Students to go to national bridge tournament in May

Four Dartmouth students defeated perennial powerhouses Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Northeast Intercollegiate Bridge Championships earlier this month and earned a free trip to Memphis, Tenn., for the national finals in May. Dartmouth beat Harvard in a tie-breaker at the annual card players' tournament, which was held Feb.

Rich '96 asks Assembly to focus on community

Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 asked the Assembly to focus on issues of community next term, during last night's Assembly meeting. Looking back on a "tumultuous" Winter term, Rich said he has found the campus "extremely combative." Referring to several incidents of racism and homophobia that have marred the term, Rich asked the general Assembly to return from spring break with "a fresh mind next term about how we can foster an atmosphere at Dartmouth ... where we have a common community, because right now we don't." Rich said the Assembly will "promote more positive discourse on campus ... But I hope for more tangible solutions." Rich also asked Assembly members to leave politics behind when carrying out their responsibilities for the Assembly, especially in light of next term's elections. "I sense that there are factions building on the Assembly," Rich said.

CCAOD committee not yet fully formed

The College Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs, which Dean of the College Lee Pelton is restructuring, will not meet until next term, as it does not yet have full membership, Pelton said. A report released last spring by the Task Force on Alcohol prompted the restructuring efforts. Pelton previously told The Dartmouth the CCAOD would be in operation by the end of this term. Pelton said the committee has not been completely formed yet because "a lot of things have been happening this term." Associate College Counsel Sean Gorman '76, whom Pelton recently appointed to head the refocused committee, said membership appointments still have to be made, but the committee "will probably meet early in Spring term." Pelton said someone in his office is "working with the Student Assembly to help choose students to sit on the committee." He has been speaking with the faculty to find professors to be on the CCAOD, Pelton said.

White '75 adjusts to life on Capitol Hill

After more than a year on Capitol Hill, freshman GOP Representative Rick White '75 R-Wash. said he is still surprised by his leap into the national political arena. With no prior political experience, the Seattle area lawyer ran for Congress in 1994 and, successfully taking advantage of a strong anti-incumbent mood among voters, was elected to the House of Representatives. "I sometimes think I haven't paid my dues," White said in an interview with The Dartmouth yesterday morning, after speaking to Director of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Linda Fowler's Government 3 class on the American political system about his experiences. A political start It was at the College that White first got involved in politics, when he worked for the 1972 presidential campaign of Democrat George McGovern. He said he was responsible for door-to-door campaigning in the nearby town of Enfield, N.H., and justified his involvement with a Democratic campaign by citing figures showing that one-third of the House GOP freshman class were former Democrats. "Dartmouth had a huge impact on me ... the sort of education you get here, the process you go through... has been hugely significant," he said of his years as an undergraduate French major at the College. In addition to acting in student plays and working on WDCR's broadcast team, he said he was "the worst member of the ski team for two years running." While White said the College has changed since his departure, most notably in the increase in female students, he said he found the campus "reassuringly the same in some ways." "I think the changes, by and far, were good changes," he said. After graduating, White said he worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for a year, then studied at the University of Paris and worked as a translator.

Eilersten '99 is not the typical freshman

For international students, leaving home to go to school in the United States is a major, sometimes life-changing decision.

College reflects on 1986 shanties

Six declare Assembly candidacy

Jeremy Segal '97 has announced he will join the five other candidates who have announced they will run for Student Assembly president in April. Several students have also announced they will run for president an vice president of their class councils. Associate Director of Student Activities Linda Kennedy said she cannot release the official list of all candidates for Student Assembly, class councils and the Committee on Student Organizations until candidates are approved by the dean's office. Segal, who is an undergraduate advisor, and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Marching Band, said he wants to see the "Assembly actually do something." He said the Assembly has "enough committees and subcommittees to guarantee that it's going to be a bureaucratic nightmare.

Coalition may create registry of hate incidents

In an attempt to expand their services to the Dartmouth community, the Coalition for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns may create a computerized registry of homophobic incidents at the College. The registry would help the coalition "to get a sense of where around campus these events are happening, ... and it would serve as a planning tool for us," said co-Convener of the coalition Wess Jolley. The purpose of the coalition is "mostly to provide support for faculty members and staff," Jolley said.

Five '98s awarded Mellon fellowships

The Mellon Fellowship will give five sophomores the funding they need to get a head start in a career in academic research. The Tucker Foundation has chosen a separate group of students to receive funding to travel and to do community service work during their leave terms. This year's Mellon Fellows will be Ta'Lease Cleveland '98, Arika Easley '98, Tikia Hamilton '98, Elena Reilly '98 and Elizabeth Sumida '98. Dean of the Class of 1997 Teoby Gomez said the Mellon Fellowship was started in 1989 after the College received a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The primary purpose of the fellowship is "to encourage students of color to do research, pursue a Ph.D.

Students announce candidacy

With student elections approaching in mid-April, five students have announced their candidacy for Student Assembly president, while four students have stated that they will run for vice president of the Assembly. Presidential candidates include Sarah Cho '97, Jon Heavey '97, Unai Montes-Irueste '98, Scott Rowekamp '97 and Steve Salemi '97. Vice presidential candidates include Joan Ai '98, Bill Kartalopoulos '97, Mario Martinus '98, and Chris Swift, '98. Petitions for Student Assembly president, vice president and members at-large, senior, junior and sophomore class president and vice president, Green Key honor society and the Committee on Standards were due Friday afternoon. Associate Director of Student Activities Linda Kennedy told The Dartmouth Friday that she could not provide a complete list of candidates for all positions until today. In a press release announcing her presidential candidacy, Cho, who is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and president of the Dartmouth Asian Organization, said her campaign is about "bridging the gap" between the Greek and minority groups on campus. Cho is running with Swift, a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and chair of the ad-hoc Assembly Committee on Advising.

