cheap labor. He recounted Asian-American history from the earliest settlements in the 17th century, through the upheavals of the California gold rush in 1848 and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II. "The history of Asians in America is synonymous with the history of anti-Asian violence," he said. Nguyen ended his speech by giving advice to the Asian-American students in the audience. "I used what I learned from institutions such as Dartmouth to work with my community," he said.

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Women share public policy experience

By Karen Rose | May 3, 1996

With jobs ranging from public health planning to booking guests for the Cable News Network, four recent Dartmouth alumnae spoke about their involvement in creating and implementing public policy in a panel discussion yesterday afternoon. About 50 people attended the discussion which was part of a day-long symposium on women's health which took place in the Rockefeller Center. The symposium was part of the Boehm Coster Program which was recently created by Frances and Robert Boehm '35 in memory of their daughter Nancy who encouraged women to pursue careers in public policy. The panel consisted of Ashley Abbot '92, legislative assistant to John Elias Baldacci, D-Maine; Karen Bishop '87, a programmer for CNN; Susan Fink '84, attorney for the Department of Youth and Families, Rhode Island, and Carolyn Greene '79, public health planner at the Vermont Department of Health. Bishop began the panel by discussing the media's role in shaping public policy and described her job at CNN booking the network's guests. Bishop said she develops ideas for the interviews, locates guests and writes the anchors' questions for the guests. Bishop said the media does not intend to shape public policy. "In my six years at CNN, I have never seen my fellow journalists approach an issue with a certain agenda," she said.

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NAD circulates petition for Green Pow-Wow

By Robert Isaacs | May 3, 1996

Members of Native Americans at Dartmouth involved with the planning of the 24th annual Pow-Wow, a celebration of Native American culture, are circulating a petition to allow this year's event to take place on the Green.

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Students will celebrate gay pride

By Erin Loback | May 3, 1996

This weekend the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance will hold its first Dartmouth Pride Weekend for gay, lesbian and bisexual students and their allies and will display pride in their sexual orientation through participation in several organized events. DRA advisor Bart Bingenheimer '94 said the DRA hopes to make Pride Weekend an annual event. He said the purpose of Dartmouth Pride Weekend is to "socialize, have fun and generate some visibility." But the DRA's efforts to generate visibility were partially thwarted Wednesday when a rainbow flag the group had put up that day in Food Court to celebrate Dartmouth Gay Pride Weekend was removed later that night, DRA member Stephen Borboroglu '97 said. He said a student complained Wednesday night about the removal to Safety and Security.

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'99s take steps to form new sorority

By Erik Tanouye | May 2, 1996

The 21 members of the Class of 1999 who have signed up to found a new sorority held their first meeting last night, but declined to release any decisions. The prospective members of the new sorority cannot request College recognition until the next academic year, since the College prevents freshmen from joining Greek organizations. "Nothing's going to be official until the fall," Panhellenic Council President Jess Russo '97 said.

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Wilma Mankiller undergoing chemo

By Erin Loback | May 2, 1996

Wilma Mankiller, Winter term's Montgomery Fellow who was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer at the end of last term, is currently undergoing chemotherapy and said yesterday it is her optimism that keeps her strong. Lymphoma is a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system, according to the Cancer Information Service of New England. Mankiller, the former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, said she has had two "pretty aggressive chemotherapy treatments" so far, and in the next few weeks the doctors will know how many more she needs. She said after her first chemotherapy treatment in March, her doctors felt the tumor had shrunk some. "Chemotherapy is no cake walk," Mankiller said.

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Williams finds 'hope' in people touched by nature

By Elysa Jacobs | May 2, 1996

Terry Tempest Williams, a noted naturalist, spoke about the influence of nature in everyone's life, in front of a packed crowd in 105 Dartmouth Hall last night. Williams' speech, titled "The Unspoken Hunger," explored the interaction between her personal life and nature. Much of the speech consisted of Williams reading from her books "Desert Quartet" and "An Unspoken Hunger," and her latest book, "Family Construction." Williams, naturalist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History, began by speaking about the past two days she has spent at Dartmouth.

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Navarro talks on Conference on Women

By Jodi Priselac | May 2, 1996

History Professor Marysa Navarro described to an audience of about 75 people yesterday afternoon the issues addressed at the "largest women's meeting in the history of the planet." Navarro's speech, titled "Feminism and the U.N.

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