College shuts down its Telenet services

The College shut down its Telenet service last Thursday in lieu of the more widely used Internet. The Telenet, used at the College for the last 20 years, began as a revolutionary system that for the price of a local phone call, gave users access to BASIC programs, multiple library databases, and lists of art holdings among other things. The Telenet provided local, nation-wide, and international access to Dartmouth College Time Sharing, the computer system used by Telenet servicers. Rich Brown, manager of special projects in Computer Services said Telenet is no longer cost effective. "We pay $50,000 for access to the Internet which is used by everyone all the time," Brown said. Also, "the Telenet doesn't offer the exciting things the Internet does," Brown said. Brown noted that many students have confused the campus Telenet shutdown with Telnet, the system that allows off-campus students to access their BlitzMail accounts. Until recently, only the Human Resources Department has a program accessible solely by Telenet.

Recent crime does not represent a surge

With a number of recent crimes in the area, some students say they are taking extra precautions to stay safe, but officials say that there is no real surge of crime in Hanover.

Mankiller diagnosed with cancer

Wilma Mankiller, this term's Montgomery Fellow, has been diagnosed with lymphoma and is currently undergoing tests at a Boston hospital to determine more about her condition and how it should be treated. Mankiller, the former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, told the Associated Press of the diagnosis Wednesday. College President James Freedman, who spoke to Mankiller early yesterday morning, confirmed she has lymphoma -- the same condition with which Freedman was diagnosed in April, 1994. 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.

Panero '98 named Review editor

The Dartmouth Review, an off-campus conservative weekly, recently announced the selection of its new editor-in-chief and president for the Spring term of 1996 through Winter term of 1997. Hanover Review, Inc., owners of the Review, selected James Panero '98 to serve as editor-in-chief and Kevin Robbins '98 to serve as president, according to present Editor-in-Chief E.

Class of '96 alumni officers elected

In an internal election this week, the Senior Executive Committee elected the alumni officers for the Class of 1996. In an on-line election several weeks ago, the senior class elected 20 representatives from 58 possible candidates to serve on the Executive Committee. On Tuesday, the committee elected Tom Caputo as president; Brendan Doherty as vice president; Monica Oberkofler as secretary; Jack Kolodny as treasurer; and Shakari Cameron as alumni counselor The officers will handle communication, finances, reunions and activities for the next five post-graduation years of the Class of 1996, said Elizabeth Appel, assistant director of Alumni Relations. Doherty said the Executive Committee is the "body that tries to keep the class together for five years after graduation." Appel said the committee will appoint three additional officers next month.

AARP president-elect says all generations must work together

District of Columbia U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Sporkin spoke yesterday afternoon about the need for judicial discretion in court sentencing. The speech, which attracted an audience of nearly 40 students, was titled "Whatever Happened to the Heart and Soul of the Law and How Come We Don't Have Judges Like Judge Timbers anymore?" and was held in Room 3 of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Sporkin's lecture was the final speech of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association's series on Law and the Liberal Arts and the first annual Judge William H.

Students' court arraignments held

James Gerhart '98 and Jeff Link '98 had arraignments scheduled for Feb. 27. Gerhart went to his arraignment and his charges which included stealing and fleeing custody were dropped, but Link did not attend his arraignment to address charges of vandalism. Link, who was charged with vandalism for writing racist slurs on the door of two Asian men in the Choates residence cluster earlier this term, did not go to his arraignment Wednesday at the Hanover Town Court. "I misunderstood my time," Link said.

Sororities discuss role in Greek system

Approximately 150 members of the College's six sororities met at Sigma Delta sorority last night to address concerns they have about the Greek system as it currently exists and to come up with a plan of action on how to "redefine" it. The meeting was called by the presidents of the six sororities -- Cai Boldt '97 of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Anne Jones '97 of Delta Delta Delta sorority, Emily Orzel '97 of Delta Gamma sorority, Kathryn Scharbach '97 of Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, Emily Smith '97 of Sigma Delt and Joanna Whitley '97 of Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority. In an interview with The Dartmouth following the meeting last night, the six presidents, speaking as a unified group, said almost all the women who attended the meeting voiced a "strong demand for change" in the Greek system. The six presidents said there is a demand among the members of the sororities for change to happen "immediately." "It's not just people are talking.

ORL unsure about housing waitlist

The Office of Residential Life mailed out housing priority numbers to students at the beginning of this week, but Assistant Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty said he is unsure whether the College will experience a housing crisis similar to last year's. Beatty said 3,776 students are enrolled for Fall term.

College still debating library specifics

There are currently two construction projects being planned for the College's library system. The first is the construction of Berry Library and the second is the renovation of Webster Hall to hold Special Collections. The College still is deliberating the exact specifications and elements that will be included in the Berry Library addition to Baker Library. "We're not that far along in the process yet," College Librarian Margaret Otto said. John Crane, director of Library Administrative Services and the chair of the Library Building Committee, described the process as "currently in stage one." The first stage, Crane said, involves identifying and defining all elements that should be included in Berry Library. "A number of task forces and groups are looking at construction of Berry," Otto said.